BOUNCING MONARCH, joint-fastest in the opening round of the BOYLE Sports Irish Derby, is in Friday action in round two of the €125,000 Classic over 550 yards at Shelbourne Park (live on sisracing.tv). Michael O'Donovan's star faces two fellow heat winners in the...

BOUNCING MONARCH and Sleight Of Hand both produced sensational runs to jointly-set the first round standard in the BOYLE Sports Irish Greyhound Derby over 550 yards at Shelbourne Park. Michael O'Donovan's Kirby Memorial champion Bouncing Monarch opened Saturday's session with a heat 13...

WEEKLY updates from the four UK greyhound tracks which feature regularly on the sisracing.tv service. Minimum requirement - 10 runners during the previous 14 days. Frank Bryce's 40% strike rate at Valley - 4 winners from 10 runners - sees him top the strike rate standings ahead of Glenn Foot...

MAGICAL BE NIFTY (9/2) stole a march on strongly-fancied kennelmate Magical Mag (5/6F) as she led home a Pat Guilfoyle 1-2 in the €10,000 final of the On Faya Galway Oaks over 525 yards. Outsider Ballyhoe Natalee was marginally first to show but Magical Be...

GBGB chief executive Mark Bird has reflected on the sport's "brilliant" Centenary Gala Dinner held at Dunstall Park in Wolverhampton to mark the 100th anniversary of the first British greyhound racing meeting at Belle Vue on 24th July 1926. Bird said: “It was an absolute pleasure...

GBGB chairman Sir Philip Davies told the audience at Dunstall Park's celebration of the centenary of greyhound racing that they now have a responsibility "not simply to protect what we've inherited, but to leave it stronger than we found it." Davies was the key...

GREYHOUND racing got together at Dunstall Park in Wolverhampton to mark the centenary of the sport. The newest greyhound track in the country turned the clock back to mark 100 years of the sport by mirroring Britain’s first-ever race meeting held at Belle Vue exactly a century earlier...

THE Welsh Greyhound Derby is to return to the racing schedule later this year with Star Sports agreeing to back the event at Valley Stadium. The competition had a storied history under licensed rules beginning from inception at Welsh White City in Cardiff [1928 to 1937], then post-war switching...

The countdown to the 2026 BOYLE Sports Irish Greyhound Derby has officially begun with a launch event taking place at the famous Riverside Kennels of five-times Irish Derby-winning trainer Graham Holland. Representatives from Greyhound Racing Ireland (GRI) and title sponsor BOYLE Sports joined Holland at his Tipperary base...

THE Grand National is returning to the greyhound racing calendar after an absence of one year following Star Pelaw's announcement of a £10,000 to-the-winner Category 1 event over its 435m hurdles course in October. The north-east track, aided greatly by trainers Rick Holloway and...

05/06 - Tralee: Race Of Champions - Ballycowen Frank BALLYCOWEN FRANK continued trainer Michael O'Donovan's incredible big-race form with a sensational track record victory in the €15,000 Callaway Pro Am @ Stud Race of Champions final over 550 yards at Tralee's Kingdom Stadium. O&...

THERE may have been no racing at Harlow on Friday night due to the exceptionally high temperatures but a planned team challenge fundraiser in support of Young Epilepsy still went ahead. Participants came together to support the charity despite the change of schedule and an outstanding £3,128.50 was...