Jodie Lord looked to have bright prospects of winning three, possibly four races, at Wentworth Park on Saturday night, and the Gunning trainer had punters cheering when she landed a quartet of winners who were in the market.
Cruiser Model, the $1.95 favourite, started the ball rolling when she led throughout in race two in 30.32 while Picture Frame gave those who snapped up the $2 about her chances no cause for alarm when she led all the way in 30.13.
Coast Model (Pictured), a litter sister to Lord's first winner, looked to have a tricky box seven draw in race eight so was sent out a $6 chance despite having won brilliantly in fast times at her two previous Wentworth Park outings.
But Coast Model exploded from box seven and gave nothing else a chance, withstanding a strong finish from outsider Royal Emgrand to win by a half length in 29.93, fastest time of the night.
Lord collected her fourth winner's cheque for the night when Mr Ticket, who blew in the betting from $3.70 to $6, came from last at box rise to win in 30.05.
Mr Ticket, who had box seven, drifted in the betting because keen judges believed Zipping Pearson, the favourite in box eight, might chop him off in the run to the first turn.
But Mr Ticket's tendency to miss the jump worked in his favour because Zipping Pearson began brilliantly and crossed to the rails in the lead, while Lord's dog missed trouble and swept around the field to be third on the back straight.
Mr Ticket then joined Zipping Pearson at the top of the straight and drew away to win by a length.
Track surface on Saturday night was deemed to be up to .40sec slower than in recent weeks after Bones McCoy, who had clocked 29.62 and 29.76 in recent Wentworth Park wins, recorded 30.05 in his all-the-way victory.
Similarly Coast Model, the only greyhound to break 30sec on Saturday, had clocked 29.65 and 29.68 in her previous Wenty wins while Picture Frame, who won a 520m final this week in 30.13, had won her heat in 29.70.
Dylan's Magic, who broke a hock at Richmond on May 1 last year, scored his second win since resuming after 10 months on the sidelines when he took out Saturday's 720m event.
Minnie Finn, whose husband John trains Dylan's Magic, said: "Until the hock injury he was going to be a top notch stayer and he had won in a fast 42.18 at his first long distance run at Wenty on March 21, 2020.
"Then Covid struck, Wentworth Park wasn't racing, and Dylan's Magic broke his hock at Richmond a few weeks later and was out of action for nearly a year.
"He still races with two steel pins in his leg but while he is not as good as he was going to be before he got hurt, he is still going okay and clocked 42.77 on a slow track tonight.''
Tiro Sunrise, bought as a three months old puppy for $5000, took his earnings to over $32,000 when he scored his fourth Wentworth Park win for owner-trainer Dave Robertson on Saturday night.
Tiro Sunrise led throughout from box seven but Robertson said: "This dog turned two in October and I believe his best performances are still ahead of him.
"And while he handled box seven okay tonight, I think he can go much better from box one.''
Trainer Mick Hardman predicted Chase Me Honey could become a handy middle distance performer after she came from third leaving the back straight to score a runaway win in Saturday's opening event.
"Chase Me Honey got the fly when the favourite Hudson Road collided with pacemaker Aisle Boom and that made her job easier,'' Hardman said.
"But even if that collision had not occurred, I think Chase Me Honey was still going to just about win from where she was because she is very strong.''
