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The name on everybody’s lips is Powerfast Pigeon, trained by
Crayford trainer Barry O’Sullivan.
I featured the dog here recently when she competed in the J.B
Riney Boxing Day Marathon at Crayford when she ran against
established staying star Ministry Magpie.
On that occasion she lost to Magpie by just three quarters of a
length after the pair ran a tremendous neck-to-neck race over the
last 400-metres. This followed on from their previous meeting at
Wimbledon over 894m when Pigeon finished in front of her rival.
Clearly, Powerfast Pigeon is about to become a star over
marathon distances and certainly when the trip is around the 890m
mark.
It is always nice to have one of our dogs mixing it with the big
guns and in Pigeon we have a greyhound that is set to figure in
this year’s top Marathon races.
Keep an eye open for her on both our live race meetings from the
track on Saturday evenings on Sky 231 and freesat 402, as well as
on meetings at other tracks covered by Sky Sports.
I will be looking for Said Moon and Inishowen Light to go one
place better during the coming week after both were beaten by
narrow margins here during their last outings.
Said Moon was 5/2 favourite in her A6 race a week ago and having
made the perfect start to lead away from the traps, she looked all
over a winner until caught in the final couple of strides.
She lost by just three quarters of a length and this was a good
performance as she had been upgraded having won in grade A7 in her
previous race. Her supporters will be looking to gain some quick
recompense for her defeat and she looks capable of coming up with
the goods.
Inishowen Light had identical circumstances to Moon when also
dictating affairs early on to lose by the same small margin. Light
is a dog who has won before at A6 level so there is no doubt that
in the right company his current A8 grade is well within his
scope.
Both dogs have had more than 100 career races so they know what
to do. One to watch for me is newcomer Catunda Florence. At just 16
months of age, she won just her second career race here at the
weekend in a time of 24.19 seconds in bottom grade A8. Despite
giving ground away by running wide from trap six, she finished over
a length ahead of the field and her win time says that it will not
take her long to win an A7 race.
Wednesday, January 18 2012
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