The 2011 Romford Puppy Cup gets under way on Monday 12th September with six heats. The event takes place at Romford Greyhound Stadium and is run over a trip of 400m. There is £8,000 on offer to the winning greyhound. The semi finals of the competition will be held on Friday 16th September with the final taking place on the following Friday 23rd September.
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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