Kansas City, Kansas: The Woodlands Best Don't Let the Greyhound Bettors Down

The Woodlands in Kansas City, Kansas received some rave performances from some of its biggest greyhound celebrities in the past few days. Four-legged luminaries such as Flying Fabian and WW's Green Apple brought their A games to post, as well as BH's Rackem Up, USS Talladega, and USS San Juan. Nimby Leroy held on against a wild stretch runner, and yet another Flying dog was unleashed on the competition at The Woodlands when Flying Blackbird made his Maiden debut. Still another pup lurks in the wings, with the potential to one day join this bunch as a headliner.

Flying Fabian and Flying Tanana, both coming off the recent Kansas Bred Sprint that Fabian had emerged victorious in, hooked up in a 660 yard affair on July 30th. Fabian had been bumped around a bit in his first route try a few days earlier, but in this one he got around in second place, to Tanana, and then proceeded to win going away in 36.91 seconds as a 1-1 odds chalk. Fabian's route triumph was his ninth win of the current meet. In the same performance, in the card's finale, superstar WW's Green Apple took out his frustrations upon finishing second in the Kansas Bred to Fabian by routing another field. Coming off a five and a half length pasting of BH's Rackem Up and friends on July 27th, Green Apple took aim at the up-and-coming Canavas, who had rocketed to Grade A from Maiden on the strength of four double-digit lower grade wins out of five attempts. But Green Apple and the rest of this bunch put the kid in her place, at least for the time being. Green Apple grabbed the lead right away and posted another blazing time, a 29.90 as he took a seven and a half length decision, while Canavas absorbed some first turn trouble and finished last, left to wonder why this particular heat had been so hard.