Juanita Thompson
SETBACK to success … that has been the journey for Rockhampton’s Juanita Thompson in the past six months.
SETBACK to success … that has been the journey for Rockhampton’s Juanita Thompson in the past six months.
Caption: Brisbane Greyhound Racing Club boss Luke Gatehouse at the launch of the 2021 TAB Queensland Winter Racing Carnival (Photo: Box 1 Photography) By TERRY WILSON BRISBANE Greyhound Racing Club boss Luke Gatehouse believes the heat generated by the Summer Carnival in February will carry over to what he thinks will be a sensational Winter
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Caption: Media and wagering icon Gerard Daffy, left, previews the TAB Queensland Winter Greyhound Racing Carnival with Queensland industry heavyweights Mick Zammit, middle, and Tony Brett, at the carnival launch. (Photo: Box 1 Photography) TAB STATE OF ORIGIN HONOUR BOARD 2018: Queensland beat NSW 2-1 Sprint: Jury (Tony Brett, Qld). Distance: Double Gee (Selena
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By Racing Queensland Chief Executive Officer BRENDAN PARNELL The TAB Queensland Winter Greyhound Racing Carnival officially commenced last month, with two Listed races – the Brisbane Young Guns and Carnival Chase – setting the scene for what is set to be a stellar few months of chasing at Albion Park. Tony Brett’s rising star, Orchestrate,
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Caption: Keith Sternberg with champion trainer Tony Brett (Photo: Box 1 Photography) By Paul Dolan SINCE retiring from racecalling in September, 2018, I haven’t made it to the Ipswich track very often. It’s a tyranny of distance thing from where I live. When I was a regular at Ipswich, a highlight of going there was
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Caption: Orchestrate on the way to victory in the Young Guns at Albion Park. (Photo: Box 1 Photography) By Isaac Murphy The Brisbane Winter Carnival is scheduled to give dogs like Tony Brett’s Listed Young Guns Winner Orchestrate every chance to develop and the way Brett’s chaser is trending you’d be brave to back against
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By Chase Editor Pat McLeod Dale Cartwright, one of the most powerful and hard-working advocates for greyhound racing in the Sunshine State, has agreed to another term (three years) as a Racing Queensland Board member. Cartwright, who has been involved in the sport since he was a teenager and as an official since about 2010,
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By MIKE HILL MOTHERHOOD is certainly agreeing with the former Jason Bloomfield-trained chaser Monica\’s Joy. Not only has the white and brindle bitch, owned by the Rinky Dink syndicate of Di and Rick O\’Donnell, recently had a litter, but last month she was judged Champion of Show at the inaugural Ipswich Racing Greyhound Sweepstakes –
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Caption: Spring Cleo makes it seven wins in a row with an impressive victory in last month\’s $5250 Ipswich Past Members Trophy (520m). (Photo: Just Greyhound Photos) By MIKE HILL IPSWICH ramps up its feature racing next month, headed by the $17,800 Young Guns series over 520m and the $12,600 Grand Prix (732m). It follows
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Caption: Champion Queensland trainer Tony Brett, with another potential champion, Orchestrate, after success in the Rockhampton Cup By DAVID BRASCH THIRTY-year-old Tom Kinnear was just 24 when he realised thoroughbred racing was not for him. Tom, a former schoolboy sprint and rugby star, had bought with his dad Graeme into a small piece of a
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