| Comments from Robert Britton on both dogs, courtesy of Greyhound Recorder HEARS TEARS: To be quite honest, he probably did go better than I expected, Britton said. In saying that, I give all my dogs what I call three sections out of the 715m boxes at Sandown and hes gone the quickest Ive ever had. The track was very fast on Thursday and when you go back to the night Miata broke the record, it was the same thing.
I had a dog called Wandy Neg that ran 41.70s that night and he couldnt stay! To break records, you need everything to be absolutely right, whether its eight years ago or last week. TORNADO TEARS: Tornado Tears has run 41.20s at Sandown and if he ever had those same conditions at his best he wouldve smashed that record. Ive always believed that. He kept running into the backs of dogs, Britton said. I trained Grace Ali before she went over to Perth and I kept telling her to get out of his road!" He was treading water but thats what he does now.
You cant change him but when the seas part for him like they did in the Bold Trease hell go through. While Tornado Tears is racing below the extremely high standards he has set for himself, Britton would still give him the nod over Heres Tears in the Zoom Top and he should know, having remarkably won the race four times in the last six years. All things being equal, Id be on Tornado Tears, offered Britton, who also has Blazing Cartier, a winner at The Meadows on Saturday, in the frame for a Zoom Top berth. Heres Tears would have to lead to win the race and hes shown hes capable of doing that, but if Tornado Tears jumped and lobbed second I know who Id want to be on! Its been a sensational staying line and Tears Siam has had a third litter to Fernando Bale so hopefully its going to keep going for a while.
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