Exciting youngster Doing Time has won three of his five races on roomy one turn tracks but his up-and-coming trainer Jorja-Louise Howard is aiming for the Group 1 National Derby on the two bend Wentworth Park circuit with the rising two-year-old.
Doing Time posted a best of the night 22.45 winning over 400m at Maitland in July and set the Time standard over 472m in a fifth grade heat at Bulli last Wednesday with a 26.22 performance.
"Providing Doing Time pulls up okay after Wednesday's Bulli final I will give him a look at Wenty with a post-to-post slip and go from there,'' Howard said.
"And while all his races have been on big tracks, he is a quicker dog on two turns courses.
"The Derby is in January and being an October, 2019 whelping, Doing Time is the perfect age for that race.''
Murphy, who began by rearing pups and pre-training youngsters on his property at Raglan, near Bathurst, graduated to full-Time training a few years ago.
"In hindsight I probably built the business up too quickly because when I combined training 20 race dogs, with raising puppies and pre-training, I found I was going non-stop seven days a week and hardly seeing my family,'' Murphy said.
"The Time has come for me to spend more Time with my wife and children, a 14-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter.
"Before the greyhound ban was mooted we were making $6000 profit a month but on the rearing side especially the margins have disappeared.
"To make any money raising puppies you need to charge $100 a week per dog and not many owners are prepared to pay that.
"Racing Rockstar Kerr against those top class stayers was exciting because I'm not a fan of 300 and 400m racing.
"We have sold our property, which is fully equipped for every aspect of greyhound racing and comes complete with its own straight track.''
Pauline and Steve Moran have plenty to celebrate after winning a double at Richmond on Friday night and announcing the arrival of their first grand-child.
The Londonderry trainers won with $26 outsider Lanmor Cutie and Zambora Opal at $9.60 just as daughter NICOLE and her husband Ian Wallace were welcoming little Addison Lacey into the world.
The Morans have been successful trainers for decades while Ian and NICOLE had a great run with their stayer Aye Tee Oh, who won over 720m at Wentworth Park in June and August, 2017 and retired with 10 wins and 10 placings from 32 starts.
Aye Tee Oh was aptly named as the Wallaces bought the greyhound with the proceeds an annual tax refund cheque.
State border closures have forced Tweed Heads trainer Greg Cannon to hand his outstanding prospect Bold Character back to the dog's Queensland-based owner Judith Gordon.
Bold Character took his record to an impressive 11 wins from 30 starts when he scored at Grafton last Wednesday but then had to be sent back to Queensland.
"It's now extremely difficult training greyhounds out of Tweed Heads because just finding somewhere to gallop them and keeping them fit is a nightmare,'' Cannon said.
Scottish Express won 23 of 56 races between 2001 and 2003 while Buckingham Chuck also compiled an remarkable strike rate, winning of 25 from 48 starts in 2006 and 2007.
