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Downgraders Quaddie chances

Peter Fenemor
Whanganui Chronicle·
23 May, 2013 06:25 PM2 mins to read

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The May TAB bonus Quaddie continues during tonight's Hatrick meeting where an extra $5000 will be added to the starting pool.

Recent weeks have seen those pools closing at around $18,000.

As usual, the Quaddie runs over the final four races on the card. Here's a look at some of the leading contenders in it.

Leg 1 will kick off at 8.21pm, when the northern sprinter Cosmic Pearl can cap off some consistent recent sprints by taking out this dash.

The Foxton kennelmates Appley Road and Wild Punting encountered early traffic problems in their last sprints here.

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Both are more than capable of being able to take this sprint out.

In greyhound racing if a chaser doesn't earn a stake in four consecutive races within the same class, it is automatically dropped back one grade, a process called downgrading. It is common to see the down-graders immediately regaining form.

In the second leg, the sprinter Another Raewyn is also in that category, so it will pay to overlook her bleak-looking form line and include her here.

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Go Fern Go produced a competitive third last Friday and she isn't far away from winning.

This Is Swipe is a northern sprinter who has early pace, which is an asset here, while last Friday's lower-grade winner Homebush Craig can handle the rise in class he faces owing to the kind box draw he has been allocated at Hatrick. In the third Quaddie leg, there are two sprinters who are escaping from the open-class ranks, meaning that Run Lacey Run and Secret Star have to be considered in this sprint.

Moody Man draws a trap from from where he has previously been known to swoop around the outer.

And just to illustrate how effective that downgrading process mentioned above works, it sees Ate Power looming as the potential Quaddie anchor in the last leg this evening. He had been downgraded when he struck at the Manawatu Raceway on Monday.

Ate Power is now allowed to run out his C4 nominations before returning back into open class.

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He can capitalise on that bonus opportunity here.

If he does make a mistake at the start, then the cover options here are Homebush Lignite, who has solid form from the inside trap, while the promising Stock Taker hasn't finished winning races yet.

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