ROMEO ABILITY holds bragging rights over littermate Romeo Alliance heading into this weekend’s semi-finals of the 79th Two-Year-Old British Bred Produce Stakes at Swindon.

The Patrick Janssens-trained brothers have dominated ante-post betting for the British breeding showcase from the get-go and were backed at the exclusion of others in Saturday’s second round clash – with Romeo Ability coming out on top as he raced clear into the dash to the bend and was never headed.

“He probably had the better draw of the two, so it wasn’t the biggest surprise he won on Saturday, although there’s nothing between them really,” said winning trainer Janssens.

“They’re in against each other again in the semis. Alliance has six again but Ability has four, so it might be closer this time,” said Janssens of the October 2023 sons of Romeo Magico and Fabulous Mila.

For the record, Romeo Ability made all in 27.84sec (+10), winning by two and three-quarter lengths from Romeo Alliance and Pin Position (David Mullins).

The latter’s litter brother Izzys Tenpin kicked off the second round in runaway style as the Romford raider, an April 2023 son of Tenpin and Wastehouse Izzy, took up the running down the back-straight before coming away for an eight and a quarter lengths win in 28.46sec (+10).

Angle Kibble then sent out litter brothers Malcolm Bosh and Eagles Respect to strike in heats three and four.

They respectively clocked 28.44sec (+10) and 28.01sec (+10) when leading home Coppice Esme (Patrick Browne) in heat three and Signet Nayla (Kevin Hutton) in heat four, and continue to impress Liz Mort, chair of the British Greyhound Breeders Forum (BGBF).

Mort said: “Angie is getting a great tune of the brothers and I’m delighted for her and Jonathan Miles (owner). They’ve bred some superb British-breds over the years and are in the semis – Eagles Respect actually has the Romeo brothers in his semi plus Izzys Tenpin. That’s some second semi.

“The first semi isn’t as strong but that gives opportunity to connections to make the final – and I’m delighted we’ve got such a great spread of trainers represented in this year’s last Produce Stakes to be staged at Swindon.

“It’s building up rather nicely.”