Master Gee Stuns Proctors

By Jeff Collerson

“Unbelievable’’ was how Alan Proctor summed up the win by his wife Christine’s greyhound Master Gee in the Brodie Wells Electrical Future Stars Final (400m) at Maitland.

While the Minnie Finn-trained pair Winsome Jacko and Winsome Mission were considered to have a mortgage on last Thursday's race, the tall, gangly 34.4kg Master Gee’s early speed from box seven landed the time honoured maiden event in a blanket finish.

Master Gee will now aim to continue his unbeaten record in the ninth race at Bulli on Thursday, the Ladbrokes Sprint Series heat (400m).

Christine and Alan Proctor were represented in the Future Stars final by Master Gee and his litter brother Lord Gee, who had box one and finished eighth.

“If you had phoned me before the race I would have tipped Lord Gee to you because he is stronger,’’ Alan Proctor said.

“When we were training for bookmaker Jeff Holland years ago he always insisted that if your dog leads he has a 50 per cent chance of winning and he has been proved right over and over again."

Check out a replay of Master Gee's win here.

Winsome Jacko was the pick for the final after breaking the Maitland 400m record in the heats the previous week.

He was hampered at the start of the decider but put in a mighty finish to claim fourth.

Despite Master Gee claiming the $8000 top prize, Proctor said he was unsure about the greyhound's potential as a top-level sprinter.

“We’re confident Lord Gee, who won his Future Stars heat in 22.45, will run 500 metres but we aren’t so sure about Master Gee," he said.

"They are only 19-months-old yet so he could acquire more stamina.

“Chris Black, who works in the meat industry at Nabiac, owns Lord Gee and Master Gee and we trained their dam Oh Em Gee for him.

Oh Em Gee looks like being a good brood bitch because Vic Peters Classic finalist La Grand Logie is from the El Grand Senor litter which produced our Future Stars finalists."

Oh Em Gee has had a second litter to Bye Bye Bucks.

Exciting pup Lady Ronray (pictured) will also feature at Bulli after an unsuccesful crack at this year's Group 1 Ladbrokes Vic Peters Classic.

Ray Steele's promising sprinter goes in race eight.

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