No trainer is having a more successful run than Appin based Christine Oldfield, who surely set some sort of record when Derenger showed brilliant speed to lead throughout at Bulli on Wednesday night.
When Derenger scored his third successive win, it meant that Christine had won eight races in a row with each of her greyhounds being sent out an odds-on favourite.
Derenger has won three straight, Bacash and Kevlarr had each won their first two starts, and Spring Ricky had been successful in a maiden.
And the winning trot is unlikely to end any time soon with Frattini, an exciting unraced bitch, slated to make her debut over 472m at Bulli on Wednesday.
Frattini has already won a performance trial over 457m at Goulburn in near record time of 25.50.
"They are going well but we don’t get carried away," Christine’s husband Ron said.
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Dig Deep Maggie’s win over 630m at Nowra last week was a small consolation for owner-trainer Les Deguara after the devastating loss of Dig Deep Dooms from a suspected spider bite.
Dig Deep Maggie, one of only two greyhounds in Les’ kennels, won in a respectable 36.85 but her trainer insists she is nowhere near as smart as Dig Deep Dooms, which he lost recently.
"Dig Deep Dooms had won five short course races and was the best greyhound I’ve had since Dig Deep Deano 17 years ago," Les said.
"I also had a good greyhound called Hip Chick which won three long-distance races at Wentworth Park but Dig Deep Deano, who won his maiden in 1997 and went on to win 17 races, was my best.
"I part own Smashing Sally, who has won three races at Wenty for my mate Neil Falk, and Dig Deep Dooms was from the same litter produced by Smashing Jen, a good race bitch in WA for Linda Britton.
"Dig Deep Dooms won at Nowra on March 24 and five days later I found her dead in her kennel."
Les, 61, has been training greyhounds as a hobby since he was 13 years old, and is the warehouse manager for the same packaging company he joined as an employee in 1968.
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The brilliant all the way win at Nowra last week by Sue’s Sister Sal points to the Graeme Hughes trained bitch becoming the best greyhound so far sired by the great Did I Entertain.
Graeme and Robert Arnold share their training, breeding and rearing facilities and Robert prepared Did I Entertain to win 30 of 99 starts before the dog was retired in mid- 2011.
Sue’s Sister Sal, who led throughout over the Nowra 520m trip in a slick 30.19, has been lightly-raced and won’t be seen at Wentworth Park in the immediate future.
"Graeme has been patient with her as she has just got over a seasonal spell," Robert said.
"Last Monday’s Nowra race was only her second hit-out over that distance and she was a bit tired the next day when she drank a lot of water, so the run should improve her.
"Sue’s Sister Sal has been a reliable beginner so far and is well bred, being a daughter of Droopy’s Amy, who is a member of Melbourne breeder Paul Bartolo’s Leprechaun line.
"The whole litter can run and her brother Love This Bloke has ability but we call him spaghetti legs because he is a bit clumsy at this stage."
Sue’s Sister Sal’s win was part of a winning double at Nowra for Graeme Hughes, a nurse who trains greyhounds as a hobby.
He also won over 365m with Cherish Amore, who he bought "off the internet" at five months of age because she is part of the dam line which produced Cosmic Rumble.
"We had some fun and games rearing Cherish Amore as she used to go under fences and climb cyclone wiring but that’s part and parcel of raising puppies," Robert said.
