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DESPITE a difficult week in the greyhound racing industry, there is something positive to focus on tonight with the running of three Group 1 races...

HE IS rated as one of the greatest chasers of all time, yet, unlike Chief Havoc and Zoom Top, his complete racing record is not...

ON SATURDAY night eight of Australia’s best stayers will be chasing a winner’s cheque of $75,000 and Group 1 glory in the Zoom Top. The...

Greyhound Box Draw For The Meadows – Saturday, 21 February 2015 Race No. 1Atc Australian Cup Prelim 16:57 PM (VIC time) Special Event event over...

THE final fields have been announced for three of Australia’s most prestigious invitation-only greyhound races: the Temlee, the Rookie Rebel and the Zoom Top. Each...

THE Meadows Greyhound Club in Victoria has introduced a new incentive for its handicapped staying events conducted over 725 metres. Any greyhound which wins off...

VICTORIANS dominated in the west on Saturday night, taking out the two Group 1 features at Cannington, the Perth Cup (530m) and the Galaxy (715m)....

Whenever someone is asked, “What do you remember” in relation to an event or series of events in their past, most people will drag out...

THURSDAY night always equals the start of some excellent racing ahead of the weekend and tonight’s Sandown Park meeting will see some great chasers engaged...

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),...

December 24 According to a report published in the Canberra Times on this day in 1991, the Canberra greyhound club had received just over $500,000...

She was the darling of the media and greyhound fans across the country. He was the one chaser who had already tested her and would...

The Vic Peters Classic was once the most sought-after restricted-age trophy in the country and at one stage supplanted the Hobart Thousand as the richest...

October 15 Rose Moss defeated Inky Ebony by three lengths with Jagson third in the 1966 Sydney Cup final, run over 790 yards at Wentworth...

Eight stayers will vie to become a part of over 50 years of greyhound racing history on Saturday night when the Group Three Sydney Cup...

The Sydney Cup was the first of what became the ‘big four’ distance events on the Sydney city racing calendar. Starting in 1963, it was...

Two heats of the time honoured Group Three Sydney Cup highlight racing at Wentworth Park this Saturday night. The $25,000 to-the-winner event is run over...

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...

This year’s National Distance Championship final, of course, holds especial interest in seeing whether champion all-distance bitch Xylia Allen can break Miata’s prize money winning...

AUGUST 20 Blythe Spirit took out the 1950 Lismore 350 yards Championship, scoring by three lengths from All Radium. The field consisted of 10 starters....

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...

Almost as soon as greyhound racing behind the mechanical lure commenced in Australia in May 1927, the venues began thinking of ways to keep attracting...

“Worthy Glen, Lois Lane, Worthy Glen, Lois Lane…and Ragsie’s flying…” It’s the call of the last stage of that particular race, run at Wentworth Park...

JUNE 4th The second mechanical lure race meeting ever held in Australia was run at Epping (Harold Park), in 1927. Races were conducted over 480...

MAY 28 Greyhound racing behind the mechanical lure began at the Epping (Harold Park) track in 1927. A crowd of 3,000 people turned out on...