This Sunday Claude will make his weekly pilgrimage to Capalaba where he is ‘reasonably’ confident about his chances in the feature, the Wayne Harris Appreciation fifth grade Final.
He has Daysea’s Shelly, who recorded the second fastest win (19.94 seconds) of the six heats last Sunday. The quickest was Jedda Cutlack’s That’s Hot (19.72 seconds).
“What I like about her (Daysea’s Shelly) is that she continues to improve,” he said.
“Originally, she was the slowest of the seven in the (Sennachie and Nikki Nettle) litter.
“But, every run she just gets better. She has always started well, but she would get in front and then ease up a bit when she was pressured in running.
“However, now she is chasing a lot harder. She is maturing as a race dog. Eventually, most of that litter will be good 520 metre dogs.