ETHANOL BOY

ETHANOL BOY
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Sire: Pure Octane
Dam: Purple Passion
Owner(s): Kurt Donsberg, Paul Harvey
Whelp Date: 01/09/2007
Sex: D
Colour: Brindle

Race Record and Replays click here

After having some 6 inches taken from his troublesome tail :3333: Fred has come along day by day with his progress.
Yesterday he had his stitches removed with a futher appointment on Tuesday to see how long it is before the bandage comes off.

Fred may well be one of our biggest improvers with time if he recovers A1.
I do expect fred to crack the 23 sec mark in time.

The biggest result would be freds over all change in condition since he has arrived as he slowly grows out of his wire brush coat and moves into a more cuddlesome type of fellow . Cod liver does the job once again with a course of Protexin :22222:

That along with his reguler doses of honey and fat are doing his body just fine.

We will try and get some pitures of Fred for You A.S.A.P

Since the lively lad fred has given us a few problems with banging his tail he has now mooved in to the front of our patio for the next week as we try and endevour to get over this problem once and for all.

We will see if we can get some picturews up of this lad with in the next week so that you may follow his progress on the way to his first start for :Red Runner:

Happy to say that freds tail is coming along just a ok for now.
We put him in a place in which we thought would be much better short term as it heels and so far it seems to have done the trick.

We have taken some footage of the fellow and hiz kick back jack lazy attitude at club med and seems to have taken a real likeing to the wild life around here as well as he has his daily barks at the local birds who come to close to his MOTEL

With every thing at hand and panning along we plan to have fred at the beach by this mon and back in work some time later that week with his first run over 100-200 mt along the silver sands beach.
Im sure the salt water will also take affect and help his wire like skin as well as coat that has changed some 40% since being here at Box :Red Runner:

We will return later in th week to post some footage and photos

Guest

G'day Harvs,

How'd the boy pull up after his "ordinary" trial last night?? Wink

KD

:55555: Blew away a few of those hardened cob webs.
On his toes again today and thriveing on yesterdays run,
as not a dribble left in the bowl this morning.

Soaking up the sun at the moment before he heads to the beach for a afternoon paddle and soaking of the tail.

Over all im 110% with Fred as we make our way towards his first start.

Harvs wrote:: Soaking up the sun at the moment before he heads to the beach for a afternoon paddle and soaking of the tail.

Fred @ The Beach

Part 2

Im so sure that after a race,trial or hard gallop that soaking the old body in the salt water does wonders.
Mainly for those joints that may of being strained or pushed that extra bit hard .
Then you have the great benefits of the dogs mind :cyclops: when he frequents a place such as the beach.

They normaly stand up and smell the salt some 2 minutes away from the beach as we make our travels.
They then start to behave like spoilt kids in which shows me how relaxed and in there own mind they are.
Always a huge advantage having a switched on thinking dog.

Add a few and the benefits of the beach would become more aware.
It still blows me away with the lack of trainers that DONT use this great resource we have on offer @ Mandurah

Guest

G'day Mate,

I didn't recognize him. He looks lighter in the coat than I remember.

Breaking my neck to watch him race again.

Go you good thing!!!

KD

:111: only 3 hours to we find out :cc:

Mandurah Thursday, 17 September
RACE 12 Mixed Stake 3/4 (302) 10:27PM[/color]

$890 Mixed 3/4 (Y) 302m
1 2 3 6 Go Wild Osti (G3) ........................... M. Morrone 17.63 17.63
2 7 6 2 Shake Rattle (G4) ....................... B. Thompson 17.66 17.66
3 8 2 7 Classy Granny (G3).......................... E. Alldrick 17.44 21.11
4 8 8 8 History Tune (G3) ........................ B. Thompson 17.31 18.06
5 7 6 4 Open Amazement (G3) ................... J. Magistro NBT NTT
6 6 3 8 Kaz Ang (G4) ................................. M. Morrone 17.70 18.00
7 7 6 6 Tori Star (G3) ................................. M. Morrone NBT NTT
[color=indigo]8 1 2 4 Ethanol Boy (G4) ............................... P. Harvey NBT NTT
RESERVES
9 6 7 5 Klondike Mike (G4) ...................... B. Thompson 18.05 18.05

*I know deep down that if there is 1 dog that can win with any luck this week than it may just be fred.
He jhas had his set backs and bad times before but now im sure he has adapted to his new enviroment and im sure that will tell race night.
Happy dogs make good chasers and give there all.
Lets just hope he gets some room early from box 8 and sit back and watch the show :66666:

Guest

They've given Fred a fair wrap in the race book too.

Gotta be a big chance to salute the judge first up!!

:vvvvvv:

Race Book Comment

Anticipated Starting Price: $3.00
Rating 100. In the first 2 at 5 of his 7 career starts and at 3 runs in WA he has led throughout from this draw over 405m in 23.05 and finished 2nd and 4th in
23.16 and 23.44 at 2 runs since. Not seen since July but hard to beat if right.

Selections: 2 - Shake Rattle, 8 - Ethanol Boy, 1 - Go Wild Osti, 3 - Classy Granny

Race Replay

*Was more than a shame to see Fred make contact as he was mustering and we will make sure that next start we give him the whole straight to wind up with..

