IRELAND’S TOWCESTER PROGRESS BY NUMBERS

Ian Fortune

Eight of the twelve runners in the semi-finals of the Star Sports& Orchestrate English Greyhound Derby are Irish trained.

Saturday’s quarter finals were once again kind to the raiding party with Epic Ace and Ballymac Deniro winning for the emerald isle while many others impressed in defeat.

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

Number of Irish trained winners in the quarter finals:

2 from a possible 4 (Ireland had runners in each of the 4 heats)

Number of Irish trained qualifiers:

8(from a possible 12)

Breakdown of Irish qualifiers:

Liam Dowling (4 from 4)

Ballymac Deniro

Ballymac Duffle

Ballymac Iroko

Ballymac Ralf

Paul Hennessy (2 from 3)

Lennies Eddie

Lennies Tank

Pat Buckley (1 from 1)

Hackney Corner

John Kennedy (1 from 1)

Epic Ace

WHERE THE IRISH FINISHED

A full breakdown of where the 12 Irish trained greyhounds finished in the quarter finals.

Heat 1

1^stEpic Ace

2^ndBallymac Iroko

Heat 2

3^rd Ballymac Duffle

4^th Priceless Romeo

5^thGaytime Clyde

Heat 3

1^st Ballymac Deniro

2^nd Lennies Eddie

3^rd Lennies Tank

4^thDonishall Sam

Heat 4

2^nd Ballymac Ralf

3^rd Hackney Corner

4^th Getup The Boy