It's back to reality this evening after last Friday's big ticket Hatrick racing action with the Whanganui club presenting a standard Friday 12-race card.
It was an incident packed Group 1 final last week which saw the Foxton-based trainer Angela Turnwald producing Top Prosecutor to deliver his all-the-way win inthe feature $40,000 Wanganui Toyota Spion Rose Cup over 520m at Group 1 level.
My Girl Chloe delivered an unbelievable effort to annex the Group 2 $15,000 Liquorland Wanganui Dash For Cash sprint.
The Karen Walsh-trained sprinter was the last to exit from the 305m traps which invariably ends any stakes earning claims at this level.
It was also a sweet result in this sprint for veteran Whanganui trainer Freddy Kite, whose charge Sedgebrook Babe nailed a gallant third after setting the initial pace.
In doing so she provided Kite with an additional bonus payment by being the breeder of the first New Zealand bred greyhound to finish in the Group 2 event.
It was also a successful evening of chasing results for Palmerston North trainer Lisa Ahern.
She prepared the winners of six races during the evening which saw her further extend her national trainers lead over John McInerney, who is the perennial winner of the Trainers' Premiership.
Going into yesterday's racing Ahern had prepared the winners of 227 races during the current season.
Team McInerney was in the unusual position of sitting in second on 196 race winners.
Aside from a number of talented recently imported Aussie greyhounds who has been delivering emphatic wins, Ahern has also unleashed numerous exciting young greyhounds who carry the Bigtime naming prefix.
The flood of winners from her kennels is expected to continue unabated in the New Year.
Her husband Brendon Cole advises they are in the final stages of preparing a number of litters which he says contains "plenty of promising young greyhounds".
Therefore a fair sprinkling of new Bigtime greyhounds can be expected to make their presence felt during the standard 15-race Wednesday card with the current flow of Bigtime winners now stepping up to the higher grade Hatrick Friday meetings.
