[1] The winner was Pauls Fun and the winning owner Mr Thomas Henry Watford received £1,500.
Pauls Fun was bought by Mr Thomas Watford for £1,750 and put with Wembley trainer Leslie Reynolds in 1953 after he recorded the fastest ever time at Dunmore Park for a puppy.
During the first round heats a deluge of rain made the track very heavy and the best time recorded that night was 29.37 by Pauls Fun; next best was 29.67 by Title Role, thirty spots slower.
[6] Pauls Fun took his place in the semi-finals and won comfortably by six and a half-lengths setting a new track record of 28.64 in the process.
Title Role at odds of 4-11 could only manage third after a crowded second semi-final race won by Ashcroft Boy.