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CraigbuildssmartteamBy DAVID BRASCHCRAIG Chandler admits his love affairwith greyhound racing has been an “onagain, off again” affair.At the moment ... he’s in love.Craig, 44, has a small, but everexpandingteam of dogs at his Buccanproperty including the promising SirCyrus a recent Gold Coast, Capalaba andIpswich winner in fast times.Craig’s love of the industry wasinstilled in him by his dad Roy.“Dad and a bunch of mates got a fewdogs years ago,” said Craig. “One of thosewas Agricola Lass who was trained byDarryl Heck and went from fifth grade toFFA class at the Gabba, specially over 704metres.“Everyone had a good time with her.”As is the usual case, one dog led toanother, which led to another.“The boys bred with Agricola Lass andit went from there,” said Craig.By then 19 years old and wanting toget into the swing of things in greyhoundracing, Craig and his father bought a dogfrom Melbourne called Tivoli Tootsie whoeventually won “five or six” at the old GoldCoast track.“And we bred from Tivoli Toostsie,” hesaid. “Got five pups and kept them allincluding Tivoli Gamble who was aLawnton specialist winning 18 of her 54starts.”Craig was training by this time, dadwas left to finance the venture.Saturday (night) April 1Heats Golden Easter Egg (520m)Best 80 plus reserves. Noms close March 28 10am.Monday (day meeting) April 3Heats Multiquip Magic Maiden Series (520m)Noms close March 24, 10am.Monday (night) April 3Heats Grand Roxy Rapid Pursuit Trophy (520m)5th Grade Best 32 plus reserves.Heats Grand Roxy Distance Challenge (720m)5th Grade. Best 16 plus reserves.Noms for both races close March 28, 1pm.Saturday (night) April 8Semi-finals Golden Easter Egg (520m)1st, 2nd, 3rd in each heat plus two fastest 4ths qualified April 1.Heats Globe Memorial Easter Chase (720m)Non graded. Best 16 plus reserves. Noms close April 4, 10am.Monday (night) April 10Semi-finals Multiquip Magic Maiden Series (520m)Runners qualified April 3Grand Roxy Rapid Pursuit Trophy Final (520m)$7000 to winner. Runners qualified April 3.Grand Roxy Distance Challenge Final (720m)$7000 to winner. Runners qualified April 3.Saturday (night) April 15Final Group 1 Nice Products Golden Easter Egg (520m)$130,000 to winner.Group 3 Globe Memorial Easter Chase (720m)$20,000 to winner.Final Group 3 Multiquip Magic Maiden Series (520m)$20,000 to winner.Group 3 Nice Products Egg Consolation (5230m)$15,000 to winner.Inquiries: GBOTA (02) 96497166Noms for all meetings to the NSW GRA fax (02) 97495042 or (02) 97495043GoldenEasterYou can bet where the action isEggCarnival“We put Tivoli Gamble to WoodlandCitizen, we had won a free service to thedog, kept the seven pups and none of themwere much good,” he said.As anyone in greyhound racing wouldknow, the finances were stretched.“My wife Sharon and I were renting aplace at Wynnum at the time and after thelack of success with that litter, I decidedto have a spell from dogs for a few years.”Those few years turned out to be almostsix. “We focussed on other things andstarted a family.” They have two childrenBrooke, 10, and Nathan, 8.A few years ago Craig was getting theitch to get a dog again.“I saw an advert for a Just The Bestbitch from a damline Jim Galloway had,”he said.Eventually the couple bought a bitchcalled Dancing Danica and gave her toClaude Dacey to train.“There was trouble with the bitch andeventually she came home to us,” saidCraig. “I bought a set of kennels andsuddenly I was back training.”But Dancing Danica was trouble.Eventually Warren Scanella got her toturn the corner and at her next race startDancing Danica won at Albion Park bynine lengths in 30.45.“She won a few for us after that buteventually tore an Achilles tendon.”It wasn’t long after that Craig hadbought another dog, Dancing Danica wasLetter to the EditorThe Chandlerfamily was allon hand whenSir Cyrus wonrecently atIpswich.put into pup but was bitten by a snake anddied when she was five weeks into thepregnancy.“I lost interest after that and thoughtthat would be the end of me training,” hesaid.It wasn’t.Only a few years ago he and Sharonbought five acres at Buccan. The propertyhas a 25-dog license and Craig set aboutstocking it with racing dogs.He bought a Brett Lee-Hypo Havocbitch and put her into pup to Surf Lorianand plans on taking her to Lindale Bluenext.He has Sir Cyrus winning now andwhile he rates him handy, says his boxmanners need work.“I’ve got three in work and three youngones now 14 months old,” he said. “I’mworking on a straight track now andreckon it will be 12 months to get theproperty fully established.”Craig’s dad Ray is 75 now and utilisesa walker to get around. “But he still comesto the dogs with us every time we are racingand loves coming,” said Craig. “In fact,dad is part of the RC Syndicate that racesthe dogs.“And he comes out to the property asmuch as he can.”Craig Chandler is putting into place thebasis of a successful greyhound racingoperation.His dad has seen to that.Dear Sir,I am replying to Phil Bennett’s comments regarding the “perception” that the participantsthink the Authority does not consider their submissions.I would like to rectify the word “perception” to “FACT”.I have sent submissions to the Authority over the years and not only were they notconsidered, it never was acknowledged that they even received them. A courteous letterthanking a licensee for their time would have sufficed.I came to the conclusion, like many others no doubt, that the decisions were alreadymade and they were only going through the beaurocratic process of “consultation.”I would like to give another example of the “customer friendliness” the GRA are totheir participants. Recently, my wife was paid some prizemoney by mistake. A commonoccurrence, I believe. We only train one dog at the moment and he won his next two races.We assumed they would adjust on the next payment. No. The money had to be paid backseparately.My wife paid the money into the local office before Christmas.We resume racing in the New Year and here is my wife’s “Wanted Dead or Alive”photo on office wall as a Defaulter. Everyone got a laugh but when she went to nominatethe next week she was refused as she was a defaulter.I wonder why no one wants to race dogs in Queensland with a “big brother” attitudelike this.Phil McMillan (Licencee since 1977)The (March, 2006) Journal Page 10