Every Four Years, Zara Marnie & Dr Rodrigo win Traralgon feature races
Traralgon greyhounds served up a 12 race card on Friday night highlighted by the finals of the Glenview Cup, La Trobe Valley Cup and Floodfawn Classic.
Every Four Years served up a display of blistering turn of foot and showed his ability to climb off the canvas to win the Glenview Cup Final at Traralgon on Friday.
The John Paraskevas trained chaser jumped as race favourite, at a +130 starting price with greyhound bookmakers, in the 395m contest to take the $10,000 to-the-winner first prize.
From box rise and coming out of the two box he got checked erly, with Compliance hitting the lead.
Compliance, trained by Karen Pitt, looked to have something to prove, having won his heat by four and half lengths; but just did not have enough to beat the race favourite.
In the final stages, it was Every Four Years who sped through on the rail to steal the win in a time of 22.23 and make it four straight wins.
2023 Glenview Cup (Traralgon, 395m) – Every Four Years (22.23) T: John Paraskevas
The Bernardo x Eye Will Reign dog won his heat in a time of 22.12, by a margin of 2.10 lengths ahead of Skinny Olive, who would finish third in the final.
Every Four Years has run the Traralgon 395 on four occasions for two wins and a placing, with his best time at the journey clocked during last week's heat.
He has had 26 starts for 14 wins and seven placings while banking $61,565 in prize money.
In the Floodfawn Classic Final, Zara Marnie saw a plunge in greyhound betting, shortening from +240 in early greyhound betting site markets to start a short +150 favourite.
The Bernardo x Tidelina bitch finished fourth in the heat for the 500m contest, in a time of 28.66, 7.13 lengths behind the heat winner, Zipping Eve.
In the final though, the Des Douch trained hope exacted her revenge taking out the $10,000 to the winner contest.
She would win by three and half lengths in a time of 28.40, setting her best time at the track and trip on her second run at the journey.
With the performance she beat home Sunnyside Jo, and Bye Georgie in third.
2023 Floodfawn Classic (Traralgon, 520m) – Zara Marnie (28.40) T: Des Douch
The winner now has seven wins and three placings from 16 starts for her race career.
Dr Rodrigo made it four straight wins taking out the La Trobe Valley Cup final.
At box rise in the $9,890 contest over 395m, the Jennifer Gill trained chaser began as favourite at +190, with Cuban Cigar (+240) the only real danger after being the fastest heat winner on Monday.
Jumping from box five, Cuban Cigar got squeezed to the rear with Dr Rodrigo hitting the lead on the turn, and running on to win despite a late challenge from Dessert Girl.
2023 La Trobe Valley Cup (Traralgon, 395m) – Dr Rodrigo (22.71) T: Jennifer Gill
Dr Rodrigo stepped out for his 50th start, after winning his heat in a time of 22.57.
The Bernardo x Dr Cinnamon chaser has won nine times with 12 placings from a 50 start career.