THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Victorian trainer Braden Finn says his champion stayer Sweet It Is, is “slowly getting back to her best”, which she proved on Saturday night...
INAUGURATED in 1972 as the successor to the New Year’s Handicap, the Roy Maidment Memorial was contested over the staying trip at Sandown Park until...
Xylia Allen may have failed to win the National Distance Championship final at Cannington, but by running second she did succeed in becoming Australia’s highest...
Anyone wondering why Victoria has always produced some of the best ‘half-milers’ in the country only needs to look at the plethora of major distance...
As regular readers would be well aware, I’ve long complained at the laxity regarding record keeping in greyhound racing. While things have improved in leaps...
In a podcast for Australian Racing Greyhound, leading breeder and owner Paul Wheeler recounted the origin of the ‘Dyna’ prefixes which, along with ‘Bale’, ‘Allen’...
26th NOVEMBER Champion sprinter Rapid Journey began better than expected from box six and scored a scintillating three-lengths victory in the 1998 Melbourne Cup, downing...
15th October The first greyhound meeting took place at Newcastle in 1927. A crowd estimated at 15,000 turned out to watch the spectacle of greyhounds...
The National Sprint Championship series has undergone a number of changes to its format and structure since the first event was conducted in 1965. With...