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Lioness Lulu & Mark Giddings

Lioness Lulu roars to Grp1 Association Cup win

Young Victorian trainer and former GRV Steward, Mark Giddings, had the biggest win of his short career last night when his bargain buy stayer Lioness...

Time to study greyhound stewards

RIGHTLY or wrongly – well, both really – stewards have been in the spotlight throughout 2015 for multiple reasons. One of the big worries about...

Stewards wrap: Participants found guilty in Il Bacaro inquiry

LEADING trainer Anthony Azzopardi is one of five people to have been found guilty by Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW) Stewards as a part of the...

Lack of transparency is a national disease

ONE of the tricky things about running greyhound racing is that you are never sure why authorities take certain actions. They might announce objectives (which...

Dyna Double One takes out 2016 Australian Cup

DYNA Double One became just the third greyhound to break the $1 million mark in the history of greyhound racing on Saturday night when taking...
Kinloch brae

Talking breeding: Kinloch Brae kicking goals from Ireland

THIS week’s review of litters selected from the NSW Whelping Report for the week ending October 18, 2015 starts with a nice litter of six...

Figuring out Queensland greyhounds

WE have had a couple of calls for the retention of breeding subsidies in Queensland. The stated reason is that current activity is too small...

Stewards wrap- WA trainer disqualified for amphetamine possession

IT has been a busy few weeks in stewards rooms around Australia, with several participants facing the respective authority bodies over a range of prohibited...

Greyhound special commission tapers off – but to what?

THE Special Commission’s second and presumably final public hearings ended last week along predictable lines. Long and often tortured questioning concentrated on who knew what...

Sunday, 28 February 2016

Greyhound Box Draw For Healesville – Sunday, 28 February 2016 Race No. 1Grv Vic Bred Maiden Ht112:07 PM (VIC time) Maiden Heat event over 350...

Greyhound racing needs a GPS fitted

ONE of the strangest ideas appearing from officialdom over the last year – and there have been quite a few of that ilk – is...

Should insiders run the greyhound racing industry?

A READER (Kondoparinga, which is the name of an up-market country homestay spot in SA)) made some useful points about the need for industry to...

Gold Guide failure creates an opportunity for greyhound racing

THE evidence is there. Now we need to act. The Gold Guide was just as much a part of greyhound history as Jack Woodward’s Greyhound...

Advertisers, readers out of pocket as NGF enters administration

National Greyhound Form PTY LTD has been placed into administration with many people in the industry left out of pocket after the abrupt disappearance of...

Report points the way to better betting on greyhound racing

THE recent Roy Morgan report on wagering profiles, ferreted out by colleague Kat Ernst in her recent article, represented a huge jump in knowledge for...

Greyhound racing is being subsidised by mug gamblers

LAST Saturday produced an extraordinary range of betting volumes. It also illustrated where the code’s income is coming from. The four main greyhound meetings were...

AGRA Group racing records leave a lot to be desired

THERE are certain things in life which do not need to be stuffed up, or at least not stuffed up on a regular basis, and...

Sunday, 17 January 2016

Greyhound Box Draw For Sale – Sunday, 17 January 2016 Race No. 1Valley Fire & Security5:58 PM (VIC time) Maiden event over 440 metres at...

More heat on greyhound racing management

HAPPILY, the updated heat regulations just published by GRV pay more attention to pre-race conditions and not just those applying at meeting time. The new...

NSW ends up as greyhound racing’s big hope for 2016

AS the year draws to a close and we farewell crowd pleasers like Fernando Bale and Sweet It Is, the nation is left to ponder...

Let’s educate the gamblers

WE talked about prices and value last Tuesday but one of our readers has completely missed the point and verballed me to boot. The article,...

When it hots up, greyhound racing gets wobbly

LAST Sunday, with bushfires everywhere, Sale went within a whisker of breaking a 52 years old record for its hottest day ever – 40.8 degrees....

When is the price right?

A FEW years ago, Tabcorp’s boss (the previous one, not the current one) announced that wagering was a “mature industry” so he started branching out...

What are the RSPCA’s real motives?

DO you know the RSPCA balance sheet shows a total equity of $100 million, which includes cash, term deposits, a share portfolio and investment property....

In the stewards room: more live baiters appear before the RADB

PROMINENT Newcastle trainer Ron Bell has been found guilty of racing greyhound Lorna Belle with prohibited substances in its system. Bell was charged with a...