Houston, Texas; San Tan Dog Gone Triumphant in Gulf Greyhound Park's Night of Stars Route

Gulf Greyhound Park's Night of Stars race was one of the most thrilling of the entire program, and without a doubt one of the hardest to handicap. The Night of Stars is a twice yearly extravaganza of races from various greyhound tracks across the country, with those venues's best on display against each other. Some of the proceeds from this card go to greyhound adoption, and the entire performance is simulcast all over the country into other dog tracks and race books, allowing the nation to see most of the biggest racing stars compete versus one another. The Gulf Greyhound Park Night of Stars race, the thirteenth on the program, was run over the 660 yard 3/8ths of a mile course, and it was anybody's race on paper, and on the actual track as well, until an experienced router showed up late to claim the brass ring.

What made the Gulf Greyhound Park tilt, held at the Texas racetrack located outside of Houston, so hard to figure out was the fact that half of the field had not run the distance before or in a long time, while the other half did not consistently run just 3/8ths races. CL Texas Star in the one box was coming off a sprint title in the Texas Greyhound Association Round-Up stakes and showed great closing ability-on the shorter 1,650 foot 5/16ths of a mile course. U Too Graceland in the two hole was exhibiting five wins in the last six racing lines in the program, and although he has run this far and won, it hasn't been recently. San Tan View in the three is a Gulf mainstay and she had a trio of 3/8ths lines showing, including a triumph. Button Hole in the green blanket had demonstrated oodles of late speed over the 5/16ths and San Tan Dog Gone in the five had three route victories in her last six races, with two of them being of the box to wire variety.