In another winning week for Cowra greyhound connections the highlight came from a former local with Wes McDonald taking out the $40,000 Maitland Cup.
McDonad’s charge, Fusion Mint, after being moderately away raced away to take out the Group 2 feature event, landing the former local the biggest win of his training career.
Following the race McDonald gave much of the credit for the win to his wife Kylie and their children.
“It was Kylie that put the idea in my head and gave us the courage to chase the race,” McDonald told Greyhound Recorder.
McDonald is the son of Sue and the late Peter (Ace) McDonald of Cowra.
On Saturday at Dubbo the Cowra district juggernaut continued on its winning way with wins to the Braddon, Britt and Brewer kennels.
Stand Guard and Swift Secret gave Paul and Pam Braddon a winning double.
Stand Guard led throughout to break his maiden in 18.57 while Swift Secret had a harder time getting up to score in 18.57 defeating kennelmate Jayla Magic.
Ricky and Caitlyn Brewer, new additions to the local ranks, now based out of Woodstock, kept their recent good run going when veteran chaser Boaz made it back to back victories at the Dubbo meeting.
Boaz, who will celebrate his sixth birthday in January, jumped fairly before leading throughout to score in a best of the night 18.22.
Saturday’s win was victory number 30 and took Boaz’s prizemoney from a 59 start career to just over $50,000.
At the same meeting Dancing Jess was a narrow winner for Canowindra trainer Paul Britt.
After a slow start Dancing Jess raced to a mid-race lead before hanging on to score in 18.54.
At Temora last Wednesday, December 4 Rod McDonald and the Griffiths camp both returned home with winners in their trailers.
McDonald found winning form with My Mate Timmy jumping smartly leading all the way to score, defeating kennel mate Dana Scoot in a slick 18.80.
The unusually named Cheerful Cow scored a first up victory for Richard and Matt Griffiths.
Capping off the week, Cheerful Cow, after settling midfield, swept around the field to score a debut win in a maiden over 330 metres in a good 18.96.