IRELAND’S TOWCESTER PROGRESS BROKEN DOWN

Ian Fortune

As we get into the business end of the Star Sports/ TRC English Greyhound Derby, Ireland are now on equal terms with their Uk counterparts in terms of numbers.

A total of ten Irish trained runners lined out in Saturday’s quarter finals with six of them progressing.

In total three of the four heat winners were Irish trained with Dynamic Force sending out a clear warning that he is a major player in this year’s classic with a fastest of the round 28.66 return. Cheap Sandwiches and defending champion De Lahdedah also impressed in victory, while Sole Mio, Bombay Pat and Bockos Diamond also progressed.

Again, we have broken down the Irish challenge, highlighting some of the stats from the quarter finals focusing on the runners from these shores.

Number of Irish trained winners in the quarter finals:

3 from a possible 4 (Ireland had runners in each of the 4 heats)

Number of Irish trained qualifiers:

6 (from a possible 10)

Breakdown of Irish qualifiers:

Graham Holland (3 from 4)

Bockos Diamond

Bombay Pat

Cheap Sandwiches

Paul Hennessy (1 from 2)

Dynamic Force

Liam Dowling (1 from 1)

De Lahdedah

Peter Cronin (1 from 1)

Sole Mio

WHERE THE IRISH FINISHED

A full breakdown of where the 15 Irish trained greyhound finished in the quarter finals. 

Saturday (10 runners)

Heat 1

1^st Cheap Sandwiches

3^rd Sole Mio

5^th Singalong Molly

Heat 2

1^st De Lahdedah

6^th Hello Diego

Heat 3

1^st Dynamic Force

2^nd Bockos Diamond

4^th Faypoint Harvey

Heat 4

3^rd Bockos Diamond

6^th Bubbly Charger