Canberra Cup winner Champion Model set the time standard at Wentworth Park on Saturday night, clocking 29.90 in her first start in nearly two months.
Starting a solid $1.50 favourite in the 5th grade Ladbrokes Odds Boost Stakes, Champion Model led throughout to defeat Audi Key by five-and-a-quarter lengths.
The win was all the more impressive given the JODIE Lord-trained greyhound was having her first start at Wentworth Park. It was her 11th victory from 20 career starts.
Champion Model had been in devastating form prior to the let-up including taking out the Canberra Cup.
Her next assignment will be in a heat of the Goulburn Workers Club Cup on Tuesday afternoon. Champion Model will jump from box six in the fourth heat (race nine, 440m), spearheading the Lord kennel’s team, who have six runners engaged in the heats.
In other action at Wentworth Park on Saturday night, Canya Ayden scored the biggest winning margin when he powered to the line in the 5th grade Wentworthpark.com.au Stakes (race seven, 520m), eight lengths clear of second-placed Prying Eyes.
Taking no ill effects from having fallen at his only other start at Wentworth Park, Canya Ayden ran 29.98 in bringing up win number six.
Agnes Banks trainer Glen McKinley has the son of Fernando Bale racing well coming to Wentworth Park after a strong Bathurst 520m win, where coincidentally he also won by eight lengths.
Chevy King was low flying early recording a first section split of 5.32, outpacing noted speedster Liberty Lee – and went on to take out the free for all Ladbrokes Money Wire Stakes (race eight, 520m) in 29.99.
Taking his Wentworth Park tally to 11 wins, the Christine Proctor trained chaser defeated Liberty Lee by one-and-a-quarter lengths with Proctor’s other runner, Sound Advice, a further three lengths away third.
In other news from Saturday night, Ezy Mover scored an overdue win, taking out the 5th grade Ladbrokes Info Hub Stakes (race two, 520m).
After placing in two his previous three starts, the son of Bit Chili ran down Bombshell Bandit score by a half length in 30.13 for trainer Ian Darcey of Luskintyre, near Maitland.
The win was Ezy Mover’s ninth together with 21 minor placings in a career of 54 starts.
