The invincible grip held by Lisa Cole-trained greyhounds on the main events in meetings of the central districts region was broken during last Friday's Hatrick and Monday's Palmerston North meetings.
Last Friday it was the Matt Roberts-prepared Cawbourne Buckle who led home seven Cole trained runners in the main C3/4 520m race.
Then at the Manawatu Raceway on Monday, the Bill Hodgson-produced Nitehawk Rose delivered a potent last to first win in the $11,470 feature over 457m, again leading home seven greyhounds from the Cole kennels.
Those two greyhounds will take on five chasers who are conditioned by Cole in this evening's main C4/5 520m event (Race 9).
This will be a considerably tougher assignment for Cawbourne Buckle, as she now steps up to take on hardened open class greyhounds.