A quarter of a century after winning the Sale Cup with champion sprinter/sire Malawi’s Prince the Dewan family are hoping to celebrate a second victory in the race on Boxing Day with outsider Dewana Dimie.
Stefano Cassar (pictured) has only been living in Australia three years and training greyhounds for just one year but he’s dreaming of celebrating the most unlikely of Group 1 victories at Sandown Park on Friday night. On Australian greyhound racing’s night of nights, Cassar, 34, is chasing a fairy tale triumph in the $100,000 to-the-winner […]
When her fiancée Darren Haffenden was seriously ill with pancreatic cancer earlier this year Faith Martin made two promises. Faith promised Darren their three-year-old son Joshua would know the kind of man his father was and also that she would give a talented young greyhound, which Darren had bred and reared, every opportunity to […]
When John Quill and his wife Gaynor (pictured with One For Me after his first group victory) couldn’t agree on picking a pup they were purchasing from successful breeder Angela Langton, Quill made an inspired decision. He fatefully chose to take the one neither of them had selected and that pup now races as One For […]
In his decade-long training career Robin Moore has never had that special greyhound good enough to travel interstate with. Until now. On Thursday night an excited Moore will venture outside Victoria for the first time when the speedy Amelia Christa tackles the heats of the Group 1 Adelaide Cup at Angle Park. Amelia Christa earned […]
Pantera Nera (pictured), Victoria’s lone invitee for Thursday night’s Group 1 Dapto Megastar, first came to Gavin Burke’s attention during the Puppy Auction Classic at the same venue last November. It was after Pantera Nera ran third in Dapto’s Classic that he was purchased by Burke and while he “wasn’t cheap” it’s proven to be […]