Miss Ezmae and Typhoon Tim joined the select group of greyhounds holding more than one track record when they won at Bathurst and Nowra last Monday.
The Jack Smith-trained Miss Ezmae won over 618m in 35.59, taking a tenth of a second off the figures she clocked a week earlier, when she equalled the time standard set by Victoria's Rajasthan.
She had earlier broken the Dubbo 605m record with a 34.35 win, clipping .12sec from the previous best.
Typhoon Tim broke a long standing Dapto 297m record when he recorded 16.66 on May 27 before posting 20.23 for the Nowra 365m journey, trimming .01sec off the previous best which had been clocked by Darren Sultana's Hesa Felon in May, 2009.
There are few more consistent speedsters than Typhoon Tim, who has now had nine wins and a third from his past 10 starts.
His trainer Frances Goodwin and her partner Warren Everett, the former lure driver at the Canberra track, have just relocated from their 20 acre property at Tomerong to a one acre plot at Nowra Hill.
"Frances is 75 and I'm 71 and the big place was just getting too much for us, so while we have downsized in that respect we won't be reducing our racing activities,'' Everett said.
"When a dog like Typhoon Tim breaks a track record like he did last Monday, it makes us especially keen to get out of bed in the morning.''
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Speaking of records, More Sauce equalled the Maitland first split time standard of 5.15 when he notched his 13th win from 23 starts on Monday, zipping over the 400m in 22.01.
Michael Lill, whose wife Michelle trains More Sauce, said: "I'm reliably informed the previous best of 5.15 was posted in 2016 by a greyhound called Reba Rocks.
"Meanwhile More Sauce's litter brother and kennelmate Casual Glance is racing for the first time over the 515m trip at LADBROKES GARDENS on Friday.
"We gave him a box-to-box hit-out there on Monday and he flew, recording sections of 4.96 and 17.10.''
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Watching the immortal Zoom Top in action at Kempsey in 1969 "hooked'' the then 13-year-old Wayne Spurgin on greyhound racing and he and his wife Debra now have high hopes for Devil's Diamonds, their maiden winner at Wauchope last Saturday.
The Spurgins are still at Kempsey where they are training Devil's Diamonds and his unraced litter brother Duke Of Diamonds.
"Towards the end of her career her trainer Hec Watt brought Zoom Top to Kempsey for an exhibition trial and from that day when I first saw Australia's most famous greyhound I was hooked on the sport,'' Wayne Spurgin recalled.
"Our Wauchope winner Devil's Diamonds was being set for the annual Clarence Valley Sheds Maiden series at the July Grafton carnival and in a hit-out there he went a tenth of a second quicker than the ultimate winner Zipping Maserati did in a trial,'' Wayne Spurgin said.
"An injury ruled Devil's Diamond out of the Maiden heats and Devil's Diamonds was skittled when he raced at Grafton a few days before his Wauchope 384m win in 21.95.
"Debra and I have a big opinion of him while his brother, Duke Of Diamonds, a big strapping 37kg dog, has ability too.
"It was nice to win at Wauchope because I was the on course broadcaster there from 1972 to 1992.
"I worked for Akubra hats for 15 years and another 30 years for the local council but had to retire due to ill health when I was 58.
"But while I was working I was associated with Wauchope's Bayly family, who had outstanding greyhounds like Fast Appeal and her son Just Like Jack.''
Just Like Jack had 82 starts for 29 wins and 31 placings for the late Doug Bayly and his son Steve, and Wayne Spurgin was sometimes called upon to educate greyhounds on their behalf.
