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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
ByDAVID BRASCHA GROUP of enthusiasts is behind apush for drag lure coursing to be introducedat Capalaba.Di O’Donnell, well know to thegreyhound racing industry as chief ofDinkyDi Web Designs, was sitting at homewatching Sky’s Catching Pen one Sunday.“I spotted a segment on drag lurecoursing and was fascinated, made a fewinquiries and here we are,” she told TheJournal.“Here we are” is to the stage where theCapalaba Club has got behind the idea withan approach to the GRA Board and a seriesof exhibition races are being planned,before a full scale drag lure coursingcalendar is introduced.Drag Lure Coursing is just like live harecoursing, but on a straight track, behind adrag lure of course, with two dogs slippedjust like it is still done in Ireland.Di and Capalaba recently hosted JudiHurley, the secretary and racing manager ofthe GBOTA Coursing Club in SouthAustralia, to give the Queenslanders someguidance etc on drag lure coursing.The South Australian club has 12 dateseach year and has a home track at Virginia,35 minutes from Adelaide but in the middleof the greyhound population in that state.“The season runs from April to October,a winter sport because of the factgreyhounds race sometimes up to threetimes a day.South Australia was the last state to stoplive hare coursing, back in the mid-80s.“Drag lure coursing is a greatalternative for some dogs, specially thosewho have difficulty getting around cornerson oval racetracks, or cannot run 500metres,” Judi told The Journal.Judi said her club has about 130members and the feature event each year isthe Waterloo Cup worth $3000 to thewinner. The running of that time-honouredevent alternates between the GBOTACoursing club and the Mt Gambier clubeach year.The Waterloo Cup is five rounds, withone of a Saturday and four to win the finalon the Sunday.“The distance of each slip is about 325metres from slips to the catching pen,” saidGraftonCarnivalGrafton Easter carnival is fastapproaching with heats of the EasterMaiden on Saturday April 8 with thefinal to be held on Saturday April 15,which will also see the running of theGrafton Derby and Oaks.Thanks to Sam Cauchi of RockyRidge Farm, Brian Kutner jnr (BlackEnforcer) and Jim Osborn (Elite State)free services to Elite State, BlackEnforcer and Cyrus The Virus will beprovided to the winners of the EasterMaiden, Derby and oaks.The Easter Maiden will be sponsoredby NSW GBOTA.The Derby and Oaks will besponsored by Sam Cauchi’s Rocky RidgeFarm, Brian Kutner jnr and JimOsborn.Racing is on a big, safe, loam surface.Country grading applies, see add in thisissue.Judi. “The actual race distance is about 300metres.”Capalaba’s drag lure coursing distanceswould be about the same.“The benefits of drag lure coursing aremany, as I have already mentioned,” saidJudi.“But because the slip is against only oneother dog, it also benefits field shy dogs,those that may be hopeless out of thestarting boxes, youngsters needing a bigconfidence booster, dogs coming back frominjury, and even those jaded by a lot ofcircle track racing.”The current star of drag lure coursing isToora Tiger a Victorian dog and a 29.80winner around Sandown.“He was put out at Sandown for fightingbut in three months coursing he has won$13,000 and was the first to win theVictorian and South Australian WaterlooCups.South Australia runs a Derby and Oaks,worth $800 to the respective winners, theCommittee Cup and the Rising Star Stakes.The latter is open to 16 dogs and iscompleted on the same day.“We have a bookie fielding on thecoursing and in years gone by he wouldturn over $40,000 on the day, but that hasdwindled to about $2000 these days,” saidJudi.“People love to go coursing. Dogs arenot kenneled, it’s a more relaxed day.”Fee$660Stud feeincludesprogesteronetesting andsurgicalinseminationby DrChristineKidd.LEFT: Di O'Donnell,Judi Hurley and Boarddeputy chair KerryWatson were atCapalaba putting sometouches onto the draglure coursing idea.RIGHT: Drag LureCoursing in action.Qld push forIn Queensland it is expected dogs wouldbe kennelled simply because of the weatherconditions.“We are hoping to run some exhibitionraces between events at Capalaba in thenext few months,” said Di.“Bob Patching has got involved with thepush for this form of racing and has been agreat help.“We believe it would be easy to adoptthe South Australian rules here and arehopeful we could get underway sometimedrag lurecoursingStudmaster: Pat HennessyPh (02) 66725183email cheechville@optusnet.com.,au(Awesome Assassin-Highland Bride)Flying Scottthis year.”The recent Irish live hare coursingDerby, Oaks and Champion Stakesattracted almost 50,000 to the threeconsecutive days at Powerstown Park inClonmel.Coursing is a tradition in Ireland, thehome of greyhound racing.A few dedicated Queenslanders hope tobring a little piece of that tradition toCapalaba in the not too distant future.Accommodation WantedMale 62-year-old owner-trainer with onegreyhound ready to raceseeks accommodation with othergreyhound personwithin 60 minutes of Brisbane.Able to help in spare time (weekends)with your dogs/farm etc.Can pay rent to $150-$200 per weekPh: 0427 101970or AH 0403 656170WON 25Alb PkWenty PkSandownMeadowsIpswich Trk RecChaseSpeedStaminaCould win fromanywhere ... onany track!The (March, 2006) Journal Page 11
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