LITTER brothers King Cash and King Sheeran will lead the way for Liz McNair in Saturday’s final of the 73rd British Bred 2-Year-Old Produce Stakes at Swindon – where the Central Park trainer will have four finalists.

Victories for the February 2017 sons of Eden The Kid and Skate On in Wednesday’s semis continued the domination of the event by the McNairs, plus owners and breeders Brendan Keogh and the KSS Syndicate, who had six semi-finalists in total.

It was King Cash (28.69sec) who struck for the husband and a wife team of Liz and Rab McNair in the first semi, scoring from littermate King Dylan and Queen Cher (Eden The Kid-Shaws Dilemma, May 17), while King Sheehan then impressed in the second semi.

Racing to a fastest-of-the-event 28.32sec for the 480m trip, he crossed the line almost 12 lengths clear of Waki Racer (Angie Kibble) and Saving Face (John Mullins) – thus denying the McNairs a clean sweep of six finalists.

“That would have been asking too much I suppose!” said Rab McNair. “King Lennon and King Diamond found trouble at the bend, but fair play to Angie and John – and we certainly don’t think it’s game over. There’s still work to be done.”

King Elvis won the Produce Stakes for the McNairs two years back on his way to being crowned GBGB Greyhound of the Year and Rab McNair is hopeful of regaining the trophy. “The Kings and Queen are in good order – we’ll give it our best shot!” he said.

Liz Mort, chair of the British Greyhound Breeders Forum, congratulated connections of all six runners ahead of the £15,000-to-the-winner final, which will help end a positive week for the BGBF given the announcement of a brand new event.

“Firstly I’d like to say well done to Swindon for hosting a very good Produce Stakes and we look forward to Saturday’s final. Well done to all the finalists, but in particular Brendan Keogh, the KSS Syndicate and the McNairs for their feat in qualifying four through.

“That’s a great achievement and they’re great supporters of British breeding – and very successful at it! Hopefully they’ll be able to support the BGBF Northern Plate, which is our brand new Category One event for British-breds at Newcastle in September.

“It’s fantastic that we can now stage a valuable British-bred competition in the north-east and, when the make-up of the committee underwent changes in April, this was one of the areas the incoming committee members wanted to address.

“Thanks to the British Greyhound Racing Fund, the Forum was able to expand its schedule of competitions into this important area. British breeding is especially strong in the north and a prestigious annual competition for northern breeders was needed.

“We want it to be as open to as many entries as possible, so it’ll be over the standard 480m distance and for all-aged dogs and bitches. Running it as a Cat One emphasises how important we feel this area is to British breeding.

Ian Walton, operations manager of Newcastle, said: “We’re very excited about this new competition. Newcastle has a strong connection with British breeding and I know it’ll be enormously popular with our local trainers, breeders and owners.

“We will work with the BGBF to promote it and can guarantee finals’ night will see a great evening’s racing.”

The £7,500-to the-winner-competition will be for 36 British-bred greyhounds, plus reserves, and will run over three consecutive Thursdays, with the final on Thursday, September 26.

Form and draw for Saturday’s final: www.bagsracing.com/assets/27-july—swindon-adv.pdf