Lets see what happens then :....:

RACE 4 Mixed Stake 4/5 (405) 8:12PM
$820 Mixed 4/5 (Y) 405m
1 2 8 1 It's Bizarre ............................................... S. Lee 23.18 23.87
2 6 4 3 Metro Station .................................... K. Harding NBT NTT
3 2 4 7 Ethanol Boy ............................ P. Harvey 23.05 23.44
4 3 6 5 Search Engine ................................... P. Harvey 23.59 23.59
5 4 5 4 Awesome Farewell ....................... B. Thompson 22.95 23.35
6 7 7 3 Enchanting Ella ............................ B. Thompson 23.32 23.32
7 6 2 3 Ancient Pearl .................................... T. Williams 23.20 23.66
8 3 4 5 Soda Burns ............................................. S. Lee 23.01 23.69
RESERVES
9 8 6 7 Bubba Gundi ............................ Ph. Worthington 23.28 23.91

Anticipated Starting Price: $4.00
Selections: 1 - It's Bizarre, 3 - Ethanol Boy, 2 - Metro Station, 8 - Soda Burns

Race Book Comment
Anticipated Starting Price: $4.00
Rating 100. Winner over this trip in tougher company in July at his WA debut in 23.05 and runner up in 23.16 at his next start. Resumed from 2 months off last
week when well held over 302m but improvement likely this trip and class. Chance.

Pauls-He drew the 2 box 3 starts ago when he came out a mod 3rd after a 6.72
Soda Burns in the 8 can go the 6.7s on a normal occasion but seems to be a few lengths of best right now.

I do expect to be the big improver with a clear run and room to muster by the 302 boxes Question

Good luck tonight K as hes ready to rumble.

Guest

What a top effort.....all round!

:xxxx: for the big boy. Stoked!!

Thanks to the team at :Red Runner:

:66666: :big band: :BLUES: :singer: :sweet tunes:
The boy showed his true self :xxx: tonight and did all the hard yards him self.
1 of the great things i picked up on tonight was his race recovery.
Seems like he might start to hit his straps and may be lower his PB with any luck in his up coming races.
We would like to say thank you for the chance to train 1 of your family :shake: and to Mr Robert Britton for reccomending us to you,
and until next time Fred says

Place Greyhound Box Time Margin Sectional Weight Turns Totes
:xxxx: 1 Ethanol Boy 23.09 4.00 6.76 32.70 M1/1 $5.70
2 Search Engine 23.36 4.00 0.00 32.50 Mc3c/2 $23.60
3 Soda Burns 23.50 6.25 0.00 33.20 Q2/3 $8.30
4 Awesome Farewell 23.66 8.50 0.00 29.60 Mcxc7/6w $8.60
5 Ancient Pearl 23.76 10.00 0.00 26.30 Mcxc8/5 $23.50
6 Enchanting Ella 23.81 10.75 0.00 25.30 Q4cc/xc7 $23.50
7 It's Bizarre 23.83 11.00 0.00 32.10 M5c/xcstxc4 $1.80
8 Metro Station 23.90 12.25 0.00 34.20 S6c/8 $10.00

Race Replay

RACE 1 Peel Stake 7:19PM
$1555 Grade 5 (P) 405m
1 3 1 2 Daring Destiny ..........................B. Abercrombie 23.26 23.33
2 6 5 4 Capel Shiraz .........................................B. Cook 23.04 23.37
3 4 7 1 Ethanol Boy........................................P. Harvey 23.05 23.09
4 2 1 8 Bet On Marion.............................. B. Thompson 23.13 23.76
5 2 7 3 Dynasty.............................................. K. Foxton 22.77 23.60
6 6 2 5 Ads................................................... K. Harding 22.72 23.65
7 4 4 1 Future Tide............................................B. Cook 23.05 23.32
8 4 5 2 Sydenham Blonde................................M. Rees 23.00 23.21
RESERVES
9 2 3 5 Pocket Watch........................................J. Dailly FSH NTT
10 1 6 2 Spirit Quest .....................................M. Beamish 22.85 23.86

Race Book
Anticipated Starting Price: $4.00
Rating 97. Former South Australian who has won 2 of 5 at this track since arriving. Last start he led throughout in 23.09, defeating Search Engine by 4 lengths.
Rising to Provincial Class but looks to be well above average. Hard to stop.

Will make this 1 short and sweet and hope to continue the story on the track tonight.

It was more than :flower: to me that i helped contribute to his first start failure over the 302m in which afro

here thought he would be better suited first up over the dashing distance clown

:pig:

I was happy to see that the start later i had re avalueated the situation and placed him accordingly for his next country class in which we sang whistling dixiessssssss Basketball

As for tonight i have spoken to a few trainers in the race do FEAR fred .
The next quickest times of late are drawn the wrong way round i am told and do feel that if we can once again find the top that there is not a 5TH GRADE DOG ENTERED TONIGHT THAT WOULD RUN HIM DOWN

Guest

I know that I'm biased but.......

GET ON THE ETHANOL EXPRESS CHOO CHOO!!!

No bias here just simply the best dog in th raceand more than likely the only possability of going back to back under the 23.09?

Guest

After getting more checks than Centrelink on pension day, the Ethanol Express has unfortunately been delayed. :cry:

Please check back soon for new departure time... scratch

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