One of the Great chasers of the late 80’s into the early 90’s was Eureka Man. Raced and trained by Healesville stalwart Ken Pattison. He was judged the 1990 Victorian Greyhound of the Year. The black chaser by Preety Fearless won the award in controversial circumstances due to the rules set maintaining contenders had to have a set number of starts at both city tracks with Superstar Highly Blessed due to injury late in the year unable to fill that part of the criteria. She had an exceptional 1990 winning the Winter Cup at Cranbourne, The Gold Collar at Olympic Park, the State National Sprint final at Sandown finishing third in the National final. She won the Shepparton Cup and the Melbourne Cup. Went to the Gabba on that ridiculous seven left hand turn track without a trial got lost and dead heated with No It’s Not in the Four X Trophy heat came back for the final and beat the same dog by 10 lengths. She had rounded the year off winning also every feature she contested. The rule was correctly scrapped in 1991. Perhaps his best win was the 1991 Cranbourne Cup he beat an outstanding field.
