TERRY Priest has had a short but highly rewarding love affair with Capalaba since arriving from the Hunter Valley two-and-a-half years ago.

STEVE Kavanagh has achieved almost everything one can in the sport. From owning, breeding and training champion greyhounds to winning some of the nation’s great races – he’s done it all.

RENALD Attard has spent most his adult life – almost 50 years – with his beloved greyhounds. But he admits he knew very little about the breed in the beginning.

AMBER Boody and husband Mick have made a quick adjustment to their new surrounds in Central Queensland. The couple recently moved to Dalma, a rural community about 40kms west of Rockhampton, from their Brisbane base with instant success.

GREG Board is a hard man to stop … on and off the track. In his younger days he was a bull riding and bareback champion – that was before he and his brother Rick caught the greyhound bug.

SHE may not be one of the big-name trainers, but Pamela Field has consistently produced winners in south-east Queensland for close to five decades.

LINKING up with a couple of leading owner-breeders has proved a winning move for Bundaberg trainer Paul Burgess.

SETBACK to success … that has been the journey for Rockhampton’s Juanita Thompson in the past six months.

QUEENSLAND greyhound trainer of the moment Robert Jacobsen has had a tremendous past three months or so with his smart bitch Crazy Cool.

NORTH Rockhampton trainer Andrew Suli admits he ‘stumbled’ into greyhounds by accident in the early ‘90s.

DESLEY Williams has returned to training – an aspect of the sport that gave her great pleasure and joy some years back.

TOWNSVILLE trainer Paul Smith is looking ahead to the new year with enthusiasm after completing a highly successful 2020.

LEADING NSW trainer Sid Swain continues his thoughts on why greyhounds suffer fatigue and strategies to help trainers get the best from their dogs.

LEADING NSW trainer Sid Swain says it is so important for trainers to get to know the physical limitations of their dogs.

A RELATIVELY new member to the south-east Queensland trainer ranks, Darren Johnstone, is quickly making a name for himself.

RICKY Hassall, based at the quaint Queensland country town of Torbanlea on the Fraser Coast, is enjoying being a full-time trainer.

‘FEED them well and keep them happy’. That’s Henry ‘Merv’ Parker’s recipe for producing good racing dog.

FOR John Catton it was a case of being brought up learning all about greyhounds in the backyard – much like many of our cricketing stars have done.

YOUNG Churchable (SE Qld) trainer Jamie Hosking had his best night at Albion Park last month since relocating from Darwin a few years back.

By MIKE HILL MICHAEL Hickmott is one of a few trainers who can still remember racing at the opening of the current Townsville track back in the 1970s. Hickmott, who

By MIKE HILL TRAVIS Elson is in the midst of what is probably the most successful period of his training career so far. Elson, who has begun 2020 in sensational

By MIKE HILL “IT’S raining and I’ve just come inside to have a cup a coffee,” said Casey Dargusch. It’s one of the few breaks she takes during her long

By MIKE HILL BARRY Kitchener ended 2019 on a high after leading in his first Group winner as a trainer. At 37 and one of the younger trainers in south-east

By MIKE HILL BRAD Belford is developing his kennels at Gumlow – an outer Townsville suburb – into a boutique operation. The man who has been around greyhounds all his

By MIKE HILL COMING to Australia in his early twenties was one of the best things John McCarthy has done in his life. He married an Aussie girl, Maggie, began

By MIKE HILL UP in North Queensland Harold Hovi is referred to as ‘The Magic Man’. And it’s a tag Hovi, who we feature in this month’s The Trainer column,

By MIKE HILL STEVE Keep has been around greyhounds most of his life. As a nine-year-old living in Casino, NSW, he remembers helping his grand-mother Lila Simpson (mother of leading