Bob May

PROMISING young greyhound It’s Smudgy recorded its second consecutive win at Gawler when she scored on Friday afternoon.
In the grade six event for greyhounds with one previous win to their name, It’s Smudgy shot to the front from box five and never gave her rivals a look in, getting away to an early lead of over six lengths.
Settle Gretel (box one) stuck to the task and made up some ground, but the margin ended up at just over five lengths with It’s Smudgy running a slick time of 22.70 seconds.
It’s Smudgy has now only had the three starts, which have resulted in the two wins, with the 22.7 time posted indicating a big improvement on her first win, and potentially a bright future for the young female.
Trained at Lewiston by Clint Trengrove, the greyhound is owned in Victoria by Grant Daubeny, and was from the first litter bred by Clint’s brother Clayton Trengrove, in Broken Hill.
Five pups were in the litter, of which three have now raced, with two of them now winning for Clint.
Clint made the move from Broken Hill to Lewiston about three years ago, deciding to take a new direction in life.
He said he was inspired by a close associate saying to him “if you do what you like doing, you will never work another day in your life”.
By applying that maxim, Clint said the move was the right thing to do, and he enjoys getting up every day to work with the dogs.
With a team of 30 dogs, it is a time consuming task, and he and wife Shelley do most of the work around the kennels, while son Harry assists by taking the racing team to the track to race and trial.
Clint said he had never had too many fast dogs in his kennels until recently, so the change was satisfying.