Last night Sandown Park held heats for Australia’s premiere greyhound race, the Solo Melbourne Cup, and australiagreyhoundracing.com has all the heat results for you to read up on! Please note that we will also be publishing this information on our ever-expanding 2009 Solo Melbourne Cup page, which is your one-stop resource for greyhound racing information for the Group 1 Solo Melbourne Cup.
Greyhound 2009 Solo Melbourne Cup Heat Results
It should be noted that all eight heat winners broke 30 seconds over the 515m race… a testament to the quality of this year’s meet!
Heat 1
Winner: The $3.20 favourite Lord Ducal.
Second Place: Oval Express ($24.80)
Third Place: Premier Moment ($18.20)
Heat 2
Winner: Remo Rubik ($3.30)
Second Place: Dawbilows Heaven ($15.90)
Third Place: Stoner Bale ($21.10)
Side Note on Heat 2: Queen Lauryn, favourite going into the race, only managed to pull a disappointing fourth place.
Heat 3
Winner: Prankster ($7.60)
Second Place: Phoenix Night ($17.80)
Third Place: True Kihael ($8.60)
Side Note on Heat 3: This heat saw an extremely disappointing last place finish for Velocette, the $2.00 favourite.
Heat 4
Winner: Mr. Moordrooduc ($3.90)
Second Place: Birthday Boy ($3.70)
Third Place: Hayder Bale ($7.40)
Side Note on Heat 4: Mr. Moordrooduc’s win was the fastest time of the night and second fastest heat time in the Solo Melbourne Cup 54 year history.
Heat 5
Winner: Octare ($33.00)
Second Place: Grippen Bale ($2.20)
Third Place: Cindeen Shelby ($2.70)
Heat 6
Winner: Turanza Bale ($1.50)
Second Place: Robo Raptor
Third Place: Arthur Ritis
Heat 7
Winner: Dyna Lachlan ($1.80)
Second Place: Bora Bale
Third Place: Galba Jack
Heat 8
Winner: Take The Kitty ($3.70)
Second Place: Flash Of Light ($1.90)
Third Place: Joanne Monelli
