Saturday 15th March 2008

Wagga Wagga

Saturday 15th March 2008

Past Discussion

  1. Actually Cheyenne, that is a feature of the site.

    We have no intention of removing the old fields as all the other sites do.

    This allows you to go back and review all the fields a dog has started in.

    This is a unique feature and will eventually provide an invaluable resource.

    In years to come you’ll still be able to see who started in the 2008 Golden Easter Egg or the Wagga Social Club 0-1 Maiden on Saturday March 15th 2008.

  2. HI MY NAME IS LARRY KINGSFORD.I WAS JUST GOING THROUGH THE NET TO LOOK UP A FEW THINGS AND STUMBLED ACROSS THIS SITE.I THOUGHT I WOULD SEND SOME INFORMATION ABOUT MYSELF.I WAS DISSAPOINTED TO HERE THE ORANGE GREYHOUND CLUB WAS CLOSED IN 2005.BEING A FORMER BROADCASTER AT WADE PARK IT IMMEDIATELY BOUGHT BACK FOND MEMORIES.SO I WENT INTO MY DRAWS AND FOUND SOME RACE PROGRAMS FROM THE PAST AT ORANGE DATED JUNE 20 1992.REG HURST WAS THE PRESIDENT AT THAT TIME AND A VERY NICE GENTLEMAN. I LOVED CALLING AT ORANGE THE PEOPLE WERE SO VERY FRIENDLY.AND ONE PARTICULAR MEETING WHICH WAS IN THE EIGHTIES A GREYHOUND BY THE NAME OF PACIFIC ZIP ONE A MAJOR RACE THAT NIGHT AT THE JUICY ODDS OF 8 TO 1 AND THEY SAY RACECALLERS DONT BET. IT HAD BOX FIVE AND I TOLD EVERYONE TO BACK IT BECAUSE IT ALWAYS FLEW THE LIDS AND WAS RUN DOWN ALWAYS OVER LONGER JOURNEYS BUT THAT NIGHT IT WAS ONLY OVER 500 AND IT LED ALL THE WAY AND WON WITH A LEG IN THE AIR.IVE ALSO CALLED AT COOTAMUNDRA AND YOUNG.THOSE DAYS I WOULD LEAVE SYDNEY SATURDAY MORNING DRIVE STRAIGHT TO YOUNG CALL THEM SATURDAY ARVO THEN DRIVE TO COOTAMUNDRA AND CALL THAT PROGRAM.AND MOST OF THE TIME I WOULD DRIVE STRAIGHT BACK TO SYDNEY.AH THEY WERE THE DAYS AND LAST YEAR I CALLED INTO YOUNG TO SEE IF ANYTHING HAD CHANGED AND THE SECRATERY WAS THER EXPLAINED WHO I WAS AND WAS INVITED BACK THAT NIGHT TO CALL SOME RACES AND I DID IT ALL CAME FLOODING BACK THE MOMENT THE GREEN LIGHT WAS TURNED ON . AND IT BLEW ME AWAY CAUSE THEY NEVER RACED IN THE NIGHTTIME IN THEM DAYS . AND ALSO OWNING A GREYHOUND CALLED MARK TOSCA TRAINED BY BRIAN WHITE OF WALLENBEEN THE EXCITEMENT OF HIM WINNING HIS FIRST RACE AS AN OWNER WAS JUST THE GREATEST AND THAT WAS AT COOTAMUNDRA HE WON THE FOLLOWING WEEK OVER THE 507 AT YOUNG AND MY PHOTO APPEARED IN THE LOCAL PAPER ANY WAY FINALLY HE WAS SOLD TO A LOVELY LADY MRS APPS FROM YOUNG AND I BELIEVE HE WON MORE RACES IN HIS CAREER.THANK YOU TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE PART OF MY LIFE FROM THEM DAYS .I WOULDNT CHANGE A THING GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE GREYHOUND OWNERS AND TRAINERS AND GREYHOUND RACING WILL LIVE ON FOREVER.LARRY KINGSFORED.

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