THE €125,000 BOYLE Sports Irish Derby over 550 yards is the highlight of the Irish greyhound calendar with all eyes on Shelbourne Park for the next six weekends as well as on sisracing.tv which has every race in every round live. Jonathan Kay caught up with the sponsor&...

THE weekly Irish Focus takes in all the big racing in Ireland and is published on sisracing.tv every Wednesday. This week's edition features action from Curraheen Park [Kasco Derby], Dundalk [Irish Sprint Cup], Galway [Galway Oaks], Kilkenny [Bitch 525], Limerick [Cambridgeshire] and Shelbourne Park [pre-Irish Derby]...

FOULKSCOURT BALE got it right in some style as he opened his account at the 15th time of asking last week and a quick double is on the cards in Kilkenny's A7 over 525 yards at 11.45 Tony Ryan-Webster charge escapes a penalty for his strong...

THE trap draw for the opening round of the 2025 BOYLE Sports Irish Greyhound Derby took place shortly after noon on Monday at Shelbourne Park, setting the stage for what promises to be a spectacular opening weekend of Ireland's premier greyhound racing competition. Every race in every round...

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...

GBGB has announced that its next webinar on Wednesday 5th August [14.00 – 15.00] will be on the topic of greyhound dental care. Led by GBGB Regional Regulatory Vet, Dr Lawrence Steed, it is open to all GBGB licence holders, including kennelhands. The session will provide guidance on maintaining...