IRELAND’S TOWCESTER PROGRESS BY NUMBERS

Ian Fortune

As we look forward to the quarter finals of the Star Sports& Orchestrate English Greyhound Derby, the competition is finely balanced with Ireland now responsible for exactly half of the remaining runners after 12 of a possible 19 qualified from Saturday’s third round.

The undoubted star of proceedings was Epic Ace as he smashed the track record with an incredible 28.14 return but so many others impressed with Ireland winning five of the eight heats.

Once again, we have broken down the challenge, highlighting some of the stats from the third round focusing on the Irish runners.

Number of Irish trained winners in third round:

5 from a possible 8 (Ireland had runners in each of the 8 heats)

Number of Irish trained qualifiers:

12 (from a possible 19)

Breakdown of Irish qualifiers:

Graham Holland (2from 5)

Donishall Sam

Gaytime Clyde

Paul Hennessy (3 from 5)

Lennies Eddie

Lennies Tank

Priceless Romeo

Liam Dowling (4 from 5)

Ballymac Deniro

Ballymac Duffle

Ballymac Iroko

Ballymac Ralf

Pat Buckley (1 from 3)

Hackney Corner

Mark Robinson (1 from 1)

Getup The Boy

John Kennedy (1 from 1)

Epic Ace

WHERE THE IRISH FINISHED

A full breakdown of where the 19 Irish trained greyhounds finished in the third round.

Coloursaregreeen qualified from the second round but was withdrawn ahead of Round 3.

Heat 1

1^st Lennies Eddie

2^ndGetup The Boy

3^rd Lennies Tank

4^th Swords Style

Heat 2

1^stGaytime Clyde

Heat 3

2^nd Priceless Romeo

3^rdDonishall Sam

4^th Faypoint Harvey

5^thGarfiney Warrior

6^th Lennies Dynamic

Heat 4

1^st Ballymac Duffle

Heat 5

3^rd Ballymac Iroko

4^th Glengar Silent

5^th Glengar Kane

Heat 6

1^stEpic Ace

Heat 7

1^st Ballymac Ralf

2^nd Hackney Corner

Heat 8

2^nd Ballymac Deniro

4^th Ballymac Stud