English Greyhound Derby

1st round William Hill Derby Fri heats 1-13



There are 152 runners in the draw after the withdrawal on Saturday of Melodys Midnight. There are 18 sets of guards

P J Fahy, owner trainer of Tyrur Sugar Ray, on Sunday morning confirmed that his dog, bowled over in a trial at Wimbledon the night before, was fine and takes his chance. The dog is safely back in Ireland, but will return for the first round.

There will be 26 heats in total, 13 on Friday and 13 on Saturday.

18 of them will be for six runners, from which the first four will qualify for the second round (the following Friday/Saturday)

Four heats will be for six runners, from which only the first three will qualify

And another four heats will be five runners, from which the first three qualify.

The relevant heats will be drawn for beforehand. The five runners heats are drawn for first, and then the 18 heats that will see four qualifying will be drawn.

The five runner heats with three qualifying are heats 11, 19, 22 and 25

The six runner heats with THREE qualifying are 5, 10, 14 and the final heat 26

All others are FOUR qualifying



Friday



Heat 1

1 Britania Ardbeg

2 Kereight King

3 Mags Gamble (m)

4 Five Card Draw (m)

5 Airlie Impact (w)

6 Carkei Max (w)





Heat 2

1 Ashfield Impact

2 Youtalktoomuch

3 Farloe Calvin

4 Aero Tobias (m)

5 Zenas Elena (w)

6 Screen Critic (w)



Heat 3

1 Kncokglass Billy

2 Kilara Missy

3 Amyazaman (m)

4 Yeates Fantasy (m)

5 Lughill George (w)

6 Islas Scolari (w)





Heat 4

1 Silverview Pinky

2 Bubbly Lucky

3 Eden Star (m)

4 Clonad Girl (m)

5 Trickys On Fire (w)

6 Bouncy Bocko (w)



Heat 5 (three qualify)

1 Paradise Martini

2 Jollys Bullseye

3 Teejays Bluehawk

4 Sidaz Jack

5 Calico Lad (m)

6 Zoos Caprice (w)



Heat 6

1 Farloe Tango

2 Ballymac Eske

3 Garryglass Rodge

4 Sharies Miller (m)

5 Bridge Honcho (m)

6 Isabels Boy (m)



Heat 7

1 Clune Ranger

2 Insane Paul

3 Boherna Rumble

4 Slick Santiago (m)

5 Final McCoy (w)

6 King Bradley (w)



Heat 8

1 Droopys Jet

2 Fridays Shane

3 Hi I Easy

4 Hollyoak Mad Sam

5 Ericks Gav (m)

6 Shaneboy Alley (w)



Heat 9

1 Jaytee Seuz

2 Hollyoak Oliver

3 Faroe Chico (m)

4 Carriban Rich (w)

5 Zenas Boy (w)

6 Blue Appeal (w)



Heat 10 (three qualify)

1 Swords Jacko

2 Tulligoline

3 Bubbly Rossi (m)

4 Cu Na Mianta (m)

5 Ballymac Vic (m)



6 Droopys Marino (w)

Heat 11 (five runners, three qualify)

1 Bonamassa Rocks

2 Golden Wonder

3 Britani Ricahrd

4 Jaytee Hellcat (m)

5 vacant

6 South Armagh (w)



Heat 12

1 Ringtown Snowy

2 Tyrur Sugar Ray

3 Sigma Five

4 Lemon Pluto

5 Bridge Ruth (m)

6 Black Jedamac (w)



Heat 13

1 Be Real

2 Alien Planet

3 Longwood Fantasy

4 Hather George (m)

5 Young Golden (m)

6 King Nicky (w)