The industry’s best trainers give their expert advice.
The Trainer Column: MARK PARTLAND
MARK Partland, who began training only four years ago, has made giant strides with the lead and collar this year.
The Trainer Column: By STEVE WOODS
VETERAN trainer Steve Woods says he lives in one of the ‘most popular greyhound streets’ in Queensland.
The Trainer Column – Sonia Kempshall
SONIA Kempshall, who has battled health issues for many years, is having one of her best seasons with the lead and collar.
The Trainer Column – with TONY BRETT
Premier Queensland trainer Tony Brett and his wife Fleur are on their dream holiday in Europe. While they are enjoying a very rare break from the day-to-day rigours of greyhound training we thought it would be timely to run the very first Chase Trainers Column, which appeared in our November, 2015, edition.
The Trainer Column: RUSTY DILLON
RUSTY Dillon has just experienced an extremely rewarding Winter Carnival as caretaker trainer of Victorian sprinters Dundee Rebel and Dundee Smokey.
The Trainer Column – Bobbie-Jean Chaffey
BOBBIE-Jean Chaffey, or BJ as she is known to her friends, is somewhat surprised by her success so far this year.
The Trainer Column: Clinton and Juanita Thompson
RELATIVE newcomers, Clinton and Juanita Thompson, have been quick to make an impact on the Rockhampton greyhound training ranks.
The Trainer Column: Lee Pearce
IT takes a highly motivated and dedicated individual to promote any sport and the Townsville Greyhound Club is lucky enough to have one such person in Lee Pearce.
The Trainer Column: Heath Ardle
HEATH Ardle had a glancing connection with greyhounds growing up in Tasmania, but it wasn’t until he had settled in North Queensland that the bug really bit a decade or so ago.
The Trainer Column: FRANK HURST
“WE’VE been very fortunate in the past 10 years,” said Frank Hurst, one of only a handful of greyhound trainers to have become an instant millionaire on the racetrack.
The Trainer Column: Ben Rawlings
PREMIER South Australian trainer Ben Rawlings rates the Les Bein-owned Group 1-winning stayer Bogie Bekim as the best dog he’s put a rug on.
The Trainer Column: DENNIS BARNES
The Trainer column: HE’S bred some champion sprinters over the years, including Group performers Swift Fancy and Smooth Fancy, but Dennis Barnes admits Nangar Diva is probably his favourite.
The Trainer: Scott Atkinson
SCOTT Atkinson is hoping a kennel move will help make him a better trainer. The ex-Army electrician, who we feature this month in the Trainer’s Column, has accepted an offer from leading Townsville mentor Brad Belford to join him at his Gunlow base.
The Trainer Column – Robert Ayres
ROBERT Ayres seems to have knack of getting the best out of his dogs.
The trainer column – Shane Topping
SHANE Topping admits that a work redundancy package just over 12 months ago was enough to push him into full-time training.
The Trainer Column – Matthew Heilbronn
MATTHEW Heilbronn has been able to draw on a wealth of greyhound knowledge stretching back several generations.
Training column – Andrew Wooler
THE Wooler family just love their dogs, many of which have come to them as ‘giveaways’.
The Trainer column – Ned Snow
KEITH ‘Ned’ Snow, from Cornubia, south of Brisbane, is having one of his more successful years as a trainer.
The Trainer column: Warren Nicholls
South-East Queensland trainer Warren Nicholls returned to the lead and collar as a full-time trainer eight years ago when he bought the Churchable property and has worked his way into the top ranks of the profession.
Darren Taylor
CENTRAL Queensland’s Darren Taylor last year achieved something few can claim – he won both the Rockhampton and Bundaberg trainers’ premierships.
The Trainer column – Keith Boan
NORTHERN NSW-based Keith Boan has just had one of his most successful years as a trainer.
Terry Priest
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
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
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
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
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.
Pamela Field
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.
Paul Burgess
LINKING up with a couple of leading owner-breeders has proved a winning move for Bundaberg trainer Paul Burgess.
Juanita Thompson
SETBACK to success … that has been the journey for Rockhampton’s Juanita Thompson in the past six months.
Robert Jacobsen
QUEENSLAND greyhound trainer of the moment Robert Jacobsen has had a tremendous past three months or so with his smart bitch Crazy Cool.
Andrew Suli
NORTH Rockhampton trainer Andrew Suli admits he ‘stumbled’ into greyhounds by accident in the early ‘90s.
Desley Williams
DESLEY Williams has returned to training – an aspect of the sport that gave her great pleasure and joy some years back.
Paul Smith
TOWNSVILLE trainer Paul Smith is looking ahead to the new year with enthusiasm after completing a highly successful 2020.
Sid Swain
LEADING NSW trainer Sid Swain continues his thoughts on why greyhounds suffer fatigue and strategies to help trainers get the best from their dogs.
Sid Swain
LEADING NSW trainer Sid Swain says it is so important for trainers to get to know the physical limitations of their dogs.
Darren Johnston
A RELATIVELY new member to the south-east Queensland trainer ranks, Darren Johnstone, is quickly making a name for himself.
Ricky Hassall
RICKY Hassall, based at the quaint Queensland country town of Torbanlea on the Fraser Coast, is enjoying being a full-time trainer.
Henry ‘Merv’ Parker
‘FEED them well and keep them happy’. That’s Henry ‘Merv’ Parker’s recipe for producing good racing dog.
John Catton
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.
Jamie Hosking
YOUNG Churchable (SE Qld) trainer Jamie Hosking had his best night at Albion Park last month since relocating from Darwin a few years back.
Michael Hickmott
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
Travid Elson
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
Casey Dargusch
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
Barry Kitchener
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
Brad Belford
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
John McCarthy
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
Harold Hovi
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,
Steve Keep
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
Nev Jackson
By MIKE HILL IN the past 10 years Nev Jackson has travelled more than 500,000 kilometres to race his dogs. The Mackay-based administrator-trainer lives for dogs. “They keep me going,”
Greg Stella
By MIKE HILL GREG Stella says he is enjoying training more now than at any other stage of his long career. Stella, who has been in the sport since 1987
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