Welcome along to this week’s edition of the North East Weekly Wrap. It was a terrific week of racing highlighted by some big wins. The feature meeting of the week was held up the straight at Healesville last Sunday where there was four heats of the Straight Track Championship. Healesville Greyhound Association Manager Cynthia O’Brien […]
Reigning champ Full Of Grace (pictured right) will attempt to become just the second greyhound in half a century to win back-to-back Waterloo Cups when the 2015 series is conducted at Longwood on Saturday and Sunday. The Waterloo Cup is the pinnacle of the coursing season, which is old-fashioned greyhound racing run throughout the winter […]
Margins (pictured) and Lady Toy will both have to overcome box eight – not to mention champion duo Fernando Bale and Sweet It Is – if Jamie and Brooke Ennis are to celebrate an historic National Championship double at Wentworth Park on Saturday night. The in-form husband and wife training team have Margins engaged in […]
Sydneysiders sometimes refer to Victorians as Mexicans, given we are located south of the border, and with greyhound racing’s Nationals Grand Finals upon us TAB has come up with a promotion titled the ‘Mexican Double’. The Mexican Double relates to the chances of Victorian greyhounds winning both the National Sprint Championship and National Distance Championship […]
Fernando Bale is RSN’s People’s Choice Greyhound of the Month for July after receiving 52 per cent of votes. The Andrea Dailly-trained sprinter was pitted against two other Victorian-trained greyhounds, Zipping Maggie and Lady Toy, who won the Destini Fireball Stayers final and the McKenna Memorial respectively during July. Fernando Bale was also the RSN […]
Four metropolitan meetings took place throughout the past week and I have looked for the outstanding wins, the best runs – win lose or draw – and, of course, the feature wins from another exciting week of greyhound racing. Sulzanti cruised home to an effortless win from the suitable outside alley in the fourth race […]