Nellie Noodles is staying royalty!

She was bestowed with such sovereignty after toppling local hero and track record-holder Dashing Corsair in the Group 1 Gold Cup (710m) at Albion Park.

The staying wunderkind has been mentioned in the same breath as the immortal Bold Trease - 1987 Victorian Greyhound of the Year and four-time Group 1 Sandown Cup winner - and not just in terms of their similar racing style.

Nellie Noodles, like Bold Trease in his heyday, is a dyed-in-the-wool distance dynamo with a barnstorming finish.

She has even received high praise from Norm McCullagh, the trainer of Bold Trease - a dual Hall of Fame member dubbed the "Warrnambool Warrior".

Perhaps the highest accolade for Nellie Noodles is McCullagh drawing a parallel with his champion.

"She gets well back but has that ability to pick her way through a field," McCullagh said.

"Nellie Noodles has such a strong finish... She must have a big heart."

McCullagh says Nellie Noodles displays the same racing pattern as Bold Trease.

"She takes her time and then winds up at the rate of knots... It's difficult to compare eras, but I reckon it would have been some race if they had clashed.

"Bold Trease - he had a pretty good brain on him... He wasn't a 'rush-and-tear' dog; he'd wait for the right moment.

"Intelligence wise, we don't give some greyhounds the credit they deserve... Some are pretty cunning and switched on."

"I feel honoured that she is being held in the same regard as Bold Trease. He is one of the finest stayers I've seen," said Nellie Noodles' trainer, Robert Britton.

"Bold Trease performed at the highest level over a long period of time - it's an added thing that makes him unique.

"Greyhounds like Bold Trease and Nellie Noodles bring an exciting dimension to staying.

"Mind you, it's more anxiety than excitement for me when she's in a race. But I do enjoy watching the replay."

Amazingly, even though there is more than two decades separating their careers, there are striking similarities in relation to the respective training regimens of the modern-day marvel and the elite champion of the late 1980s.

"Every second day we pace Nellie Noodles alongside a quad-bike... She's a bit lazy, so I give her around 10 minutes or until I think she's had enough," Britton said.

"On the alternate day, I take her for a 35-minute walk on the lead through the You Yangs Regional Park (22km north of Geelong)... It's more to stimulate her mind, a mental freshen-up."

"Bold Trease was trotted alongside a quad-bike for 2km every second day," McCullagh said. "And once or twice a week, I'd swim him behind a row boat for eight minutes."

Nellie Noodles has been a revelation, establishing three track records - The Meadows (600m & 725m) and Shepparton (650m) - since entering distance ranks in February.

In the $50,000-to-the-winner Gold Cup final, Nellie Noodles ($1.90F) defeated Dashing Corsair ($2.30) by one length, with Blue Lorian ($31.00) a half-length away third in 41.84sec.

Then followed: Jarvis Bale ($9.00), Allen Zander ($41.00), Countess Of Cork ($21.00), Allen Shaul ($26.00) and Reign Over Me ($21.00).

She notched her ninth win (with two seconds) from 15 starts. Her stakes jumped to $71,070.

"Winning a Group race gets the 'monkey off her back'," Britton said.

"She had a tough month in Brisbane, so a let-up won't hurt her... Amazingly, only six weeks ago she was racing in restricted class."

Nellie Noodles' big-race itinerary includes the forthcoming Group 1 National Distance Championship series.