He's the only dog in the field to run inside 23 seconds for the 400m at Wagga and Got A Cookie will be gunning for a hat-trick at the track on Friday night.
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Trainer Peter Dooner said box seven will be ideal for his young dog which was the fastest qualifier for the $3,310 Ladbrokes 1-3 Wins Final (400m).
Got A Cookie won his heat in 22.96 seconds last week, from the outside box, after winning over the same distance the Friday before (in 22.99s, from box seven).
"He's pulled up quite well and ready to hopefully win the final with a bit of a luck," Dooner said.
Both times he beat Finn Bop, which has drawn box eight, while Dooner says Clint Colaiacovo's heat winner, Get On It, looms as a big danger.
"It's a pretty good race, there's a fair few dangers and there's a lot of dogs that are evenly-matched," Dooner said.
Got A Cookie has won three of his 10 starts, as well as three seconds. He ran third at his first start in early May. By the end of the month, he'd had his first win (in a 320m maiden).
"He's an improver. He's only a young pup but he's improving all the time and hopefully he gets a bit better with age," Dooner said.
The trainer also has Gotta Bounce in the seventh at Wagga. She's won three of her past five starts before running seventh at Goulburn last week in a fifth grade event over 350m.
"She was a bit slow out of the box and got caught up behind them and didn't get a chance to make a move," Dooner said.
"You need luck from the middle boxes... she prefers the outside but from the inside (box one) if she can jump a little bit with them and get a gap, she's a chance. But we'll just have to cross our fingers."
It's a 10-race card at the Wagga Greyhound Racing Club with the first at 6.45pm.
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