Trainers wracking up the wins

With most of the leading normal Friday evening open class greyhounds travelling north for the huge Cambridge Christmas Eve 20-card, the main Hatrick 520m race this evening is the Race 10 Liquorland Wanganui C3-4 event.

As usual, the leading prospects in the field is provided from the powerful Lisa Ahern kennels, who over the past week has further extended her lead in the National Trainers' Premiership.

She commenced yesterday's racing sitting on 244 winners for the current season.
Perennial premiership winner John McInerney brought up his 200th winner for the season on Tuesday and by yesterday he had pushed that out to 208 winners.

The form line the Ahern runners bring into this evening is fairly ordinary looking, at least by her standards.

Absinthe Minded secures the draw advantage via the one-trap.

He has been racing in stronger fields than this evening's one and can use his kind draw to telling effect.

Kennelmates Sheer Miss and Flying Merkel are both proven sub-30 second 520m chasers around this circuit.

Obviously both can feature by nudging that 30 second barrier here.

Of the others, a pair of C2 520m winners from last Friday can carry on with their form.
Swiftly Chloe picked the jump nicely to lead her rivals throughout in 30.43s for her trainer, Wanganui GRC President Bill Hodgson.

Local conditioner Richard Waite performed a remarkable training effort when he produced King's Call from an extended spell to deliver a stylish 30.41s win.

His charge is likely to have benefited from that bold fresh-up effort.

Veteran Whanganui trainer Freddy Kite produced his wonderfully consistent sprinter Sedgebrook Babe to stylishly win last Friday's open class 305m dash.

She landed her 18th career win in the meet best 305m time of 17.46s.

Babe has drawn trap-three in this evening's Race 5, Laser Plumbing Wanganui 305m sprint, from where she can serve up a repeat dose.

Adding family rivalry from the two-trap is Kite's daughter Heather, who will parade her charge Making Time to the traps in front of her father.

Last week's pair of Angela Turnwald-prepared lower grade winning sprinters Lover and Spelling Misteak are likely to provide the stiffest opposition to the Kite sprinters.

The normal Wednesday 15-race Hatrick meeting takes a break until Wednesday, January , while the Friday evening meetings continue through the holiday period.