2009 English Greyhound Derby

The 2009 Blue Square Greyhound Derby took place during May with the final being held on 30 May 2009 at Wimbledon Stadium. The winner Kinda Ready received £100,000.

2009 English Greyhound Derby
Location	Wimbledon Stadium
Start date	1 May
End date	30 May
Total prize money	£100,000 (winner)
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Final result

At Wimbledon (over 480 metres):^[1][2]

Position	Name of Greyhound	Breeding	Trap	Sectional	SP	Time	Trainer
1st	Kinda Ready	Just the Best – Kinda Sleepy	5	5.02	25-1	28.65	Mark Wallis (Harlow)
2nd	Fear Zafonic	Premier Fantasy – Farloe Oyster	1	4.89	3-1	28.68	Charlie Lister OBE (Private)
3rd	Wise Thought	Climate Control – Sierra Mist	6	4.96	5-2	28.93	Martin White (Private)
4th	Farloe Reason	Droopys Maldini – Farloe Oyster	3	4.94	6-1	29.06	Charlie Lister OBE (Private)
5th	Ballymac Ruso	Ballymac Maeve – Ballymac Lark	2	4.90	2-1f	29.21	Matt Dartnall (Coventry)
6th	Glenard Sunrise	Hades Rocket – Mossley Jo	4	5.10	10-1	29.32	Matt Dartnall (Coventry)

Distances

Neck, 3, 1½, 1¾, 1½ (lengths)
The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. One length is equal to 0.08 of one second.^[3]

Race report

It took five rounds of action to narrow down the field to the final six greyhounds. Kinda Ready was the eventual winner, after picking up Fear Zafonic near the line. The rest of the field encountered crowding leaving the front two to battle it out. An April 2007 whelp, Kinda Ready was the youngest in the final, and was also the biggest price winner in the history of the Derby at Wimbledon. And biggest since 1975 at White City the previous home of the derby. This year also saw no Irish trained greyhounds in the final with last year's Irish Greyhound Derby winner Shelbourne Aston bowing out in the quarter-finals.

Quarter-finals

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Heat 1 (19 May) Pos Name SP Time 1st Wise Thought 4-5f 28.69 2nd Jogadusc Ace 20-1 28.79 3rd Love Mac 10-1 29.13 4th Deanridge Fury 5-1 29.28 5th Ja Mann 5-2 29.51 6th Kylegrove Cougar 25-1 29.54

Heat 2 (19 May) Pos Name SP Time 1st Bubbly Maestro 7-1 28.53 2nd Cabra Boss 7-2 28.75 3rd Kinda Ready 2-1f 29.00 4th Kindred Sparky 6-1 29.06 5th Cabra Fly 3-1 29.13 6th Droopys Quinta 8-1 29.22

Heat 3 (19 May) Pos Name SP Time 1st Ballymac Ruso 4-1 28.51 2nd Farloe Reason 4-1 28.57 3rd Fear Zafonic 3-1jf 28.75 4th Shelbourne Aston 4-1 28.79 5th Greenwell River 8-1 28.86 6th Bandicoot Tipoki 3-1jf 28.91

Heat 4 (19 May) Pos Name SP Time 1st Glenard Sunrise 5-2 28.77 2nd Shelbourne Denny 14-1 29.12 3rd Stop The Show 16-1 29.16 4th Marbeck Wonder 8-1 29.32 5th Romeo Turbo 12-1 29.40 6th Windy Millar 1-2f 29.48

Semifinals

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First Semifinal (23 May) Pos Name of Greyhound SP Time Trainer 1st Ballymac Ruso 7-4f 28.59 Dartnall 2nd Wise Thought 9-4 28.60 Philpott 3rd Fear Zafonic 9-4 28.66 Lister 4th Stop The Show 25-1 28.68 Simpson 5th Shelbourne Denny 25-1 28.78 Curtin 6th Jogadusc Ace 12-1 28.85 Wallis

Second Semifinal (23 May) Pos Name of Greyhound SP Time Trainer 1st Glenard Sunrise 3-1 28.77 Dartnall 2nd Kinda Ready 8-1 28.90 Wallis 3rd Farloe Reason 5-4f 28.97 Lister 4th Cabra Boss 5-1 28.98 McNair 5th Love Mac 16-1 29.08 Locke 6th Bubbly Maestro 3-1 29.15 Young

See also

• 2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year