Young Guns show their metal at Henlow

The Premius Henlow Puppy Derby started last night at the Bedfordshire track. All six heats looked very competitive but it would be a great chance to see how some of our new pups would fair against the best in the country.


Sharp Bullet was badly crowded in Heat 1 so never really got any sort of run behind Guinness Dusty.  Both of our dogs qualified from Heat 2 which was very pleasing given the opposition included the highly rated Coolavanny Bert. Doobys Gone West gave Bert plenty to think about in the early stages however a bump on the corner let Penrhiw Guto force his way through. Bert kicked clear but I was really proud how Guto and Doobys stayed on to take places in the Semi Final line up. Fifis Legend (pictured) led all the way  in Heat 3 and showed some stunning all round pace to to take the race in 27.69 by 4 1/2 lengths. I thought Smart Bid ran a superb race in Heat 4, he was very brave around the first and stayed on very well to finish in second place. I hope Taylors Ace was ok after his fall. In Heat 5 felt Sids Champ ran a lot better than his finishing position of 5th suggested, he was handily placed running into the third bend.

All three semis can be seen live on Racing Post Greyhound TV this coming Thursday. The £10,000 final will be shown on Sky Sports the following Tuesday (February 7).

1st Semi-final: 1 Droopys Edmond, 2 Bridge Bandit, 3 Millwards Boom, 4 Penrhiw Guto, 5 King Bradley (m), 6 Guinness Dusty (w).
2nd Semi-final: 1 Fifis Legend, 2 Pantone Ava, 3 Smart Bid, 4 Benkaat Blue, 5 Borna Dealer, 6 Guinness Kev (m).
3rd Semi-final: 1 Be Real, 2 Doobys Gone West, 3 Coolavanny Bert, 4 Ballymac Jones, 5 Droopys Stevie, 6 Aero Bellagio (m).