CANBERRA GREYHOUND RACING CLUB SUNDAY 30TH AUGUST 2009 TRACK: GOOD WEATHER: FINE WITHDRAWALS: RACE BOX GREYHOUND REPLACED BY REASON 1 NIL 2 NIL 3 8 FORTIFIED MILLY REPORTED INJURED 28/8/09 10 DAY INCAPACITATION CERTIFICATE FROM 30/8/09 4 NIL 5 1 HYPED UP REPORTED INJURED 29/8/09 10 DAY INCAPACITATION CERTIFICATE FROM 30/8/09 5 8 BIG ASK JADE REPORTED INJURED 30/8/09 10 DAY INCAPACITATION CERTIFICATE FROM 30/8/09 6 NIL 7 NIL 8 8 BERRI KERRI 9 ALFIE TRICK REPORTED INJURED 30/8/09 10 DAY INCAPACITATION CERTIFICATE FROM 30/8/09 9 NIL 10 NIL 11 NIL LATE WITHDRAWALS RACE 2 NO 7 – MISS BEESLEE – SEASONAL 28 DAY INCAPACITATION CERTIFICATE FROM 30/8/09 INCIDENTS: RACE 1 310M NON GRADE: MILK RUN & RICKY ROSS WERE SLOW TO BEGIN. MILK RUN LOST GROUND SOON AFTER THE START. MILK RUN RACED WIDE AT THE FIRST TURN HAMPERING RICKY ROSS. MOLLY ROSS RACED WIDE APPROACHING THE HOME TURN CHECKING WALKABOUT JILL CAUSING WALKABOUT JILL TO FALL AND BADLY INCONVIENCE BRIGHT TEDDY & MILK RUN WHICH WERE TRAILING, MOLLY ROSS ALSO LOST CONSIDERABLE GROUND FROM THIS INCIDENT. VETERINARY EXAMINATION OF WALKABOUT JILL REVEALED NO APPARENT INJURY. RACE 2 530M NON GRADE: HE’S A SUNLIT RACED WIDE AT THE FIRST TURN HAMPERING MAGIC CITY. HE’S A SUNLIT & MILLEFIORI COLLIDED AT THE HOME TURN WITH HE’S A SUNLIT LOSING GROUND. VETERINARY EXAMINATION OF HE’S A SUNLIT REVEALED NO APPARENT INJURY. STEWARDS INTERVIEW MS. J . GILBERT RE THE PREFORMANCE OF HER 2 GREYHOUNDS SILVER CITY JAKE WHO WON THE RACE AND MAGIC CITY WHO FINISHED FORTH IN THE FIVE DOG FIELD. MS. GILBERT AGREED WITH THE STEWARDS THAT MAGIC CITY WAS DISAPPOINTING, STATING THAT SHE HAS BEEN CONTINUALLY TREATING THE GREYHOUND FOR AN INJURED HOCKK OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS AND ALTHOUGH THE VET WAS UNABLE TO DETECT ANY INJURY FELT THIS MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE GREYHOUNDS POOR PREFORMANCE. STEWARDS DIRECTED THE GREYHOUND BE LOCKED AWAY FOR A URINE SAMPLE TO BE OBTAINED DUE TO THE POOR PERFORMANCE. IN REGARDS TO SILVER CITY JAKE MS. GILBERT FELT THE GREYHOUND WAS SUITED TO THE SMALL FIELD ENABLING THE GREYHOUND TO FIND THE LEAD EARLY, WHERE THE GREYHOUND PERFORMS AT HIS BEST. STEWARDS NOTED MS. GILBERTS COMMENTS HOWEVER NOT WITHSTANDING HAD THE GREYHOUND LOCKED AWAY FOR A URINE SAMPLE TO BE OBTAINED DUE TO THE IMPROVED PREFORMANCE. RACE 3 530M MIXED: THIS RACE WAS DELAYED 2 MINUTES DUE TO NO COMPRESSION WITHIN