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The Premier League season is spread over eight weeks and consists of four legs. Each of these legs is a kind of mini trainers championship, with five races taking place and points awarded dependant on finishing positions. The fourth leg will be Grand Finals night where the team at the top of the league will be awarded the Premier League title, while the two bottom placed teams will be relegated to the Championship.

Each leg is made up of the following five races;
2 standard four-bend races
1 puppy four-bend race
1 stayers race
1 sprint race

Premier League Results

Yarmouth Leg 1 – Saturday 14th January
Team Desperate 27pts
Imperial Rock Its 26pts
Team North East 26pts
Mad Hatters 19pts
Dunham Devils 19pts
Irish Rovers 16pts

Yarmouth Leg 2 – Saturday 28th January
Imperial Rock Its 52.5pts
Team Desperate 51pts
Dunham Devils 48.5pts
Team North East 47.5pts
Mad Hatters 35.5pts
Irish Rovers 29pts

Racing Post TV will be covering the Betdaq Premier League action (Sky Channel 433) and the finals will be broadcast live in February at Doncaster Greyhound Stadium. Doncaster will also host the 3rd leg of the competition on February 10th. For more information on the competition visit the GOBATA website at gobata.co.uk.

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Eden Star is the strong market leader for the event being installed as the 2/1 favourite. The Barrie Draper trained pup is already being well touted for next year’s Greyhound Derby and is on offer at 20/1 with bet365 for that particular event. The son of Top Savings has already won the williamhill.com Puppy Derby at Wimbledon this year and although 2/1 might seem like it’s on the short side, Eden Star’s proven form in this sphere means it could well look like value come the 23rd September.

Jim Daly’s Fire Food Chilli is the 5/1 co second favourite on the back of his recent success in the Coral Champions Night Puppy Standard Final. That will certainly stand the young greyhound in good stead for this year’s Romford Puppy Cup and he’s improved tremendously since his debut at Romford in June.

The very lightly raced Slick Santiago is the other co second favourite with Coral. Keith Allsop’s charge has only run five times thus far but he already has two victories to his name and most recently finished second to Sequential in an open race at Romford. Despite that result, the bookies make Santiago half the price of Sequential who rates a 10/1 chance.

2011 Romford Puppy Cup Betting

(Prices from Coral)
Eden Star 2/1
Fire Food Chilli 5/1
Slick Santiago 5/1
Bucks Blade 10/1
Sequential 10/1
Britania Lesley 16/1
Droopys Calvin 20/1
Kilelton Anni 20/1
Ministry Missile 20/1
Offshore Rebel 20/1
25/1 Bar

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Current market leader for the 2011 East Anglian Derby is the Chris Allsopp trained Ballymac Ace. He didn’t get the best of runs when finishing third behind Yahoo Jamie and Brittons Empire in round two of this event but prior to that had looked very impressive in the first round, winning his heat in a time of 27.46. Yahoo Jamie, trained by Charlie Lister, certainly won’t be without his supporters in the outright market at the 9/2 mark. The wide runner has won both his starts in this competition thus far and should make it to the final with the minimum of fuss.

11/8 chance Fifis Rocket got the better of the 4/6f Taylors Cruise in heat three of the second round. Another Chris Allsopp trained runner, Fifis scored in a time of 27.77 while Taylors Cruise could only manage third place, with Droopys Hector splitting the pair. Fifis Rocket and Taylors Cruise are both 9/2 chances to take the East Anglian Derby crown while Droopys Hector is the rank outsider at 33/1.

We will obviously know more after tomorrow night’s semi finals but greyhound fans could well be in for a cracker next Thursday and the battle between Taylors Cruise and Ballymac Ace in the second semi final is sure to be enthralling.

65th East Anglian Derby Semi Final Draws

T1 Diesel Malc
T2 Romeo Reason
T3 Brittons Empire
T4 Holycross Prince
T5 Yahoo Jamie (M)
T6 Fifis Rocket (W)

T1 Jackdaw Summer
T2 Taylors Cruise
T3 Ballymac Ace
T4 Verdun Richie
T5 Rookery Pedro(W)
T6 Droopys Hector (W)

65th East Anglian Derby Betting

(Prices from Blue Square)
Ballymac Ace 4/1
Fifis Rocket 9/2
Taylors Cruise 9/2
Yahoo Jamie 9/2
Diesel Malc 11/2
Brittons Empire 12/1
Holycross Prince 14/1
Romeo Reason 14/1
Jackdaw Summer 20/1
Rookery Pedro 25/1
Verdun Richie 33/1
Droopys Hector 33/1

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Blue Square have previously been a key supporter of greyhound racing in the UK and were sponsors of the English Greyhound Derby between 2007 and 2009. It’s great news for the sport that they are back involved sponsoring a big competition like the TV Trophy. There is £6,000 on offer to the winner of the final.

Richard Jaques, PR and Sponsorship Manager at Rank Interactive, parent company of Blue Square said; “We have a strong greyhound clientele and, at a time when other betting brands remain hesitant to back greyhounds, when offered the TV Trophy by Roger (Cearns), it was an easy decision for us. This is such an historic competition and this year’s event looks like it could be a vintage renewal.”

The TV Trophy Final will be supported by a card of top quality Open Races and all the action is due to be shown live on Sky Sports. The first stage of the Blue Square TV Trophy took place this weekend, and has set up an exciting final for Sky viewers. Chris Kyme’s Killishin Masai took the first heat in a time of 57.75sec. It was a dramatic contest with the eventual winner setting the early pace before getting pegged back, only to regain the lead at the 7th bend. Slick Sapphire made all in heat 2 and heat 3 was won by the John Mullins trained Knockies Hannah.

Blue Sqaure TV Trophy Final Draw

T1 Knockies Hannah
T2 Killishin Masai
T3 Slick Sapphire
T4 Aero Gaga
T5 Minnies Penske (m)
T6 Ministry Magpie (m)

Blue Square TV Trophy Betting

(prices from BlueSq)
Minnies Penske 5/2
Ministry Magpie 11/4
Knockies Hannah 4/1
Killishin Masai 5/1
Slick Sapphire 5/1
Aero Gaga 10/1

Bookmaker Coral are the current sponsor of the Essex Vase and the prize money on offer to the winner is £10,000.

Previous Essex Vase Winners

Bookmaker Betfred are the current sponsor of the Eclipse and the prize money on offer to the winner is £11,000.

Previous Betfred Eclipse Winners

Bookmaker William Hill are the current sponsor of the Northern Puppy Derby and the prize money on offer to the winner is £8,000.

Previous Northern Puppy Derby Winners

Bookmaker William Hill are the current sponsor of the Oaks and the prize money on offer to the winner is £6,000.

Previous Oaks Winners

William Hill sponsor the All England Cup and the prize money on offer to the winning greyhound is £10,000.

Previous All England Cup Winners

The greyhound St Leger is sponsored by William Hill and there is £13,000 in prize money for the winning greyhound. The St Leger takes place in October each year.

Previous Greyhound St Leger Winners