IRELAND’S TOWCESTER PROGRESS BY NUMBERS

Ian Fortune

After 32 opening round heats, Ireland’s hand in the Star Sports & TRC English Derby remains as strong as ever.

There were some superb displays over the past three nights and we now look forward to the second round draw which is due to be made tomorrow afternoon.

There will no doubt be some seeding changes. A grand total of 32 Irish trained greyhounds will be in the draw, including an incredible eight from Pat Buckley, who saw each and every one of his team progress.  Below we’ve highlighted some of the stats from the opening round focusing, as you would expect, on the Irish runners.

Number of Irish trained winners in opening round:

15 from a possible 24 (Ireland had runners in 24 of the 32 heats)

Number of Irish trained qualifiers:

32

Breakdown of Irish qualifiers:

Pat Buckley (8)

Bobsleigh Dream

Singalong Sally

Glengar Scholar

Scarty Yank

Le Bonite

Cushie Concorde

Ballinabola Ed

Glengar Jenny

Graham Holland (5)

Bockos Leah

Part Blake

Bockos Vieira

Knight Tornado

Romeo Magico

Peter Cronin (5)

Da Bold Freddie

Emilys Jet

Kildare

Cape Cloud

All About Ted

Liam Dowling (4)

Hoodoo Brown

Ballymac Fairone

Ballymac Belvult

Ballymac Leon

Paul Hennessy (4)

Hello Hammond

Priceless Jet

Barefoot Supremo

Jaytee Wexford

Michael O’Donovan (2)

Skywalker Barry

Coolavanny Calvn

Brendan Matthews (2)

Wide Open

Fernandes

Karol Ramsbottom (1)

Deadly Showtime

Owen McKenna (1)

Ballymore Border

WHERE THE IRISH FINISHED

A full breakdown of where the 43 Irish trained greyhound finished in the opening round. 

Thursday (10 runners)

Heat 2

2^nd Hoodoo Brown

Heat 4

2^nd Hello Hammond

Heat 5

5^th Conamara

Heat 6

2^nd Ballymore Border

4^th Im To Blame

Heat 7

1^st Da Bold Freddie

Heat 8

1^st Skywalker Barry

2^nd Ballymac Fairone

3^rd Bockos Leah

Heat 9

3^rd Priceless Jet

Friday (17 runners)

Heat 11

1^st Bobsleigh Dream

3^rd Ballymac Belvult

Heat 12

1^st Part Blake

2^nd Singalong Sally

4^th Savana Hero

Heat 15

2^nd Glengar Scholar

Heat 16

1^st Emilys Jet

4^th Run Bolt

5^th Balymac Ben

Heat 17

1^st Scarty Yank

Heat 18

1^st Le Bonite

2^nd Kildare

Heat 19

2^nd Coolavanny Calvn

Heat 20

1^st Ballinabola Ed

2^nd Cushie Concorde

5^th Getawaywithit

Heat 21

1^st Cape Cloud

Saturday (16 runners)

Heat 22

1^st Barefoot Supremo

4^th Beach Avenue

5^th Russian Glory

Heat 24

2^nd Glengar Jenny 

3^rd Jaytee Wexford

Heat 25

1^st Deadly Showtime

Heat 27

1^st Bockos Vieira

Heat 28

1^st Wide Open

5^th Bockos Budsit

Heat 29

2^nd Knight Tornado

3^rd Romeo Magico

4^th Deadly Destroyer

Heat 30

1^st All About Ted

3^rd Fernandes

6^th Romeo On Fire

Heat 31

1^st Ballymac Leon