Trapping boots!

Shrewdie was on the upgrade this week, running in an A5 at 11.16am on Saturday morning. Although it was a tougher race we were still quietly confident, the dog has led 4 of his 6 races to date round the track and won 3 of those.

He impressed us in this race though probably more than any other. With more early pace around him compared to previous he made the dogs look like they were standing still at the boxes, taking lengths out of them round the first and into the third bend.

The only problem was that trap 2 got a clear run in behind and on the downgrade was always going to run us close. Sadly he got up by a whisker, the first time he got infront was at the line! Shrewdie looked to stay better than before and his early certainly looked impressive, we could not wait to see what sectional he had done.

3.66 was what gbgb website showed, doing 24.69 on a going which we later found out was +20. 3.66! That is flying, we know this dog has early from his 4.3x sectionals round Monmore and his 3.7x at Romford but he really is finding his trapping boots now. His pace into the third turn is still leaving dogs struggling to keep up even though he is climbing in grade.

He is a one trick pony, he will never win without leading, but he is becoming so consistent from the traps he is giving himself a chance every race. I have asked Maxine if we can have a look at what he could possibly do over the sprint distance as I have said from the start he looks more like a 2 bend runner than 4, its just that if you aren't good enough over 2 bends there isn't many tracks that run sprint graded races.

I think Shrewdie could possibly surprise over 2 bends myself and at not quite 2 years old yet he still has improvement in him, which I know Maxine will extract from the dog.