British Performance of the Week - 7 July 2026

A Bullet of a Romford clock

Two track records were lowered last week, starting with the Romford 575m clock which fell to Bikini Bullet. Her sectional saw her dip under the sprint clock on her way to the six-bend one to produce a truly spectacular run. It is easy to forget that she is a June 24 whelp and has only had 12 starts in her career. There could still be better to come from her and that could start with claiming a Category One crown on Friday night.

The other track record went at Star Pelaw where Foulkscourt Bono lowered his own sprint clock by half a length. The winner of half of his career races, he was scoring win number five at this venue. His sire Good Cody has some outstanding performers at present from what is realistically only a small number of offspring compared to some.

When it comes to the beauty of the sport, Fortanach Col taking the Time Greyhound Nutrition Three Steps To Victory was the right story for greyhound racing. Sunday afternoon was charged with emotion for connections and they have a proper dog to go to war with over six bends for the rest of the year. 

The semis of the Orchestrate Juvenile Classic were at Towcester on Sunday where Bowmers Buddy won the quicker of them. Neither of the times set the world alight and they were surpassed on the clock at least by the winning run of Fabulous Aria who went a hair over two and a half lengths quicker. A one-off against a Cat One semi, however, there was only going to be one winner here. 

Dunstall Park saw the start of another couple of competitions and it was in the stayers that the clear performance of the week came from Bluejig Outlaw. He was a short price heading into the competition and is shorter still now after his demolition in the heats. Already a Cat One finalist and a track record holder in his short career, he will hold claims of a return to this track for the St Leger later in in the year.

Maxine Locke put a second POW winner on the board with Ballymac Blanco who led the way at Central Park on Saturday night. He stopped the clock at 28.72 for the second consecutive week to pick up open race win number 14 for his career. The Laurels finalist is an easy dog to like, combining early pace and guts. Being a flashy looker doesn't hurt him either!

Speaking of easy dogs to like, No Better Feelin produced the fastest 480m time of 2026 last week to take the Nottingham award. Spoiler alert, he will also pick up next week's for his 500m win in the final of a dual distance competition, unless of course something absolutely takes off in a graded race in the meantime.

It was good to see open racing back at Harlow again for a couple of weeks, with the locals treated to a decent British Bred sprint competition. Moaning Hearns took the final for Darren Whitton, the second dog to dip under 15 seconds at the venue this year, equalling the 14.97 set by Doreens Ash as the quickest of the year so far. 

The name Magical Supreme features seven times in the 40 quickest 483m runs at Doncaster in 2026. That is a more spectacular effort when considering that those are his only seven runs over that track and trip! Sean Parker's son of Droopys Jet has only raced 11 times in his life, 10 of those over here after a Limerick debut in February.

Cunnigar King has hit a rich vein of form at Sunderland of late, winning a D1, an A1 and now an open within a five-race spell. One of his two defeats saw him chase home Slingshot Poppy which was arguably his best effort of the lot. A litter brother to recent Silver Salver sinner Ballinakill Liam, he has plenty of class himself. 

Down the road at Newcastle there were a lot of closely matched times over 480m. Just the pick of them was Blackhouse Lewi who scored by six lengths in a Time Northern Flat trial stake from a decent type in Saleen Ri, with multiple Cat One finalist Bockos Buster back in third.  

Excellent trapping skills are a potent weapon for Rapido Benji who used them to perfection to grab an open race win at Hove on Thursday. It was a second win on the trot in an open and a sixth from his last 10 starts overall. His litter brother Benny is a smart type, already a dual Cat Two winner, and it will be interesting to see what plans June Harvey has for Benji.

There was a very quick sprint time at Monmore from Ruinthelonggame whose 15.12 slotted in as the second quickest of the year behind  Crafty Alejandro who happened to be one of his victims on Thursday night. He was also the sixth quickest in 2025 over the 264m distance.

Yarmouth saw a quick win from Move Over Toby in an A1 contest to kick off the Wednesday night card. He is now the winner of all three of his career starts for Kevin Cobbold, and with so few miles on the clock, there should be plenty more to come from him. He could be a big local player in the East Anglian Derby in a couple of months time. 

Swift Loch took the Kinsley award on a fast track. It was only an A5 that he was winning but just seven dogs have stopped the clock in a quicker time this year. A 5.13 split was the quickest that he has produced which should not be a surprise given his end time. 

We close with a trip to the Valley where there were only two sprint opens at the weekend. Neither of them could get close to the time that Crokers Wiffen produced winning a graded contest earlier on in the week