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Waterloo Cup This Weekend

National Coursing Association Secretary Carolyn Mills is delighted with the calibre of greyhounds competing in this weekend’s Waterloo Cup at Lang Lang. The Waterloo Cup is the pinnacle of the coursing season each year, and on the back of the retirement of superstar Zambora Blueboy, who has won the past two Waterloo Cups, the field […]
03:56 PM 28 Aug 2014

Metropolitan Provincial Racing Begins

Wednesday 22 August saw the first of the new Provincial Full-Stakes meetings held on metropolitan tracks conducted at The Meadows. This new meeting type replaces Metropolitan Non-Penalty meetings that have been held on Wednesdays at The Meadows and Sundays at Sandown Park. The change to the meetings on this day comes as part of the […]
03:43 PM 28 Aug 2014

No Getting Past This Bulldog

It’s hard to know what Sydney’s Dean Towers was thinking when he tried to run around Western Bulldogs terrier Luke Dahlhaus at Etihad Stadium on Sunday. Dahlhaus is renowned for his speed, balance and hard working nature, and these traits could win him a share in a racing greyhound. The up-and-coming star is one of […]
11:13 AM 27 Aug 2014

TAB Great Chase Grand Final Field Finalised

Eight Victorian organisations that care for the physically and intellectually disabled are in the running to share in $8,000 in the TAB Great Chase Grand Final at The Meadows on Wednesday 3 September. The TAB Great Chase is an annual event run by Greyhound Racing Victoria that is open to community groups from the disability […]
02:35 PM 26 Aug 2014

Xylia Australia’s Best

Xylia Allen was crowned the Australian Greyhound of the Year at 2013/14 AGRA Awards Night, held at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle on Friday night. Here is a run down of the awards… [divider] [/divider] Xylia Allen – Australian Greyhound of the Year *Won the 2013 G1 National Sprint Championship,  2013 G3 Shootout, 2014 G1 […]
02:00 PM 25 Aug 2014

Sweet Win for the Big V

As expected Victoria filled the Quinella in Saturday night’s Group 1 AGRA National Distance Championship (715m) at Cannington. Sweet It Is overpowered Xylia Allen in the dying moments to score her third Group 1, however, in running second, the latter overtook Miata as Australia’s highest ever prize money earner at $722,625. This was Victoria’s first […]
11:01 AM 25 Aug 2014