Author: Editor BOAY

A jam-packed show kicked off Season Two of Thrill of the Chase on 7TW0, including a must-watch feature story about champion greyhound, Simon Told Helen. Also joining the show were leading trainers Robert Britton and Kelvyn Greenough, who discussed their respective superstar greyhounds Tornado Tears and Houdini Boy. James Van de Maat explained why recent Million Dollar Chase winner Handsome Prince looms as a huge threat in the upcoming TAB Melbourne Cup series based on a trial performed by the greyhound on Shootout night. And to round out the show…

Jason Thompson rates unproven youngster Aussie Secret, a $17 chance in TAB’s all-in market, as his best chance of celebrating a record-breaking fourth TAB Melbourne Cup victory. Thompson’s three Melbourne Cup wins have come courtesy of Light Of Fire (1994), Got A Moment (2012) and Black Magic Opal (2013), while wife Seona continued a proud family tradition with Aston Dee Bee in 2017. It’s no surprise that sprinting luminaries Simon Told Helen, the reigning Australian Greyhound of the Year, and Topgun hero Shima Shine, head Melbourne Cup betting at $7.50…

Green Blazer, who makes his race debut at Sandown on Sunday, has the blueblood pedigree any trainer would welcome into their kennel. Owned by the ‘Team TAB’ syndicate, managed by greyhound media identity George Farrugia, Green Blazer was ‘Pick 2’ in last year’s National Greyhound Draft. Bred in the purple, Green Blazer (Box 8) – engaged in a GRV Vic Bred Maiden Series heat (515m) – oozes black type ancestry. His sire, Mepunga Blazer, won the 2017 G1 Maturity Classic and was a G1 Winter Cup finalist. And his dam,…

Trainer Dave Condon and 1992 Brownlow Medallist Scott Wynd hope to chalk up another Healesville success when littermates Superior Wallis and Superior Digby contest Sunday afternoon’s Puppy Championship Final (350m). Devon Meadows-based Condon and Western Bulldogs great Wynd forged their rapidly-expanding greyhound racing partnership with 2011/12 Healesville Greyhound of the Year Jess Umbridge. Condon believes that in time Superior Wallis, impressive winner of five of his nine starts, with each of his victories coming up the straight, could be the dog to deliver what would be a fairy tale Healesville…

Australian greyhound racing has a new ‘sprinting sharpshooter’ – Tiggerlong Tonk. Trained by Correy Grenfell, Tiggerlong Tonk ‘shot the lights out’, setting a race record in tonight’s Group 3 Shootout (515m) at Sandown. The outsider in the $25,000 winner-take-all four-dog match race, Tiggerlong Tonk ($6.50) outgunned Shima Shine ($2.40F) by 1.5L, with Christo Bale ($4.60) a further 1L away third in a sizzling 29.03sec. Hard Style Rico ($2.50) finished fourth. Tiggerlong Tonk gave Grenfell his second Shootout, having scored with Orson Allen in 2018, and became the 10th winner from…

Trainer Luckie Karabitsakos has declared his star sprinter Hard Style Rico capable of bettering the magical 29-second barrier in Thursday night’s Group 3 Shootout (515m) at Sandown Park.

Correy Grenfell, 26, is chasing his second Group 3 Shootout (515m) in three years at Sandown Park on Thursday night. Grenfell won the second version of two Shootouts held in 2018 with Orson Allen – a superstar who put him on the map in the sport. And now he’ll rug the ultimate professional, Tiggerlong Tonk (Box 5), who is the outsider of the four-dog field in the $25,000 winner-take-all match race. “Orson Allen went to a new level after his Shootout win, but there’s nothing between him and Tiggerlong Tonk,”…

Today marks the end of World War 1, and as such GRV remembers the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in times of human conflict. We also recognise the valiant efforts of members of the greyhound racing community during these times and thank them for their service.   At the going down of the sun, And in the morning, We shall remember them.

Provincial flyer Benchester’s track record-breaking ‘spree’ continued at Horsham last night. Trained at Junortoun by Mark Morrissey, Benchester clocked a sizzling 22.66sec – shaving two lengths off the previous 410m mark of 22.78sec set by Spring Hummer on October 13. Ironically, Benchester ($1.80F) – who led throughout from Box 4 – defeated Spring Hummer ($2.60) by 2.94L in a Free For All. He remains undefeated from four starts over this track and distance Owned by Bryan Rushton, Benchester (Oct ’17 Magic Sprite x Dewana Babe) set a new time standard…

AUSTRALIA’S only free-to-air greyhound racing television program THRILL OF THE CHASE  returns this Sunday on 7TWO for an exciting four week run – including a live broadcast of the world’s greatest greyhound race the TAB Melbourne Cup. Hosted by Jack Heverin, with panellists – race caller and greyhound trainer James Van de Maat and Greyhound Racing Victoria’s Molly Haines, THRILL OF THE CHASE  promises viewers all the latest news and opinions from on and off the track, and live TAB odds. On Friday 27 November, the show heads to Sandown…