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Tips a plenty for the Saturday night meeting at The Meadows with James Van de Maat and Corey Smith. PLUS, Paul Abela gives listeners a run down on his two runners and Liam Sharp is put on the spot for his top five chances. greyhoundracingvic · Green Light On – Episode 65 – All things Meadows Sep 10, plus Liam Sharp and Paul Abela

Molly Haines has a chat to NSW trainer Michelle Sultana about her greyhound Sacred Stance and their long journey to and from Healesville ahead of Sunday’s 2022 Healesville Cup.

Regally bred staying prospect Play Nice will be striving to follow a proud family tradition in Saturday night’s Group 3 Top Cat Video Cup Final (730m) at The Meadows. Play Nice, a son of the great Fernando Bale and Tears Siam, trained by Tim Britton, is a younger full brother to former champion Tornado Tears, a two-time winner of the Top Cat Video Cup, in 2018 and 2020. Tornado Tears, affectionately known as ‘Batman’, also finished fifth as the raging $1.30 favourite in 2019. Tim Britton, who also has a…

Healesville’s 2022 Festival of Racing will come to an epic conclusion on Sunday afternoon with the running of the $78,795 Group 2 Healesville Cup Final (350m). Headlining the star-studded line-up will be defending champion Ferdinand Boy, with the country cups ‘king’ attempting to become the third back-to-back winner of the event. If successful in claiming a remarkable fifth provincial cup crown, David Geall‘s superstar would emulate two-time Healesville Cup heroes Koutafidamedes (1997 and 1998) and Schwartzanager (2006 and 2007). KEY TIMES 11:03am First race 12:13pm Race 5 (first leg of…

The big-race ‘demon’ that ‘haunted’ “Team Gibbons” is a ‘ghost’ of the past. Avalon’s Daniel Gibbons reckons winning The Arrow (Quinlan Bale) and securing a quinella in the Victorian Straight Track Championship (Quinlan Bale and Nicolson Bale) has silenced the ‘spectre’. A wise sage once uttered “failure can’t cope with persistence”. Indeed, Gibbons and wife Rebecca epitomise the “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” proverb. Now, with the ‘monkey off their back’, their sights are squarely set on a breakthrough black-type victory in the $78,795 Group 2 Healesville…

Terrific “Team Dailly” triumvirate Zippy Tesla, Dusty Bourbski and Zara’s Ivan is part of an almighty ‘charge of the Vic brigade’ in the Million Dollar Chase City Qualifers (520m) at Wentworth Park in Sydney on Saturday night. They’ll be joined by classy compatriots Amron Boy, Devine Empress, Extreme Force, Kysaiah, Let’s Win Coin, McInerney, Photo Man, Set Me Free and Who Told Shorty. It’s “Sydney or the bush” for the visitors south of the border eyeing a semi-finals spot on September 17, where they’d join Plaintiff, Kelsey Bale and Red Reactor which…

Australia’s leading stud master Paul Westerveld has paid tribute to his homebred superstar sprinter and distinguished sire Fabregas after the 2012 National Sprint champion passed away on Wednesday. Westerveld revealed Fabregas had succumbed to heart and respiratory problems just weeks shy of his 12th birthday, after bravely staving off cancer several times. “We were blessed to have him,” he said. “Obviously, he was out of my dam-line, I owned him, I bred him with Ian Garland, we reared him and trained him off the property. “I love all my dogs,…