NGA Greyhound Review 2016

NGA AWARD WINNERS

Husker Magic and Highlyclassified

For the second year in a row, a pair starts. She racked up 18 more wins in
25 starts at the Derby Lane fall meet,
of Derby Lane-based greyhounds have giving her 41 wins for the year—
enough to snag the North American
picked up both NGA Awards—Husker win title. She enjoyed win streaks of
8 and 11 straight, while running her
Magic winning the 45th Annual NGA Rural Rube career win total to 95 by year’s end.
Award as the nation’s top sprinter for 2015, and
The latest drama involving Derby
Highlyclassified capturing the Flashy Sir Award as the best Lane’s “Blonde Bombshell” has
been twofold—whether she’d win
router of the year. the Rural Rube, as most expected;
and if or when she’d break into the
Both recipients are also members easy winner of the NGA honor, 100-win club. With Husker Magic
of the 2015 All-America team. voted upon by NGA members and sidelined with an injury, her career
Greyhound Review subscribers. win total is currently stalled at 98.
Husker Magic’s triumph marks The veteran (April 2012) daughter
the 10th time since 2000 that the of Rhythmless-Casino Zada had a “Woohoo!” was the first reaction
Rural Rube Award winner hails from stellar year in 2015, commencing from Terry Haber, representing Imark
the St. Petersburg track. It’s also the with her victory in January at the Kennels, upon hearing the news of
seventh straight year that the Rural Daytona 550 BetAmerica National Husker Magic winning the award.
Rube Award winner is also captain of Championship. She returned home “That’s exciting! I wish I had about 10
the AGTOA All-America team. to Derby Lane in time to capture the more just like her. She’s only the sec-
$64,000 Sprint Classic and the track ond All-American I’ve ever had (Magic
Owned by Imark Kennels LLC win title with a 23-7-0 mark in 32 Gangster was the other, in 1995).
and racing for the Jim Abernathy
Kennel, Husker Magic was the

Rural Rube Award winner
Husker Magic

“We’re going to give her one final 2014, thanks to Husker Magic and at Gulf—win the $10,000 Diane
hurrah, one more chance to get to her littermates. Whiteley Sprint Memorial (sweep-
100 career wins before she retires ing all rounds), break the track
and comes back here to Arkansas for Runner-up in the Rural Rube vot- record, grab the track win title with
her next career.” ing was Sharon L. Williams’ Need a 39-6-4 mark in 49 starts, had win
My Moneynow, who raced all last streaks of 8, 9 and 14 races during
Haber’s excited about an upcom- year at Gulf Greyhound Park and the season, and finish third in the
ing litter out of Bella Infrared and who is now at Orange Park. The son North American win race with those
Magic’s mom, Casino Zada, who of No More Loving-Need A Date 39 wins (just two behind Husker
was the champion Brood Matron of did everything asked of him in 2015 Magic).

Flashy Sir Award winner Interestingly, the two top vote
Highlyclassified getters in the Rural Rube ran 1-2 in
the latest version of the Daytona 550
National Championship in January—
only it was Need My Moneynow
nabbing the win, with Magic, as the
defending champ a close second.

Others high in the voting for the
Rural Rube were Ann Occhino’s Red
Utopian, of the Oxbow Trow Kennel,
top sprint campaigner at Flagler and
Naples; Vince Berland’s Flying Fired
Up, of the Lester Raines Kennel, win
champ and multi-stake winner at
Southland; and Steve Schlachter’s
Storm Control, of the B & B Kennel,
multi-stake winner at Palm Beach.

Voting in the Flashy Sir (for the
year’s top router) was much closer
with three distance aces in tight conten-
tion. In the end, it was Jacobs Racing
Kennel’s Highlyclassified edging out
Naples’ Sprite Drive, and multi-dis-
tance star B’s Headliner (Naples and
Southland) was a close third.

Racing for the John Farmer
Kennel, Highlyclassified won the
$75,000 Holiday Distance Challenge
at Derby Lane late in the year, hav-
ing finished second in the Derby
Lane Distance Classic and third in
the St. Petersburg Derby in the earli-
er season at Derby Lane. The son of
Kiowa Mon Manny-Cantrell posted
an 18-16-12-9 record in 60 starts (55
out of 60 on the paysheet) in 2015,
and twice came close to breaking
the 3/8 record at St. Pete, which was
set in 2006. With the meet’s three
fastest times, Highlyclassified was
described late in the year by Review
writer Don Jensen as “the fastest
660-yard athlete that Derby Lane
patrons have seen in the past nine
years.”

Monte Jacobs, of Claflin, Ks., wins in 20 starts. Nerfetta, of the Burk Kennel, who
was excited to hear the news. Right behind her in the voting won the Derby Lane Distance Classic
as well as a sprint stake at Southland;
“It’s truly an honor,” he said. was All-America B’s Headliner, and Kevin Dalton’s Ted Cruz, of the
“Credential-wise, he’s the best grey- owned by Vince Berland and Tim Clear The Way Kennel, a multi-stake
hound I’ve raised thus far. He exceed- Ertl. She won the Naples $60,000 winner over two different distance
ed all our expectations in 2015.” Derby (as well as the track’s $30,000 courses at Wheeling in 2015.
Sprint Stake) for the Everett Kennel
Close runnerup in the Flashy and finished second in the Razorback The 45th Annual NGA Rural Rube
Sir vote was James Rosga’s Sprite Classic at Southland. Headliner had and Flashy Sir awards will be pre-
Drive, who swept and won the 14 wins in 25 starts at Naples and sented at the awards ceremonies pro-
Naples $20,000 Marathon Stake. was 5-7-9-3 in 36 Southland starts. gram at the Greyhound Hall of Fame
The Oxbow Trow Kennel router on Thursday night, Apr. 28, during
also ran third in the Naples Derby Finishing in a tie for fourth for the the NGA Spring Meet.
and was Naples track champ with 11 Flashy Sir were Jeff Blair’s Mega

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