Author: Editor BOAY

Dees fans will be hoping no ‘gremlins’ creep into this TAB cross-sports offer. The betting giant is offering $5.00 about Melbourne winning by 12pts or more against Essendon and the aptly named Get It Gizmo scoring at The Meadows greyhounds tonight. Melbourne is ninth, with eight wins from 16 matches, on the AFL ladder and Essendon 13th with six wins and one draw from the same amount of games. Meanwhile, the Harry Manolitsis-trained Get It Gizmo – winner of last year’s Group 1 Topgun at The Meadows – lines up…

To steal some lyrics from Sweet: “Oh yeah! It was electric… So perfectly hectic.” Yes, the Vics have turned the Million Dollar Chase qualifiers into a blitz! First it was Simon Told Helen at Temora, followed by Shima Shine in near-record time at Bulli. Then yesterday, Tiggerlong Tonk ($1.15F) “was like lightning” scoring by 8.75L in 30.00sec in an MDC heat (525m) at Wagga. And “boy I want to warn you”, the Vic blitz looks like continuing… WATCH: Tiggerlong Tonk (7) blitzes his rivals, clocking 30.00sec and scoring by 8.75L…

The prestigious BoyleSports Irish Greyhound Derby final (550yds) will be staged at Dublin’s iconic Shelbourne Park Greyhound Stadium on Sunday morning at 6.24am Melbourne time. (The meeting commences at 4.30am EST) An elite field of six will be chasing a €115,000 Euro first prize – equating to around $186,000 AUD – in a classic event first run at Shelbourne Park in 1932. The series commenced on August 14 with a total of 144 greyhounds competing to reach the final over six weekends of incredible action. Last week, the Graham Holland…

Seven years after leaving Malta for Australia, Creswick hobby trainer Stefano Cassar says he’s “living the dream” and preparing his small team of greyhounds is a huge part of that. In 2016, Cassar, 37, enjoyed immediate success with the very first greyhound he owned or trained, Caco Potion, qualifying for the Group 1 Bold Trease on Melbourne Cup night. Together with wife, Pasqalia, who also holds a trainers license, Cassar currently has six race dogs in work and he’ll be taking aim at his second straight Horsham double on Saturday…

Tiggerlong Tonk will head into Wagga’s Million Dollar Case Regional heats tonight with a home track advantage. The son of Dyna Double One and Tiggerlong Dot was educated on the Wagga track, making it an easy choice for Victorian trainer Corey Grenfell to head in that direction in his bid to become the next Million Dollar Chase winner. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Tiggerlong Tonk will be in the care of owner and breeder Michael Finn. “There is a lot of trust involved in having someone else in control of one…

It’s not dubbed ‘Rapidfire Racing’ for nothing! The Group 3 Speed Star series – over all three distances (525m, 600m and 725m) at The Meadows – lived up to its hype. There’s a certain aura about one-on-one match-race contests and although COVID-19 protocols denied on-course tangibility, you could still ‘feel’ the atmosphere. Twenty-four greyhounds, 12 matches and $105,000 in prizemoney… The overall finishing positions in each event (split into four match races) were determined by the individual times recorded. WATCH: Christo Bale (2) semaphore a sizzling 29.61sec defeating Catch The…

Robert Britton classes himself as a non-punter. Greyhound training is more than enough, but there is one time of year that he does enjoy a flutter on the dogs and that time is Speed Star and luckily enough tomorrow night is Speed Star night. Armed with a team of three for The Meadows edition of the Speed Star, Britton isn’t as confident in his team as other years but that isn’t to say he isn’t excited. The match up that has the greyhound sphere talking is between Britton’s kennel mates…

Victorian super sprinter Shima Shine is setting his sights on a second tilt at the world’s richest greyhound race – the TAB Million Dollar Chase. And ‘Team Dailly’ is hoping he ultimately goes one rung higher on the presentation dais than last year. Shima Shine (Nov ’17 Barcia Bale x Shima Song) will contest an MDC regional heat (472m) at Bulli tonight – Race 7 Box 6 at 9.03pm. He’ll follow a similar pattern as last year when he finished third in his MDC heat prior to winning a regional…