Victorian greyhound racing is set to return to Saturday mornings in exciting news for weekend punters.

It all starts up again this Saturday at Shepparton, with the first race to run at 8.30am and the 12th and final race on the card scheduled for 11.30am.

Saturday morning meetings have also been allocated to Ballarat (Aug 15) and Bendigo (Aug 22).

This is a part of GRV’s recent announcement to increase the state’s racing program from 23 meetings per week to 26.