Wednesday Night’s Ballarat Free For All Is All Class

Punters are in for a treat at Ballarat’s Morshead Park on Wednesday when a field of quality chasers has been assembled in the Petstock Free for All over 450 metres.

The field is worthy of a group race with runners already amassing prize money in excess of $300,000.
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Great Chase Finalist Disqualified Due To Positive Swab

Greyhound Racing Victoria (GRV) has just notified Australian Racing Greyhound.com that one of the 2008 Great Chase Finalists has been disqualified from its semi-final win due to a positive swab and will not contest this Wednesday’s Great Chase Final held on Wednesday, 26th November, 2008 at the MGRA’s Meadows track..
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Darren Murray’s Good Run Set To Continue At Ballarat Tonight

Napoleons trainer Darren Murray will be hoping for another double on Thursday’s ten race twilight program at Ballarat.

Murray’s kennel has been on fire lately. His main chances on the program will be Pure Conquest and Splat.
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Carinya Society Right Behind Great Chase Rep Limburg Luke

Coburg organisation Carinya Society will win $1,000 if the greyhound Limburg Luke wins at Cranbourne on Tuesday.

Carinya Society is one of 64 remaining groups that cater for the intellectually and physically disabled to progress through to the second week of the three-week racing series, the Great Chase, proudly supported by your local TAB.
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Stormin Home Syndicate Could Celebrate At Ballarat Wednesday

The “Stormin Home” syndicate will certainly have something to cheer about when their chaser Nikayla Storm contests the Ballarat Greyhound Club Committee Final this Wednesday night.

The syndicate, which comprises three friends, bred Nikayla Storm before transferring him to Lara trainer Michelle Mallia-Magri to rear and train.
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Greyhound Adoption Program Christmas Party On November 16th

Free entry & car parking plus free entertainment are expected to attract a record number of locals to the Greyhound Adoption Program Christmas Party in Seymour on Sunday November 16.
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Bendigo Great Chase Series Windfall For Disability Service

Peter Harcourt Disability Services – a local non-profit community organisation – received a $1000 windfall yesterday when two of its assigned greyhounds won heats of the Great Chase at Bendigo.

Mike Smith, a PHDS coordinator for the past nine years, said he had already put forward a suggestion to his CEO that the monies be utilised to purchase outdoor furniture for a garden area.
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Formr AFL Player Kicks First Goal As A Trainer

Lance Whitnall scored his first win as a greyhound trainer on Monday.
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2008 Group 2 PETStock Ballarat Cup Moves To Blind Draw

The Group 2 PETstock Ballarat Greyhound Cup has been set down for December 10th 2008 and will carry close to $60,000 in stakemoney.

And following on from the popularity and success of the Geelong Cup precedent, all heats will be random blind draws, meaning no trainer or greyhound will get a free ride in to the $30,000 to the winner final as occurs with seeded heats.
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Warrnambool’s New Greyhound Track Officially Opened

The brand new track at the Warrnambool Greyhound Racing Club was officially opened last night by Greyhound Racing Victoria’s (GRV) Chairman, Mrs. Jan Wilson.
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Sky’s The Limit For Sky Ray

A big racing career for Napoleons greyhound Sky Ray could well be kick started when he contests the Neverfail Springwater Garde 5 Final at Ballarat on Wednesday night.

Sky Ray, from the Steve McKenna kennel, will jump from the coveted Box 1 and has been installed as the pre post favorite for the race.
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Rash Of Not Presenting Greyhounds To Race Continues In Vic

Hot on the heels of several other instances of greyhound trainers in Victoria not presenting greyhounds to race that have been drawn in fields, another instance occurred at yeserdays Sale meeting resulting in the trainer being fined $250.
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Victorian Trainers Marum & Mallia Magri Called To Inquiry

Stewards on 24 October, 2008 conducted an Inquiry into an alleged incident which took place at the Lara Greyhound Education Centre at 45 Gilletts Road, Lara on the 31st August 2008 between Mrs. M. Mallia-Magri and Mrs. D. Marum.
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Miss Mini Mouse & Betty’s Angel Quinella World Class Sires

Miss Mini Mouse and Betty’s Angel showed they are back to their best after the litter-sisters quinellaed the $10,000 World Class Sires at Sandown Park tonight.
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Hybrid Theory The Right Theory For Sandown Tonight

Eight of Australia’s best bitches will compete for the $7,000 first prize in tonight’s World Class Sires Special Event at Sandown Park.
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World Class Field Set For World Class Sires Special Event

Eight of Australia’s best bitches will compete in the $10,000 World Class Sires Special Event at Sandown Park this Thursday night.

