GRV News
Geelong Gold Cup goes Facebook Live
By Greyhound Racing Victoria There is no doubt this years Geelong Gold Cup is as good as it gets – Simon Told Helen, Shima Shine, Catch The Thief and Tiggerlong Tonk are just some of the names vying for Group ... Read More »
Rangeview Nursing Home chasing back-to-back windfalls in Great Chase
By Greyhound Racing Victoria By Ben Pritchard Wangaratta’s Rangeview Nursing Home collected a top prize of $10,000 at the 2019 TAB Great Chase Grand Final and, 12 months on, they’re hoping for a similar payday this Wednesday. While crowds currently ... Read More »
Community groups to share in $24,000 in greyhound racing’s TAB Great Chase Grand Final on Wednesday
By Greyhound Racing Victoria Twenty two Victorian community groups that care for the intellectually or physically disabled are in the running for a $10,000 windfall in greyhound racing’s TAB Great Chase Grand Final at The Meadows on Wednesday. While crowds ... Read More »
Magpie triggers technological trickery
By Greyhound Racing Victoria Shrewd observers may have noticed a discrepancy between the moving vision and the photo finish in Race 2 at The Meadows on 26 September. Vision of the race shows a magpie flying in the opposite direction ... Read More »
Two-up Toms?
By Peter Quilty Here’s an AFL/Greys opportunity that looks a safer bet than a ‘throw of the pennies’. TAB is offering $3.00 about Geelong spearhead Tom “Tomahawk” Hawkins kicking 2+ goals against Brisbane tonight and Heathcote-based sprinter Two Up Thommo ... Read More »
The Usual Suspects
By Peter Quilty It was a case of ‘the usual suspects’ in tonight’s Group 2 Geelong Cup Gold Cup heats (520m). And, oh boy, do we have a race on our hands in next Friday night’s $50,000-to-the-winner final. Superstars Simon ... Read More »
Here’s to the Sydney Cup
By Greyhound Racing Victoria Here’s Tears has added the Group 3 Sydney Cup to his resume tonight after a dominant all the way victory at Wentworth Park. Fellow Victorian Sunset Bourbski came from nowhere to finish second in the $100,000 ... Read More »
Paint Peeler’s surprise Great Chase finish
By gerardg Jason Whybrow received the surprise of his greyhound racing life when Paint Peeler qualified for the Group 3 Great Chase Final with a stunning last-to-first semi-final victory on Wednesday afternoon. On the drive from Wangaratta to The Meadows, ... Read More »
‘Tornado’ out of Sydney Cup
By Peter Quilty Ageless staying king Tornado Tears is a shock scratching from the Group 3 Sydney Cup (720m) at Wentworth Park on Friday night. His bitterly disappointed trainer, Robert Britton, advised that the five-time G1 winner had stripped off ... Read More »
Waging MDC War!
By Peter Quilty Waging War received his racing sobriquet from a Rod Stewart song, “I Was Only Joking”. But there’s no time for jest – albeit trainer Glenn Rounds hopes for the ‘last laugh’ – when he chases a $1 ... Read More »
