Wheeling, West Virginia's Night of Stars Race Results in Huge Payoff

Wheeling Downs in Wheeling, West Virginia hosted the twelfth race of the 19th Night of Stars program on Saturday, May 12th, where a shocking payoff occured when the three top favorites in the race all ran off the board. The Night of Stars is a twice-a-year event that features the best greyhounds from various dog racing venues across the nation battling it out, simulcast into other dog tracks and race books with some of the proceeds going to aid greyhound adoption. The Wheeling edition of this program was run over their 678 yard route distance at the Wheeling Island Racing and Gaming Center, located on Wheeling Island near the Ohio border with the Mountaineer State. The top grade race contained eight dogs that all displayed racing lines that showed they were more than capable of winning this Night of Stars tilt, but nobody could have expected this one to play out the way it did. Well, almost nobody.

All the participants in this race were seasoned routers, but Café Queen with the one hole, Gable Cuidano in the two, and Genesis Place out in the six were made the betting choices by the national wagering public. Opalescent in the seven seemed to be overlooked, as she showed three wins and a pair of driving place efforts in her last six. Whaling Wildfire in the eight had a twelve length annihilation of Wheeling AA dogs for all to see, as well as nine wins in his last eighteen outings. Armys Mistress in the three and TNJ Rodeo Joe in the six had run with and beaten most of this field in their recent exploits, so they could not be ignored. CS Bosco in the middle, the five box, had shown in the past at Wheeling that he was no pushover, having run 38.03 over this yardage earlier in the year; only Gable Cuidano owned a faster time this season at 37.99.