Industry’s True Heart

Dorothy Jean Thompson-White is the matriarch of greyhound transportation having moved tens of thousands of dogs around the country.

THERE is always a welcoming group at the front gate of the Jemma Daley kennels out at Park Ridge when Pat Daniels arrives to help out.

IT rained like hell on the Northern Rivers of NSW just recently, but for the first time in decades Glenda and John Dart took little notice.

CHRIS Field is 73, lives in Grafton and is still living the greyhound racing dream.

THERE is not much around greyhound racing that Melissa Arandale has not tried … that is until she recently took out a trainer’s licence.

EVERY time Matt Vincent wins a race, which happens pretty often lately, he looks to the skies and thanks his late grandfather Stan.

PAUL Demicoli likes to spread himself around. The 55-year-old fight promoter is a newcomer to greyhound racing, has a team of successful trotters in WA, and could be heading to Flemington come November with a runner in the Melbourne Cup.

ERIC Honeyman has promised his wife Wil the two dogs they have in their racing kennel at the moment will be their last.

IN the past two years, Eileen O’Neil has had to endure setbacks that would crush most people.

BEN McCarthy has tagged along with his parents, John and Maggie, and their greyhound racing passion ever since he was a kid.