We start at Shelbourne with a surprise winner of the Juvenile Derby in Balline Kyle. The 28.60 winner’s time, while hardly scintillating, was still the fastest of a weather affected meeting and some way off the winner’s personal best over c&d of 28.29.
The performance of the week though must surely go to February pup Spoofer following another flawless run in the final of the unraced stake at Waterford. Phiiip Gough’s runner has won his five races to date by a combined 33 lengths and his 28.09 run was the fastest of the year.
On the subject of flawless unbeaten runs, Rosbirr Ranger was flawless on his way to the Fair Warrior Sprint Final at Mullingar. Slow weather tracks are distorting many fine performances and Lemon Ronald came from a long way off the pace to land the Gain A3 final at Kilkenny on a track rated -40.
Meanwhile at Limerick, Lenson Blinder made it three FON runs in a row with a 29.44 run for the Leger trip. At Cork, the fastest hound over 525 yards this year, Vancouver, produced another fine run in the €4,000 Shelley Fennelly Memorial.
| CLONMEL | 28.80 | STAGE PADDYPONY | (Lenson Bolt-Knockdrinna Miss, Feb 16) |
| CURRAHEEN PARK | 28.15 | VANCOUVER | (Droopys Jet-Cruel Intentions, Nov 15) |
| DERRY | 16.83 | RONNIEFASCOTLAND | (Scolari Me Daddy-Esker Jill, Sep 16) |
| DRUMBO PARK | 28.49 | DRUMCROW RIO | (Drumcrow Obama-Drumcrow Kylie, Oct 16) |
| DUNDALK | 21.23 | SHUTTLE FIELD | (Confident Rankin-Glamorous Lady, Sep 16) |
| ENNISCORTHY | 29.12 | KILLER BEE | (Kinloch Brae-Ballydoyle Honey, Mar 17) |
| GALWAY | 28.83 | GUNNER SADIE | (Godsend-Sandals Oz, Sep 15) |
| KILKENNY | 29.20 | LEMON RONALD | (Droopys Jet-Lemon Belle, Jul 16) |
| LIFFORD | 19.17 | APACHE BLUE | (Romeo Recruit-Total Motion, Mar 17) |
| LIMERICK | 29.44 | LENSON BLINDER | (Crash-Global Liberty, May 16) |
| LONGFORD | 29.14 | HARRYS FAULT | (Barefoot Bolt-Bazinga, Nov 14) |
| MULLINGAR | 21.27 | ROSBIRR RANGER | (Paradise Madison-Wrathchild, Sep 15) |
| NEWBRIDGE | 28.54 | OUR BOY MIKE | (Tyrur Big Mike-Knockanree Issue, Sep 15) |
| SHELBOURNE PARK | 28.60 | BALLINE KYLE | (Skywalker Puma-Galway Fancy, Sep 16) |
| 28.44 | RURAL VIC | (Ballymac Vic-Rural Maui, Aug 16) | |
| THURLES PARK | 29.03 | PUKKA SWIFT | (Rio Quattro-Hiphip Who Razor, Jul 16) |
| TRALEE | 28.55 | BLACK DESIRE | (Scolari Me Daddy-Droopys Axis, Jan 17) |
| WATERFORD | 28.36 | SPOOFER | (Sparta Maestro-Dream Believer, Feb 17 |
| YOUGHAL | 29.33 | ARDRATH ALFRED | (Kinloch Brae-Prima Vera, May 16) |
