The Golden Sprint continues at Romford on Friday night with three semi-finals.

The ante-post selection Blonde Jet goes in the second semi against the favourite for outright honours Baran Hawaii who was very impressive in the first round when clocking a rapid 23.88 for the 400 metre trip.

Semi Final Draw -

FIRST SEMI:

1 DROOPYS ARIADNE
2 MILLDEAN BUSTER
3 CENTAUR ROVER
4 STAR OF TWILIGHT
5 BONVILLE PODGE
6 HORSESHOE PING (M)

SECOND SEMI:

1 LOVE MAC
2 SEANIS LAD
3 BLONDE JET
4 FARLEY LEGEND
5 BARAN HAWAII (M)
6 ROOSTER NOSEY (W)

THIRD SEMI:

1 CONKER ALL
2 BLINK DE BOOKIES
3 BLINDIN BELL
4 FILINGPLUSDOGCOM
5 LAMBSTOWN HILL
6 BLONDE BARNEY (W)

The latest betting is available here.

The Regency, a six bend competition held at Hove, gets underway tonight with four first round heats.

I fancy two dogs to go well, Swift Ninja and Swift Jade. I've had a tough time splitting these two offspring of American sire Hondo Black and in the end I've come down on the side of Darryl Porter's bitch Swift Jade who I think is the better value of the two.

Jade made the final of the Golden Jacket earlier this year where she fell when making her move. Whether she would have caught the eventual winner Shelboure Merc is open to debate but given a three week rest she showed no ill effects of her tumble and has since taken Opens at Swindon and Coventry. In between those runs she put in two good efforts at Hove behind Swift Ninja and Rough Rose. She wasn't far away on either occassion after finding trouble and is capable of better than the bare form of those runs suggests.

Swift Ninja is the big danger and I am not convinced I've got this one right but and around double the odds I'll stick with Jade.

Bet - 7 points each way Swift Jade at 10/1 (Totesport, VC Bet)

The Regency starts at Hove tonight. Greyhound of the Year Spiridon Louis took this one last year and while there may not be anything of his class in this years renewal it should still be a good event.

Here's the first round draw -

20.18 695M THE CORAL REGENCY - HEAT 1

1 BALLYMAC WEESHIE (S POOTS, UNATT)
2 SWIFT JADE (D D PORTER, SWNDN)
3 AMBIENCE (K J TESTER, HOVE)
4 COUCH ISONFIRE (M) (W R WRIGHTING, HOVE)
5 GREENACRE BEN (W) (B A CLEMENSON, HOVE)
6 HIGHLY TRIED (W) (D D KNIGHT, HOVE)

20.34 695M THE CORAL REGENCY - HEAT 2

1 SHELBOURNE RICH (B A CLEMENSON, HOVE)
2 SWIFT BONNIE (M) (B C G FANOUS, DONC)
3 AERO BLACKJACK (W) (M A WALLIS, WSTOW)
4 DROOPYS RIQUELME (W) (B A CLEMENSON, HOVE)
5 TRIXIEBELLE BLUE (W) (W R WRIGHTING, HOVE)
6 ROUGH ROSE (W) (M T DENNIS, UNATT)

20.51 695M THE CORAL REGENCY - HEAT 3

1 SHERRIES BOY (A M P COLLETT, STGBRN)
2 ROUGH PEBBLES (M T DENNIS, UNATT)
3 WESTMEAD SAM (W R WRIGHTING, HOVE)
4 MANNERS SLANEY (M) (P F WOODHOUSE, POOLE)
5 SHELBOURNE MERC (W) (B A CLEMENSON, HOVE)
6 SWIFT NINJA (W) (M HARRIS, MONMR)

21.07 695M THE CORAL REGENCY - HEAT 4

1 GLITTERING ARIES (K BILLINGHAM, MONMR)
2 TIPSY TAMZIN (D D KNIGHT, HOVE)
3 FLYING WINNER (C T LUND, HULL)
4 BABY MARGE (D D KNIGHT, HOVE)
5 ROUGH QUEST (W) (M T DENNIS, UNATT)
6 PENNYS VIKTOR (W) (P R GARLAND, WSTOW)

The latest betting is available here.