Category: Dogs

The greyhound racing world has lost one of its most respected participants in Neil Maurer, who has passed away after a long battle with cancer aged 82. Neil enjoyed enormous success as a breeder and trainer, with his most talented greyhounds including Adrenalize, Adrenalin Burst, Adrenalin Storm and Dazzling Dinney. Based in the Ballarat suburb of Lal Lal, Neil was also a highly respected canine chiropractor, who ran his hands over dogs of the calibre of World Title, Kantarn Bale and Destini Fireball to name just a few. Neil’s daughters…

Immunity has opened the $1.60 favourite for Thursday night’s group 2 Laurels Classic final after a dominant display in her heat on Sunday afternoon.

Ronald McDonald House is the third charity to receive a share of more than $65,000 from greyhound racing’s 2020 ‘Chase for Charity’ promotion. GRV Chair, Peita Duncan today presented a cheque for $23,293 to Ronald McDonald House Charities CEO, Peter Bishop, as part of GRV and state-wide radio show Off The Bench’s fundraising effort. Each weekend for 40 weeks during 2020, ‘Off The Bench’ hosts Craig Hutchison (Ronald McDonald House) and Liam Pickering (Men’s Shed Association) placed $500 each on a greyhound, with all winnings being raised for their respective charities. A…

Provincial star Yozo Bale is attempting to become only the sixth greyhound to capture the Group 2 Bendigo Cup-Ballarat Cup double. Back in July, Yozo Bale and Tiggerlong Tonk provided Mount Wallace trainer Correy Grenfell, 26, with the Bendigo Cup quinella. And on Saturday night, Yozo Bale is chasing a $47,000 first prize in the BFC Ballarat Cup final (450m) – Race 8 at 8.48pm. WATCH: Yozo Bale (8) clocks 25.40sec taking out a G2 Ballarat Cup heat last week. He will join Tivoli Man (1993/1994), Lansley Bale (1998), Tom’s…

It could be a big 48 hours for Correy Grenfell who has Tiggerlong Tonk in tonight’s G1 Hobart Thousand heats (461m) and Yozo Bale in the Group 2 Ballarat on Saturday night. A genuine superstar, Tiggerlong Tonk ($1.50F) contests Heat 4 – Race 6 Box 8 – at 9.07pm. Tiggerlong Tonk finished fifth to retired champion Hooked On Scotch in last year’s Hobart Thousand final, but Grenfell says “he’s a seasoned campaigner now”. “He’s at his peak in terms of maturity and is a lot more consistent early and a…

Victorian greyhound racing enjoyed some very strong outcomes in areas such as greyhound wel-fare, customer growth and its racing program during 2019-20 despite major challenges. The code’s performance over the year is detailed in Greyhound Racing Victoria’s (GRV) 2019-20 Annual Report, tabled in the Victorian Parliament today. Some of the year’s highlights include the re-homing of 2,542 greyhounds and a 25% reduction in euthanasia numbers over the previous year. Victoria’s greyhound racing program expanded to 1,198 race meetings over the year, including new events such as the inaugural SEN National…

It takes supreme confidence and a little courage to name a greyhound, or any racing animal for that matter, Special Talent and Mick Carter is hoping his judgement will be vindicated in Saturday’s Group 2 Ballarat Cup Final (450m). Kialla-based Carter is a man of few words and certainly isn’t one to get carried away with his greyhounds but he and father Mal had such a lofty opinion of Special Talent they burdened him with the optimistic moniker. “He’s been in the kennels since he was seven months old and…