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$50,000 TERMINATING 6 PACK AT WANGANUI ON FRIDAY

The curtain falls on what has been an outstanding 2009-10 greyhound racing season at the Hatrick Raceway on Friday night and with it comes the end of a punting era. Pictured: Kazz Razz who will wear the red racing vest in the $50,000 terminating 6 Pack ...

THE RACE FOR 2009-10 NZ BRED CHASER GOES RIGHT TO THE WIRE

It is entirely appropriate that the final $11,000 New Zealand Racing Series event this season can decide just which New Zealand bred chaser will be crowned as the NZ Bred Greyhound of the Year (not overall) during the October, Auckland hosted national awards dinner. Pictured: Harajuku Boy who is looking to secure the NZ Bred national title on Thursday night ...

Posted on 28/07/2010

SUPERB ACTION WRAPS UP THE 2009-10 SEASON GROUP RACES

Group racing for the current season concluded over the past week with three outstanding victories. In Christchurch on Thursday patrons saw an "Awesome" Baron's Supplies NZ Stayers Cup unfold, a real "Mother" of a race in the Barron's Supplies South Island Championship and in Auckland on Sunday it was an "Agent" who destroyed the NZ Sire's Produce Stakes final field. Interspersed with all that action, we saw "Funding" being secured in the NZRS Wanganui sprint final. Pictured: Awesome Bender following his Baron's Supplies NZ Stayers Cup victory ...

Posted on 27/07/2010

Reasons to Love Greyhound Racing

What is it that you love about greyhound racing? Is it the speed, suspense and excitement as the dogs race head to head? Or that winning feeling when you place the right bet?  Greyhound racing continues to grow in popularity. Both the greyhound and the sport have a long and rich history. A dog that was once worshipped as a God by the Egyptians, and became a sign of nobility to English ...

Posted on 25/03/2009

Jasmine the Warwickshire Greyhound

In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had clearly been abused. In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a Greyhound female, to the nearby Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, run by a man named Geoff Grewcock and known as a ...

Posted on 23/03/2009