British Performance of the Week - 2 November 2026

Evans takes last week's feature 

There was a spectacular conclusion to the Category One Doncaster Puppy Derby on Saturday night as Cluain Denis banged out to make all of the running for Gemma Evans at 16/1. A strong runner over this distance of 450m, getting out and on the bunny helped him produce the second quickest time of the year so far. He looks a nice recruit for going up in trip. 

The other Category One action last week came on Sunday afternoon at Hove where Forgottotellya made it a perfect 2/2 in the Coral Gold Collar, producing the quickest of the three semi-finals heats. He is not the most consistent performer but the Towcester 460m track record holder is right out of the top drawer on the days where he gets it right. 

One who could be a Category One dog in the future is Amazing Chief who made it 2/2 in his career as well as 2/2 in this column at Central Park. While the attention of most of the Gemma Evans team were on Doncaster, this lad was a deeply impressive winner on the clock given how limited his experience has been. 

There were arguably better performances on the clock at Romford last week than the one that My Storm Libby produced on Friday night but there were none where the winner beat a pair of Category One finalists from the week before. She has improved rapidly of late, only winning an A6 on September 29, building up to this performance which was a clear career best from her. 

We move to the north east where Clonbrien Piper put a lesser effort behind him from a week ago to pick up a solid staying contest. Things didn't go right for the pair at the head of the market but the winner is a smart type in his own right, showing good quality form at Sheffield earlier on in the year. 

Sunderland saw a strong performance from Brother Patrick just a week ahead of the start of the Premier Greyhound Racing Classic over the same 450m distance. It is building up to be an excellent competition once more with plenty of smart types expected to be amongst the entries. 

25.33 was the quickest time that was produced around Star Pelaw in 2025 and is now the quickest of 2026 as well as Mary Gee took a spot off the previous fastest of the year in the final contest on Saturday night. She has found a rich vein of form at the track in recent weeks, though this was a big step up on the rest of her efforts. 

It was the first Wednesday of opens on The Box Seat from Dunstall Park and it was Turnthemagicon who was the star turn. Maxine Locke's sprinter is a very smart type when he puts his best foot forward, producing one of the runs of his career at this venue back in the summer when scoring on the 100th anniversary of the sport meeting.

Aegean Song is a rapid improver at Nottingham of late, winning five of her last six starts. She is not the biggest but having found that groove, she is clearly full of confidence at present, scoring both from the front and from behind, over both of the four-bend distances at the track, and from each of the three inner draws. 

Sheffield on Sunday saw some solid efforts and it was the card-opening one from Moss King that gets the nod as the POW. The runner-up is clearly a well-regarded type and his beating of that rival in a sub 29-second time was another step in the right direction for a dog who has won four straight races now on three different tracks. 

Wins have been hard to come by in recent months for Jazzy Duke but he got the job done at Towcester on Sunday to help Kevin Hutton to a double. In that losing run he has twice been behind Derby winner Droopys Plunge as well as tasting defeat at the paws of Category One finalists Tomahawk and Forgottotellya. He deserved to get his head back in front. 

There was a single open at Monmore last week but it was a decent field and won by Ballymac Dixie in a solid time. She has now won four of her last seven opens at the track, with a pair of Category One finalists behind her in this contest. 

A string of sprint opens at Valley saw Seeking Times produce the pick of the winning displays. He had lost his touch a little bit in late spring when behind Crokers Harry in five straight starts. Bouncing back to form in a D3 last time out, he was able to build on that with an open race contest. 

It was a close run thing at Yarmouth with just two spots covering the two fastest times over 462m on the week. Kereight Fraud had set the standard on Monday night with a 27.45 top grade win and although Always Wrighty was a couple of spots off that on Saturday night, it was the fact that Kereight Fraud finished second to her that swung the vote in the favour of the John Mullins-trained bitch.

There was a new fastest time of the year set over the sprint trip at Kinsley by Kanturk Ace. He had chased home Roanna Nena a couple of times when she had won POW last month before a pair of solid efforts in opens at Sheffield, including behind that track's record holder Swift Hostile. Returned to home soil, he was an impressive scorer. 

Moaning Gabriel whips us in for the week, another Harlow POW winner for Darren Whitton. His last 10 runs have all come in D3 grade, getting his head in front in five of those. He has only physically stopped the clock quicker once before in his career.