By MIKE HILL GREYHOUND racing is made up of hundreds of trainers who may never win a Group race but that doesn’t mean they are not vitally important to the industry. In fact, they are the backbone of the sport. This month we feature one such trainer – Townsville’s Thomas Jackson, better known as Keith […]
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By MIKE HILL THIS month we feature recent winner of the Queensland Young Achiever Award John Hutchinson in our The Trainer column. Hutchinson, 32, is the grand-son of Queensland Hall of Famer John Reimer and has been training for 14 years. His parents, Bill and Joanne, have also had a long association in the industry.
By MIKE HILL CHURCHABLE-based Kerry Hoggan is featured in this month’s The Trainer column. Hoggan, a former high school teacher, has been training for at least two decades although she’s been around greyhounds most of her life. With the benefit of ‘some very good owners’, she has built up her kennel numbers in recent years
By MIKE HILL THIS month we feature north Queensland’s Joan Newnham in out The Trainer column. Newnham says she just loves her dogs and it was this passion that drew her to greyhounds two decades ago. “I’d been breeding fox terriers but when my broodbitch died in the late 1990s I decided to buy a
By MIKE HILL THIS month we feature country Queensland trainer Louise Cameron in our The Trainer column. Cameron has just completed a highly successful year, winning the Bundaberg trainer-of-the-year title – for the second time. And her kennel star Cambla Lala just failed in the greyhound-of-the-year award, finishing one point behind winner, the Marie Richards-trained,
By MIKE HILL THIS month we feature Northern Rivers-based Bob Merillo in our The Trainer column. Merillo admits to being a bit of a lazy trainer – not in regards to his dogs but about travel. “I just don’t like travelling,” he said. “I could go to Sydney or Brisbane and my dogs would be
