Lagoon Dark Eyes races to back-to-back wins at Gunnedah’s Weeks of Speed Festival

Champion greyhound Lagoon Dark Eyes raced to another win last week as he continued his eye-catching start to Gunnedah’s Weeks of Speed Festival.

The two-year-old, which is trained by Bellata’s Kevin Campbell, lined up in a grade three/four race for the first time last Thursday at the Gunnedah Greyhound Racing Club’s TAB meet and he certainly rose to the occasion.

He jumped from the number five box in the seventh race of the day as a short-priced favourite and showed exactly why as he powered to a three-length victory.

He set a new personal best time for the 340-metre distance after he ran past the finish post in 19.51 seconds.

Lagoon Dark Eyes jumped well and quickly established himself as one of the two frontrunners in the race alongside the Trent Anderson-trained Bomb Diggity (box eight).

It soon became evident that Bomb Diggity would be no match for the Bellata bullet, even after he ran much wider into the final straight. He overcame that as he charged home quickest to win by three lengths over Bomb Diggity to earn the $1700 top prizemoney on offer.

A week earlier, on Thursday, March 3, Lagoon Dark Eyes jumped from box eight in the 12th and final race at the Gunnedah Greyhound Racing Club’s first event during the town’s Weeks of Speed Festival.

He led from start to finish in that 431-metre grade four/five race and eventually ran home four lengths in front of the Gary Payton-trained
Banjo’s Rival (box one).

Lagoon Dark Eyes earned $2100 in prizemoney for that victory.

Those two victories saw the Bellata bullet improve his winning rate to 71 per cent and his place rate top 94 per cent following 12 victories, 12 second-place finishes and a third-place finish in his 17 starts.

He has only ever run outside the top three once, back in January when he finished fourth.