Back in late October, Simon Told Helen and Who Told Stevie quinellaed the Group 3 Great Chase (525m) at The Meadows. At the time, they were both contesting only their seventh start.
Roll on a couple of months and there’s a possibility the ‘Told’ brothers could repeat the feat – at the highest level – in the Group 1 Silver Chief (525m) at The Meadows on Saturday night.
“It would be nice, here’s hoping,” was trainer David Burnett’s matter-of-fact response to such a mouth-watering prospect.
Who Told Stevie and Simon Told Helen have boxes three and four respectively in the $100,000-to-the-winner final. There wasn’t much between them on heat times, with Who Told Stevie clocking 29.68sec and Simon Told Helen posting 29.78sec.
WATCH: Simon Told Helen (1) take out a Silver Chief heat.
“The leader is always hard to beat in this type of race,” Burnett said. “And he (Simon Told Helen) seems to have a length on them early. Hopefully he can come out as straight as a die… But he’s got to pinch a break and find a couple of lengths to beat young greyhounds of this calibre.”
Price assessors have Simon Told Helen ($3.50F) and Who Told Stevie ($4) on the early TAB Fixed Odds market, and Burnett says they’ve “probably got it right”.
“Simon Told Helen has the runs on the board,” he said. “But Who Told Stevie was returning from injury and still ran faster time than his brother. He had five weeks off with a cracked fibula, and only had walking and swimming as recuperation leading into his heat. It was a super run given a limited preparation.”
Burnett is not concerned about Who Told Stevie’s box draw. “It doesn’t matter where he jumps from… He’s such a good, honest dog.”
Here’s the ‘tale of the tape’ on Burnett’s dynamic duo:
