A shining season of training and promotion has resulted in popular Pearcedale husband-and-wife team Kel and Jackie Greenough receiving one of the sport’s highest accolades – the prestigious Ned Bryant ‘Silver Fox’ Award at the 2023 Victorian Greyhound Awards.
“Team Greenough” went beyond the call of duty during the 2022/23 racing season ensuring unprecedented promotion of the sport via their ‘pin-up girl’, Wow She’s Fast.
During the 2022/23 racing year, Wow She’s Fast achieved the following:
Wow She’s Fast – dubbed the sport’s Phar Lap – played PR machine courtesy of her brilliance on the racetrack and received widespread mainstream media exposure.
She became the world’s first $2 million prizemoney earner in greyhound racing, snaring her second The Phoenix in December last year, and her racing exploits are highlighted in the Australian Sports Museum at the MCG as part of an exhibition showcasing Victorian greyhound racing’s 150th anniversary.
WATCH: Wow She’s Fast (6) wins the 2022 The Phoenix at The Meadows.
CRITERIA GUIDELINES
The Greyhound Racing Victoria Board awards the Ned Bryant ‘Silver Fox’ Award for outstanding achievement in the training, breeding or promotion of greyhound racing in the racing year (July 1 to June 30).
Peter Quilty has more than three decades of experience as assistant editor of Victorian Greyhound Weekly. He was editor of GRV monthly magazine The Adviser (2001-09) and owner/publisher of Australian Greyhound Monthly. He also served on the selection panel for the inaugural GRV ‘Hall of Fame’ inductees and for several years was an adjudicator on the Victorian GOTY. He’s also published greyhound racing yearbooks and wrote the ‘Bold Trease’ video script.
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