IRELAND’S DERBY CHALLENGE - SECOND ROUND BREAKDOWN

IRELAND’S DERBY CHALLENGE - SECOND ROUND BREAKDOWN

Ian Fortune

Things could have gone considerably better for Ireland in the second round of the Star Sports & TRC Derby as we lost over half our remaining challengers.

In all seventeen Irish finished out of the frame, while Fernandes was a non-runner.

There were Irish trained six winners, however, while fourteen Irish will be in the hat for the third round draw.

With 14 of the final 48 still representing Ireland, hopes remain high that the trophy will be coming back across the Irish Sea on June 25th. The draw for Saturday’s third round will be made tomorrow afternoon and hopefully it will work out well for those remaining. 

Number of Irish trained winners in second round:

6 from a possible 13 (Ireland had a runner in 13 of the 16 heats)

Number of Irish trained qualifiers:

14

Breakdown of Irish qualifiers:

Pat Buckley (4)

Glengar Scholar

Ballinabola Ed

Bobsleigh Dream

Singalong Sally

Paul Hennessy (4)

Hello Hammond

Priceless Jet

Barefoot Supremo

Jaytee Wexford

Graham Holland (2)

Bockos Vieira

Romeo Magico

Peter Cronin (2)

Kildare

Cape Cloud

Liam Dowling (2)

Ballymac Belvult

Ballymac Fairone

WHERE THE IRISH FINISHED:

A full breakdown of where the 32 (Including a non-runner) Irish trained greyhound finished in the second round. 

Friday (10 runners)

Heat 1

3rd Glengar Bale

Heat 2

2nd Ballymac Belvult

Heat 4

1st Hello Hammond

4th Ballymore Border

6th Cushie Concorde

Heat 5

6th All About Ted

Heat 6

5th Da Bold Freddie

6th Deadly Showtime

Heat 7

1st Ballinabola Ed

6th Ballymac Leon

Saturday (21 runners)

Heat 9

1st Singalong Sally

2nd Ballymac Fairone

4th Emilys Jet

Heat 10

2nd Bobsleigh Dream

4th Knight Tornado

5th Part Blake

6th Glengar Jenny

Heat 12

2nd Cape Cloud

4th Bockos Leah

5th Skywalker Barry

N/R Fernandes

Heat 13

1st Jaytee Wexford

2nd Barefoot Supremo

3rd Bockos Vieira

4th Le Bonite

5th Wide Open

Heat 14

2nd Priceless Jet

5th Hoodoo Brown

Heat 15

1st Romeo Magico

5th Coolavanny Calvn

Heat 16

1st Kildare

4th Scarty Yank