Four Of NZ’s Best Greyhounds Go Head To Head

Four top greyhounds will battle it out in the $60,000 New Zealand Shootout race at Manukau Stadium on Thursday night.

Greyhound Racing New Zealand (GRNZ) Racing Manager Ross Gove says the race is unique as it features only four dogs and is ‘winner takes all’.
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Size Can Matter All The Way Platinum Paws Winner

The biggest stake in the history of NZ greyhound racing in Australasia is heading to Queensland. Race favourite Size Can Matter comfortably won the $250,000 Platinum Paws final at Addington Raceway Friday night, and the $NZ135,000 first-place cheque.
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Size Can Matter All Set For Platinum Paws Glory

The flight across the Tasman has not phased Queensland’s hopes at taking out New Zealand’s richest greyhound race, says top trainer Dave Irwin.
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NZ Greyhound Racing Centenary Celebrations Start

Greyhound Racing New Zealand’s (GRNZ) commemoration of 100 Years of Governance starts today. The Centenary will unite people from all over the country to look back on what we’ve achieved together over the last century.
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Australasia’s Best Set For Platinum Paws Final

Excitement is building as New Zealand’s richest ever greyhound race draws near. The Gold Band Finance Platinum Paws race will run this Friday 17 October at 8:33 pm.
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NZ Greyhound Trainer Profile : Craig Roberts - Part 2

After several years at the top of the greyhound training tree, Craig Roberts found the pressures of the job proving too much. In the second of a two-part series, he talks to David McCarthy about changes he made and his plea for a new greyhound track in Canterbury.
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Size Can Matter A Class Above In Platinum Paws

Size Can Matter confirmed his favouritism for Friday nights Platinum Paws Final with an impressive all the way 30.14 win at Addington on Friday night.
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NZ Greyhound Trainer Profile : Craig Roberts - Part 1

New Zealander Craig Roberts came to greyhound training from a family of harness-racing enthusiasts, and success in another career. He switched after spending time at NZ’s old QE II race track at New Brighton. In the first of a two-part series, he talks about the good and bad along the way.
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Octanol Primed For Platinum Paws Semi Finals Friday

The David Hobby-owned and trained WA greyhound Octanol has settled in and trialled well in his quest to win New Zealand’s richest ever greyhound race – the NZ$250,000 Platinum Paws.
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Platinum Paws Favourite & NZ’s Best Chance Knocked Out

Drama and sensation were the order of the opening day of the historic $250,000 Platinum Paws greyhound meeting at Addington yesterday, and easily the biggest sensation was the exit of hotly favoured local bitch Winsome Ashley, who went out of the series after falling at the first turn and spraining a wrist.
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Aussies Land In NZ In Seach Of Platinum Paws Glory

New Zealand greyhound racing is getting ready to celebrate the richest dog race ever held in the country, the $250,000 Platinum Paws.
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Jaykayell To Represent SA At Platinum Paws

Following last Thursday night’s one-off SA Heat of the Platinum Paws, Jaykayell has earned the right to represent South Australia in New Zealand for the Platinum Paws.
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Platinum Paws Just One Part Of NZ Centenary Celebrations

In less than four weeks Greyhound Racing New Zealand (GRNZ) will commemorate 100 Years of Governance with a three day celebration in Christchurch.
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NSW Trainers Side Step NZ Platinum Paws Series

Following on from the poor nominations from Victorian trainers for New Zealands Platinum Paws Series, New South Wales has attracted just three nominations.
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NSW Platinum Paws Noms Close Tomorrow

In the wake of Victoria’s failed attempt to attract nominations for New Zealand’s Platinum Paws Series, nominations for the New South Wales heats and final close tomorrow.
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Victorian Greyhound Trainers Shun Platinum Paws Series

Victorian greyhound trainers have demonstrated their disatisfaction with the Platinum Pawes Series by voting with their feet and not nominating for the series.
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Platinum Paws Series Celebrates NZ Centenary

A celebration of a hundred years of speed, suspense and excitement is coming to Christchurch in October. Greyhound Racing New Zealand (GRNZ) will commemorate 100 Years of Governance with a three day celebration in Christchurch.
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Fahey Continues Last Season’s Form

Punters might have thought it was the dogs standing on top of the victory dais at Addington that heralded a new wave of stars from the Fahey team. But really it was the pups that Dave Fahey found standing on top of their flooded kennels the following morning that signal the best is yet to come from Canterbury’s million-dollar man.
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Grant Makes It 100 For The Season

Mid Canterbury greyhound trainer Malcolm Grant has 100 reasons to smile this week. For the first time in his 30-plus year career, Grant has trained his 100th winner in just a season of racing, after one of the young stars of his kennels raced home in fine form in Dunedin on Monday.
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Budding NZ Star Finished

Cawbourne Jessie, the greyhound with the best form line in New Zealand, is unlikely to race again.
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Grants To Continue Winning Way At Southland

It has been a good season for Mid-Canterbury greyhound trainer Malcolm Grant, and Ascot Park has treated him well in 2007-08.
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Winsome Ashley On Target For Topgun

A greyhound field that represents a competitive blend of hardened race campaigners; touches of absolute brilliance and the promise of a real talented up-and-comer will contest the inaugural running of the New Zealand Top Gun Invitation at the Addington Raceway tonight.
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Bionic Dreams Undefeated In Southland Greyhound Series

Bionic Dream put paid to her rivals in the Southland Greyhound Series C1 Final at Ascot Park yesterday.
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Winsome Ashley Hot Favourite For NZ Futurity

The red-hot favourite for the group one greyhound New Zealand Futurity Final ($30,000) at Wanganui’s Hatrick Raceway tomorrow night suffered an unexpected defeat in Dunedin a couple of starts ago.
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NZ’s Platinum Paws Trumps Australia’s Richest Races

The New Zealand Greyhound Racing Association has just confirmed that they will be running one of the richest greyhound races to be held this year held in Australasia.
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New Zealand Racing Board Confirms 2008/09 Racing Calendar

There are an additional 244 races scheduled for the 2008/09 racing season which will provide increased revenue generating opportunities for the industry, the New Zealand Racing Board announced today.
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NZ’s Top Trainers Up $700,000 This Year

New Zealand’s two leading greyhound kennels have so far won prizemoney of $700,000 this season. The Cantebury kennels of Dave (pictured) and Jean Fahey; and John McInerney’s Darfield kennels are New Zealands leading prizemoney earners so far this season.
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