Afternoon racing at Hatrick Raceway

It's an afternoon meeting at Hatrick today, first race 12.13pm, owing to the big ticket twilight meeting in Christchurch which will feature the last race before heading into retirement from the outstanding staying greyhound Ring The Bell.

The open class 520m greyhounds get to rest their paws this afternoon with the main 520m being for the C3/4 chasers (Race 10).

The Lisa Cole kennel is charging towards the national trainers' premiership and the kennel commences today's racing sitting on an astounding 743 winners ($1,884,290 in stake earnings) for the season.

With one month of the season left, interest now centers on Cole targeting the national record for training the most winners in a season.

That record is held by John McInerney, who produced 803 winners during the 2011/12 season.

Me Jane has regained winning form with a vengeance, having won her last three races for Cole.

She can make it four straight wins this afternoon.

Kennelmate No Time Toulouse has recently been relegated out of the open class chasing ranks. She can quickly regain form in this event.

Bigtime Craig, Bigtime Liam and Bigtime Lily are all capable of making their presence felt.
The open class sprinters are in action over the 305m dash (Race 5).

Again, Cole-trained sprinters dominate this event with her team being spearheaded by Bigtime Crackem, Bigtime Basher and Sir Duggie.

The qualifying process for the $60,000 Formpro Amazing Chase has commenced at the three designated venues throughout the country.

The Amazing Chase is an exciting new race format that involves two greyhounds going head-to-head in four 520m matches.

Not only are they racing each other, but they are also racing against the clock.

Wanganui will host the final at Hatrick on July 27 with the overall placings being decided by the times that each of the eight greyhounds will record.

The holders of the quickest race or solo trial times to be recorded at the Manukau (527m), Addington (520m) and Hatrick (520m) tracks up until July 22 will contest the rich final.

Leading the Hatrick Amazing Chase leaderboard after the first week of qualifying is the outstanding Cole-prepared greyhound Bigtime Paddy, who clocked 30.03s when winning last Friday.

Idol Tom (30.19s) for Marcie Flipp and the Angela Turnwald-trained Cawbourne Palmer (30.23s) currently hold the next quickest Hatrick qualifying times.

The Amazing Chase launched in sensational style at Manukau last season with just 2/100th of a second separating the first three greyhounds.