IRELAND’S DERBY CHALLENGE - SECOND ROUND BREAKDOWN

Ian Fortune

Things could have gone considerably better for Ireland in the second round of the Star Sports & TRC Derby as we lost over half our remaining challengers.

In all seventeen Irish finished out of the frame, while Fernandes was a non-runner.

There were Irish trained six winners, however, while fourteen Irish will be in the hat for the third round draw.

With 14 of the final 48 still representing Ireland, hopes remain high that the trophy will be coming back across the Irish Sea on June 25^th. The draw for Saturday’s third round will be made tomorrow afternoon and hopefully it will work out well for those remaining.

Number of Irish trained winners in second round:

6 from a possible 13 (Ireland had a runner in 13 of the 16 heats)

Number of Irish trained qualifiers:

Breakdown of Irish qualifiers:

Pat Buckley (4)

Glengar Scholar

Ballinabola Ed

Bobsleigh Dream

Singalong Sally

Paul Hennessy (4)

Hello Hammond

Priceless Jet

Barefoot Supremo

Jaytee Wexford

Graham Holland (2)

Bockos Vieira

Romeo Magico

Peter Cronin (2)

Kildare

Cape Cloud

Liam Dowling (2)

Ballymac Belvult

Ballymac Fairone

WHERE THE IRISH FINISHED:

A full breakdown of where the 32 (Including a non-runner) Irish trained greyhound finished in the second round.

Friday (10 runners)

Heat 1

3^rd Glengar Bale

Heat 2

2^nd Ballymac Belvult

Heat 4

1^st Hello Hammond

4^th Ballymore Border

6^th Cushie Concorde

Heat 5

6^th All About Ted

Heat 6

5^th Da Bold Freddie

6^th Deadly Showtime

Heat 7

1^st Ballinabola Ed

6^th Ballymac Leon

Saturday (21 runners)

Heat 9

1^st Singalong Sally

2^nd Ballymac Fairone

4^th Emilys Jet

Heat 10

2^nd Bobsleigh Dream

4^th Knight Tornado

5^th Part Blake

6^th Glengar Jenny

Heat 12

2^nd Cape Cloud

4^th Bockos Leah

5^th Skywalker Barry

N/R Fernandes

Heat 13

1^st Jaytee Wexford

2^nd Barefoot Supremo

3^rd Bockos Vieira

4^th Le Bonite

5^th Wide Open

Heat 14

2^nd Priceless Jet

5^th Hoodoo Brown

Heat 15

1^st Romeo Magico

5^th Coolavanny Calvn

Heat 16

1^st Kildare

4^th Scarty Yank