New to Industry

I WAS 11 years old when I got to have my first involvement in greyhound racing, tagging along with my dad Sean in Townsville with our first dog or two.

JOE McFADYEN: My ethos in greyhound racing is you will only be as good as the opportunities you create for yourself.

Advice for beginners: By JARROD FRY – WHEN I got to the age of 16, I had a choice to make … greyhound racing or thoroughbreds.

WELL, they say racing is in your blood and, however you look at it, it’s definitely in mine – Brad Mulvihill

IT’S been 22 years since my dad Billy, mum Cynthia, my wife Hope and I got back into greyhounds and it’s been a 22-year learning curve for all of us.

I HAVE a couple of sayings that I always relate to newcomers into greyhound racing, and even those who have been in the game for many, many years.

MY introduction into greyhound racing was as a family enterprise, when my brother George and I established a trial track at Deception Bay back in the 1970s.

I’VE been going greyhound racing since I was five, so I suppose I have some credentials to give newcomers, or anyone at all, wanting to get into the wonderful world of greyhound racing some advice on doing just that.

John Corrigan: I’M a greyhound racing tragic and have been since I was 20 when I started walking dogs for Keith Schmitzer at Taree back in 1962.