Gets the golden box — trap one wins 22.9% at this grade, the best on the track — but brings the wrong tools to use it. He is a slow starter who has been racing over the sprint trip lately with ratings in the teens and twenties, he is winless in seven course and distance attempts, and his best time at the trip is more than three seconds worth of lengths behind the selection's. There are 42-44 rated runs in his back form, so he has been competitive at this level before, but nothing recent supports a revival today.

Decent speed figures — second-best in the field — but she has been campaigned over the 238-metre sprint lately with modest results, and her four-bend record is bare: no wins and one place from six course and distance starts. Her better ratings, in the 40s, date back to the spring. She is another patient runner in a race where the pace dog looks banded several lengths clear, and trap two wins just 16.7% at this grade. Needs the race to fall apart in front of her.

The complete unknown at the trip — he has never raced beyond 238 metres, and every one of his last six runs was a D5 sprint with ratings under 22. Stepping from one bend to four is the biggest ask in greyhound racing and there is nothing in his record to suggest he will see out the extra distance, with the slowest speed figures in the field to boot. His consistency at sprint level is actually respectable, but this is a different sport today. Impossible to recommend until he shows he stays.

His 47-rated run at this grade and trip last month shows a flicker of ability, and he is versatile enough in his style to take a handy early position from a middle draw. But the rest of the card is thin: no wins or places from three course and distance starts, most recent racing at sprint trips with ratings in the teens and twenties, and a latest 415-metre clocking of 28.70 that was nearly five lengths off his best. Trap four is unremarkable at this grade. Others are more convincing.