Road Angel turns six next February but Mick Player's short course star continues to race like a two-year-old and notched her 26th win at start number 137 at Dapto on Thursday night.
Road Angel defeated her litter brother, John Maroun's His Highness, in the 297m sprint.
"I bought her from John after she had won twice over 520m at Dapto in the middle of 2015,'' Player said.
"Road Angel had a damaged stopper tendon and because John works he could not spare the time needed to get her back to the track,'' Player said.
"I have restricted her to sprinting because she struggles over the last 50 metres when she has to race over at places like Nowra and Dapto over 520 metres.
"As she is getting on in years I don't want to put that sort of stress on her, particularly as she still shows so much early pace in sprints.
"Road Angel was named the NSW GBOTA's 2017 Greyhound of the Year and has won around $30,000 in prizemoney which is not bad for a short course provincial tracker.
"She will continue racing until she comes in season and then she will be retired and mated with Ritza Lenny, Mark Gatt's Wentworth Park star.''
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Swift Viper is the smallest male greyhound trainer Alan Proctor has trained but what his unraced youngster lacks in size he makes up for in speed.
"He made his first public appearance in a 400m performance trial at Richmond last Wednesday and clocked 22.57, which is flying for an unraced puppy,'' Proctor.
"Swift Viper weighed in a 25.6kg for his trial, which is tiny for a bitch but for a dog is ridiculously small.
"Just the same, Swift Viper is perfectly conformed and if he can run 520 metres he could be a star of the future.
"Swift Viper was whelped in December, 2016, and his dam, Wee Chevy, is apparently on the small side so that must be where he gets his lack of size from.''
Veteran trainer Syd Swain a fan of little male greyhounds, said: "Many years back I had a 25.5kg dog called Emerald Ripple and he won 18 races.
"And people forget that Warren's Flyer, a champion Wentworth Park greyhound who won the 1991 John Stollery Christmas Gift, only weighed a bit over 27kg.''
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Bargo trainer Simon Rhodes' run of success with moderately performed greyhounds from Victoria continued at Dapto on Thursday night when Dyna Sarah scored a tenacious win in a 520m maiden race.
Although her time was a pedestrian 30.73, Dyna Sarah did it the hard way, coming from last early and overcoming a check going through the catching pen to be fifth on the back straight.
She surged between the two pacemakers on the home bend but was hampered at the top of the straight before getting up to win by a head.
Dyna Sarah had been placed, without winning, in five of 10 Victorian starts before being sent to Rhodes.
