2018 STATE OF ORIGIN MATCH RACE SERIES - REVIEW
The inaugural 2018 UBET State of Origin Match Race series (SA V Victoria) was run last night at Angle Park with the South Australian greyhounds dominating the night, clean sweeping the series and winning all 4 Match Races to claim bragging rights over our Victorian counter parts.
The overall winner of the series was the Tony Rasmussen trained Nations who continued his excellent form with a brilliant all the way win against the highly rated Victorian Bernardo for trainer William Mcmahon. He ran a blistering 29.55 for the 515m journey highlighting that he will be one of the top chances in next weeks Group 1 UBET Adelaide Cup heats.
The series turned out to be a tight affair with only .02 separating the top 3 overall times. Spring Bridge came second by a whisker running 29.56 for Greg Board when he used local knowledge to lead all the way for SA and defeat Saint David for Victorian trainer Peter Byrne. Coming in third was Nations kennel mate Honcho Monelli who ran a brilliant race in also leading throughout and running 29.57 in defeating the heavily supported Degani for William Mcmahon. Cairnlea Jet made it a clean sweep for SA when the Petar Jovanovic trained speedster had to come from behind and charge past Dr. Mino for Judith Mcmahon in the home straight, running a flying 29.67.
GRSA introduced this exciting new feature “State of Origin” Match Racing as a lead up to the Group 1 UBET Adelaide Cup series with those heats kicking of next Thursday night, 4th October followed by the Group 1 UBET Adelaide Cup on Friday 12th October.
GRSA thanks the support of UBET and Sky Racing for their support of this series however would especially like to thank the local trainers and the Victorian trainers who travelled so far to ensure this series was successful.
Match Results -
Honcho Monelli (SA) – 29.57 defeated Degani (Vic) – 29.76
Nations (SA) – 29.55 defeated Bernardo(Vic) – 30.03
Spring Bridge (SA) – 29.56 defeated Saint David (Vic) – 30.02
Cairnlea Jet (SA) – 29.67 defeated Dr. Mino(Vic) – 29.83