Westmead Hawk was trained privately by Nick Savva

Blonde Mac was trained privately by Arthur Hitch

Blue Majestic was trained by Seamus Graham in Ireland

Mineola Farloe was trained by Seamus Graham in Ireland

Ningbo Jack was trained privately by Charlie Lister OBE

Geldrops Touch was trained by Owen McKenna in Ireland

The Final

The 5/4 favourite, Westmead Hawk, broke poorly from Trap 4 and was well behind at the first bend. However, he made up ground down the back straight and employed his customary late finish to enable him to peg back and pass the long odds outsider Blonde Mac as they rounded the final bend, and he was able to record a 1 3/4 length victory in 28.56 secs.

First Semi Final

From the 3 box Ningbo Jack was very quickly into his stride and led throughout. Blue Majestic was always close up and took a middle course, running on to just fail by a head, with Geldrops unfancied on the outside managing to run on a further neck behind. There was crowding at the first which put paid to the chances of the favourite Droopys Marco and he finished in last place.

Second Semi Final

The bookmakers had marked it as a 3 dog race, with Westmead Hawk the strongest fancy of the 3 at 5/4 favourite. When the boxes went up it was Mineola Farloe from trap 3 who broke quickest with Blonde Mac. Mineola won the tussle at the first bend and soon led. Blonde went for the rails and challenged throughout, while there was crowding in behind by the other 4 dogs. Westmead Hawk eventually came out best of the crowding and finished strongly, but was eventually beaten by a length and a quarter.