Queen and Sweep land the double

A good night of racing at Monmore last night saw us come away with two winners.

Start Itup Sweep surprised us all as he made it back to back wins by taking the A1 in 28.49 after stealing a lead at the first bend. Fifis Flyer was the more fancied of our runners but his chance ended after suffering early crowding.

Five Alley Queen build on her first win the previous week when putting in another eye catching victory when taking the A2 by a short head in 28.54. This young bitch will keep on improving.

In the Staff v Challenge Tipping challenge it was another win for the owners as Matt Garnett beat me in good style. Well done Matt.

Chris Allsopp

8.26 T5 Swift Ger 6th -£10.00
8.42 T3 Fifis Flyer 8.42 3rd -£10.00
9.32 T5Bantiss Holly 9.32 6th -£10.00
9.48 T2 Let me talk 9.48 4th -£10.00

Matt Garnett

8.10 T3 Adera Divine 6th -£10.00
8.42 T6 Mays Gold 4th -£10.00
9.48 T3 Wally Billy 1st 4/1 +£40.00
10.18 T1 Proud Pigale 4th -£10.00

Fat Boy Challenge

Given the interest in the Thursday night tipping challenge we will keep it going for a couple of more weeks. I'll be putting myself forward to take on loyal owner Matt Garnett. Quite a brave move if given a victory for Matt he will no doubt letting us all know about it for months ! Currently the Owners lead 4-2.

Matt - Please post your selections on FB before 6pm please.

Queen stars as Martin snatches victory for the owners

Dean Martin snatched the Thursday night tipping challenge in last night final race when Klockwork Kaipo took the A1 in convincing fashion and give Dean a £15.00 winning margin on the night. 

Both tipped up our very own future staying bitch Five Alley Queen who build on her first two promising runs to record a gutsy win in 28.95. Queen had to overcome significant traffic problems to record her win. I'm very hopefully for this bitches future.

Earlier on in the evening Sophies Boyo took advantage of the drop down to A7 to add a second win to her young career record as she took the race by 1/2 length in 28.93. 

Deans Selections (Owners)

Aghaburren Paddy 2nd -£10.00
Wood Lee 4th - £10.00 
Five Alley Queen 1st 5/2 + £25.00
Klockwork Kaipo 1st 6/4 +£15.00

John Dixons Selections (Staff)

8.10 Shaneboy William 5th -£10.00
8.42 Afewdollarsmore  4th -£10.00
9.15 Dalcash Skyway   2nd - £10.00
9.48 Five Alley Queen 1st 5/2 + £25.00

New boys Dixon ready to equalise

New staff member John Dixon which represent the staff this week as we bid to equalise against our loyal owners in the Thursday night tipster challenge. I'll select the lucky owner to take on Gary on Facebook. 

It's Clarkey v McNab in Tipping Challenge

With the home team reeling in the Thursday night Monmore tipping challenge I've had Gary looking in the form book all day to find a few winners. Gary will be taking on Tom McNab aka Trigger who owns Ballymac Clara.

Gary's Selections

8.26 Shiners Princess 5th -£10.00
8.42 Smart Bid 1st Evens +£10.00
8.58 Ballymac Colin 3rd -£10.00
9.48 Rock on Vera 2nd -£10.00

Tom's Selections

7.39 Moyar Joy 2nd -£10.00
8.42 Nefan 2nd -£10.00
8.58 Karaoke Carly 5th -£10.00
9.15 Joscar 2nd -£10.00

Good Luck boys ! ! Loser is on the tea's and coffees for a month !

Roly romps to tipping success

Roly Woodcock gave the owners a 2 week lead in the Staff v Owners Challenge as he swept aside poor Tom with three winners.

Roly tipped up  7.39 Smart Bid 1st 5/4 , 7.54 Swan Storm 5th 5/2 , 8.58 Bansha Mo 1st 5/4 , 9.15 Butts Mott 1st 4/7 

I think we all have to acknowledge the kennels best tipster !

Tom v Roly in Tipster Challenge

I've made a late tactical switch in the Staff v Owners Tipping Challenge. Tom will step in to take on Roly Woodcock.

Both will post four selections from Thursday evenings card at Monmore.  After a poor performance from Yorkie last week I'm hoping Tom had pull us back level. 

Good Luck boys..........Please post selections on the Facebook page.

Yorkie v Taylor in Round 4 of Tipping Challenge

With the score standing at 1-1 in the Staff v Owners Challenge our boy Yorkie steps forward tomorrow to take on loyal owner Mick Taylor.

Yorkie is out to prove a point after an owner say he couldn't tip a tea pot !!

