The favourite heading in to the final leg of Greyhound Victoria's Western Festival of Racing, the David Geall-trained champion out of Lara was never headed in an impressive run in box one, pushing through on the inside to record the win in 25.017 seconds.

Ferdinand Boy previously won country cups at Shepparton, Ballarat and Healesville in 2021 to lay claim as the Victorian 'country cups king' in what has already been a stellar career.

Brooke Ennis-trained Old News finished runner up with a strong run of 25.241 seconds.

Winning trainer David Geall told The Standard his champion dog is one of a kind, unique and a chaser who knows how to rise for the occasion.

"The Warrnambool Cup is a big, big race, we're really happy - the adrenalin kicks in that's for sure when you win a Group 2 race," he said.

"Sometimes it's hard to believe for us when we reflect on what he's done.

"I know how hard one cup win is, the gun dogs will win two, I know three cups have been done by a couple of dogs, but four cups, I don't even know if he's out in his own league now .

"He's one hell of a dog, he doesn't get nervous, and he's a chasing machine - he's a very fast dog and a very competitive dog.

"We're lucky, there's more crowds, noises with big races and he looks around to the left and the right out of the boxes and he sort of has a look to sort of make sure there's a competition there. They know when game is on."

Geall said Ferdinand Boy was setting his sights on the Pink Diamond Series, to be held across June in Warragul, Shepparton, Bendigo and Geelong, with the final to be held at Ballarat.

"The heats come up in three or four weeks, and that'll be his main aim for sure," he said.

"He won't go to city tracks, we're very happy with how he's performed over a long time on the one bends.

"The Pink Diamond is a very lucrative series so we'll be eyeing that."

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Local hopes were well and truly with Warrnambool track specialist Mepunga Mustang - owned by Mepunga East legend and Greyhound Racing Victoria hall of famer Barry Smith, with the in-form Jeff Britton dog finishing third out of box eight in 25.353 seconds.

Mepunga Mustang came into the night's feature event off the back of seven wins from his last eight starts on the Warrnambool track.

In other feature night races, heavy favourite Substantial, trained by Anthony Azzopardi, won by a nose in 25.107 seconds in the winner-take-all $10,000 Cup Night Match Race (450m). The Jason Sharp-trained There's My Spot clinched the Warrnambool Greyhound Racing Club Members Cup Final in 22.39 seconds, while Mobile Legend stormed home to win the $5,000 Stan Lake Memorial (450m) in race six in 25.484 seconds.

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