Maidment Memorial

BIG Flood stamped himself as one of the hottest pups in the country with a blistering triumph in Wednesday night's Listed Australian Sprint (515m) at...

AUSTRALIA Day eve is set to be a cracker at Sandown Park greyhounds, with a quality card of racing highlighted by the Listed Maidment Memorial...

THIS week's review of litters selected from the Victorian Litter Registrations list for the week ending July 5, starts with a nice litter of eight...

HAS our uniquely Australian obsession with breeding for speed led to weaker greyhounds? Are we far too obsessed by track records and ever faster times?...

THE biggest race on the WA greyhound racing calendar will be run this Saturday night, with the Perth Cup to take centre stage at the...

DAWKINS Bale will be aiming to go one better than last year when he lines up in next Saturday's Group 1 Golden Easter Egg final...

AUSTRALIA'S middle distance stars will get their chance to shine on Saturday night with the running of the Group 1 Rookie Rebel (600m) at The...

ALL Eyes will be focused on Sale this Saturday night for the running of the Group 1 Sale Cup (650 metres). With $75,000 awaiting the...

CHAMPION sprinter Fernando Bale will be aiming to capture his eighth Group 1 victory on Saturday night when he exits box one in the 2015...

THE world's richest staying event, the Group 1 Sandown Cup, will be run at Sandown Park over the testing 715-metre trip on Thursday night, with $175,000...

WHILE the nation's best sprinters will be vying for the Golden Easter Egg at Wentworth Park on Saturday night, the stayers will also get their...

FEBRUARY 5 Beau Palomino won the 1972 Hobart Thousand, the last to be run over 540 yards (494 metres) before the distance was changed to...

SPACE Star looks set to record his first Group 1 victory next Saturday night after his tremendous display in a heat of the Galaxy at...

January 29 Victorian entrant On Par won the fourth running of the Hobart Cup, in 1938. The race, which became the Hobart Thousand the following...

Fifty-three invitations have been sent out for the three Group 1 races on February 21: the Temlee (525m), Rookie Rebel (600m) and Zoom Top (725m),...

BROOKE Ennis had a massive night at Sandown Park on Thursday, winning four races including both listed events, the Maidment Memorial (595 metres) and the...

WHAT a fantastic night of racing at Sandown tonight with both listed events, the Maidment Memorial and Australian Sprint, the centre of attention. With so...

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...

January 8 Local champion Scull Murphy gave Victorian speedster El Galo a severe thrashing in the 2009 Interstate Challenge Cup, run over 515 metres at...

To win any race by 14 and a half lengths is an unusual achievement in practically any event; to do it in a major race...

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...

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...

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...

JANUARY 8th At what was only her 15th race start and her first attempt over the 800 yards (732 metres) trip at Harold Park, glamour...

JANUARY 1st The 1970 Christmas Gift final was run in 1971, with Shapely Escort winning by three lengths from Acem and Tivoli Chief in a...