Fastest Qualifier Draws Top Box For Big Dog Cup
Top performer Santino Marella is sure to head into Thursday night’s Group 3 Big Dog Queensland Cup at Albion Park as favourite after drawing box two in the final.
The Stephen Rolf-trained, Surf Lorian-dog dominated his heat winning by almost six lengths and in a blistering time of 34.97.
Jumping from box two tonight, the classy middle-distance runner only made the step up to 600m for the first time last week, and will be looking to take the $15,000 winner’s cheque in only his second start.
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High Earner Proves To Be Just That In Qld Derby
Australia’s newest superstar sprinter High Earner ($2.50) swept to his third Group victory in 18 starts when he won Thursday night’s Group 2 Qld Derby (520m) at Albion Park.
The son of Collision-Double Guess led throughout to win by three-quarters of a length over Fedex with a head to Dashing Corsair in third.
High Earner has now won 13 of his 20 race starts and been placed six times.
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Greyhound Racing Tips For Thursday 18th June 2009
Welcome to Australian Racing Greyhound’s free Greyhound Racing Tips for Thursday 18th June 2009 with Tips tonight from Sandown Park (Victoria), Dapto (New South Wales), Albion Park (Queensland), Angle Park (South Australia) and Mandurah (West Australia).
Some fantastic Greyhound Racing coming our way tonight with the semi finals of the Group 1 Laurels for the young females, heats of the Group 2 McKenna Memorial and, in our opinion, the best Group 2 Queensland Derby final seen for decades as well as the Group 3 Queensland Cup heats at Albion Park.
The scratching of Setanta from the Queensland Derby final has only strengthened to quality of the field with Fedex gaining the run from first reserve. Should be a great race and if you only do one thing tonight be sure to tune in at 9:10pm for what should be one of the best races you’ll see this year.
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Greyhound Racing Tips For Wednesday 10th June 2009
Welcome to Australian Racing Greyhound’s free Greyhound Racing Tips for Wednesday 10th June 2009 with Tips tonight from Ballarat (Victoria), Warrnambool (Victoria), Bulli (New South Wales), Ipswich (Queensland) and Cannington (West Australia).
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I don’t like Tuesdays and Bob Geldof definitely went one day early. After overlooking a scartching we managed 2 wins and a 2nd from our 5 Tips for a small loss of about 1.5 bets. Not terrible and certainly not enough to worry our profit margin.
So, with tonight’s racing coming Ballarat (Victoria), Warrnambool (Victoria), Bulli (New South Wales), Ipswich (Queensland), and Cannington (West Australia), lets review our betting advice for those tracks.
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Queen Lauryn Shock Scratching From McKenna Memorial
In a blow to connections and both the Sandown and Albion Park Greyhound Racing Clubs, the first lady of Australian Greyhound Racing, Queen Lauryn has been scratched from this Thursday night’s Group 2 McKenna Memorial heats and will also miss the upcoming Superstayers Challenge at Albion Park.
Owner Steve Hawkins has reported this morning that trainer Tony Brett has been forced to scratch his former star sprinter and now confirmed staying superpower, after she came on season, yet again.
Queen Lauryn was to have lined up in box seven at Sandown this Thursday night in the Group 2 McKenna Memorial against Chinatown Lad, Amity Bale and Octane Al; after her last start demolition job of the Albion Park Group 1 Gold Cup against super field.
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Queensland Derby Night The Best In Years
The bookies will have trouble deciding opening prices this Thursday night at Albion Park for the running of the 36th Group Two Queensland Derby.
The exciting heats last week produced a multitude of potential winners, and the box draw has evened the $38,000 race considerably.
To make doing the form more difficult, Setanta has been scratched from the race, which makes way for Group One Maturity winner Fedex to fill the box five vacancy and confirm the best Queensland Derby field in years.
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Sponsors 10th Anniversary Could Bolt In The Derby
Jacobs Well-based businessman and Brisbane Greyhound Racing Club sponsor Paul Felgate might just get a fairytale this Thursday night in his tenth anniversary of sponsoring the Queensland Derby.
