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What you may have missed: Superman passes away

CHAMPION race dog and sire Superman lost his short battle with cancer last week.The son of Brett Lee and I'm Puzzles was best known for...

Thursday, 30 April 2015

Greyhound Box Draw For Sandown Park – Thursday, 30 April 2015 Race No. 1Find Us On Facebook7:08 PM (VIC time) Grade 7 event over 515...

Finn’s taste for further sweet success in Group 3 Gold Cup final

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...

Sandown Park greyhound tips & betting preview April 23, 2015

TWELVE races will be run and won at Sandown Park on Thursday night as a part of a massive night of racing around the country....

Sunday, 26 April 2015

Greyhound Box Draw For Sandown (SAP) – Sunday, 26 April 2015 Race No. 1Golden Bowls Sportsmens Club1:45 PM (VIC time) Maiden event over 515 metres...

When a sensational finish ended the superb 1972 Gold Cup final

HOW often does the greyhound finishing second in a heat or semi-final of a major race emerge a week later and snare the final? The...

Ragsie’s 1972 run in the Wentworth Park Gold Cup one for the ages

HOW often does the greyhound finishing second in a heat or semi-final of a major race emerge a week later and snare the final? The...

Thursday, 23 April 2015

Greyhound Box Draw For Sandown Park – Thursday, 23 April 2015 Race No. 1Tab Early Quaddie7:08 PM (VIC time) Grade 7 event over 515 metres...

He’s Some Boy proved to be that when annexing Maidment Memorial

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 Joins Zoom Top In Historic Performance

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...

Background To The AWM Distance Title

In some ways the AWM Distance Title is one of the ‘unsung' long-standing major distance races on the Australian calendar. Of course, if Xylia Allen...

Background To The McKenna Memorial

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...

Background To The Sandown Cup

With upset results the order of the day in the heats, this year's Sandown Cup final has been robbed of a lot of interest. There's...

Sandown Park Greyhounds Tips & Betting Preview May 1st 2014

Race 1 – 515M Grade 5 – 7:08PM Xtreme Knocka is a promising chaser who caught the eye when scoring here recently in 29.85. After...

AGRA’s Pathetic Record Keeping

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...

Thursday, 1 May 2014

Greyhound Box Draw For Sandown Park – Thursday, 1 May 2014 Race No. 4Grv Vbis Maiden Final (gobis)8:08 PM (VIC time) Maiden Final event over...

This Week in Racing History

APRIL 23rd The final of the 1960 Autumn Cup, run over 580 yards (530 metres) at Wentworth Park, was taken out by Carnham Valley who...

Background: Wentworth Park Gold Cup

This year marks the 48th running of the Wentworth Park Gold Cup, although the race has had a few different ‘official' names down through the...

Dynabolt: Sensational Stayer, Foundation Dam

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'...

This Week In Racing History

MARCH 12th Feltebarb outstayed Benjamin John to win the 1969 Bulli Gold Cup by a length and half over 675 yards (617 metres) at Bulli,...

Twelve Facts About The Summer Cup

This week will witness the 48th running of the Summer Cup. At one stage this was arguably the premier race for stayers in the nation,...

This Week In Greyhound Racing History: 26th November – 2nd December

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...

This Week In Greyhound History: October 15th- October 21st

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...

Amity Flame Flourishes In Topcat Video Cup

Tony Flores purchased two black pups when they were three months old to give him something to do when he retired. Little did he know...

The Night The Boxes Failed

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...