In-form husband-and-wife training team Mark and Lisa Delbridge look certain to make their presence felt at Ballarat on Saturday night, with GRV’s Watchdog formguide predicting a huge five-winner haul from their 12 starters. “I hope they’re right!” Mark Delbridge quipped. It’s been a big week for the Balliang-based Delbridges, with Spring Hummer breaking the Horsham 410m record on Tuesday. They’re set to continue on their winning way at Ballarat with The Watchdog marking Chopper Bale (race 3), Zipping Burns (race 5), Zipping Imogen (race 7), Winlock Mungo (race 8) and…
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Here’s to the Sydney Cup
Here’s Tears has added the Group 3 Sydney Cup to his resume tonight after a dominant all the way victory at Wentworth Park. Fellow Victorian Sunset Bourbski came from nowhere to finish second in the $100,000 to the winner event over the 720 metre distance. Here’s Tears, who is trained by master staying conditioner Robert Britton, was without his older brother Tornado Tears after he was scratched from the race due to a torn pad he sustained in the heats last week. The son of Fernando Bale and Tears Siam…
Paint Peeler’s surprise Great Chase finish
Jason Whybrow received the surprise of his greyhound racing life when Paint Peeler qualified for the Group 3 Great Chase Final with a stunning last-to-first semi-final victory on Wednesday afternoon. On the drive from Wangaratta to The Meadows, Whybrow and partner Nicole Lummas were just hoping Paint Peeler would run well enough to earn a return trip to Melbourne next Wednesday for a low key 600m Grade 5 affair. But Paint Peeler, amazingly Whybrow’s first city starter in a training career that began as a Year 10 student back in…
‘Tornado’ out of Sydney Cup
Ageless staying king Tornado Tears is a shock scratching from the Group 3 Sydney Cup (720m) at Wentworth Park on Friday night. His bitterly disappointed trainer, Robert Britton, advised that the five-time G1 winner had stripped off a back pad winning a heat last week in 42.18sec. “It’s very disappointing and I’d say he’ll be out for a few weeks… But we’ll have to see how it heals,” he said. Britton’s hopes in the final now rest with Tornado Tears’ younger brother Here’s Tears, who clocked the fastest heat time…
Waging MDC War!
Waging War received his racing sobriquet from a Rod Stewart song, “I Was Only Joking”. But there’s no time for jest – albeit trainer Glenn Rounds hopes for the ‘last laugh’ – when he chases a $1 million winner’s purse in Sydney on Friday night. Waging War is one of two Victorians – the other Wallbanger – contesting the TAB Million Dollar Chase final (520m) at Wentworth Park. He’s drawn Box 4 in the world’s richest greyhound race and is a $26 outsider on TAB’s fixed odds market. (Waging War…
Bartolo steps down from GRV board
Ray Bartolo has advised the chair of GRV that he will be stepping down as a director of the GRV board. One of Victoria’s most respected greyhound breeders, trainers and owners, Ray was on the GRV board for over 12 months. During his time on the board, Ray held positions on the animal welfare committees of Greyhound Clubs Australia and GRV, as well as serving on GRV’s Animal Welfare Taskforce. He has also previously been a director at the Geelong Greyhound Racing Club and the Melbourne Greyhound Racing Association. “Ray…
Great Chase: time to unearth another group of young stars
Sovereign Wind has opened as the $3 favourite with TAB to win the Group 3 TAB Great Chase after an eye-catching victory in the semi-finals today at The Meadows. Sovereign Wind has drawn box four in the $47,000 to-the-winner Great Chase which will be run on Wednesday 21 October. A winner of six races from ten career starts, Sovereign Wind led from start to finish in his semi-final, stopping the clock in a best of the day 29.877sec over the 525m. Watch: Sovereign Wind win his semi-final of the Great…
Hummer ‘compresses’ Horsham record
The aptly named Spring Hummer has really been ‘humming’ lately. And his ‘noise’ got louder when the speed sensation broke Horsham’s 410-metre track record yesterday. Trained at Balliang by Lisa Delbridge, Spring Hummer ($1.90F) clocked a flying 22.78sec – lowering Kipling’s 22.84sec mark by around one length. “He’s been running well, but the record came as a bit of a surprise,” Lisa said. “I was watching the race at home and Mark (Lisa’s husband) said ‘that’s fast you know; I think it may be the track record’.” WATCH: Spring Hummer…
Good vibes at the Great Chase.
Although the TAB Great Chase in Cranbourne has been postponed this year due to COVID-19, Michele Burns and the team at Cerebral Palsy Education Centre have a daily reminder of the time they won $1,000 in prize money. The Cerebral Palsy Education Centre, located in Glen Waverley, provides physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech pathology (individually or in multidisciplinary groups), and they also enable families to access essential equipment they need in their daily lives. The $1,000 they won three years ago has enabled the centre to purchase vital items to…
Flashback: The Meadows Great Chase
By Ben Pritchard More than 250 very excited people from all over Melbourne headed to the Great Chase community day at The Meadows in October 2019, with live music and smiling faces a big part of the day. Among the big crowd last year were two of the most recent winners of the Great Chase Grand Final, 2018’s Broadmeadows Disability Service and 2017’s Nextt. Nextt is disability service based in Melton, which predominantly runs programs for people with autism. Carmel from Nextt explained that the group looks forward to the…