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[b]Seamus Cahill's star faces a tough challenge as he bids to round off 2010 in style... The Lord discusses this and the rest of the week's greyhounds news...[/b] The stage is set for [b]Jimmy Lollie[/b] to become one of the sport's best-known stars when he lines up in a race named in his honour at Hove on Thursday. The Jimmy Lollie Challenge will be screened live on Sky Sports News at 20:34 as Seamus Cahill's star sprinter, almost certainly Greyhound of the Year, bids to claim a modern-day record for number of open-race successes in a year. But his attempt to make it [b]38 victories[/b] for 2010 will be no stroll in the park as the field assembled for the valuable one-off is among the toughest he has faced throughout the year. The likes of King Lee, Castlehill Nani, Ardbeg ...

[b]The Lord wraps up the big stories from the world of greyhound racing with a look at the big race action and good news for greyhound racing in Northern Ireland.[/b] Thursday's live-on-Sky [b]Eclipse final[/b] features not one, not two, but three Derby champions! The winners of this year's English and Scottish Derbys will go to traps in the form of [b]Bandicoot Tipoki[/b] and Nambisco, while the 2009 Derby hero Kinda Ready has also made the final. It is a fantastic comeback from Mark Wallis's champion who famously denied Fear Zafonic in the shadow of the post at Wimbledon to claim Classic glory some 19 months ago. Lightly-raced since, there has been an Irish Derby campaign and wins at Monmore, Shelbourne and now Nottingham in heat and semi-final of the Eclipse. For good measure, Kinda...

[b]There was a shock at Doncaster in the big Betfair-sponsored stayers' race, says The Lord, who rounds up all the other stories from the sport in his weekly column.[/b] It all happened at Doncaster on Saturday when the heats of the [b]Betfair Yorkshire St Leger[/b] drew a bumper crowd to the Stainforth track for some excellent racing. Biggest shock of all was the elimination of ante-post favourite [b]Droopys Bradley[/b], who never looked at ease around a circuit he was visiting for the first time. But the Wimbledon St Leger champion will be back, possibly over six bends again on Oaks final night at Plough Lane. New favourite at Doncaster is fastest heat winner [b]He Went Whoosh[/b], who chased home Droopys Bradley at Wimbledon, but who this time managed to blaze a trail from...