upside down weekend

The long trip to galway payed dividends last night with dineenos lad coming out on top in his heat of the broadway pet foods a3 sweep on a dreadful night in galway the track management did there best to keep the show on the road and where in constant touch yesterday before we headed for the west to confirm that racing was going ahead
anyways we had a fruitful night in the showgrounds with 3 dogs in the van on the way up we came home with 2 winners and a second beaten a short head ...you would take that any day of the week first up was liam dowlings ballymac misty this lady led going up the back straight and looked all over a winner turning for home but just got pipped on the line to be beaten a short head next up was eilishes boy trained by my neighbour steven riordan he made the step up to 525 with ease coming from behnd to win in a comfortable 29.81 the pressure was on me now and i had to sweat it out until the 7th race for my chance the rain eased slightly just before my race so we didn't get to wet as they went to traps it looked on paper it would be a race to the bend and so it turned out with the fastest split of the night being done in my heat i turned handy enough and got around the bend without any trouble going up the back i was in third place and was just praying he could qualify but to my amazement he took up the running between the third and 4th bend and stuck out the trip pretty well its hard to know how well and a lot depends on the quality of the opposition on the night but on a track that was pretty sloppy i was delighted the way he ran the clock was pretty average but time only matters behind bars!! whats important today is that we have our hat in the ring for the next round on Saturday there was a couple of smart runs on the night with james roches charge gogetmaura winning in a quick 29.12 jacksies nikie also won well in 29.11 the times on the night where very up and down and it was hard to get a run on the track the way some of the races panned out there was lots of trouble nearly in every race and I'm sure some fellas will be cursing there luck this morning but thats dog racing and you have to take the good with the bad