Monday night Open report- Esther drives home with Nottingham four-timer
Seven opens featured on Nottingham’s twelve race Monday night card where local trainer Esther Driver stole the show with a short priced four-timer
Monday night Open report- Esther drives home with Nottingham four-timer
Seven opens featured on Nottingham’s twelve race Monday night card where local trainer Esther Driver stole the show with a short priced four-timer
Air Flyer (4/11F) kicked things off for Driver when pouncing late to break his maiden tag at the fifth attempt over the 500m distance. Having beaten the likes of Callaway Knegare when racing in Ireland, he had been well fancied in his previous defeats at Towcester and Sheffield, and was sent of a short priced favourite again here but he had to work hard to pounce close home.
Jason Gray’s Untold Real hit the front in the early stages, and it looked likely that she would make all the running as Air Flyer was held up on a couple of occasions. However, Air Flyer stayed on well on the run for home and got up in the shadow of the post for a neck success in 29.96 (+20)
Hopes Ompaloompa (2/5F) had a tricky looking draw to work from having been drawn out in trap four, but having overcome a slight bump at the first bend, he was able to head off down the backstraight in second just a length or so behind the leader Billis Hoffa. Having got up the inside of the leader rounding the third bend, he hit the front coming off the last bend to record a two length success from Gray’s Loxley Forest, who stayed on well for second, in a time of 29.69 (+20)
The hat-trick was landed courtesy of Mossrich Karen (4/6F), who trapped well and made all the running in heat two of the Nottingham-greyhounds.co.uk Sprint Trophy. Having hit the front when the traps opened, she was never in any danger and stopped the clock in 17.76 for a length and a quarter success from Mark Russell’s Belvidere Billy, and in doing so, made it five victories from six starts over the 305m trip
The first heat had earlier gone the way of Colin Wilton’s Jimmys Chew (7/1),who also made all the running from Jill Llewellin’s Platinumheatwave in a time of 18.00, with three quarters of a length separating the pair crossing the line, and in doing so, landed the hat-trick after a couple of previous victories in D2 company.
Driver completed the four-timer in the finale as Carmac Cash (5/4JF) got the better of Heather Dimmock’s other joint favourite, Droopys Stat, when taking up the lead on the run for home to score by a length and a quarter in 29.86 (+10). It looked as though he was going to hit the front at the third bend when trying to take up the lead on the rails, but the door was closed in his face, enabling Droopys Stat to build what looked to be a race winning advantage, but Carmac Cash stayed on well for victory.
The big race on the card was the final of the ARC Four Bend Dual Distance Trophy over 500m, which saw the £500 winners prize heading the way of Nathan Hunt’s Scooby The Boss (8/13F), who backed up his victory in the heats over 480m last week with an all the way success from kennelmate Newinn Oscar. Having hit the front once the traps
opened, Scooby The Boss was never in any danger and crossed the line a length and a quarter clear of his kennelmate in a time of 29.17 (+20)
Yarmouth trainer Robert Copping took the remaining contest on the card as Coolruss Dungary (3/1) hit the front out of the opening bends and went on to record a two length success in a winner of one contest over the 480m trip in a time of 28.39 (+20), with Bonnie Sues Girl back in second.
