QUEEN PINK led home a brilliant 1-2-3 for Liz McNair in the the BGBF British Bred Stayers Final at Monmore on Saturday – made even more special by the fact that all three are littermates!

From a superb home-bred January 2021 batch by King Sheeran out of King Danni, Queen Pink, King Ezra and Queen Gaga had all won their heats seven days previously and now dominated the £3,000-to-the-winner GBGB Category Two competition over 630m.

Queen Gaga was the first to show from the boxes but Queen Pink paced up well on her inside and, using the red-box draw to best effect, the two-year-old now assumed control of the six-bend contest and never looked likely to be beaten thereafter.

Racing away and being chased by her litter sister and then litter brother King Ezra, Queen Pink crossed the line six and three-quarter lengths clear of King Ezra in 37.89sec (normal), with Queen Gaga just claiming third for a McNair clean sweep.

Third in last year’s Romford Puppy Cup and a finalist up-in-trip for the recent Coral Essex Vase, Queen Pink’s performance impressed Liz Mort, chair of the British Greyhound Breeders Forum (BGBF), at the Wolverhampton venue to make the presentation.

Mort said: “What an incredible achievement for Liz and Rab McNair and Brendan Keogh’s KSS Syndicate – and you have to say they thoroughly deserved the victory after their clean sweep in the heats. Even so, to get a 1-2-3 really was special.

“The draw always gave Queen Pink the best chance if she could hold her position and, although Gaga trapped in front, Pink paced up well to lead. Then Ezra’s middle pace took him into second and, while it was tight for third, Pink held on for third.

“They always a looked a good batch but this King Danni litter, bred by the McNairs and Brendan, really are special – they are so game and really consistent – and pretty quick, of course. Fair play, though, to our other finalists for making it a good race.

“They were Romeo Top Cat for Patrick Janssens, Funny Freddie for Chris Fereday and Westwell Dora for Kevin Hutton – all from really good British-bred litters.

“I’d like to thank Monmore for hosting our British Bred Stayers – we haven’t held anything there for a while so it was good to be back. Thanks to SIS, too, for continuing to support our British-bred competitions.

“It was a busy weekend for British breeding – but a really good one. On the same night as the Monmore final we had the heats of the BGBF British Bred Scurry Final at Crayford – and this Saturday it’s the final there. Good luck to all taking part.

“And, of course, on Sunday at Sheffield it was the GBGB Greyhound of the Year awards where David Firmager, the leading British breeder, won the GWA Services to Greyhound Racing Award and Romeo Magico won two of the major race categories.

“I’d say that was a good weekend all for British breeding.”

Result: https://www.gbgb.org.uk/meeting/?meetingId=393956&raceId=912990