Crayford sent 20 greyhounds on to compete in the second leg of the BAGS/SIS Track Championship against League D rivals Sittingbourne and Romford.

Having held our home leg in early October, we went into Sunday’s round at Sittingbourne with a points lead. However, while our dogs put in good performances, we came out at the end of the evening in third position.

The scores now stand at Sittingbourne 206 points, Romford 184 and Crayford 169.

With the third and final leg to come at Romford on November 17 there is still all to play for but Romford look favourites to go through to the national final given their home advantage.

The winners will meet five other tracks from five other groups at a neutral venue yet to be announced.

Crayford could only manage one winner from the 10 event races, Indigo Joker trained by Gemma Davidson.

The dog defied his big starting odds of 8/1 and would be worth consideration when he returns to racing.

We have the final of the Owners Bonus Series race for grade A5 dogs over 380 metres to look forward to on Saturday night.

The two heats were run last weekend and won by Miss Cool and Lassydebite.

The latter produced the faster win time of 23.56sec after leading from trap to line with a blistering early pace exit from the traps recording a sectional time of 3.55. If reproduced, this would make her hard to beat.

She was followed by Tinas King and Parkgariff Roman, who also qualified for the final.

In the second heat, Miss Cool recorded a win time of 23.75 to beat Newlawn Mandy and Zenas Dazl, who complete the final line-up.

Miss Cool also produced a fast sectional of 3.58 but the three qualifiers from this heat look like they have it all to do this weekend.

My fancy to land the £500 winner’s prize was Tinas King and although he was beaten into second in his heat, I am still confident he can now go one better.

He has the times on his form book to win this and it would be nice to see the dog land a big win in his 107th career race.

The danger must be Lassydebite, who will be having her 106th race on Saturday.