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The Winner
"It's ultimately the greatest night and a dream come true"
words from Eric
Cantillon as Blackrose Mars ranaway with the 61st East Anglian Derby
at Yarmouth Stadium last night
The Winner Trap 2
BLACKROSE MARS
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Final
Eric
continued: " I 've only had a professionl licence
for three months, and it's fantastic to win the East
Anglian Derby at Yarmouth, if you had said to me at
the start, that i would be in a final, i wouldn't of
believed you! Training greyhounds is a hobby for me,
which is shared with my wife and daughter, but i
take it very seriously. We only have a dozen open
race dogs, and get a great buzz out of being
involved in big events. Blackrose mars has been
absolutely brilliant for me, he was involved in the
Coventry Summer Derby final a few weeks ago, in
which he peeked in the semi finals really, this time
he's peeked in the final and got it right, as soon
as i saw him clear from the traps, I knew he had the
race bagged, especially with all the trouble going
on behind him with some of the other runners".
The
Newmarket trainer was already on a high from earlier
in the evening, when Blackrose Moon took the spoils
in the Derby Invitation race, but all eyes were on
Blackrose Mars as he tasted big race glory. A good
break from the two lid, left him clear as Black Taxi
and Blonde Buster clashed, hampering trouble at the
first turn, and Blackrose Mars was away, stretching
the field down the back straight and not putting a
foot wrong and clocking 27.71 over the 462m trip,
and scooping the £12,000 prize money and Silver
trophy.
Peterborough trainer David Pruhs's Primitive Way
finished second place and John Mullins Blonde Buster
trailing home for third.
 It
had also been a great night for many other trainers,
Mildenhall's Peter Witchell who trains Beardys
Robbie broke the 277m track record in the
Kronenbourg Sprint Grand Final, clocking 16.46,
knocking twinned track record holders Respect in
2000 clocking 16.50 and Against the Lead in 2006
clocking 16.50. The 659m track record was also broke
by Masterpiece trained by John Millard of Reading,
his time of 40.77, knocks the 1988 track record
holder Big City time off the history list.
 Many
local trainers scooped first prizes during the night
of open events, and a stunning performer in the
making was Movealong Blue trained in Caister by
Irene Barnard, he won the Derby Puppy open, and
tripping a time of 28.02 is sure to go on to much
bigger prize fortunes as he didnt find things tough
in the company he had here.
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