Unbeaten boom youngster Gold Force made an impressive Wentworth Park debut on Saturday night, taking the lead at the first turn and winning by nine lengths in a slick 29.86.
The Denice Warren-trained dog (pictured together after a win at Goulburn) went into the race undefeated after three Goulburn wins over 350m and 440m but handled the first turn awkwardly when he trialled a fair 30.14 at WP before Saturday's race.
"He still felt his way around the first corner tonight but he handled it better than he did in his trial so I'm very relieved,'' Warren said after the race.
Gold Force clocked a nippy second split of 13.94 and ran home in a strong 11.86 so the giant 39.5kg son of Aussie Infrared looks to have a huge future.
Trainer Cliff Bell, who broke in Gold Force, also educated former champion Wow, and said on Saturday: "Gold Force broke in exceptionally well as when I was educating him he was running times to match Wow at the same stage.''
Wow of course went on to win 32 races and earn $392,000 in stakes.
Bell was in the winner's circle as a trainer just 45 minutes after Gold Force's race, when his dog Nicko King scored his first WP win in nine attempts with an all-the-way 30.24 success.
"I train Nicko King for a syndicate from Benalla, Victoria, and they sent me four from their Feral Franky-Nicko Dancer litter to train,'' Bell said.
"The most prolific winner among them is Nicko Jack, who can't run 520m but who has won 16 races, a dozen of them in 2024, and he is set to be the Nowra track's Greyhound of the Year.''
Bell, who has been training greyhounds for 30 years, said: "I left New Zealand in 1974 and Melbourne was my first port of call in what was intended to be a trip around the world.
"But I liked it so much here I never left Australia and finished up training greyhounds in NSW.''
When Andrew Rowe's father passed away he decided to buy two greyhound pups to console his mother and one of them, Wayang Angel, has become a marvellously successful brood bitch.
On Saturday night Taw Commander, one of Wayang Angel's three litters to race, notched his sixth WP win when he led all the way for a four lengths win in 29.84.
Later Rowe said: "Wayang Angel's pups have been phenomenal, her three litters have now won well over 100 races.
"And I have just educated her fourth litter, sired by Wow, and I could not be happier with them.
"Taw Commander nailed the start from box four tonight and when the greyhound drawn in box three was scratched, that helped his chances immensely.''
Saturday's fastest 520m figures were posted by First Lady, who dashed past Sinaloa Girl going through the pen to lead on the back straight and win in 29.72.
That time bettered the 29.76 recorded by First Lady when she began brilliantly and led all the way to win at WP a week earlier.
Upset of the night was Reece Unleashed's powerful 29.73 win in the Bet Ticker Final, with the Mick Hardman-trained greyhound sent out at $18 and the rank outsider in the six dog field.
Not far behind First Lady and Reece Unleashed on the clock on Saturday was the 29.74, posted by the Mark Gatt-trained Go Lani in the Ladbrokes Racing Club Final.
Go Lani had qualified after running down pacemaker Make Them Cry to win her heat on November 21 but on Saturday took an early lead and was chased throughout by the greyhound she had overtaken nine days earlier.