Jimmy White showed keen judgment when he selected Tangible Asset as a 12 weeks old puppy with the dog not only notching his fourth Wentworth Park win on Saturday night but breaking the 30sec barrier for the first time.
Tangible Asset hung on to beat the fast finishing Try Catch Up by a head in a fourth and fifth grade event, stopping the clock at 29.94.
White, who has only Tangible Asset in his kennel, said later: "That's what I was happiest about, because with his two previous Wenty wins being in 30.20 in September and in 30.01 on June 10, it shows he keeps improving.''
White and his pal Andrew Bourdoulis bought Tangible Asset at 12 weeks for a fairly hefty $8000.
"We figured he was worth it because his dam Miss Emmy Rose is a sister to Up Hill Jill, the 2018 Golden Easter Egg winner,'' White said.
"Originally we were supposed to pay $10,000 because I understood the pup was by Fernando Bale, and I've always considered a fair price for a pup is the cost of the service fee paid by the breeder.
''When I discovered this black pup was by Kinloch Brae I told the breeder I wasn't prepared to fork out more than $8000 but he agreed to sell him for that amount.
"I selected Tangible Asset because at 12 weeks he was tearing around the paddock on his own.
"It looked to me like he already thought he was on a racetrack so that's why I chose him.''
Former Victorian Al's Entity produced a sensational Wentworth Park trial on Saturday night after arriving at trainer Michelle Sultana's kennels with the group 1 Vic Peters Classic as his goal.
A winner of just three from 13 Victorian starts, the best of them being a slick 29.27 win at Sandown, Al's Entity trialled solo and clocked a flying 29.50.
His splits were 5.48, 13.86 and 17.90, putting him into the July 1 heats of the Vic Peters with a great chance of emulating fellow Victorians Deliver and Playlist, who took out the 2018 and 2020 Classic finals.
Andy Lord's Bandit Ned set a race record of 29.47 with his 2021 success while Gatlin, from the John and Minnie Finn kennel, scored in 29.94 last year.
The Finns' hottest Vic Peters candidate Zipping Remus, who boasts a Wentworth Park personal best of 29.45, scored his fifth win in seven Wentworth Park appearances on Saturday night, overcoming a slow start to score by over three lengths in 29.75.
The Vic Peters and the equivalent group 1 event for bitches, the Peter Mosman Opal, are for greyhounds whelped on or after March 1, 2021.
That makes Andy Lord's current star Screaming Jet, who has won his past six WP outings, a month too old for the Vic Peters.
While Wentworth Park regulars were taken aback at Al's Entity's sizzling trial time last Saturday, his new trainer Michelle Sultana was not surprised, saying: "He was trained in Melbourne by Paul Abela who sent him up to me for the Vic Peters.
"Paul has been great mates with my partner Darryl Thomas for years and he told us Al's Entity was a very fast dog who was definitely worthy of a crack at a race like the Vic Peters.''
