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122 Greyhounds That Died on the Track This Year

by : peterprofitracingNovember 27, 2024

Source – Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds. https://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/qld-racing-watchdog-releases-disturbing-2024-greyhound-doping-deaths-data/news-story/1e4e1af14f4c7bd91aac421c2ca583fd 1 4/1/2024 Nandina Ipswich QLD Neck and hindlimb injury fall, home turn on-track vet 2 13/1/2024 Pick A Posy Warrnambool VIC fractured right hock breakdown, home turn on-track vet 3 15/1/2024 Oscar Orca Warrnambool VIC fractured left shoulder collisions, fall, first turn on-track vet 4 27/1/2024 […]

The End is Nigh – Greyhound Racing in Victoria is on Life Support – Within 3 Years it Will Die

by : peterprofitracingNovember 6, 2024

Unless a miracle happens greyhound racing in Victoria as we know it will be dead in 3 years time. The sport’s already on life support. Its only a matter of time until the doctor turns the machines off. Spending has outstripped income by $30 million in the past two years, and if continues at that […]

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A Grisly Tail of Drugs in Racing, Dogs Maimed For Life, Rule Breaches, Undue Suffering and Stewards Who Just Aren’t Doing Their Jobs

by : peterprofitracingOctober 30, 2024October 31, 2024

Hey Archie Help a bloke out here & tell me how a trainer charged with animal welfare breaches can be given a stay of proceedings that allows them to continue to train? The parasite I refer to is Nicholas Howlett (pictured), the same trainer who raced a dog with cocaine in it’s system and tried […]

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Bundaberg Dog Track Deemed Unsafe

by : peterprofitracingOctober 5, 2024

For the past few months we have been telling anyone who will listen that the Bundaberg greyhound track is unsafe and presents a danger to racing animals, and backed our assertions up with facts and figures about injuries sustained by dogs at the course, particularly on the turns. Racing Queensland and the QRIC agree, and […]

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GRV Demands Every Dog Owner, Trainer, Catcher, Kennel Attendant and Breeder Provide a Fresh National Police Check by 1 December – Merry Xmas

by : peterprofitracingSeptember 24, 2024September 24, 2024

In a highly unusual move, Greyhound Racing Victoria (GRV) is requiring every registered participant in the State to undergo a National Police Check (NPS) and provide them with the results. Of particular note is that owners have to provide one too. That might stir the possum a bit, for there are more than a couple […]

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Greyhound Racing on the Bundaberg Track Needs to Stop Right Now

by : peterprofitracingSeptember 7, 2024September 7, 2024

We have written extensively over the past 3 months about the unacceptable dangers that the Bundaberg greyhound track poses to racing animals, and have repeatedly called for it to be closed down. As a direct result of our stories detailing the mass injuries – and in some cases deaths – suffered by dogs at the […]

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Greyhound Ownership in QLD Just Got a Whole Lot Harder

by : peterprofitracingAugust 22, 2024

New amendments to the local rules of greyhound racing introduced yesterday by Racing Queensland have made owning a dishlicker a whole lot more difficult than it was the day before. The new rules place a strict onus on owners to rehome their greyhound, or to cause the greyhound to be rehomed to an appropriate home, […]

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Irish greyhounds exported to India used in cruel ‘new craze’ sport

by : peterprofitracingAugust 10, 2024

Two men on a motorbike lure a greyhound during a dangerous and illegal coursing sport described as a ‘new craze’ in India. FORMER SPORTING GREYHOUNDS exported from Ireland are being used in a cruel “new craze” sport in India. Noteworthy can reveal how the dogs are being forced to chase speeding motorbikes on open stretches of […]

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The Killing Fields at Bundaberg Continue Apace

by : peterprofitracingJuly 28, 2024

A month or two ago we wrote about the safety risks of running greyhounds on the grass track at Bundaberg, and called for the Queensland authorities to immediately shut racing down there on animal welfare grounds until the course is remodeled and rebuilt with a sand surface. Sadly for the dogs that continue to get […]

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A Prime Pair of Grubs Get Turfed Out of Greyhound Racing For a Very Long Time

by : peterprofitracingJuly 19, 2024July 19, 2024

Kenneth Buxton and Bianca Reed The disgraceful duo pictured above, former greyhound trainer Kenneth Buxton and his girlfriend Bianca Reed, are among the worst animal abusers that the Victorian Racing Tribunal in Victoria has ever seen. These are not my words. They’re those that the eminent Chairman of the Tribunal Justice John Bowman wrote in […]