May'07 - Greyhounds Queensland

Freight
rebate
The Board of the GRA at its March
meeting approved the introduction of
a freight rebate for greyhounds
transferred to Cairns and Mackay.
For a three-month trial period
from April 3 to June 30, participants
residing within a 160km radius of
Mackay and Cairns who purchase or
acquire greyhounds during this period
from South-East Queensland or
interstate to be trained in those
centres, will be eligible for a freight
rebate.
The rebate will only apply to
greyhounds that have been named, not
unnamed greyhounds.
The one off rebate of $75 per
greyhound will only be paid after, the
greyhound has had its first initial start
at either Mackay or Cairns club.
Payment will then be processed by
the GRA following the forwarding of
appropriate receipts/documentation to
the GRA.
The objective is to encourage
participants in the Cairns and Mackay
districts to acquire additional
greyhounds to ensure there are
sufficient greyhounds to fill the
scheduled race meetings.
The GRA will undertake a review
at the end of the trial period.
Diffuser
FORMER top flight Victorian
galloper Diffuser has moved back to
that state to stand stud duties.
The son of Awesome Assassin-
Marungi Doll is now with Eddie
Lieshout at Parumba Stud in
Victoria and stands for a fee of $550
(inc GST).
Diffuser, who stood in Northern
NSW for some time, won 23 of his 49
starts and was second eight times.
He won the Vic Breeders Cup at
The Meadows and was a finalist in
the Canberra and Wangaratta Cups.
JUST 3 LITTERS RACING ...
LEAD BREAKER ex Una’s Fool brilliant Alb PK win
in a flying 30.36.
BLIMEY ex Must Obey, 24.28 Lismore win BON and 23.18
scintillating early pace at Grafton.
FLYING THING ex Material Things, Fav and comfortable
winner at Nowra in 30.60
HIGHLAND MIST ex Una's Fool, Tweed 29.73 (BOD 29.72)
At $660Flying Scott
Must be the best
value sire in
Australia. Frozen Semen Available
Miss Chyna (above) scores over 710m at
Albion Park and (right) with ownertrainer
John Falvey.
By
DAVID BRASCH
IN a year or two, John Falvey plans to
retire.
Nothing unique about that, except that
John is 42 and regional general manager for
development for Stockland one of
Australia's biggest companies. Why then
the retirement plans?
"To spend more time with my family,
develop a few home units, but also to
devote more time to breeding and training
greyhounds.
"I think I will be taking a pay cut
somehow though!," John told The Journal.
He's been doing a pretty good job of
training while restricted by the demands of
such a high profile and busy work schedule,
specially with Miss Chyna (Token Prince-
La Twist) one of the state's foremost
stayers.
Falvey, who with wife Trish and
children Jordan, 9, Chyna, 7, and Cairo, 4,
live on a 20-acre property at Capalaba, has
been greyhound mad for 30 years.
"It started when I was a kid, I would
spend time on my school holidays with Jim
Conlon and sometimes in Sydney with Ken
Howe," said Falvey.
"It was the start of a passion, or is that a
curse, I'm not sure which."
John got his first dog when he was 15.
"It was no good (or was it me the trainer),
(Awesome Assassin-Highland Bride)
but I remember buying the finish photo
even when the dog finished fourth," he said.
University took most of John's time in
his late teens and early 20s, but he found
time to buy a few dogs including a dog
called Security Attack from Jack Pringle.
Trained by Jimmy Pritchard, Security
Attack won "five or six races".
"He was a very quick dog beating the
likes of Gentle Amanda and Hi Skipper and
we never saw the best of him because he
would break down after nearly every start,"
said John.
Work took over for some years and
Don't forget ...
he broke the Ipswich record.
Don't forget ...
he equalled the Meadows
record, first look.
Don't forget ...
he ran 29.76 coming off the
pace at Sandown.
Don't forget ...
he gave Bombastic Shiraz
five lengths down the back
in the Shootout and was
beaten only a nose.
Ph 02 66725183
Pat Hennessy
John started with QIC, then Westfield and
onto Stockland. He has had stints in
Darwin, Melbourne and Sydney.
He bought the Capalaba property in
1999 and bred about 40 pups, making every
mistake under the sun. "We sold them all
over Australia and they went on to win
about 160 races," he said.
"When we went to Darwin, I had six to
10 dogs in training and in those two and a
half years won quite a few races. It's a
punter's paradise up there."
After the Sydney and Melbourne stints,
Stockland got him back to Queensland to
head up their shopping centre division. That
was three years ago and John decided he
would get back into greyhounds seriously.
"I decided I wanted to breed a higher
quality of greyhound," he told The Journal.
So he bought La Twist.
The Acacia Ablaze-La Dancer bitch
was a multiple Group finalist and one of the
top stayers of her time. Her litter had six
individual classic winners and earned more
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