Author: Editor BOAY

Punters who have called a ‘last hurrah’ on parenthood could be in for a ‘surprise baby’. TAB is offering a ‘seducing’ – not ‘inducing’ – $12.00 ‘canine/equine’ cross-codes offer on Last Hurrah to win tonight’s Group 1 Hume Cup (600m) at The Meadows and Surprise Baby to place in the Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington tomorrow. Trained at Little River by Brett Nye, Last Hurrah was the second-fastest qualifier (34.15sec) in last week’s heats – around one length slower than Zipping Zeek (34.10sec), who set the time standard.…

ROOKIE trainer Brett Nye is acutely aware just how lucky he is to have had a greyhound the caliber of Last Hurrah to launch his training career.

While we are all pleased with the easing of restrictions across Victoria, a reminder that health and safety protocols including masks, social distancing and health checks on entry are still in place for all Victorian race meetings and trials and that metro participants still need their work permits when travelling to regional meetings.

20-year old Ned McDonald is chasing Group 1 glory in his first year of greyhound training tomorrow night at The Meadows in the Group 1 Hume Cup with Zipping Zeek. “It’s a thrill to be in a Group 1 but I don’t think it has hit me in the face yet,” Ned McDonald told James Van de Maat on SENtrack’s Thrill Of The Chase program. Zipping Zeek was formally trained by Martin Hallinan who is also the owner and breeder of the son of Zulu Zeus and Crafty Lady. “To…

Greyhound racing’s Group 3 Northern Districts Cup (450m) will be held at Shepparton on Saturday night, with the final offering $35,500 in prize money. First run in 2014, the event has a unique criteria in that it is open only to greyhounds that are bred in Victoria, have not won in the city, have raced on at least two occasions at Shepparton and not won more than $25,000 in prize money. With Saturday night’s final, to be run at 8.32pm, carrying a first prize of $25,000, the winner will effectively…

Germany’s ‘Paul the Octopus’ attracted worldwide attention as an animal oracle due to accurate predictions during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. But meet a pseudo greyhound tipster – more omen bet – who has filled Paul’s mighty tentacles! Yellow And Black, trained at Mount Moriac by Kevin Ward, scored on every day Richmond won during this year’s AFL finals series – including the Grand Final! In fact, he won at Horsham 25 minutes before the ‘big dance’ commenced at the Gabba in Brisbane. Here’s how a greyhound racing ‘omen’ unfolded…

Matt Clark is ‘nervously excited’ about the chances of his star litter-brothers Catch The Thief and Playlist at Sandown Park tonight.

Last week the team at Wood ‘n’ Crete in Ararat were celebrating from afar when the greyhound they were designated in the TAB Great Chase Grand Final at The Meadows, Dr. Tucker (pictured), crossed the finish line first and won them $10,000. We have since got in touch with Wood ‘n’ Crete’s Russell Streeter to find out more about the organisation and how they plan to spend their windfall. Q. What does the TAB Great Chase mean to Wood ‘n’ Crete and why have representatives from the group attended the…

By order of the Peaky Blinders, or WA trainer Steve Withers, Tommy Shelby has hit Victorian soil and has earnt a rug in the invitational TAB Topgun field. The $150,000 to-the-winner Group 1 over 525m will be run at The Meadows on Saturday 7 November and is a part of the Metro Festival of Racing, which kicks off with the Hume Cup on Monday night. The box draw for the TAB Topgun field will be conducted on Monday night at The Meadows. The WA sensation, who is named after the…