Yesterday we saw Week 1 of the Sylvester Doyle Puppy Championships, one of coursings 3 Classic events. While nominations were a little on the low side, the quality was well and truly on the high side with some very classy pups strutting their stuff. Exactly Like Dad (Paul Hammerstein) was the Oaks runner up and has been one of this years most outstanding youngsters. She has made it through to this years semi finals and is joined there by Derby winner Sultans of Win (John Delaroche) who was very impressive. These two were the two standout runners however they are joined in the Semi Finals by Raging Pixie (Jason Whybrow) and Greysynd Clyde (Michael Chillcott) who despite their inexperience showed they well and truly belong at this level. The Ray Boundy is run for the All Aged greyhounds and saw up and coming star Hatari (Noel Massina) qualify to face last years Waterloo Cup winner Alston (Brian Fothergill) in what shapes to be a classic course next week. Yandama (Dallas Massina) was also impressive and is our third qualifying semi finalist. The final event was the Strathbogie Cup which is a rare feature for maiden dogs. Capacity fields were reached for this event and we saw More Rage (Angela Bigham), Classy Dancer (Terry Meyer), Angry Murray Cod (David Schwarz), Tarwillie (Dallas Massina), Star Bluey (Terry Meyer), Crush Your Rush (Gavin Gledhill) and Purple Panther (Michael Hendy) qualify for the Quarter Finals next week. Longwood will conclude these features on Sunday and will be supported by 7 additional races which will be drawn dependent on nominations
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