Caption: Plenty of happy supporters after Kid Candle won this year’s Gosford Cup By GARY CLARK The Group 2 Gosford Cup (515m) has the unique honour of closing the group racing book for 2020, then opening the same for 2021. The popular event starts with heats on Sunday, December 27, with the final a week […]
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Caption: Trainer Harold Hovi and his wife Desma with Excitable Jack, winner of last month\’s $5250 Keyflo Townsville Young Guns (380m) (Photo: Louise Partland) Qld Country roundup by MIKE HILL GUMLU (North Qld) based trainer Harold Hovi has always had a high opinion of his smart chaser Excitable Jack. And that opinion was justified when
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By Brennan Ryan For those who were very fortune to know him, Des Illingworth was simply a true gentleman. He passed away recently leaving an amazing greyhound legacy in Tasmania. Across almost a century, the locally-born Desmond Joseph Illingworth had witnessed the early beginnings of greyhound racing in Tasmania to seeing it become a professional,
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Caption: Townsville trainer Paul Smith with Rothenburg, one of the dogs that got him back into the sport. By Mike Hill \”I\’M doing something that I love … it\’s something I\’ve wanted to do for some time,\” says Paul Smith. \”And I\’m ecstatic the ways things are going.\” The Jensen (north Qld) based trainer was
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TEN YEARS AGO – 2010: He Knows Uno for Mick Patterson wins the Gr 1 Brisbane Cup over 520 metres at Albion Park. It was a head winning margin over Octane Show. Octane Show made amends for that narrow defeat by winning the Gr 1 Hobart 1000 final a fortnight later, trained by Darren McDonald.
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Caption: Greg and Gary Fahey have enjoyed over 60 years of success in greyhound racing GROUP 1 LADBROKES HOBART THOUSAND SERIES 461 METRES / BEST 64 NOMINATED HEATS: THURSDAY 10 DECEMBER 2020 FINAL: THURSDAY 17 DECEMBER 2020 By Brennan Ryan Greg and Gary Fahey have produced a successful chapter within Tassie greyhound racing. The Hall
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By Mike Hill TOP Tasmanian trainer Anthony Bullock had a night out last month, producing a five-win haul, a trifecta and two quinellas. The man, who has won 11 of the past 12 trainers premierships in Tassie, was on fire at a Launceston Monday night meeting. But it wasn\’t his best ever night. In 2018,
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THERE was never any doubt I would get into greyhounds … as the topic of this column says.
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SOME time ago, Chase Newspaper caught up with former Victorian, now Queensland-based Dave Fitzgerald, whose first ever greyhound was the mercurial Tangairn.
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