Hobart Thousand

MARCH 5th Flying Brinnie scored an amazing win over 500 yards (457 metres) at Lismore in 1949. After turning around in the boxes, Flying Brinnie...

FEBRUARY 19th Star big-track sprinter El Gazelle won a Free For All over 457 metres at Cessnock in 1973, recording his eighth successive victory. The...

Between 1957 and 1958, a white and fawn dog by Dream’s Image out of Lady Janellen completed a magical treble when he won the Melbourne...

FEBRUARY 12th Arabian Dixie, aged six years and one month, scored at Newcastle in 1949, her fourth victory at the track. It took her overall...

The 2014 Group Two Healesville Cup final this Sunday boasts arguably one of the most even fields in many years. A fairly solid case can...

FEBRUARY 5th Champion all-distance chaser Sentinel won the 1936 NSW 700 yards (684 metres) Championship, run at Maitland, by six lengths from Gay Toby, running...

Healesville played host to some of the fastest straight track racing anywhere on the planet on Sunday, when eight heats of the 2014 Healesville Cup...

Tasmania’s second-biggest series rounds out a huge four days of racing. Once you’ve battled through the Perth and Healesville Cups over the weekend, it’s time...

JANUARY 29th A record crowd attended Wentworth Park in 1972 to watch a non-betting hurdle race. The runners had come up from Victoria. The winner...

The Devonport Cup only gained Group status in 2010, but it ranks as one of the longest-established major races on the Australian calendar. It also...

Exeter based mentor Anthony Bullock has qualified three of his team for the $35,700 Dowling McCarthy Hankook Tyres Devonport Cup Final (452 metres), to be...

Tim Mullany used to make a living as a crocodile hunter, before deciding that a dog bite hurts a lot less than a crocodile bite,...

DECEMBER 24th The Harold Park (Epping) racecourse introduced a 660 yards (603 metres) distance in 1927, seven months after the start of greyhound racing behind...

An interesting sidelight to last Thursday’s Hobart Thousand was the interaction between dogs’ running styles, the way the race was run, and the nature of...

Saturday evening at the Meadows sees a bumper card of chasing. which features twelve heats of the $100,000 Group 1 AJS Corporation Silver Chief. The...

For everyone except Kel Greenough and Allan Lang, it wasn’t supposed to be this way. Black Magic Opal for Jason Thompson supposedly had a mortgage...

Albion Park Greyhounds Race 1 – Box 4 Super Vision, 6.43pm Surely this girl can pinch this one here tonight. She’s run six placings from eight starts...

There are a number of clues about the mysterious disappearance of serious punters from the greyhound ranks and their replacement by mug gamblers. For a...

Hobart GRC will play host to one of the most anticipated races of 2013, as one-turn specialists Black Magic Opal, Paw Licking and Ronan Izmir...

Exeter based trainer Anthony Bullock is extremely confident that former Queensland chaser Are Ate (Lochinvar Marlow – Long Long Mama) can provide him with an...

17th DECEMBER NSW stayer Chief Zephyr won the 1959 Interstate Challenge, run over 785 yards (718 metres) at Sandown Park, by eight lengths from Boodler...

2013 will see the 77th running of the Hobart Thousand, arguably Australia’s longest-running feature event. I say ‘arguably’ because while the Hobart Thousand, which started...

Greyhound Box Draw For Hobart – Thursday, 19 December 2013 Race No. 1Tattsbet.com Division17:15 PM JUV event over 461 metres at Hobart Of $1,925 Prizemoney....

Tonight we were treated to some fantastic performances in the eight Laurels Heats. Tam’s Wish and Liara Allen were the fastest heat winners of the...

He was always going to be the star attraction of the night. Black Magic Opal exited the red box on a calm night at Hobart,...