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2026 Pink Diamond Series

Greyhound Racing Victoria’s Pink Diamond series for Vic Bred greyhounds will again be conducted in 2026. The Pink Diamond caters for race dogs of various abilities over a range of distances, culminating in 12 feature finals held on one spectacular night at Bendigo on Friday June 12, 2026. VICGREYS bonuses will be awarded to winners of all heats and semi-finals whilst breeders of all greyhounds that progress to the finals in all 12 features will be financial rewarded including all unplaced runners collecting $250.

The Maiden and Distance series will be held at Bendigo only with all other events conducting heats at Ballarat, Geelong, Shepparton and Warragul.

Maiden heats will take place at Bendigo over 425m and 500m on Friday 29th May 2026 (Night) and Semi-Finals on Friday 5th June 2026 (Night). The maiden finals will culminate with all other Pink Diamond Finals on Friday 12th June 2026.

Both the Champion Distance and Rookie Distances series will be held at Bendigo only with heats to be held on Friday 5th June 2026 (Night). The number of heats graded is dependent on nominations received. The Distance finals will culminate with all other Pink Diamond Finals on Friday 12th June 2026.

Heats of the Pink Diamond series will take place at the following venues:

Wednesday 3rd June 2026

  • Ballarat (Night)

Thursday 4th June 2026

  • Warragul (Twilight)

Friday 5 June 2026

  • Geelong (Night)

Saturday 6 June 2026

  • Shepparton (Twilight)

One heat will be conducted at each track per series except for two heats per track for the Rookie Short Course, Princess and both Challenger series.

12 Pink Diamond Finals will be held at Bendigo on Friday 12 June 2026

General Conditions of Entry

  1. Victorian Bred greyhounds only.
  2. A greyhound must not be under any order of prohibition under the rules of Greyhound Racing Victoria at the time of nominating closing for the heats that will prohibit that greyhound from competing at the 2026 Pink Diamond Finals Night at Bendigo on 12 June 2026.
  3. Greyhounds under any prohibition at the time of nominations closing for the heats that will restrict the greyhound from competing will not be drawn into the fields.
  4. Each greyhound is only eligible to compete in one series of heats (including greyhounds drawn as a reserve).
  5. Greyhounds that are going to occupy a reserve position but have an additional nomination for a track that is also conducting future Pink Diamond heats will be omitted from the reserve position. Greyhounds that only have the one single Pink Diamond nomination will be drawn as reserve.
  6. Preference nominations will be accepted so that a greyhound can be nominated with preferences for multiple events.
  7. The winners and the second placegetters from each of the 4 heats conducted will progress to the Finals night except for only winners advancing for the Challenger series, Rookie Short Course and Princess Events.
  8. Reserves for the Finals will be conducted via Fast Track random ballot. Reserves will be randomly allocated in the case of a scratching.
  9. Nomination closing times for the Pink Diamond series (excluding the maiden and distance series) are as followed, and may be subject to change.

Ballarat – Nominations close at 9am on Monday 1st June 2026.
Warragul – Nominations close at 9am on Tuesday 2nd June 2026.
Geelong – Nominations close at 1pm on Tuesday 2nd June 2026.
Shepparton – Nominations close at 9am on Wednesday 3rd June 2026.

10. Manual Box draws will be conducted for all Pink Diamond Finals.

  1. Upon entering a greyhound for any events in this series, trainers agree to themselves and their greyhound/s available for any reasonable promotional opportunities relating to this event upon request from Greyhound Racing Victoria.
  2. Greyhound Racing Victoria reserves the right to alter and amend conditions and prize money for the 2026 Pink Diamond Series. Any changes to these terms and conditions will be published on www.grv.org.au.

Please don’t hesitate to contact [email protected] should you have any questions about the ‘2026 Pink Diamond Series’.

Event Specific Conditions of Entry

The following conditions will apply to each of the advertised events

Champion Events (425m, 500m & 660m)

Special Event selection criteria applies.

1. Greyhounds that are a Grade 1, Grade 2 or Grade 3 at that track and distance with greyhounds ordered by individual Ranking in ascending order.
2. Remainder of nominations ordered by individual Ranking in ascending order.
3. Maidens are ineligible

Rookie Events (425m & 500m)

Special Event selection criteria applies.

  1. Greyhounds must have been whelped after 1/1/2024.
  2. Greyhounds that are a Grade 1, Grade 2 or Grade 3 at that track and distance with greyhounds ordered by individual Ranking in ascending order.
  3. Remainder of nominations ordered by individual Ranking in ascending order.

Challenger Events (425m & 500m)

  1. Greyhounds must be grade 5 at that track and distance.
  2. At the time of grading greyhounds must meet the advertised rank limit condition for each event.
  3. Greyhound must have had a minimum of 10 starts.
  4. Greyhounds will be selected using a top-down method based on rank only (Order of Entries not applicable).
  5. Heats will be non-penalty for the winner.

Maiden Events (425m & 500m)

Maiden Events order of entry will be applied for the heats.

If the number of first starter greyhounds exceed the total number of positions available to be graded, trainers preferences will be applied with all trainers getting 1 starter before 2 starters and so on.

  1. Last start placegetter at that track and distance.
  2. Last start placegetter at any track and distance.
  3. Debutant
  4. Recent last start reserve greyhound that did not obtain a start (meeting must have been finalised), at the same meeting level, track and distance.
  5. Greyhounds with one (1) start only.
  6. Greyhounds with two (2) starts only.
  7. Greyhound competed in Tier 3 Event at last start and broke the Tier 3 time standard.
  8. Remainder of nominations ordered by individual rank in ascending order.

NOTE: Greyhounds that are placed F,T,P,B at their first start will be awarded a OOE #5 at the time  of grading.

Veterans Event (425m)

  1. Greyhounds must be four years or older at the date of the race meeting.
  2. Ranking based selection (Order of Entries & Grades not applicable).
  3. Maidens are ineligible
  4. Heats will be non-penalty for the winner.

Princess Event (500m)

Special Event selection criteria applies.

  1. Female Greyhounds only
  2. No city wins
  3. Greyhounds that are a Grade 1, Grade 2 or Grade 3 at that track and distance with greyhounds ordered by individual Ranking in ascending order.
  4. Remainder of nominations ordered by individual Ranking in ascending order.
  5. Maidens are ineligible

Restricted Win Event (660m)

  1. Greyhounds will be selected using a top-down method based on rank only (Order of entry not applicable).
  2. Greyhounds must have four or less wins at the time of grading.

The 2026 Pink Diamond series will culminate at Bendigo on Friday 12 June,2026

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