Month: June 2020

Last Hurrah joins Gr8 Eight club

Editor BOAY

Last Hurrah is the latest superstar to join in the list of Victorian greyhound racing’s exciting Gr8 Eight winners. Brett Nye’s greyhound took on and beat a hot field which included three G1 winners over 595m at Sandown last night, and he won in fine style, clocking a time of 34.26sec. Gr8 Eight events will continue every Thursday (Sandown) and Saturday (The Meadows) for elevated prize money over all distances throughout the month of June. WATCH: LAST HURRAH (4) beats a sensational field including RAJASTHAN (7) and PERFECT MARSHALL (1).…

Greyhound racing to be broadcast to world-wide audience

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GRV has teamed with Sky Racing and TAB to broadcast greyhound racing to the world, GRV Chair Peita Duncan announced today. Ms Duncan said that from the second week in June the sport would be beamed into North America with a potential audience of millions of people. “This initiative with Sky Racing allows us to showcase our great athletes, trainers, racing and sport to the world,” Ms Duncan said. “It also opens up a massive new wagering audience which will help us work through COVID-19, increase returns to our participants…

Distinguished Taste out for gold

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By Josh Smith – Harness News Desk Consistent pacer Distinguished Taste will be looking to reward punters faith when he lines up in the Cheeky Babe Mobile Pace (1980m) at Addington Raceway on Friday night. The three-year-old son of Gold Ace has been backed into favoritism in his last four outings and TAB bookmakers have once again highlighted the gelding as the one to beat on Friday, installing him as a $3 favourite. He finished fourth at the Christchurch track last week and placed in his previous three starts, and…

Asteria Lavra best chance for Wallis/Hackett team

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By Michael Guerin One of our leading trotting trainers thinks the post-Covid racing world may force a change to the way fellow trainers think. And that could mean more horses having busier careers if trainer Michelle Wallis is right. Wallis and husband-training partner Bernie Hackett return to their beloved Alexandra Park tonight for the first horse racing meeting in Auckland since lockdown in late March. The meeting hosts just six races as many trainers are still getting horses back to peak fitness while others who raced at Cambridge’s comeback meeting…

Butcher hoping to toast a training victory at Alexandra Park

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By Josh Smith – Harness News Desk Northern horseman Zachary Butcher is looking forward to backing up Whiskey Neat in the Go On “Lather Up” With Woodlands Stud Mobile Pace (2200m) at Alexandra Park on Thursday night. The three-year-old daughter of Bettor’s Delight made her debut over 2200m at Cambridge on Sunday and impressed her trainer-driver when running home well to finish third behind Doc Holiday. “She went pretty well, but got held up a wee bit,” Butcher said. “They only waddled around, which didn’t suit her and she got…

Trainers advised of disturbances during catching pen construction

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Geelong GRC is currently undergoing construction to its catching pen, with the club advising trainers to expect some disturbances over the coming weeks. Construction will continue until planned completion on 1 July, with key points including: Midweek trial sessions to be transferred from the outside track to the inside track Three (3) race meetings to be transferred in late June (refer to table below) Saturday trial sessions to continue as normal Below is a week-by-week schedule for the Geelong GRC during the construction period. WEEK 1Monday 1 June 2020 to…

Diane’s not-so-secret thoughts on coursing

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Victoria’s 2020 coursing season opened with a full card of 12 events at Lang Lang on Sunday, and among the coursing faithful delighted to see the return of the code was Diane Ireland. Based in Knowsley (around 30km out of Bendigo), Ireland has been a passionate coursing participant since the 1970s, and she had a successful outing. Her greyhound Secret Thoughts won Event 3 (Kingston Trophies Maiden – Mixed) with a ‘walkover’, while another of her competitors, Stareena finished runner-up to Secret Bliss in Event 4 (LLCC Maiden -Mixed). It…

Nip of ‘Scotch’

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Back in early May, megastar Hooked On Scotch returned from a four-month enforced layoff and won brilliantly on G2 Warrnambool Cup night. But the comeback was short-lived as, at his next start 15 days later, he sustained minor muscle-related injuries when seventh to You Tell Me at Sandown. It precipitated another two weeks off the racing scene, but the “fastest chaser on the planet” does a ‘take 2’ – this time at Shepparton tomorrow. Okay, it’s not the group racing arena to which we’ve become accustomed to with Hooked On…