THE STARTING BOXES. BERRIDALE BELLE IN RACING WIDE AT BOX RISE CHECKED VAPOUR. DEADLY GRIN IN RACING WIDE SOON AFTER THE START CHECKED ALEC BALE. IZMIR’S WARRIOR RACED WIDE AT THE FIRST TURN CHECKING BERRIDALE BELLE AND TADMORE PANDA WITH TADMORE PANDA LOSING GROUND AND COLLIDING WITH PHOEBE ROSE. BERRIDALE BELLE CHECKED ALEC BALE AT THE TURNING OUT OF THE BACK STRAIGHT. RACE 4 310M MAIDEN: CORNIA JUMPED AWKWARDLY LOSING GROUND AT THE START. ELITE IMPACT GALLOPED ON THE BACK OF JEM’S BUB AT THE FIRST TURN, CAUSING JEM’S BUB TO FALL AND DISORGANIZE THE FIELD WITH ALL GREYHOUNDS EXCEPT THE LEADING GREYHOUND SUMMARISE SUFFERING INTERFERENCE TO VARYING DEGREES OTHER THAN THE FALLEN GREYHOUND THE WORST AFFECTED GREYHOUND WAS ELITE IMPACT WHICH LOST CONSIDERABLE GROUND WHEN IMPACTING WITH THE FALLEN GREYHOUND. VETERINARY EXAMINATION OF JEM’S BUB REVEALED NO APPARENT INJURY. VETERINARY EXAMINATION OF ELITE IMPACT REVEALED NO APPARENT INJURY. RACE 5 310M 5TH GRADE HEAT 1: MURRAY VAR FLYER JUMPED SMARTLY AND LEAD ALL THE WAY. MORGO’S BABE LOST CONSIDERABLE GROUND APPROACHING THE FIRST TURN. THE WINNER OF THIS EVENT MURRAY VAR FLYER WAS LOCKED AWAY FOR A URINE SAMPLE TO BE OBTAINED LATER IN THE EVENING UNDER CGRC RANDOM SWAB BALLOT. VETERINARY EXAMINATION OF MORGO’S BABE REVEALED NO APPARENT INJURY. RACE 6 310M 5TH GRADE HEAT 2: PRINCESS KEATON WAS SLOW TO BEGIN. TEDDY TWO BUCKS LOST GROUND SOON AFTER THE START. HABMAK & HIGHLAND IZMIR COLLIDED APPROACHING THE FIRST TURN WITH HIGHLAND IZMIR LOSING GROUND HAMPERING TEDDY TWO BUCK. BLAZING MORGO, HABMAK & HIGHLAND ABBEY CAME TOGETHER AT THE FIRST TURN WITH BLAZING MORGO LOSING GROUND SHARPLY HAMPERING TEDDY TWO BUCKS & HIGHLAND IZMIR. THE WINNER OF THIS EVENT TRIMTEX WAS LOCKED AWAY FOR A URINE SAMPLE TO BE OBTAINED LATER IN THE EVENING UNDER CGRC RANDOM SWAB BALLOT. RACE 7 310M 5TH GRADE HEAT 3: CHOC MAGIC & HIGH FEES WERE SLOW TO BEGIN. HIGH FEES IN CROSSING TO THE RAILS APPROACHING THE FIRST TURN CHECKED CHOC MAGIC WITH CHOC MAGIC LOSING GROUND HAMPERING HIGH FEES & CLASSY ASSET. HIGH FEES & MARUNGI’S WORLD COLLIDED APPROACHING THE HOME TURN WITH HIGH FEES LOSING GROUND. VETERINARY EXAMINATION OF CHOC MAGIC REVEALED MINOR LACERATIONS TO BOTH HIND LEGS HOWEVER INSUFFICIENT TO WARRANT A STAND DOWN PERIOD. VETERINARY EXAMINATION OF CLASSY ASSET REVEALED SPLIT WEBBING TO THE NEAR SIDE HIND FOOT 7 DAY INCAPACITATION CERTIFICATE FROM 30/8/09. STEWARDS