Charge Up will be rushed into beginning her Wentworth Park career after resuming from a break of more than seven months with an outstanding win at Dapto last Thursday night.
Having her first start for trainer Cliff Bell, Charge Up began brilliantly and gave nothing else a chance in a fifth grade event, covering the 520m in a blistering 29.83.
Because Charge Up turns three in January Bell intends to waste no time in getting his exciting prospect to Wentworth Park.
"When she won on Thursday Charge Up was having only her second 520m hit-out since early April,'' Bell said. "I had given her a post-to-post hand-slip at Dapto and then, because she had been off the scene for so long, she had to contest a 520m stewards' trial before resuming her racing career.
"In that trial at Dapto she clocked 29.89, which is why she was a hot favourite on Thursday night.
"I will probably give Charge Up just one more start on a south coast track before heading to Wentworth Park with her.''
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Another Dapto winner close to coming to the metropolitan area is Another Gangsta, whose 29.83 winning performance on Thursday matched Charge Up's figures.
Another Gangsta's win was, if anything, even more impressive, as he had box six and needed to bullock his way across to the rails in order to lead at the first turn.
The 19 months old juvenile has had only five starts, all at Dapto, for four wins and a second, but his equal best of the night figures on Thursday were his quickest effort.
Owen Makin, whose daughter Tracey Bryant trains the dog, said the time is ripe for Another Gangsta to come to Wentworth Park.
"Tracey will probably nominate Another Gangsta for a Bulli meeting and then head to Wentworth Park with him,'' Makin, himself a former leading Sydney trainer, said.
Makin bred Another Gangsta from his smart racer Lover's Quarrel, who won nine of 33 races and was successful at Wentworth Park at only her seventh racetrack appearance.
"Another Gangsta is from her first litter and while his brother Heza Gangsta is just as fast at this stage he is nowhere near as good a race dog,'' Makin said.
"Heza Gangsta has had a win and three placings from five starts but he tends to stand up in the starting boxes. By doing that he usually misses the jump, but Another Gangsta is a real professional, a tenacious chaser whose only flaw is his enthusiasm to get to the rails, even when they are other dogs drawn inside him.
"Hopefully with experience Another Gangsta will learn to ease his way across to the fence more gradually.''
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Caroline and Zac Psilos, who raced the outstanding Black Skopos in the late 1970s, were back in the winner's circle on Friday night when their dog Tsunami George led throughout at Richmond.
Tsunami George covered the 400m in 22.95, fastest time of the night, and the Psilos family is hopeful the dog will 'get' 520m.
"Zac and I reared a litter for breeder Stuart Hazlett and in return Tsunami George was one of the pups we were given,'' Caroline said. "He has had 10 starts for three wins and four seconds but has been lightly raced because we went recently to Europe for a holiday.
"While Blue Skopos was handy, her mother Black Skopos was our best greyhound.
"Zac is a retired primary school principal while I am a retired primary school teacher and we raced Black Skopos in partnership with Keith Buckman, who was once the principal of our old school, Liverpool West Primary.''
