Rockstar Stratus, who had untapped talent but "did not want to be a race dog'' has produced two of the eight runners in the $6000 to the winner Maiden Final to be held at Wentworth Park on Saturday week.
Her hefty 34.5kg son Rockstar Gunnar was runner-up to Hold It in heat one on Wednesday night while his even bigger brother, Rockstar Rampe, who tips the scale at 37.5kg, finished powerfully to win heat two.
The Peter Lagogiane-trained Hold It led throughout in 30.35 while Rockstar Rampe came from third in the middle stages to win in 30.37.
"For such big dogs they are incredibly good railers,'' said Chris Nutt, who shares ownership in the pair with their trainer Shaun Evans.
"And while Rockstar Gunnar was beaten six lengths in his heat there is nothing between him and Rockstar Rampe and if either of them happens to draw box one in the final they will be hard to beat.
"Shaun Evans and I owned their dam Rockstar Stratus and she remains the fastest greyhound we have raced.
"She had just 27 starts for 11 wins and four placings and was a finalist in Melbourne's Sandown Laurels Classic.
"When we trained her she won her 472m maiden at Bulli in 26.21 and then won in 26.08 there and after we sent her to Victorian trainers Jamie and Brooke Ennis she looked like being a world beater.
"Unfortunately Rockstar Stratus was a nervous wreck, she hated people, and Jamie reckoned she started worrying about what was going to happen at the end of a race, when she reached the catching pen, before she even went into the starting boxes.
"Jamie and Brooke sent her back to us to be used for breeding, commenting that she just did not want to be a race dog.''
While Evens and Nutt have two qualifiers in the November 19 final, dual Million Dollar Chase winning trainer Peter Lagogiane will have three starters.
Lagogiane won with Hold It and qualified with heat placegetters Toofan Raja and Kajal Rani, who are raced by Shakeel Latimer.
Latimer owned Handsome Prince, who gave Lagogiane his second Million Dollar Chase winner when he took out the 2020 final.
BOOM sprinter Keep It Short is bound for Wentworth Park following his fifth dazzling win in seven appearances at Bulli on Tuesday.
Trained by Greg Smith for successful owner Jason Lymbery, Keep It Short overcame a moderate start to win easily, covering the 472m in a flying 26.09sec.
Smith has built Keep It Short up in distance carefully, as the dog's past four wins have been over 350m, then 400m and 450m before Tuesday's winning romp.
MICHAEL Hardman, whose father Frank was one of the great trainers of the 1970s, had a night to remember at Wentworth Park on Wednesday when he landed three winners.
Hardman won a 720m race with the Marty Hallinan-owned Zipping Patch in a fair 42.62 and took out 520m events with That'll Do Neo in a slick 30.01 and She's Airborne in 30.14.
Zipping Patch's win was the most impressive as the rookie stayer was badly hampered crossing to rails from box seven and came from a long last in the early stages to win by a head.
