[1][2] Savva was born in 1934 in Cyprus and left the island country for London where he gained work in an engineering factory and then a restaurant.

He met Natalie Drew in 1957 and they married in 1961 before selling his dressmaking business and buying a kennels.

[3] Westmead Myra reached the 1976 English Greyhound Derby final[4] and based near Dunstable in Bedfordshire the kennel would have spells at seven tracks; Wembley, Cambridge, Coventry, Milton Keynes, Hackney, Henlow and Walthamstow but would race mainly unattached.

[6] The quality of breeding increased even further with the likes of Phantom Flash, Staplers Jo, Toms The Best and Tralee Crazy.

[8] Sonic Flight won the 2001 Scottish Derby before the Savva's established themselves as the industry leaders in breeding and training during an extraordinary spell.