By DAVID BRASCH NEV Stokes, a life-long greyhound man, had a life-long dream to establish himself on a serious greyhound property. Originally from the Sydney area, Nev knew his way around a greyhound spending many decades as a successful muscle man as well as training a small team himself from his Forster-Tuncurry base. By the […]
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By MIKE HILL FAR North Queensland owner Trevor Jackson has big hopes for a litter by boom sire Fernando Bale from his smart racing bitch Black Amex. \”Although they\’re all girls, I\’m delighted,\” said Jackson, who lives in Cairns. Black Amex and her first litter of pups, whelped early in March, are being raised at
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By PAT McLEOD For starters it is pronounced ‘War-hope’, not ‘War-choppy’. And according to president of Wauchope’s greyhound club, Rex Nairn, the idyllic village on the New South Wales mid-north coast is about to receive one of its biggest profile boosts in the past century. Nairn, who has been president of the Hastings River Greyhound
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By MIKE HILL \”WE have to remember we are very lucky just to be racing,\” says Rockhampton greyhound club president Nev Jackson. As communities across the nation try to come to grips with the difficulties of the coronavirus lockdown, Rockhampton is preparing for next month\’s annual Cup Carnival. But it will be one like no
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Greyhound Clubs Australia (GCA) has made the decision to cancel this year’s Nationals. The uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 unfortunately has left no option but to abandon plans to host the event which would have been conducted at Wentworth Park in late August. “It will be the first time the Nationals haven’t been held since the concept’s
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By TERRY WILSON SOUTH Australian greyhound chiefs are like everybody else, keeping their fingers crossed that the coronavirus that has been bugging the world will be a thing of the past by the end of the year. Greyhound Racing South Australia has two flagship events, the Adelaide Cup and the State of Origin against Victoria,
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Ten Years ago – May 2010: Next Top Model for Jason Thompson wins the Group 1 Sandown Cup. It was close finish with Reign Over Me second. Cindeen Shelby for Kel Greenough wins the Group 2 Ladies Bracelet at Wentworth Park by nine and a half lengths. Tomic for Peter Jovanovic wins the Group 3
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By PAUL DOLAN Another casualty of the Coved 19 Pandemic sweeping this country and the world has emerged – the National Championships of greyhound racing. Greyhound Clubs Australia (formerly AGRA) has made the early call to abandon this year’s Championships, which were set to be run in August. As per usual, there were state heats
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By MIKE HILL PAT Ryan did the unthinkable – he rugged up the first four in the Launceston Breeders Classic (515m) in late March only days before racing was shutdown in Tasmania because of coronavirus. \”It was a great result,\” said Ryan, who is based at Dilston, just north of Launceston. \”We thought we had
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WA News by JAMES BROADHURST Buster The Brute produced a strong finish to take out the Lew Dorsa Memorial (520m) at Cannington on March 28. The Krystal Shinners-trained chaser, a placegetter in the Perth Cup earlier in the month, ran third during his heat but brought his A-game into the trophy decider. From box one,
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