Straight track match racing, a test of both speed and strength

September 14, 2016 Comments Off

By Duncan Stearn

AFTER Healesville, the premier straight track in the country, conducted its showcase Cup day on Sunday September 11, it’s worth remembering that in past decades one of the ways in which owners and trainers would spruik the merits of their latest kennel champs was by challenging all comers to the four-legged equivalent of a duel at dawn: the match race.

While the record books are full of some classic, and not-so-memorable, match-ups on the circle, the seven match races recounted below all took place up the straight and, notably, not one of them featured a greyhound who was, or would become, Read full article

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