Greyhounds: This year’s sprinters look a vintage bunch

The Con and Annie Kirby Memorial, with its €80,000 winner’s prize, is the obvious highlight at Limerick stadium at the moment but the most remarkable performance of the weekend at the track was surely that of the Ian Reilly-trained Quietly, in the second semi-final of the Barringtons Hospital Treaty Cup.

Seldom is sprinting the strongest discipline in Ireland but the recent Supersprint at Curraheen taught us that we could have a vintage bunch this year.

The final of that particular stake was the best sprint seen at the stadium, and not just because of Quietly’s blistering performance in the decider, but also that of kennel companion Hee Haws Sheriff, who had broken the record earlier in the competition and finished second in the final, posting a time equal to the previous record.