Despite the brilliant 29.14 run by Droopys Verve in Friday night’s Derby third round, Angela Harrison’s runner was not the quickest in the second half of the race according to Mark Pierrepont’s computer adjusted timings.
Runner | 1strd | 2ndrd | 3rdrd |
Jaytee Taylor | 14.57 | 14.63 | 14.38 |
Droopys Verve | 14.82 | 14.62 | 14.44 |
Lemon Ronald | 14.49 | 14.82 | 14.56 |
Paganini Show | 14.76 | 14.94 | 14.57 |
Ballymac Anton | 14.69 | 14.81 | 14.59 |
Clonbrien Prince | 14.78 | 14.74 | 14.59 |
Magical Bale | 14.95 | 14.67 | 14.59 |
Ballymac Tas | 14.75 | 14.73 | 14.62 |
Priceless Blake | 14.69 | 14.73 | 14.62 |
Skywalker Logan | 14.33 | 14.75 | 14.62 |
Queen Beyonce | 14.67 | 14.83 | 14.63 |
Dorotas Wildcat | 14.75 | 14.72 | 14.65 |
Droopys Expert | 14.94 | 14.75 | 14.66 |
Nice Charmer | 14.96 | 14.81 | 14.66 |
Master Reed | 14.70 | 15.05 | 14.67 |
Headford Maurice | 14.76 | 14.77 | 14.69 |
Raise The Stakes | 14.83 | 14.73 | 14.70 |
Roxholme Glory | 14.92 | 14.94 | 14.72 |
Dower Rory | 14.93 | 14.60 | 14.75 |
Droopys Davy | 14.55 | 14.78 | 14.75 |
Droopys Trapper | 14.89 | 14.79 | 14.75 |
Emers Cookie | 14.76 | 14.88 | 14.75 |
Roxholme Jim | 14.95 | 14.80 | 14.75 |
Seaglass Phantom | 14.69 | 14.66 | 14.75 |
Desperado Dan | 14.86 | 14.82 | 14.76 |
Jelly Flood | 14.49 | 14.55 | 14.76 |
Worseforwear | 14.75 | 14.85 | 14.77 |
Antigua Sands | 14.86 | 14.71 | 14.78 |
Lemon Express | 14.95 | 14.92 | 14.81 |
Ballyanne Sim | 15.08 | 15.02 | 14.82 |
Antigua Romeo | 14.83 | 14.89 | 14.84 |
Bockos Doomie | 14.85 | 14.89 | 14.84 |
Bull Run Button | 14.88 | 14.89 | 14.85 |
Slaheny Star | 15.02 | 14.86 | 14.87 |
Wildfire Jimmy | 14.79 | 15.10 | 14.87 |
Ballymac Osby | 14.76 | 14.66 | 14.90 |
King Sheeran | 14.93 | 14.62 | 14.90 |
Liberty Hawk | 14.78 | 14.84 | 14.92 |
Swift Jim | 14.89 | 14.90 | 14.92 |
Volcanic Reef | 14.75 | 14.73 | 14.92 |
Front Edge | 14.78 | 14.80 | 14.94 |
Lemon Shane | 14.73 | 14.68 | 14.96 |
Knockduff Declan | 15.06 | 15.05 | 14.99 |
Cooneen Jack | 14.84 | 14.98 | 15.24 |
King Dylan | 14.71 | 14.86 | 15.24 |
Dorotas Woo Hoo | 15.05 | 15.05 | 15.30 |
Plaza Lep | 15.00 | 15.06 | 15.35 |
That honour went to Jaytee Taylor with a 14.38 run, some three quarters of a length quicker than Verve.
In fact, Paul Hennessy’s dog recorded the second fastest ‘from halfway’ time of the Derby, a sectional only bettered by Skywalker Logan who was five spots quicker in his track recording breaking first round run.
At the other end of the scale Lemon Shane scraped through despite being the sixth slowest runner in the round.
The other interesting bunch are the known front runners whose improved ‘second halves’ may reflect a gradual improvement in fitness.
Cue quiet satisfaction for Kevin Hutton and Graham Holland, among others.