The Group Two race, which dates back to the Gabba Greyhound Racing Club where the home of the Brisbane Lions now stands, was first sponsored by Mr Felgate’s electrical contractors business in 1999.
Now ten years on the former greyhound trainer has his first greyhound in the race as owner of speedy dog, Jamaican Bolt, named after the flamboyant world sprinting sensation from Jamaica, Usain Bolt.
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Brandons Electrical Queensland Derby Final Thursday 18th June 2009
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Thursday 18th June 2009
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Box Draw Evens Out Queensland Derby Final
Next week’s Brandons Electrical Queensland Derby will have punters scratching their heads after the box draw evened up the field following last night’s Heats.
Experience at Albion Park shined through in the six Heats, with several Brisbane regulars making the cut, including fastest qualifier and reigning WA Derby winner, High Earner who won in 30.09.
The Group Two race is worth $38,000 including a $25,000 winners cheque.
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Greyhound Racing Tips For Thursday 11th June 2009
Welcome to Australian Racing Greyhound’s free Greyhound Racing Tips for Thursday 11th June 2009 with Tips tonight from Sandown Park (Victoria), Dapto (New South Wales), Albion Park (Queensland), Angle Park (South Australia) and Mandurah (West Australia).
Some fantastic Greyhound Racing coming our way tonight with the heats of the Group 1 Laurels for the young females and the males leading the way at Albion Park in the Queensland Derby heats. We’ll provide our betting Tips for each of the heats and hopefully find a few winners.
Last night’s Tips weren’t far off the mark with 3 firsts and 3 seconds from the 6 selections. Unfortunately the 3 winners were shades of red on the totes , so hopefully some of you worked the 6 Tips around the exotics and got a nice collect. Mind you, you’ll go along way to find another free tipping service that can provide 100% of selections in first or second place.
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All Stars Battle In Brisbane For Queensland Derby
The Sky Channel Winter Chasing Carnival at Albion Park continues to heat up as Australia’s best young male sprinters line up this Thursday for the Group Two Brandons Electrical Queensland Derby.
The heats feature all-star fields of Group dogs from around Australia and they are sure to produce one of the best Queensland Derbys in the history of Brisbane Greyhound Racing.
The $38,000, 520m final will take place next Thursday, 18th June.
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Brandons Electrical Queensland Derby Heats Thursday 11th June 2009
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Queens Delivers Gold For One Lucky Punter
One lucky punter ended up over $1800 richer after the Cartwright Property Group Gold Cup last night by outlaying only pocket change.
The punter, James Allen, won the Unitab $500 Bet promotion on the Gold Cup and placed it on Queen Lauryn, who took out the $74,000 race for trainer Tony Brett.
The $500 Bet promotion gives one lucky punter who attends Albion Park a $500 win-bet on the Group race of the night and to enter all they have to do is put any losing betting (TOTE) ticket, with their details on the back, into the entry boxes.
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Trifecta For Champion Ipswich Greyhound Trainer
Queensland Greyhound Of The Year Contender Size Can Matter
Amongst a barrage of Group and Feature race wins for 2008, Mr Kay trains or owns three out of the four finalist greyhounds in the running for the prestigious Queensland Greyhound of the Year award.
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WA Greyhound Of The Year Final Three Named
The three final contenders for the 2008 Schweppes WA Greyhound of the Year (GOTY) title have been officially released by Racing and Wagering Western Australia.
Elektra, Eye Murrunna and Miss Slick are the three greyhounds in the running for the Award which honours the best performed greyhound during the calendar year.
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Dual Enforcer Continues To Rack Up The Wins
Away from the spotlight of group racing and headline press, a 33kg Black dog in South East Queensland is quietly going about the business of building the race form of a budding stud dog and future champion.
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Size Does Matter
Boxes win races, just ask trainer Reg Kay. Kay’s star sprinter Size Can Matter (Elite State-Queen Size) utilized his rails box draw to perfection to lead throughout to win Thursday night’s Group 2 Qld Derby at Albion Park.
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Brandons Electrical Queensland Derby Final Thursday 19th June 2008
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Brandons Electrical Queensland Derby Heats Thursday 12th June 2008
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