Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Graham James is a Victorian greyhound, owner and breeder. He bred, owned and trained a slow dog named Baba Bear. It has one start, in a maiden at Ballarat, and finished a well beaten sixth. James claims he was contacted out of the blue by a bloke from South Australia named Shaun Ciavarella, an unlicensed […]
When you can. How hard is it to prepare a sand dog track properly? Especially on a long established course. Rockhampton’s failure to do so is a disgrace. If they don’t lift their act the Rocky club’s license is surely in danger. This just ain’t good enough. At all.
You all know my opinion of the city of Rockhampton in general. This just confirms it. Licensed race clubs have an obligation to make sure their tracks are suitable to race on. The dog club in Rocky didn’t meet that obligation. How ordinary is this? It is just not good enough. Shame, shame, shame.
As far as I am aware my childhood mate J.Catton didn’t have a cent on Lucky Hero that night. My other lifelong friend M. Cranitch didn’t either, despite me both telling them to. They were the owner and trainer. What would I know though? Only how to work out greyhound form. And how to get […]
Ron O’Regan is veteran Kiwi greyhound trainer, who works out of Paeroa – home of L&P soft drink – with his daughter Naomi. Ron is a dodgy bastard. In 2o22 the Stewards rocked up at his kennels to do a without notice out of competition inspection. They found a dead rabbit in his fridge. O’Regan […]
Cash Manager wasn’t injured at all, it was just very slow dog. It hadn’t won or even run a place for almost a year, and the minimal appearance money it had collected weren’t enough to pay for its feed. So after it ran last twice in row in very slow times, the greyhound’s trainer Rhonda Essery […]
Queensland greyhound racing participant Barry Taylor (who is not the Townsville lawyer Barry Taylor who owned the Group 1 winning galloper Merchant Navy) has been warned off for failing to front a Stewards inquiry. The Stewards called the inquiry in an attempt to ascertain the current status – i.e. whether they are still breathing – […]
The opportunistic farmer from Sassafras who as Premier put an end to greyhound racing now claims that he is moving to protect the beautiful breed. If Jeremy Rockliff told you it was a hot day you’d put on a snow jacket. Rockliff had never spent a second thinking about greyhounds until his numbers still fell […]
It has been a bad couple of weeks for greyhounds in QLD. A fortnight ago at the Q2 a greyhound named Boston Rocks was severely checked on the fist turn and fell. It suffered a catastrophic near side front leg injury and was given the magic green needle to put it out of its pain. […]
The NSW Greyhound Welfare Integrity Commission is taking a hard line against trainer who make their dogs disappear without trace into thin air, and quite rightly too because we all know where dogs that disappear go, and it ain’t any place where they are still barking or breathing, and that is no good at all. […]
