Greyhound racing put on a spectacular show over the past week as the fastest Australian greyhounds have converged on Melbourne for a red-hot Spring Carnival which kicked off with the $224,500 Group 1 Topgun (525m) and the inaugural $118,00 Group 2 Stayers Topgun (725m), both held at The Meadows on Saturday night. Firstly we rewind […]
The atmosphere will be electric at Wednesday’s Group 2 TAB Great Chase Grand Final as almost 60 organisations from the disability sector based all around Victoria will converge to The Meadows in Melbourne to partake in a lottery draw for their chance to share in $17,500 in cash. Groups are travelling from as far as […]
The $77,000 Group 2 TAB Great Chase Grand Final (525m) will be run at The Meadows this Wednesday at 1.20pm with a slashing field assembled, and for those thinking about placing a bet here’s how I see the race panning out. Cutting Edge arrives unbeaten at the Group 2 feature having won all of his […]
Monique Whelan (pictured fourth from left) is the trainer of Lakeview Harley, but training greyhounds in the Whelan household is no one-woman show. Husband Peter, daughters Lana, Christine and Brooke, and sons Luke and Harley all help Monique with daily work at the family property in Metung, based more than an hour east of Sale […]
Two Topguns, two thrilling finishes won by two champions. Crowd favourites Fernando Bale and Sweet It Is both triumphed in their respective Topguns at The Meadows on Saturday night, but they did so in completely different circumstances and had to pull out all the stops.