Matcott Breaks South Australian Greyhound Training Record

Murray Bridge greyhound trainer Shaun Matcott has scored one of the break throughs of his training career, beating the record for training the most South Australian TAB winners in a calendar year.

As of November 18, Matcott and wife Wendy had trained 377 winners, beating the previous record of 375 winners, formerly owned by another Murray Bridge trainer, Steve Collins.
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Bunyip Gawler Gold Cup Heats Draw Hot Fields

The focus of racing shifts to Gawler next week for the running of the Bunyip Gawler Gold Cup.

At close of nominations, GRSA had received fifty nominations and will be running six heats. The heats will be run next Tuesday (11th), with the $25,000 Group 3 Final on Sunday the 16th November.
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SA GBOTA & Gawler Clubs Signal Amalgamation

In a joint state today issued by the Chairs of the SA GBOTA (who run the straight track coursing at Virginia) and the Gawler Greyhound Racing Club; both clubs have expressed a desire to combine and approach Greyhound Racing South Australia (GRSA) to sign off on the deal.

Part of the deal will see the new entity approach GRSA to establish a new greyhound racing venue in South Australia comprising a straight track, a one turn track and an “eight bend” track.
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Everlong Bale Bolts In Toward Port Pirie Cup

Two strong heats for the Cup final were conducted on Sunday 5th of October, with the first being won by Everlong Bale in 30.52 and winning by over 10 lengths. The Shaun Matcott trained bitch is the winner of the recent Strathalbyn Cup and may start favourite in the final on that performance.
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No Race Dates For Murray Bridge Straight Track

Following investigations with Murray Bridge Greyhound Racing Club, GOTBA and track inspections of their respective facilities, a recommendation went to the GRSA Board for straight track racing to be allocated to the Murray Bridge race track for a period of 18 months.
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Coca Cola SA Derby Heats On Wednesday

GRSA will run the Heats of the Coca-Cola Derby next Wednesday at Angle Park. At the close of nominations Friday, threw were 30 greyhounds entered, meaning that there will be four heats run on Wednesday.
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Sweet About Me Heads SA Oaks Nominations

The 2008 Coffex Coffee Oaks begins next Wednesday, with 5 heats of the classic at Angle Park. At close of nominations GRSA had 35 greyhounds entered.
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Racing Is Fun Syndications Sponsor SA Greyhounds

Greyhound Racing SA is pleased to announce that Racing is Fun Syndications have agreed to support the next the monthly feature at Angle Park.
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Full TAB & Sky Coverage For Port Pirie Meeting

GRSA advises that the meeting listed for this Sunday 7th September has been upgraded to a Sky Channel/TAB Twilight Meeting. The fixture was originally listed as a day non-TAB meeting.
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SA Main Distance Chances All Dissapoint

While Rapidvite National Sprint Championship South Australian Heats were unlikely to provide the eventual winer, it was hoped that the Rapidvite National Distance Championship South Australian Heats would be able provide a serious contender for the National title.
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Cool Keepsake Looks To Have SA Nat’s In Keeping

With the withdrawal of Scull Murphy, the Rapidvite National Sprint Championship South Australian Heats lost a lot of their interest and with only 3 heats and little depth it looked unlikely any serious contenders would emerge that could trouble the elite chaser’s at Wentworth Park in the big final.
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SA National Sprint & Distance Champs Noms

At close of Nominations GRSA had received a total of 45 nominations for the SA state series of the 2008 Rapidvite National Sprint and Distance Championships.
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Tickets Please In A Solo Trip

Portland trained greyhound Tickets Please confirmed his class by winning Saturday’s $1000 Elgrando Anniversary Cup final at Mount Gambier’s Tara Park Raceway.
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Gawler Produce Stake Heats Draw Close

Greyhound Racing SA (GRSA) and the Gawler Greyhound Racing Club will conduct the 2008 Gawler Produce Stake from next Tuesday afternoon (15th July).
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Classy Ace Claims Port Augusta Cup

Anyone knows that good breeding will always come to the fore. And for Booleroo Centre greyhound trainer Don Fiebig, that was certainly the case when his top dog Classy Ace took out the prestigious Port Augusta City Council Cup on Saturday.
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Strathalbyn Get Green Light

GRSA Stewards today inspected the new work completed at the Southern Greyhound Raceway and gave approval for racing to re-commence at Strathalbyn.

Trials set-down for Friday 25th April and the TAB race meeting listed for Sunday 27th April will proceed as programmed.
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Track Maintenance Puts Doubt Over Meeting

GRSA has been advised by the Southern Greyhound Raceway that work on the bottom turn fence and catching pen should be finalised today.

As a result there will be a track inspection tomorrow morning by GRSA stewards.
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Angle Park And Mount Gambier Fields To Be Redrawn

Operations Manager for Greyhound Racing SA, Mr Peter Smith, has advised that all fields for the Angle Park meeting set down for Thursday 3rd April 2008 will be redrawn and the previously isssued box draw will be cancelled.

This announcement comes in the wake of complaints from some trainers that there nominations were not considered for the Angle Park meeting.
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Kulpara Greyhound Races Cancelled

The meeting listed for Kulpara on Saturday 15th March 2008 has been cancelled due to the hot weather predicted for the rest of the week.

The Club is concerned that they will not be able to water the grass track sufficiently for this meeting to proceed.
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