2009 English Greyhound Derby

The 2009 Blue Square Greyhound Derby took place during May with the final being held on 30 May 2009 at Wimbledon Stadium. The winner Kinda Ready received £100,000.

2009 English Greyhound Derby
LocationWimbledon Stadium
Start date1 May
End date30 May
Total prize money£100,000 (winner)
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Final result

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At Wimbledon (over 480 metres):[1][2]

Position Name of Greyhound Breeding Trap Sectional SP Time Trainer
1st Kinda Ready Just the Best – Kinda Sleepy 5 5.02 25-1 28.65 Mark Wallis (Harlow)
2nd Fear Zafonic Premier Fantasy – Farloe Oyster 1 4.89 3-1 28.68 Charlie Lister OBE (Private)
3rd Wise Thought Climate Control – Sierra Mist 6 4.96 5-2 28.93 Martin White (Private)
4th Farloe Reason Droopys Maldini – Farloe Oyster 3 4.94 6-1 29.06 Charlie Lister OBE (Private)
5th Ballymac Ruso Ballymac Maeve – Ballymac Lark 2 4.90 2-1f 29.21 Matt Dartnall (Coventry)
6th Glenard Sunrise Hades Rocket – Mossley Jo 4 5.10 10-1 29.32 Matt Dartnall (Coventry)

Distances

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Neck, 3, 1½, 1¾, 1½ (lengths)
The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. One length is equal to 0.08 of one second.[3]

Race report

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It took five rounds of action to narrow down the field to the final six greyhounds. Kinda Ready was the eventual winner, after picking up Fear Zafonic near the line. The rest of the field encountered crowding leaving the front two to battle it out. An April 2007 whelp, Kinda Ready was the youngest in the final, and was also the biggest price winner in the history of the Derby at Wimbledon. And biggest since 1975 at White City the previous home of the derby. This year also saw no Irish trained greyhounds in the final with last year's Irish Greyhound Derby winner Shelbourne Aston bowing out in the quarter-finals.

Quarter-finals

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Semifinals

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "2009". Greyhound Data.
  2. ^ "result". Greyhound Board of Great Britain. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  3. ^ Genders, Roy (1990). NGRC book of Greyhound Racing (Timekeeper). Pelham Books Ltd. p. 310. ISBN 0-7207-1804-X.
  4. ^ "Quarter Final results". British Greyhound Racing Board. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  5. ^ "Semi Final results". British Greyhound Racing Board. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
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