Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Did you hear that one of Queensland’s best known and most successful greyhound trainers won the lotto last weekend? He bought the ticket while out shopping, but had left his lotto card at home so he got a paper ticket. The bloke came home, threw the ticket in the drawer, and forgot about it. Come […]
We note with interest that our favourite greyhound Little Byrnes – aka the Black Flash – returns to racing in the 6th at Ipswich today, after a presumably injury enforced 6 months away from the track. Not many greyhounds make a successful comeback after that long away, especially dogs that are 4 years and 2 […]
The Wade Birch led Greyhound Welfare and Integrity Commission in NSW (GWIC) is doing a cracker of a job isn’t it? On Saturday night at The Gardens their Stewards let 2 kennel mates run as each other in a race. One of them won too. Shame it wasn’t the right dog. Four Joans was drawn […]
How many of the animal activists who hate greyhound racing and want to shut it down actually keep a retired dog as a pet do you reckon? 2/3rds of 1/5th of SFA is my guess. Not knowing and loving the breed is no impediment to the vegan’s crusade though, it continues on apace. It’s not […]
Just take a look at the replay of the 4th race at the Rockhampton Greyhounds on Wednesday night, and keep your eye on 4 the the blue. Comical Travis it’s name. It’s the $2.60 favorite, and probably the biggest heart breaker that you’d ever see. Some dogs were just born to be rehomed as a […]
LGHR has been reliably informed that in excess of 40 people – we find it hard to believe – have departed since the new ‘Dream Team’ took control of the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission. The old adage ‘dispense with those who represent a threat’ is alive and kicking at this under-performing, over-funded Labor Government enterprise […]
This is taken from this year’s QRIC annual report. The dud, totally oppositional outfit who think as a general rule that greyhound people like my mates and I are all grubs is reporting on their wonderful achievements in the financial year 2021/22. Aren’t they just brilliant? $30 million brilliant. Operational focus – achievements and challenges […]
John ‘JC’ Catton is well known to readers of this site as my favourite greyhound trainer. He’s not really, but his brother’s a big bastard and doesn’t like me after a wee story I wrote about his close friend Desleigh, and wouldn’t mind giving if pressed (and fast enough), so I suck up JC to […]
This is Rake 8 at the Townsville greyhounds last night, the 2nd heat of the Easter Sprint Trophy. It swept me off my feet that it was declared a race. The inside dogs are still scratching their heads about it.
On average, a well bred greyhound costs you no more than about five grand to buy as a pup. The average price of a thoroughbred yearling horse is around $120 000, twenty-four times what it costs to buy a dog. The richest gallops race in Queensland is the 2YO Magic Millions, which is worth $2 […]
