The extravaganza that is the English Greyhound Derby gets underway with 13 heats this evening at Wimbledon.

Following last week’s brilliant run in the semi-finals of the Con and Annie Kirby Memorial at Limerick, it’s hard to look beyond Rural Hawaii in tonight’s decider for the €80,000-to-the-winner stake.

THERE was a surprise in the final of the Treaty Cup at the Limerick City meeting at Ballysheedy yesterday when the hot favourite, Killeagh Noble, was beaten by the bitch, Helens Reject.