Rules are simple - 1 staff member and 1 owner will go head to head by picking 4 selections at a selected Monmore meeting. The person who declares the most profit to a £10 level stake on each dog will be declared the weekly winner.(A non runner will cost a zero)

Yorkie

7.25 Eden Rock - Non-Runner -£10.00
8.36 Afewdollarsmore  Unplaced -£10.00
8.40 Blue Artisan  Unplaced -£10.00
9.30 Butts Mott 1st 6/4 - +£15.00

Mick Taylor

8.10 Klockwork Korker 1st Evens +£10.00

9.32  Butts Mott  1st +15.00

10.03 Ardera Flame 3rd -£10.00

20.18 Farloe Mysterio 1st + 17.50

Honours even as both sides draw a blank

Well Well Well, Big Steve and Susie played out a dull 0-0 in last nights tipping challenge to leave the competition at 1-1. I will be sitting down with Steve over the weekend to review what went wrong ! If you are interested in representing the owners please just leave a comment on the Facebook page.

Big Steve ready to put staff ahead in tipping challenge

The score stands at 1-1 in the Staff v Owners Challenge after Paul did the business last week.

This Thursday Steve will take on Susie Loxton. Susie is wife of loyal owner Nigel who owns Who Thought It, Phsyco Wayne and shares of Phoenix Bolt.

Rules are simple - 1 staff member and 1 owner will go head to head by picking 4 selections at a selected Monmore meeting. The person who declares the most profit to a £10 level stake on each dog will be declared the weekly winner.(A non runner will cost a zero)

Susie

8.42 Butts Mott - 2nd
9.15 Klockwork Kackapo - 3rd
9.48 Mordred Saul - Unplaced
10.03 Nefan - 2nd 

Steve

7.54 Farloe Rihanna - 2nd 
8.42 Lightning Sky - Unplaced
8.58 Shinto - 2nd
10.18 Start Itup Sweep -3rd

Boys ready for Round 2 of the Staff Challenge

Here we go in Round 2 of the Staff v Owners Challenge. Rules are simple - 1 staff member and 1 owner will go head to head by picking 4 selections at a selected Monmore meeting. The person who declares the most profit to a £10 level stake on each dog will be declared the weekly winner.(A non runner will cost a zero)

Owners took honours in week one with Rich Wood doing the business.

Paul                                                   Mike

8.10 Who Thought It     1st 6/4 (+£15.00)    8.42 Eden Zidane  2nd (-£10.00)
8.26pm Saint Katy   Unplaced (-£10.00)      9.15  Ardera Gino 2nd (-£10.00)
9.32 Ballymac Cracker Unplaced (-£10.00)  9.45 Vedfield Solid Unplaced (-£10.00)
10.03 Final McCoy  2nd (-£10.00)              10.18 Lady Sadie 2nd(-£10.00)

                 Paul takes the honours and makes it 1-1    

Don't forget you can watch all the action on Racing Post Greyhound TV either on the web or on Sky channel 212. 

It's Angry v Gould in Round 2 of the Tipping Challenge

Here we go in Round 2 of the Staff v Owners Challenge. Rules are simple - 1 staff member and 1 owner will go head to head by picking 4 selections at a selected Thursday Monmore meeting. The person who declares the most profit to a £10 level stake on each dog will be declared the weekly winner.(A non runner will cost a zero)

This week (Thursday) loyal owner Mike Gould will take on the big fella Paul Anderson.

Rich Wood scored the first point for the owners last week so I'll be hoping Paul can strike back.

Staff v Owners - 1-0 to the Owners !!

Here we go in Round 1 of the Staff v Owners Challenge. Rules are simple - 1 staff member and 1 owner will go head to head by picking 4 selections at a selected Monmore meeting. The person who declares the most profit to a £10 level stake on each dog will be declared the weekly winner.(A non runner will cost a zero)

This week loyal owner Rich Wood will take me on.

Results 

Rich                                                       Chris

7.39 She Goes On       1st 4/1 +£40.00   7.39 Farloe Star    Unplaced -£10.00
7.54 Ballybunion Man  1st 6/4 +£15.00   8.26 Ballymac Cracker 2nd -£10.00
8.10 Clongeel Lad       3rd -£10.00        8.42 Lightning Sky  1st 2/1 +£20.00
8.58 Swift Helen         2nd -£10.00        9.15 Dixies Craft    1st 9/4 +£22.50

                                Total +£35.00                                  Total +£22.50

Well done to Rich who won on most profit !! 

Don't forget you can watch all the action on Racing Post Greyhound TV either on the web or on Sky channel 212. 

Staff v Owners Challenge

We are going to pilot a feature which will put us the staff against our loyal owners in a tipping challenge for some fun and interaction. On selected nights a staff member and an owner (different one each time) will both select 4 greyhounds of a Monmore meeting in the hoping to out score each other. An imaginey £10 will be placed on each of the dogs selected. The staff member or owner who declares the biggest profit will take the bragging rights. Right then who fancies first go ? (This Thursday will be the selected meeting, person selected will need to send our web man 4 selections by 5pm Thursday) If interested please leave a message on the Facebook post and I'll select the first person to take me on. Come on the Team !