Chase The Cash, who gave hobby trainer Craig Watts a Wentworth Park winner with his first starter on March 18, will be chasing five straight wins when she tackles her heat of the Group 3 New Sensation on Wednesday night.
Following her brilliant debut win at Wentworth Park in a slick 29.95, Chase The Cash made it four in a row with an all-the-way victory in the fastest time of the night at Richmond on March 24.
Watts, a sales representative, has only Chase The Cash in his kennels at suburban Werrington, racing the greyhound in partnership with his brother Mark and friend Grant McPherson.
"Chase The Cash pulled up perfectly after last week's Richmond win and it's all systems go for the New Sensation heats at Wenty on Wednesday,'' Watts said.
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Watch The Wasp gained all the attention at Wentworth Park on Wednesday when he staged a remarkable last-to-first performance to win his heat of the Ladbrokes Magic Maiden but 48 hours earlier his litter sister Nellie Lost It had set the Bathurst track alight.
Nellie Lost It made a sensational middle distance debut for her new owner-trainer Geoff Curtale by breaking one of the longest standing track records on the TAB circuit.
The Dennis Barnes-trained FINE And Fancy had recorded 35.77sec for the 618m in November, 2012, but the virtually unknown Nellie Lost It shaved .07sec off those figures with her 35.70 performance.
After being third early and second going through the catching pen, Nellie Lost It hit the front on the back straight for an easy win at only her fifth start.
Nellie Lost It is a member of breeder David Pringle's outstanding Shakey Jakey-Midnight News litter, whelped in January, 2015.
Watch The Wasp, who broke the Bathurst 450m record in a performance trial on March 20 and the exciting Midnight Elsa, now with Victorian trainer Jason Thompson, are other members of the litter.
"I bought Nellie Lost It after she had raced twice and paid $20,000 for her,'' Geoff Curtale, who trains a small team at Cowra, said.
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The racing career of crack Western Australian sprinter Single Sticka is up in the air with the dog having torn a hind leg muscle on the eve of the Ladbrokes Golden Easter Egg.
Trained by John Carmody for NSW owners Anthony McVicker and Tony Forte, Single Sticka had won 18 of 34 starts and earned over $66,000 in stakes before suffering the career threatening injury.
Carmody had sent Single Sticka across to NSW Southern Highlands trainer Ruth Matic to prepare for the Golden Easter Egg and the dog staged a great performance to finish second to Nangar Bear at the first race for Matic on March 18.
Unsuited by box one, the wide running Single Sticka was last to leave the boxes and came from the back of the field at the halfway mark to go down by two lengths.
"It is heartbreaking for Single Sticka's connections, especially as the dog had also suffered a similar injury earlier in his career,'' Ruth Matic said.
"He had drawn box six in his Easter Egg heat on Saturday night and I thought that would suit him immensely so this is terribly bad luck.''
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Also missing from the Easter Egg was Reichenbach, whose owner Michael Eberand took out last month's Maitland Gold Cup with Aussie Infrared and January's Gosford Gold Cup with Barking Bad in January - each a Group 2 final.
Eberand gave Reichenbach, who had won 14 races in the care of Victorian trainer Robbie Britton, his final hit-out in preparation for the Easter Egg when the dog dropped a hind leg muscle at Richmond on March 24.
"He had dashed away with a big lead at the first turn when he suddenly went amiss,'' Eberand said.
"That's racing, one minute you are on top of the world, the next moment you are brought back to earth with a thud!
