TONY WILLIAMSON
While many tracks are struggling to fill graded cards, Monmore’s is so strong that they have branched into graded 684m races.
On Thursday they will stage an E1 (Winners £185, 2nd £55, others £45) and an E3 (Winners £135, 2nd £55, others £45) in addition to their regular 630 metre events.
Racing manager Tony Williamson said: “We will see how they go and after speaking to our trainers on which dogs stayed the trip best, we will move to graded marathons. If they seem successful and the dogs come of well, we will continue further into the year.”
All this will come as a bonus with no cutting back on the open race fixtures.
Williamson said: “ It’s pleasing to be having consistent entries for our Thursday open races with a good standard of entry. They our relished by our locals and along with the quality of greyhounds on our trainers’ strengths enable us to put on some great racing.
“We have some good owners at the track and going onto Racing Post TV gives their dogs a chance to shine to a larger audience.”
Monmore’s paddock and kennel block and inside of the racing kennels are having a makeover and being repainted next Tuesday.
Work will take place over the next two weeks and there will be no trials sessions on the Tuesdays. The only trials sessions before meetings during this period will be restricted to Monmore trainers only.
Head Iton Murph (Droopys Jet-Head Iton Sharna, Aug 14) is Monmore’s outstanding youngster in recent weeks.
Owned by the Head Iton Synicate and trained by Paul Sallis the brindle has won five of his last six, and will be chasing a five-timer in an Owners Bonus race this week. He has a best to date of 28.59 (calc).
Over six bends, the racing office are tipping Bert the Flirt (Ninja Jamie-Ardcroney Olivia, Nov 13) to win a host of races this summer. The Sallis trained A1 runner clocked a calculated 37.71 on his staying debut.
Monmore have confirmed that the sponsors will once again back The Kai Laidlaw Beautiful Boy Trafalgar Cup. The semi finals will be staged on Thgursday 11th August 11 with the televised final scheduled seven days later.
Monmore send best wishes to connections of their last two runners in the Derby, Droopys Turin and Noirs Allen.
DROOPYS TURIN
NOIRS ALLEN
