Greyhound racing’s most prominent owners, breeders and trainers outline their roadmaps to success.
Advice for beginners: By BRAD MULVIHILL
WELL, they say racing is in your blood and, however you look at it, it’s definitely in mine – Brad Mulvihill
Advice For Beginners: By TRAVIS ELSON
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.
Advice for Beginners: By MICK STRINGER
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.
Advice for Beginners Column: By DAVID REED
David Reed is returning to the sport he loves. He gives his advice to newcomers wanting participate in the industry.
Advice for beginners: By TONY ZAMMIT
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.
Advice for beginners – by Peter Gleeson
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.
Advice for industry beginners: By JOHN CORRIGAN
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.
Advice for beginners: by STEVE SHINNERS
Steve Shinners: Greyhound racing is a wonderful hobby, a rewarding business, and any young person thinking of making it a career would be wise to do so.
Advice for beginners: By MATT LANIGAN
TOMMY Lanigan is my grandfather and it was always his dream to win the Waterloo Coursing Cup, a dream he handed down to my father Gerald, and it has since come down to me.
Advice for beginners: By DOUG GLADMAN
Advice for beginners: By DOUG GLADMAN – BEFORE I venture into this article for Chase newspaper, I have to emphasise I am far from a genius trainer of greyhounds.
Advice to newcomers: David Jolley
I ALWAYS had a passion for racing, from listening to the dogs in my bedroom in my early days to spending too much time in the local TABs with my mates.
Advice to newcomers – Ray Henness
BACK in 2000 I had a roofing business in Melbourne but had to make a career change when a couple of knee reconstructions forced a change of lifestyle.
So, you’re new to greyhound racing – by Jemma Daley
IN the past few years, since becoming so involved in greyhound racing, I have always read with interest the Chase column about getting into this industry.
Adam Smithson: Greyhounds are a passion
I was born and bred to be a greyhound trainer because my parents and their parents were all trainers, but having just a handful of dogs in their backyard over here in WA.
Mark Moroney – big prizemoney boosts the cost of pups
WHEN I was asked to write this article for Chase magazine I thought about the current state of greyhound racing in Australia. Greyhound racing is charging ahead and in recent years there has been a significant change in the industry.
Clay Mawson: Get to know the right people
SPEED Hump … remember that name. A son of Brother Fox and a bitch called Miss Cranky, he was my first entry into greyhound racing.
Tips for newcomers: By Tom Tzouvelis
BEFORE I get into giving my insight into the ways and means of embracing greyhound racing, I have to tell a story … a story I’m a bit embarrassed to tell, but one all newcomers to the industry should take on board.
Steve Williams – It’s all about learning your lessons
“MY father George got me into greyhound racing when I was 15 years old … and I was so reluctant to do so.”
Correy Grenfell: Just don’t do what I did
I’M not recommending anyone follow my path into greyhound racing. That’s because it involved me slicing off four fingers on my left hand and being in a cast for nine months.
Shayne Stiff – don’t listen to mugs
THANKS to Chase magazine for allowing me to give some insight into the sometimes difficult task of getting into greyhound racing.
David Smith – a guide to ‘starting out’ in greyhounds
WHEN I was approached by Chase magazine to write this article about getting into greyhound racing, I harked back to my own entry into the industry and how it has engulfed my life.
Ray Borda – having passion is a great start
I suppose it is significant that I have been asked to give advice for those wanting to get into greyhound racing, a sport for which I have a great passion.
Ben Englund – it’s a 365-days-a-year job
I’m 36 and I have been brought up with greyhounds almost all my life, except for a brief few years my dad Tom decided to have a break.
Steve Withers – ownership MUST be about fun
I HAVE been in greyhound racing for 15 years after becoming involved through a mate who trained a dog for a syndicate I was a member of.
Tayt Corless – racing is in my blood
MY introduction to racing was a natural considering so many members of my family have been involved in various forms of the industry over many decades.
Max Wells – start at the start … buy a pup
I READ with great interest in the July edition of Chase Magazine the ‘empire’ of greyhound training Mark and Lisa Delbridge have in Victoria and can only imagine what the empire of the Dailly kennel is like.
Mark Delbridge – from smaller beginnings
IT was never my intention 25 years ago when I bought the 35-acre greyhound property at Balliang where my wife Lisa and I run our kennels to become as big as we have.
Mick Patterson – rewards are many and varied
I AM very happy to be asked to give an insight into getting into greyhound racing because it is my belief there has never been a better time for young people to become involved in this industry.
Peter Lagogiane – be patient and get best advice
BEFORE I start on the basics of this column Chase Newspaper has asked me to write, I have to tell you of my own introduction to greyhound racing.
Jamie Ennis – greyhound racing is not ‘9 to 5’
IF and when I get a call from anyone wanting to become involved in greyhound racing, the first question I ask in return is: “What sort of lifestyle do you live?”
John Carruthers – advice from the best is the key
MUCH has changed in the decades my wife Jane and I have been involved in greyhound racing and we have experienced the highs and lows of it all.
Mark Duclos – my best buying advice
WE’VE all watched those scenes in movies where a number of people sit in a circle of trust and extol their problems…“Hi, I’m Mark and I’m a…” – for me, the tag line to that is simple – “I’m a greyhound racing lover.”
Liam Mulry- do your homework
THERE was never any doubt I would get into greyhounds … as the topic of this column says.
Col Hamilton – common sense is the best guide
WHEN Chase Magazine asked me to write an article about getting into greyhounds, it came just at the right time.
Gary Keep – hard work, and luck, are the key
ANYONE from any background can end up with a champion greyhound.
Mark Saal – never a better time to go racing
WHEN Chase newspaper rang and asked me to write this article about getting into greyhounds, my first thought was that they had come to exactly the right person.
Greg Stella – patience is the key to success
MY introduction into greyhound racing came when I was a young boy.
Darren Puleio – get advice from the right people
I’D be the first one to admit that when I first got into greyhound racing, I made a million mistakes, and I still make some today.
Anthony Azzopardi – keep it simple
I’VE been asked to give potential greyhound participants some advice on how to join this wonderful and rewarding industry of ours.
Brad Belford – we need more younger faces
CHASE Newspaper’s approach to me about getting into greyhounds, Townsville-style, could not have come at a more opportune time.
Gary Weston – best to start with the Damline
DURING 2020, I will turn 75 years old and I can tell you all, I have been an owner in greyhound racing since I was 18 – and I love it!
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