Greyhounds Australasia

Former Group 1 Trainer Verity Cotton Disqualified For 9 Months For Anabolic Steroid Positive

Victorian greyhound trainer Verity Cotton has been disqualified for 9 months for a positive swab to an anabolic steroid in one of her greyhounds. Cotton’s...

John Norden Fined $500 For Procaine Positive In Victorian Greyhounds

Following advice from the Racing Analytical Services Laboratory, the Stewards of Greyhound Racing Victoria conducted an investigation into the results of a pre-race urine sample...

Darren Fisher Receives $1000 Fine Only For Flunixin Positive Swab In Victoria

The husband of high profile Greyhound Racing Victoria and Sky Racing feature greyhound race presenter, Simone Fisher, has received a $1,000 fine for a positive...

Damian Fleming Fined $500 For Warrnambool Greyhounds Hyoscine Positive Swab

Greyhound Racing Victoria have just today released details of a positive swab inquiry that occurred last week before the Racing Appeals & Disciplinary Board, that...

Figuring It Out

When someone publishes a list of figures you may not be quite sure where they came from, who did the measuring or how they were...

Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave

A small example tells you a lot. If you downloaded a Horsham (Tuesday) GRV formguide on Monday afternoon this week, you would have been missing...

Racing Has Been Stumped

Governance by national sporting bodies continues to grab the headlines as cricket tries to move into the modern world following the Carter Crawford report to...

Who’s In Charge?

Suppose you polled 1,000 people in TABs around the country and asked them if they could name the bosses of the ARL, AFL, Rugby Union,...

Anthony Hess Disqualified For 3 Months For Prednisilone Positive

Racing Queensland Stewards (Greyhounds) last week conducted an Inquiry into the results of a urine sample taken from the greyhound Program Control prior to it...

Too Much Of A Good Thing

Some while back when Wentworth Park meetings were programmed on Saturdays and Mondays, I recall writing a piece about the doubts arising when dogs ran...

Richardson Guilty Not One, But Two Positive Swabs To Pholcodine & Receives Fine Only

Victorian greyhound trainer Adam Richardson has received a $750 fine only as the results of two separate positive swabs in different greyhounds trained by him....

Monaghan Receives $500 Fine Only For Pholcodine Positive In Victoria

Following advice from the Racing Analytical Services Laboratory, the Stewards of Greyhound Racing Victoria conducted an investigation into the results of a pre-race urine sample...

John Eva Disqualified For Four Months For Methylsynephrine Positive

Victorian greyhound trainer John Eva has been disqualified for presenting his greyhound With The Lot at a Shepparton greyhound race meeting under the influence of...

Glory Without Power

If you had just arrived from Mars it might take you quite a while to work out how the greyhound world operates. Do you know...

Queensland Greyhound Trainers Fine Reduced Alleging Harassment

Queensland greyhound trainer Gregory Paull has had a $500 fine for unseemly and improper beahviour reduced to $250 and wholly suspended for six months after...

Who Calls Boards To Account?

The drawn out saga about the new ARL commission points up comparisons with other sports. Most are now set up with reasonably independent boards –...

Thompson’s Fourth Stewards Inquiry In Three Years Receives Fine Only For Positive Swab

As reported exclusively on Australian Racing Greyhound back on June 1st 2001, the Jason Thompson trained greyhound Proven Que Tee has returned a positive swab...

The Numbers Don’t Add Up

Some pretty smart fields presented for the Shepparton Cup last Monday and most of the usual suspects succeeded. However, one thing stuck out. From the...

Managing Change Is Always A Risk

Patrick Smith (in The Australian April 30, 2011), talking of the gallops, has maintained “racing is losing ground by the meeting” and that “without an...

Azzopardi Receives $500 Fine For Methylmorphinan Positive Swab In Victoria

Victorian greyhound trainer Judy Azzoaprdi has received a $500 fine for presenting her greyhound Go Slow to race at The Meadows on Australia day while...

Six Month Disqualification For Answering Machine Abuse In Queensland

On May 16th 2011 Queensland greyhound racing stewards conducted an inquiry into an abusive phone message left on the telephone answering machine of an employee...

Nicholas Caley Appointed As GRV Chairman

Deputy Premier and Minister for Racing Rob Hulls tonight announced the appointment of respected business analyst Nicholas Caley as the new chairman of Greyhound Racing...

Greyhounds Australasia Recommend Cyber Dogs by 2012

The board of Greyhounds Australasia have revised recommendations regarding standardised microchipping of all greyhounds by 2012, but have also recommended that the act of “ear-branding”...

Greyhounds Move To Close Door On Drug Cheats…Too Late

Some ten to fifteen years after the rise in the use of drugs such as Fertagyl, Eryhthropoetin (EPO), Aranesp and SoluCortef as performance enhancers in...

Creighton Given 6 Months For Sale Dogs Altercation

Greyhound Racing Victoria Stewards have today handed out a six month disqualification to a Victorian greyhound trainer who was involved in an “altercation” at a...