Old Bailey stole the show for the second week in succession when he set the time standard at Saturday night's Wentworth Park meeting.
In a meeting in which the last five races had to be abandoned due to issues with the track surface, Old Bailey took out a 520m 4/5th grade event by nine lengths in a time of 29.85.
Old Bailey trailed consistently brilliant beginner Aisle Tifi to the first turn and took the lead approaching the back straight before tearing away.
He was the only greyhound to get under the 30 second mark on Saturday night and achieved the rare distinction of being fastest winner for the second week running.
The Craig Chappelow-trained Cosmical again showed his liking for Wentworth Park with his seventh win at the track in another 4/5th grade race over the 520m.
It was Cosmical's seventh win in 18 appearances at headquarters, and remarkably, all but two of the greyhound's racetrack victories have been notched in town.
Saturday night's win took Cosmical's prizemoney to $37,585, a tidy effort for a youngster whelped in November, 2014.
Unfortunately for trainer Chappelow, who bred Cosmical from his former smart racer Provoked, the blue greyhound is one month too old for next month's Group 1 Peter Mosman Classic at Wentworth Park.
Saturday night's most impressive Peter Mosman Classic contender was the Paul Roderick-trained Mr Vuitton, who led throughout in a nippy 30.06.
Mr Vuitton, whelped in March, 2015, is well inside the Peter Mosman Classic's age cut-off date of December 1, 2014, but surprisingly is no certainty to contest the 66th running of the event.
"I haven't decided yet whether to run Mr Vuitton in the Peter Mosman," Roderick said at Wentworth Park.
"It is going to be a terribly hard race to win because for that sort of money most of the top Victorian sprinters will probably head to Wentworth Park and they are always difficult to topple."
Max Cady was the sinister character plated by Robert Mitchum in the 1962 hit movie Cape Fear and his greyhound namesake proved a villain for punters with his runaway win at $13 on Saturday night.
Trained at Toronto by Peter Tobin, Max Cady took the lead at the first turn for a comfortable win, and despite tending to run wide, enhanced his record from box one to three wins from six starts.
Tobin was a first and second division rugby union player in the Newcastle district until retiring from that sport 25 years ago, aged 36.
"In those days I used to race whippets and would hear mates who were greyhound trainers talking about the prizemoney they won," Tobin said.
"So when I quit rugby I took up training greyhounds, mainly to keep fit."
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