A plan to send Dual Keroma to leading Victorian trainer Anthony Azzopardi has been abandoned following the greyhound's fastest time of the night win at Wentworth Park on Saturday.
Dual Keroma began better than usual and surprised even trainer Susan Pitstock when he was second going through the catching pen before coming away to win a 520m 5th grade in 29.87.
Dual Keroma has now had two wins and four seconds from seven Wentworth Park appearances.
“He loves this track,” Pitstock said.
“Anthony Azzopardi has trained for my husband Ray and myself before and we were about to transfer Dual Keroma to him but we are having too much fun with the dog ourselves now.”
Dual Keroma is a son of Duanna Keroma, who did little on the track.
“Susan and I paid $5500 for Duanna Keroma when she was a puppy but when she was only placed twice in 11 starts we gave her away to neighbouring breeder Darryl Fitzsimmons on the understanding we would get two puppies from her litters,” Ray Pitstock said.
“Dual Keroma is one of those puppies.”
In other action from Wentworth Park, Utah Miss scored her 17th win on Saturday night and trainer Joe Satti rated his greyhound's powerful 30.05 performance in a 520m 4th grade as “her best yet”.
Utah Miss, who exited box eight, was badly hampered at the first turn by the speedy wide runner Boil And Bubble, but maintained her momentum and headed that greyhound on the back straight.
She then comfortably held off a late challenge from the well-performed Chase The Cash to win clearly, producing a sizzling run home time of 11.73.
“Before Utah Miss won at Richmond on November 10 she trialled 29.80 at Dapto early on a trial morning when the track is not usually fast,” Satti said.
“So while that told me she was exceptionally well after a short let-up I was not confident about her winning off box eight tonight.”
King Carmody, raced by a syndicate comprising 10 employees of Sydney Trains, notched his fourth Wentworth Park win for trainer Jodie Lagogiane on Saturday night.
King Carmody made light of his tricky box five draw, leading throughout in 29.88, only 0.01 outside Dual Keroma's time standard for the meeting.
A litter brother to Queensland star Fast Times, King Carmody was bought as a puppy from breeders Jane and John Carruthers by syndicate chief Shaun Lamont.
Saturday was a big night for syndicates with Nations and Techno, raced by Joe Lannutti's Punters HQ group, scoring for trainers Peter Sims and Dean Swain.
Nations overcame a slow start to take his record to eight wins from just nine starts in the opening event, a 520m 5th grade.
“Nations is raced by four Victorians who have invested a lot of money in greyhounds this year, and have purChased another dozen dogs over the past three months,” Lannutti said.
Nations was part of a winning double for Wagga trainer Sims, whose consistent sprinter Modus Operandi bungled the jump but showed great tenacity to score his fourth win in seven Wentworth Park starts.
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