Good Odds Cash On Cusp Of Whirlwind Six Months

TRACY Hurst spent most of Saturday night embarrassed after Good Odds Cash had left a huge scratch down the side of her face.

It happened when Tracy and her husband Frank were getting the bitch out for the trip to Wentworth Park for the final of the Group 1 National Sprint Championship (520m).

“She was feeling that good, she could not contain herself,” said Frank of Good Odds Cash. “She leapt up and scratched Tracy down the face. Caught her by surprise.

“And Tracy had no make-up on or anything to try to hide the scratch when she got to Wenty.”

All was forgiven not long after when Good Odds Cash (Collision-Nino De Oro) fought off the challenge of Simply Limelight and Mcinerney to win the Group 1 showpiece.

Frank had “just about given up” on Good Odds Cash when she was “hustled” either side by Simply Limelight and Mcinerney on the turn out of the back straight, but Frank knew his bitch.

“She's a bully,” he said. “She's got that much courage it's unbelievable. She things she's a dog.”

Good Odds Cash now automatically qualifies for a spot in the Million Dollar Chase semi-finals.

“She had no luck whatsoever behind She's A Pearl early in the year,” said Frank.

Good Odds Cash finished seventh behind She's A Pearl in the MDC on May 7.

“That is obviously her target for the immediate future,” said Frank.

“But we will not be looking any further than that race.”

Glamour races like the Topgun, The Phoenix, the Melbourne Cup are all on the horizon and Good Odds Cash will certainly be one of the major drawcards for any of those events.

“But, she's three years old and I don't want to plan anything too far ahead for her,” said Frank.

“It is not as though she is a stud dog and we are trying to make a future for him.

“She's a broodbitch already. You can't make a broodbitch, they have just got what it takes.

“Whether they have 10 or 100 starts, if they are going to be a broodbitch, then they will be.”

Frank and Tracy have fended off offers to buy Good Odds Cash and now buyers are lining up to be put on a short list for her pups in the future.

“We got a $100,000 offer for her as a youngster,” said Frank of the bitch who has now won 28 races and earned $387,000.

“She pulled up great after the run on Saturday night.

“We gave her a huge chance in the final because she was so well and had drawn over near the fence.

“This bitch never knows when she is beaten and she showed that again in the National final.”

Good Odds Cash is a virtual sister to the Hurst's MDC winner and now boom young stud dog Good Odds Harada.

Frank says Good Odds Cash, despite her fabulous record, is not as fast as Harada.

“He won in 29.32 at Wenty,” said Frank. “She could not run that.”