By Brisbane Greyhound Club CEO Luke Gatehouse The coronavirus may have robbed us of plenty in 2020, but it won’t stop us from paying tribute to the sport’s best. Earlier this year the 2019 Queensland Greyhound of the Year awards were postponed as just one of the casualties of the pandemic. However, the major awards …
By Racing Queensland Chief Executive Officer BRENDAN PARNELL The 2020/21 racing season has started with a flurry of activity. Late last month, Sky Racing was announced as the ‘home of Queensland racing’ for the next decade after securing a new 10-year deal. Over the past 12 months, Racing Queensland had undertaken extensive market testing before …
By TERRY WILSON QUEENSLAND husband and wife training duo Mick and Selena Zammit have some serious planning ahead of them if they are going to get a crack at the world’s richest greyhound race, the TAB Million Dollar Chase. Courtesy of Stinger Noir’s win in the Queensland Sprint Championship – a victory that qualified the …
By David Brasch WHEN now 25-year-old Jedda Cutlack first won a job among the race-day staff at Albion Park, she vowed she had no desire to have a greyhound of her own. It was a declaration Jedda should not have made. Greyhounds are now her driving force and early in August she trained her first …
By Greyhounds Australasia CEO Cherie Nicholl It’s fair to say that in March when most of us first heard of COVID-19 we did not expect that six months on, we would still be so deeply immersed in what has become a global pandemic. Reflecting on the conversations I’ve had over recent weeks those that do …
By TERRY WILSON A FISHING trip to Moreton Island was the unlikely launching pad for Brisbane Greyhound Racing Club chairman Les Bein’s long involvement in the industry. It was on a chase for some elusive tailor, or whatever, that led to Bein starting off on a wonderful career with the dogs, a journey that has …
By DAVID BRASCH JASON Beck reckons it is one of the worst breaks he has ever seen. Renald Attard was adamant though … it had to be done. That\’s the story of Belvedere Babe, the Spring Gun-Bogie Beltah bitch, a winner of 19 races and placed 32 times for $80,000 in stakes from a marathon …
RICKY Hassall, based at the quaint Queensland country town of Torbanlea on the Fraser Coast, is enjoying being a full-time trainer.
By TERRY WILSON VETERAN trainer Fred Swain chalked up his first metropolitan treble at Albion Park last month – but it may be some time before he gets the chance to repeat the dose. And it is all because of the COVID-19 pandemic which again closed the border between New South Wales and Queensland shortly …
By Mike Hill DUAL Group finalist Sequana, probably the premier racing bitch in Queensland at present, will certainly be hard to toss in September’s $60,000 Alan Price Memorial Auction Series (520m) at Ipswich. The $40,000-to-the-winner series was postponed in April due the COVID-19 outbreak. Sequana (Zambora Brockie-Lilly Sur Seine) is in superb form heading into …
