[1] The winner Cool Performance won £100,000 and was trained by Sean Bourke, owned by Patsy Byrne & Mick Gleeson and bred by P J Keane.
[2][3] At Shelbourne, 15 September (over 550 yards): short-head, ½, head, head, 2¼ (lengths) The leading Irish entry for the 2001 event was a greyhound called Late Late Show, owned by television and radio chat show host Pat Kenny.
[4] Double Oaks champion Marinas Tina finished lame in quarter finals on a night when three of the heat winners recorded the same time of 29.83; they were Droopys Vieri, Cool Performance and Premier County.
A scrappy second semi-final race ended with success for Droopys Vieri from Dale Inferno and Tinys Bud.
[4] Tinys Bud took a slight lead when the final got underway, she was followed closely by Cool Performance and Droopys Kewell, but the latter was forced to check.