Glenroy Burglar takes another step nearer the magic century when he competes in his 97th race in Saturday night's meeting at Oxford Stadium.

Trainer Gilly Hepden and the connections will spoil him rotten when he reaches his hundred.

Hepden has been busy making sure her charges are well looked after once their racing careers are over.

This week she has found homes for Horsehoe Earl, Security Daisy, Black By Design, Rumpled Mack, Start Dreaming and Galbertstown Kay, who won at the weekend BAGS meeting.

Meanwhile, Hepden strengthened her hand with four arrivals from John Wainwright's kennel at Coventry, and was boosted by her top open racer, Gotabetem, who returned from a serious injury to post 27.30 before racing on Tuesday.

LENSON Joker, hero of the William Hill Cesarewitch here this year, is favourite to land Greyhound of the Year.

Tony Collet's Sittingbourne star completed a hat-trick of Group 1 victories when landing the Champion Stakes at Romford. He could be back to defend his Cesarewitch title next year.

TRAINER Tony Magnasco, dubbed the Italian Stallion by announcer Tony Walton, has been baby-sitting.

But he can't lay claims to his latest arrivals, where the Max Picinelli-owned pair of Caloona Striker and Final Rinmore produced a litter of six pups – four dogs and two bitches.

THE kennel strength of 403 is still around 30 hounds short for the five meetings staged each week.

Only around 20 are qualified to run over the stayers trip of 595 metres.

Hoping to put that problem right is Angie Kibble, who trialled ten of her hounds over the trip on Thursday.

TRAINER MIchael Peterson enjoyed open race success with Turbo Billy at Coventry on Sunday, while at Sandy Lane, he saw Miss Clara Belle complete a hat-trick.

He goes to Coventry again tomorrow tracking Turbo Billy, Jet Black Swifty and Canaree Scholes.

ISLE of Tara, trained by in-form Angie Kibble, took her strike rate to almost one win in three after knocking up her 14th success on Tuesday.

PADDY Curtin's bid to take Farloe Ferdinand to Shelbourne Park in Dublin to contest the The Paddy Power Sprint on Irish Derby final night ended in disappointment when Ferdinand finished lame in an open at Monmore.

NEW bookmaker Steve Harris, who took up his post on the rails on Monday, caused quite a stir when marking up the veteran College Mate at 7-1 at his first meeting.

Common sense prevailed in the end, however, as the near seven-year-old, kept in prime condition by Angie Kibble, belied his years to beat Elegant Yank by a neck.

The 5-1 shot recorded a time of 27.69secs.

Harris has already given the track the thumbs-up with trade steady, but could hardly have been impressed with the low turn-out.