During last Friday’s meeting, a special award was made to Paul Tompsett after reaching his 25th year as a contracted trainer at Crayford.

The track arranged a special presentation race for Paul, after which he was presented with an engraved clock.

Paul’s kennels are based at Horsmonden and he has a good strike rate of winners at the track, so it seems appropriate to give you some of his greyhounds in form.

Eighteen dogs trained by Paul have already registered wins during May, with three – Clonlost Prince, Garbhans Girl and Oghill Mint – winning twice.

Clonlost Prince has had 19 races here since November and won three, so his pair of wins this month has been good by his standards.

The dog suffers slow starts but when he exits quickly from the traps, he is effective.

All three wins have come in grade A7 but, despite three spells in A6, the best he has managed is third. Wait for him to drop back down.

Garbhans Girl is one of the senior dogs in the kennels having had no fewer than 95 races and has been in excellent form with three wins from her last four starts. She is most effective out of trap five and has that early pace to win over 380m.

Currently running in grades A5 and S5 over 380 and 540m, I think she finds these levels difficult, so again wait for a downgrading.

Oghill Mint is a strong runner in the latter part of his race and with two wins and two runner-up slots in his last four, he is in top form.

He will be upgraded to A5 after his latest victory and has performed well in this grade before so could land another win at decent odds.

Paul always has pups in his kennels and in Mash Mad Rumble looks to have a decent little dog after a win and two seconds in his three career races so far.

The dog won his P3 puppy debut race here before being entered into the Owners’ Bonus Puppy event run during the last fortnight.

He ran both his semi-final and final races identically and had every chance
last Saturday in the £500 final.

He did his best and was far from disgraced so I can see the dog climbing up through the grades here.