Greyhound Racing 2011- Kim Billingham wins twice at Hall Green, Opens with Redbrick Droopy and Farloe Luigi
The Hall Green opens have brought good news for Greyhound trainer, Kim Billingham, as two of her hounds Redbrick Droopy, and, Farloe Luigi, gave stellar performances in two of the four races of the event.
The first of the four races was the 258m sprint, for which, Redbrick Droopy, was the 11-10 favourite. Redbrick Droopy started from trap 2, took a quick start, and, successfully prevented 3-1 rival, trap 1’s, Lincolns Topgirl, from getting ahead at the first
bend. He eventually won in a time of 15.54 seconds, by almost three lengths beating M.A.Wallis’ Lincolns Topgirl.
7-1 Compass Leah from trap 3 finished third, while 4-1 Wise Wit, from trap 4, finished fourth. 10-1 Flying Arkwright and 12-1 Nervous Ellie finished fifth, and, sixth, respectively. And this is not the first time that Redbrick Droopy has impressed. In a
career of less than two years, Redbrick Droopy has won twelve major races.
In the Puppy Contest, her 8-1 Farloe Luigi gave a pleasant surprise by winning his maiden in 28.58sec. This son of Premier Fantasy was aimed at winning from the beginning when he was one of the pace setters, starting from trap 5.
He beat 7-2 Ballymac Cho, who finished second while both the 2-1 favourites Go Go Sonic, and, Imperial Boy, failed to impress by finishing third and fourth respectively, disappointing trainers, P A Sallis, and, P C White. 11/2 Aero Majestic from trap 1 was
fifth and 10-1 Holycross King was a disappointing sixth for trainer R F Yeates.
This is not the first time that Kim Billingham has gone on an impressive winning spree. Last year at Monmore, her hounds including Bravo Tod won five races managing to impress even her rivals.
Whether this lethal combination of talent and luck on part of both Kim and her hounds will continue remains to be seen. For now one can only say that Kim Billingham’s talent deserves appreciation and felicitations. We hope she continues to bring us the
best of Greyhound racing talent and helps discard the age old notion that men are better trainers than women.
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