Hard Style Girl's win last Saturday night at Wentworth Park gave owner-trainer James McGuiness his first success at headquarters since he commenced training in 1988.
Hard Style Girl pulled up "a bit scratchy" after her brilliant performance and McGuiness had to withdraw her from Tuesday's fifth grade final at Bulli.
But she won't be sidelined for long and is long odds-on to win again at WP, as when she staged a last-to-first win in a nippy 30.03 last Saturday she was seeing the track for the first time.
And she joins a long list of "giveaway" greyhounds to be triumphant at headquarters.
McGuiness explained: "Her owner Toby Weeks had her for sale for $7000 but nobody wanted her.
"So because I had taken a lot of rejects on Toby's behalf over several years, he decided to make a gift of Hard Style Girl to me.
"I got to know Toby when we were neighbours at Molong but when Bathurst track shut down I had nowhere to race.
"After having no track available for two years I decided to relocate and last November moved to a property at Londonderry.
"I am now training professionally and also have high hopes for sister to Hard Style Girl called Hard Style Molly, who is almost as good.''
James McGuiness with his family and Hard Style Girl after her maiden Wenty Park win on Saturday night
Trunkey Frank, who gave 18-year-old Billy Godden his first winner, just a month after securing his trainer's licence, will be chasing a double for his teenage trainer when he exits box two in race eight at Goulburn on Friday.
Billy Godden had been counting down the days until he was old enough to obtain a licence and last Friday Trunkey Frank gave him a wonderful welcome to the training ranks by scoring a runaway win at Goulburn.
Trunkey Frank was sent out a hot favourite and led throughout in a 440m maiden event, but it's no surprise Billy has long been anxious to become a trainer.
It's unlikely if there has been a teenager with longer "pedigree" in greyhound racing's ranks.
Billy's parents Leanne and Anthony are licensed trainers, while his grandparents, Margaret and Kevin Keys, have been registered trainers for 55 years.
Margaret's sister Fay was married to the late John Clayton, proprietor of the famous Menangle Park Stud, who was tragically killed in an accident in January, 1989, aged 50.
Clayton, who trained his first winner as a 16-year-old, was also a group race winning trainer of Wentworth Park's 1978 Potential Stakes winner Olympic Eagle and Lease Of Life, winner of the group one Association Cup in 1984 at Harold Park.
And Kevin Keys' father, Charlie Keys, was president of the Dapto club for 28 years after showing remarkable initiative to earn pocket money through greyhounds before his teen years.
Kevin Keys recalled: "When my father was 10 or 11 his family owned a dairy farm and because there was plenty of acreage, he decided he could rear greyhound puppies commercially on a 'one for one' basis.
"That meant if he raised a litter of six, the breeder received three fully grown puppies while he was able to do what he liked with the remaining youngsters.
"Charlie was obviously too young to train them, so he would sell his share of each litter, securing a lucrative pocket money sideline.''
