In the final Mutts Silver showed a burst of early speed to slip round the bend in front. Ballybeg Prim made some inroads into the leader's advantage, but Mutts Silver could not be caught. Mutts Silver had been bought by a syndicate headed by Ray Lancaster, editor of the Sporting Life who had tasked the greyhound editor Archie Newhouse to find a dog for the Derby and British breeding was well represented in the final by Nick and Natalie Savva who had bred Westmead Myra and Westmead Champ.
