GREYHOUND TRADER's pre-Derby sale at Towcester on Monday 31st March promises to be the best the company has staged according to spokesman James Corden. Corden said: "The quality of this year's pre-Derby Sale at Towcester is exceptional. "We have our very first sub-28.00sec...

SAVANA ZARA has hit top form and a second win in three starts looks on the cards when Nick Deas's bitch lines up for Oxford's A5 over 450m at 5.21. She demolished A6 rivals from the front two outings ago before finishing a solid second...

WEDNESDAY is weekend open-closing day for five tracks. Doncaster and Oxford have Saturday evening contests scheduled, while Valley, featuring a maiden competition over 460m, Towcester and Star Pelaw have advertised Sunday morning, afternoon and evening opens respectively. Oxford Saturday Doncaster Saturday Star Pelaw Sunday Towcester Sunday Valley Sunday...

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...

LEFT CORNER BACK made it four wins in six career starts when setting the standard in the opening round of the €80,000 Con & Annie Kirby Memorial over 525 yards  at Limerick. Trained by Thomas Leahy for Damien O'Connell, the June 2023 son of Here Comes Syd...

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...

BALLYMAC TAYLOR was fastest as all three Time Greyhound Nutrition TV Trophy heats over 942m at Towcester went to market leaders. Completing a double for champion trainer Mark Wallis, who had earlier scored with Mongys Wild, the track record holder and 2024 TV Trophy runner-up was heavily-supported into 8/15F...

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...

HILLSIDE LILY, sent off a well-supported 9/4 favourite on the night having been 20/1 with the sponsor ante-post pre-event, took early command to land the £1,000 final of the Bet Aways And Sports Events With Star Sports On-Course Vase over 435m at Star Pelaw. Trained by Martin...

THE first prize for the 2025 Star Sports/TRC English Derby has been confirmed as remaining at £175,000 with the final on Saturday 14th June. The competition can be seen in its entirety on sisracing.tv There had been suggestions that the huge sum had proved unviable for promoter...

BRILLIANT Irish Derby champion Bockos Diamond was predictably crowned Dog of the Year at the National Greyhound Racing Awards at Shelbourne Park on Sunday with fellow finalist and Irish Oaks dead-heater A Lucky Julie taking the Bitch award. Bockos Diamond has a career record of 16 wins in 17 races...

SINGALONG DOLLY became the fourth multiple winner of the event when just holding off Radical Scoby to successfully defend her Time Irish Cesarewitch Open title with narrow victory in the €10,000 final over 600 yards at Mullingar. Trained by Pat Buckley for Gilbert Anderson, Singalong Dolly (11/4) turned...

DROOPYS PATRIOT, trained by Robert Gleeson for the Newmarket Racing Syndicate, showed his rivals a clean pair of heels to land the €11,000 T Nolan CVRT Centre Juvenile Classic final over 525 yards at Tralee's Kingdom Stadium. Outsider Flashing Fender (10/1) was first to show but...

SIS and Racecourse Media Group (RMG) have agreed to an extension for the distribution and transmission of audio-visual and data from RMG racecourses to licensed betting offices (LBO) across UK and Ireland. High-quality and day-in, day-out horseracing output from RMG’s stable of racecourses, including the Jockey Club courses – such...

WICKY NED is the 2024 Greyhound of the Year. Trained by Jimmy Fenwick at Newcastle for owner Neil McGregor, the August 2022 son of Droopys Sydney and Ballycowen Lucy also landed the Standard Distance and Newcomer categories after a brilliant first campaign and was honoured at a gala function at...

TIME Greyhound Nutrition are to sponsor one of greyhound racing’s most famous races, the TV Trophy, which starts over Towcester's demanding 942m course on Sunday 16th March. The marathon showpiece, won at Oxford last year by Paul Young’s Bubbly Inferno, will return to the Northamptonshire track...

QUEEN JESSIEJ is the GBGB Best Dam of British Bred for 2024. A top-class, big-race winning bitch on the track, Queen Jessiej has now excelled in the breeding paddocks and succeeds her kennelmate Queen Beyonce, last year’s winner, as a home-bred winner of this coveted award for the KSS...

VALLEY attracted its biggest crowd since switching to GBGB rules for Saturday's special St David's Day meeting as the local community showed its support for greyhound racing in Wales. The sport is under threat after the Labour government in Wales announced an intention to ban it...

MARK WALLIS has been officially confirmed by the GBGB as the 2024 Trainer of the Year, a record 15th time he has claimed the accolade. Wallis ended the campaign on on 1,315 points, 361 clear of Patrick Janssens in second (954) and ahead of Liz McNair (880), Kevin Hutton...

PENNYS CAILIN became just the tenth greyhound to dip under 33 seconds for Mullingar's 600 yards course with a brilliant victory in the second Time Irish Cesarewitch Open eliminator on Sunday. Rosemary Price's bitch was sent off 7/1 for her first race since December but...