Tales Of NSW Greyhound Racing’s Glory Days As Gov Launches Review

December 22, 2014 Comments Off
Tales Of NSW Greyhound Racing’s Glory Days As Gov Launches Review

By Katherine Ernst

Barry Colless with wife Judy

BARRY Colless pines for greyhound racing’s good old days.

The New South Wales based trainer, who is a welfare officer with the Greyhound Breeders, Owners and Trainers Association, misses the characters of the day.

And, at 75, with “42 or 43 years” in the business, he’d know a thing or two.

“I grew up with some of the characters in Sydney and you don’t see them today,” Colless told Australian Racing Greyhound.

“They looked after their greyhounds, they did things with their dogs that they don’t do today, you don’t rub the dogs down and massage ‘em and brush ‘em these days.

“Back then, they Read full article

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