Today’s greyhound racing news back in time
Australian Racing Greyhound delves back in to the archives to look back at this day in greyhound history.
2016
- Country greyhound trainer Vicki Prest says a GRNSW decision to suspend all non-TAB greyhound racing has hit trainers hard:
PREST SAYS NON-TAB GREYHOUND BAN IS “CUTTING OUR THROATS”
2015
- Secret Spell ended a 16 race career winning streak for Fernando Bale by beating him in a semi final of the 2015 maturity Classic:
SECRET SPELL SET TO WEAVE HER MAGIC IN GROUP 1 MATURITY CLASSIC - Queensland grader Darren Barbour was disqualified for 12 months for manipulating the box draw of a greyhound race where a greyhound he had bet on subsequently won the race:
STEWARDS WRAP: LAST WEEK'S NEWS IN ONE HIT
2014
- Bruce Teague says that the greyhound industry must learn to tell its story or risk the public inventing their own perceptions:
LESSONS FROM THE FARM - Trainer Johm Frewin was fined $150 for failing to produce his greyhound to start in a Warrnambool race:
JOHN FREWIN FINED $150 FOR NON-ARRIVAL
2013
- Bruce Teague takes a look at a UK survey of 6,000 British greyhound owners where over one third said trainers needed to communicate better with owners:
BRITISH OWNERS TELL IT LIKE IT IS - Now disgraced greyhound trainer Graeme Bate produced Schroder Bale to beat Black Magic Opal and qualify for the 2013 Maturity Classic Final:
SCHRODER BALE STUNS IN MATURITY CLASSIC SEMI - Rod Ashworth's Early Return won the GOTBA Cup at Longwood Coursing Club:
GOTBA COURSING GOES TO LONGWOOD - NSW greyhound Where's Keroma post a landmark 42.97 Meadows win to qualify for the G2 2013 AWM Distance Championship final with favourite Irma Bale out of the placings:
FAVOURITES TUMBLE IN AWM DISTANCE HEATS
2011
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Rainfall in Sydney causes concern from owners and trainers with the track surface at Wentworth Park:
WENTWORTH PARK GREYHOUND RACE MEETINGS TO GO AHEAD
2009
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The Graeme Bate trained Velocette is looking for a fourth straight Albion park win to take out the Brisbane Greyhound Club's 2009 G1 Winter Carnival Cup:
- GRNSW Chairman Professor Percy Allan AM claims greyhound racing had subsidised its thoroughbred counterparts in NSW to the tune of $6.25 million over the past 12 months, effectively making the dogs the largest sponsor of horse racing in the state:
GRNSW CLAIM GREYHOUNDS ARE HORSE RACING'S BIGGEST SPONSOR - GRSA shut the door on the Murray Bridge Greyhound Club's hopes for a straight track for the area:
GRSA CLOSE THE DOOR ON MURRAY BRIDGE STRAIGHT TRACK
IMPROVED VELOCETTE AIMS FOR BACK TO BACK GROUP WINS