THE €25,000 BresBet Easter Cup final is the centrepiece of Saturday's Shelbourne Park card with the whole meeting live on sisracing.tv No greyhound has made the decider unbeaten in the event but Hopes Teddy, who held that distinction until finding an inspired Da Bold Falcon far...

WEDNESDAY is weekend open-closing day for five tracks including Oxford and Towcester which both have £10,000 Category One competitions starting. Oxford has heats of the bet365 Hunt Cup over 650m on Saturday evening, while Towcester stages heats of the BetGoodwin & JR Racing Maiden Derby over 500m on Sunday...

TOWCESTER's Greyhound Trader sale on Monday 31st March lived up to expectations by producing record aggregate turnover of £210,950. In all, 44 of the 46 (96%) of the greyhounds offered were sold on the day including eight for whom off the bench deals were concluded after they...

STORMY PRISCILLA can end what has been a somewhat frustrating run lately by landing Tralee's 11.47, an A4 contest over 525 yards. Dermot Fitzgerald's bitch made a fine start to her career when reaching a newcomers' final here last autumn with a couple of...

TOWCESTER has confirmed that this year's Maiden Derby will go ahead as scheduled following a dual sponsorship agreement with BetGoodwin and the JR Racing Syndicate. The 500m Category One competition is regarded as an important stepping stone to the Star Sports/TRC English Derby which follows on quickly,...

FOR the second week running, Lennies Desire proved best of Paul Hennessy's quartet of Towcester trials on Wednesday - and by more of a margin this time. On a track rated -30, he posted 28.98sec in a solo over the 500m course compared to his 28.99sec...

THE GBGB has announced that racing offices will shortly have the ability to conduct automated trap draws through the new Racing Office System [ROS] which has been rolled out over the past few months in collaboration with Racing and Sports. The first phase involves minor open races and competition finals...

MONGYS WILD, trained by Mark Wallis for the MWD Partnership, produced a sensational track record performance as he ran riot to land the £15,000 final of the Time Greyhound Nutrition TV Trophy over 942m at Towcester. In doing so, he credited Wallis with a record fifth victory in the...

MILDENHALL Stadium, which hosted greyhound racing under the name Suffolk Downs until a devastating fire last summer, will rise from the ashes this weekend when staging a stock car meeting on Saturday. And hopes remain high of a resumption of greyhound racing at some point although much remedial work remains...

THE GBGB, which launched the withagreyhound.org.uk rehoming website last autumn, has enlisted rugby legend Joe Marler to spread the world. Recently retired himself, Marler features in ‘Adopt a Sporting Legend’ which is a spoof documentary from PR agency W Communications asking ‘ What’s more adoptable, a cuddly canine...

PAUL HENNESSY was once again the first Irish trainer to show his hand ahead of Towcester's big-race summer when sending a team of four for trials before racing on Wednesday. Lennies Desire was both first and fastest of the quartet to go round, posting 28.99sec in a...

GBGB chairman Jeremy Cooper has responded strongly to a recent RSPCA opinion piece published by website Nation Cymru following the proposed call for a ban on greyhound racing in Wales. The response, link below, has also been published in full by Nation Cymru. Cooper wrote: "I read with utter...