Miss Migaro faces a tough first racing visit to Richmond on Saturday but trainer Warwick Brown believes she is a strong winning chance.
The consistent chaser, who has been in strong recent form, jumps from box eight in the Unibet Stakes (400m).
Miss Migaro is aiming for a 13th win in 39 starts but faces some handy opposition here including in-form chasers Ninja Turtle (box one) and Kiss Me Marlow from box three.
Brown’s chaser has placed or won in each of her last five starts, though, and Brown thinks she can triumph here.
“I’m excited about this race,” he said. “I expect her to do well.
“My wife trialled her down there recently and she went round in 22.63. Box eight is brilliant as she can keep out of trouble as well.
“She is fit and well and looking good.”
Miss Migaro’s recent run of good form includes a “sensational” win at Gosford over the 400m last month where she defeated a field including Jason Mackay’s National Futurity semi-finalist Megan Keeping.
Racing almost entirely at 400m level, she has two wins and two placings from her five career starts with the pink rug.
Brown, who has been involved with the sport for nearly 50 years, said she was one of the best greyhounds he had handled.
“She is just a fantastic dog,” he said.
“When she hits the ground she puts two or three lengths on the others in a blink of an eye if she doesn’t get knocked around. She hammers round the bend.
“She has been up against some handy greyhounds recently and done well.”
This is the eighth of 10 races on the card at Richmond on Saturday.
Other strong contenders look like newcomer Segeyaro in race five and John Chapman’s promising Lithgow Panther (race six).
Brown, who bought his first greyhound back in 1967, is one of the most knowledgeable trainers around.
The 70-year-old has worked studding greyhounds and has studied massage and acupuncture treatments too.
“I think it’s just one of the ways that can help me understand the dogs better to get more out of them,” he said. “Now I can do things with the dogs that even two years ago I would not have known.
“I guess at the end of the day my motto in life is, ‘I want to do the best that I can’. If I can look in the mirror and say that, I’m happy.”
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