Good Odds Cash produced a near track record performance in lowering the colours of the mighty Wow in a 472m top grade thriller at Bulli on Saturday night.
Good Odds Cash, pictured qualifying for the postponed 2021 TAB Million Dollar Chase semi-finals through winning the NSW Sprint Championship at Dapto on August 12, bounced in front from box three and led throughout to beat Wow by a length.
The winner, trained by Tracey Hurst, rocketed over the 472m in 25.86, a mere .08sec outside the track record set by Aston Dee Bee in April 2019.
Good Odds Cash, whose dam Nino De Oro is a half-sister to the Hurst family's 2019 Million Dollar Chase winner Good Odds Harada, has now won a dozen of her 20 races, but at just 22 months of age was far and away the "baby'' of Saturday's red hot lineup.
Wow Chased Good Odds Cash all the way and while he took a little ground off Hurst's greyhound in the run home, he did not look a realistic chance of picking her up and when the sensational time was semaphored, nobody was surprised.
Later in the night her kennelmate Good Odds Harada, having his second start in a Masters race, led throughout over 472m in a slick 26.26.
Trainer Jason MACKAY blamed himself for Zipping Lennox's poor start after the dog staged a remarkable performance to win over 472m at Bulli on Saturday night in a slick 26.30.
Zipping Lennox, a son of MACKAY's boom stud dog Zipping Garth and the trainer's 2016 Wentworth Park Ladies Bracelet winner Zipping Lilly, was having only his third start but after bungling the jump came from a distant third on the home bend to beat pacemaker Hold Me Up by a length.
"It was probably my fault he began so badly because I had not trialled Zipping Lennox at Bulli and as there is a quiet Bramich lure in operation there, dogs new to the track can get tricked when the boxes open,'' MACKAY said.
"Zipping Lennox is normally a safer beginner than he showed tonight and when I bring him back to Bulli for a longer 515m race in around a month I expect him to get away better.
"While he is still very green he has a future ahead of him because his run home time was smart.''
Uno Kai scored only his second win after stringing together seven placings in 18 starts when he finished strongly to win Saturday's opening event, a 472m fifth grade, in 26.69.
After the race trainer Keith Pedrana said: "Uno Kai is a lot better dog than his form would suggest.
"He has had a lot of bad box draws and either had no luck or been outgraded in tougher races so I wasn't surprised to see him win tonight.
"I bought Uno Kai as a 16 months old unraced youngster from JODIE and Andy Lord, who bred him from their former top class race bitch Uno Suzie.
"I've known Andy for 40 years and he sold me Uno Kai and another dog called Carter's Ransom for a very reasonable price in a package deal.''
Super Estrella might not have clocked her quickest Bulli 590m time but produced arguably her best performance when she held out champion stayer Stanley Road to win Saturday's GRNSW Middle Distance Series Stakes.
The David Smith-trained bitch led throughout in 33.17, .17sec slower than her winning time on July 31 when she stopped the clock at only .01sec outside Segovia's long-standing track record.
But on Saturday Stanley Road, resuming from a spell, sat in third spot around the first turn and looked to have the drop on Super Estrella when he moved into second position at the top of the straight.
But Super Estrella went to the line tenaciously to score by one-and-a-half lengths from Stanley Road, with Chrissie Banner, who had Chased the winner to near the home bend, just over a length away third.
'I was very pleased with Super Estrella's win because before the race Stanley Road's trainer Mark Gatt told me how fast his dog had been trialling so I knew my bitch could not afford to put a foot wrong,'' trainer David Smith said.
"Super Estrella won her only long-distance race, over 729m at Dapto on August 12, so I will nominate her for that track again next Saturday.
"There is a 729m event programmed so hopefully there will be sufficient nominations for that to go ahead and for Super Estrella to have another crack at a longer distance.''