Betty’s Angel, the winner of three Group 1 titles and a veteran of 12 Group race finals headlines the stellar field. She will be joined by litter-sister and dual Schweppes Melbourne Cup finalist Miss Mini Mouse.
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Vincent Oozing Confidence Over Oodles Rock

Neville Vincent has had many greyhounds through the Lal Lal kennel over the past 40 years, but he believes there has none better than Oodles Rocks who is engaged at Ballarat this Wednesday night.

Oodles Rocks will be looking for her seventh race victory in the first of three heats of the Neverfail Springwater Grade 5 to be run over 550 metres.
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Fallen Zorro Dillon Favourite, Hybrid Theory Returns

After the scratching of Chinatown Lad due to an infection in his tail, kennel-mate Fallen Zorro will is TAB Sportsbet’s favourite for the $36,000 Group 2 Sir John Dillon Memorial (715m) at Sandown Park.
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Tabcorp Contributes $18,000 To Great Chase Series

Greyhound Racing Victoria’s Great Chase series will be bigger and better than ever in 2008.
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Malone In Hot Water Over Race Name

Stewards on 11 October, 2008 conducted an Inquiry into an application by Mr. Paul Malone (Invermay, Vic) to register a racing name of a greyhound which was received at the GRV Office on 6 August, 2008. Mr. Malone did not attend the Inquiry.
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Monique Girl Back To Favourite Track Wednesday Night

Monique Girl saluted the judge at bolters odd’s at her last Ballarat start, and her connections will be hoping that she can repeat that performance at Ballarat’s Morshead Park on Wednesday. “She just loves racing at Ballarat” her trainer Janine Davis said.
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Violet Crumble Creates Bill Collins Memorial Boilover

Violet Crumble scored the biggest win of her career when she upset a stellar field in the $14,500 Bill Collins Memorial at Sandown Park tonight.
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Bill Collins Memorial Race At Sandown Tonight An Absolute Cracker

Trew Millions will resume from a month’s lay off in tonight’s $14,500 Bill Collins Memorial at Sandown Park. The superbly bred six-time Group finalist will have to overcome box 6 and several in-form chasers if he is to add to his $123,610 in prizemoney.
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New Track Continues GRV’s Love Affair With Early Pace

Warrnambool’s new track opened last night to much fanfare, but close analysis of the racing points toward the old adage - “the more things change, the more they stay the same“.
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Collins Wrapped In Shanahan Bale’s Chances At Ballarat

“He’s a big gangly dog, but he’s got loads of ability.” That’s the assessment of Lake Goldsmith trainer Steve Collins about his chaser Shanahan Bale who will contest the Flying Horse Tabaret Grade 5 Final at Ballarat on Wednesday night.
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Geelong Cup Festival Ambassador Named

Channel Seven sports reporter Dylan Howard is the ambassador for the Geelong Greyhound Racing Club’s 2008 ‘Blue and White Festival of Racing’ (October 3-31).
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Stoner Bale To Smoke ‘Em At Sandown Tonight

The talented Stoner Bale will look to continue his impressive rise through the grades in Schweppes Melbourne Cup Prelude 11 at Sandown Park tonight.
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Atlantic Prince Ballarat’s Best Bet Tonight

Atlantic Prince from the Ballarat kennel of Tony Jeffrey will be one for punters to follow in the Laurie Gray Memorial at Ballarat’s Morshead Park on Wednesday night.
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Owners & Greyhounds Set To Be Real Victims Of GRV’s Drop In Standards

Owners, those new to the greyhound industry, and the greyhounds themselves, will be the real victims from Greyhound Racing Victoria’s new trainers competency test, which seeks to dramtically decrease the standards required to be recognised as a public greyhound trainer in Victoria.
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Major Mission’s Warragul St Leger

Rising star Major Mission completed an $8000 special assignment at Warragul on Tuesday night. Major Mission – a son of former sprinting star Bond, who holds the Sandown Park 515-metre track record of 29.38sec – had a licence to thrill in the Topcat Video St. Leger final (424m).
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