Sprint Champ Set To Bolt
23 September, 2015
Greyhound
WA Sprint Champion Nero Bolt returns following more than a month away from the track when he goes around in the Mandurah Mail Free To All (490m) at TABtouch Park Mandurah on Friday night.
The Nick Minutillo-trained chaser’s last run was at the Nationals in Sydney where he finished fourth against the country’s premier sprinters.
Back on home turf and with the advantage of an inside draw Nero Bolt has good prospects of improving his already superb record in 490m racing.
The strong finishing black chaser has won nine of 11 starts over the distance.
“I’m not sure whether Mandurah suits him or whether he just loves racing there but he goes OK on the track,” Minutillo understated.
Minutillo will use this weekend’s race as a chance for Nero Bolt to tune-up for the Group 3 Mandurah Cup series, which starts next Friday.
Nero Bolt takes on other Mandurah Cup hopefuls Stangafied and Tureaud.
The highly promising Tureaud made an emphatic return to racing last Wednesday when he clocked a super slick 27.22 to win over 490m.
Trainer Christine Robartson will be desperate for last year’s Mandurah Cup winner Last Day to find some form when he goes around in the Gibbons Holden Gosnells Grade 5 (490m) on Saturday.
Last Day has been winless in his past 14 attempts and his chances of breaking the drought look bleak from the pink.
At the opposite ends of the traps kennelmate All Riled Up will have every opportunity to get his career back on the right path from the pole.
All Riled Up toughed out a notable victory over Stangafied in his first attempt at Free To All level in late August but he hasn’t saluted the judges in three runs since.
James Broadhurst
Greyhounds WA