INTERVIEWED THE HANDLER OF CHOC MAGIC REGARDING THE GREYHOUNDS PERFORMANCE TONIGHT. MRS. MCFARLANE WHO WAS HANDLING FOR HER HUSBAND ADVISED STEWARDS THAT THE GREYHOUND WAS POORLY BOXED TONIGHT, STATING THE GREYHOUND WAS DESPERATE FOR AN OUT SIDE BOX. MRS. MCFARLANE FELT THAT THE GREYHOUND MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE INCIDENT WITH THE 2 IN THE RUN TO THE FIRST TURN IN WANTING TO GET OFF THE TRACK. STEWARDS NOTED MRS. MCFARLANE’S COMMENTS AND TOOK NO FURTHER ACTION. RACE 8 530M 5TH GRADE: CAWBOURNE HAILS JUMPED SMARTLY AND LED ALL THE WAY. ALFIE TRICK WAS SLOW TO BEGIN. QUIET OBSERVER GALLOPED ON THE BACK OF EXOTIC GHOST APPROACHING THE FIRST TURN CAUSING EXOTIC GHOST TO LOSE GROUND AND CHECK MORGO’S PRINCESS AT THE FIRST TURN. STEWARDS SPOKE TO TRAINER K MORGAN FOR HIS FAILURE TO PROVIDE A CATCHER FOR THIS RACE, UPON HEARING THE EXPLANATION TENDERED BY MR. MORGAN STEWARDS TOOK NO FURTHER ACTION. RACE 9 310M 5TH GRADE HEAT 4: ELLA FELLA TELLA, FIRE ZING & DON JOHN WERE ALL SLOW TO BEGIN. ELLA FELLA TELLA BLUNDERED AT THE FIRST TURN. STEWARDS POSTED THE “HOLD ALL TICKETS” ADVICE FOLLOWING THE RUNNING OF THIS EVENT. STEWARDS HAD CONCERNS WITH THE DISTANCE OF THE LURE FROM THE FIRST TURN TO APPROACHING THE HOME TURN, UPON VIEWING THE REPLAY OF THE RACE STEWARDS BELIEVED THE LEADING GREYHOUND WAS NOT DISADVANTAGED AND AT NO POINT OF THE RACE DID IT STOP IT’S PURSUIT OF THE LURE, STEWARDS THEN GAVE THE ALL CLEAR. VETERINARY EXAMINATION OF FIRE ZING REVEALED AN ABRASION TO THE NEAR SIDE HIND TOE, HOWEVER INSUFFICIENT TO WARRANT A STAND DOWN PERIOD. RACE 10 440M MAIDEN: WAGTAIL MAL JUMPED SMARTLY AND LED ALL THE WAY. VALLEE RATTLER & BERELLA CHELSEA WERE SLOW TO BEGIN. MISS CRIBRALTAR IN RACING WIDE SOON AFTER THE START CHECKED CAWBOURNE ELVIS & VALLEE RATTLER. BERELLA CHELSEA IN CROSSING TO THE RAILS AT THE TURNING INTO THE BACK STRAIGHT CHECKED VALID PEPPER WITH VALID PEPPER LOSING GROUND. CAWBOURNE ELVIS, VALLEE RATTLER & BERELLA CHELSEA CAME TOGETHER AT THE TURNING OUT OF THE BACK STRAIGHT. VALID PEPPER CHECKED VALLEE RATTLER APPROACHING THE HOME TURN. CAWBOURNE ELVIS GALLOPED ACROSS THE HEELS OF BERELLA CHELSEA AT THE HOME TURN. RACE 11 440M 5TH GRADE: WAR MACHINE, VIDAR IZMIR & BLITZ HAVOC CAME TOGETHER SOON AFTER THE START. GYPSY PEPPER HIT THE RUNNING RAIL AT THE TURNING OUT OF THE BACK STRAIGHT CANNONING OFF CHECKING SEEN DEAN. STEWARD IN CHARGE MR. T. HYNES