August'07 - Greyhounds Queensland

JOURNAL 

Official Publication of the Greyhound Racing Authority of Qld 

AUGUST 2007 Volume 207 

Frank's the Trifecta King 

Frank Churchill and Kenny Thomas with the Trendy 

Leigh-Young Dorrianne litter. Three of the litter, Michelle's 

Mine, Young Intruder and Young Black Onyx ran the 

trifecta at Albion Park recently. It was the third time Frank 

has provided the trifecta in a race. Story Page 12. 

So You Want to be a 

Greyhound 

Trainer 

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Chair: Phil Bennett 

Members: Kerry Watson 

Chris Williams 

David Stitt 

MANAGEMENT 

General Manager Darren Beavis 

dbeavis@graq.org.au 

Chairman of Stewards Danny Ryan 

dryan@graq.org.au 

Investigations Cameron McLune 

cmclune@graq.org.au 

Grading Panel Eddie Little, 

elittle@graq.org.au 

Registrar Liz Murray 

emurray@graq.org.au 

Financial controller Abhendra Kumar 

akumar@graq.org.au 

HEAD OFFICE 

Albion Park Raceway, 

Amy Street, Breakfast Creek 

(Office Hours Admin 8.30am to 

4.30pm Monday-Friday. 

Scratchings 7.30am) 

POSTAL ADDRESS 

PO Box 250, Albion, Q, 4010 

TELEPHONE 

(07) 3262 7800 (Office) 

(07) 3262 7809 (Fax) 

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1800 851155 (Phone Noms, 

Mon-Fri 7am-8.30am) 

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E-mail address: graq@graq.org.au 

Web address: www.graq.org.au 

Editor and Advertising 

DAVID BRASCH 

PO Box 93, Nundah 

Brisbane, Qld, 4012. 

Ph: (07) 32666508 

E-mail: dbrasch@bigpond.net.au 

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be paid by EFTPOS, Bankcard, Visa 

and Mastercard. If you decide to pay 

by Bankcard, Visa or Mastercard, 

you may do so by telephoning the 

Authority on 

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Tremendous Winter Carnival 

Phil Bennett 

I congratulate the Brisbane Club for 

conducting a tremendous and successful 

Winter Carnival. 

The racing has been great, the interest 

high, the crowds good and the turnover up. 

Thanks go to Luke Gatehouse, Sharon, 

all the staff and the committee for their 

efforts. 

On August 2 there will be a Racecaller's 

evening held at headquarters and it 

promises to be an entertaining evening. 

Racecallers current and retired will all 

show their wares. 

The racecallers really are the unsung 

heroes of the racing industry. 

We have been blessed in the 

Queensland greyhound industry with our 

share of greats. 

This is not only for the job they do on 

air, but the work they do behind the scenes 

Liz Murray 

Registrar 

GRA Chair 

in promoting the industry and passing on 

the news. 

Paul Dolan, John Brasch and Steve 

Hawkins cannot do enough to help out. 

Paul through his interviews and general 

promotional activities, Bunny through his 

Master of Ceremonies activities at big 

racing events, and Steve with financial 

sponsorship commitments in recent months. 

This demonstrates how these guys go 

the extra yard for the industry. 

They all display a deep passion for the 

industry and I am sure their efforts greatly 

Renewal time is over for another year, if you do not have your license please telephone 

us asap. 

NAMING AN INTERSTATE WHELPED GREYHOUND? 

If you wish to name an interstate greyhound please submit the application with the 

correct fee to the control body in the state where the greyhound whelped. 

Greyhound & Harness Racing Authority of New South Wales require an original 

vaccination certificate confirming vaccination over the age of 12 months, minimum C3, 

signed by a vet to accompany the naming application. 

The greyhound will not be named unless they have this certificate, the fee is $40. 

Greyhound Racing Victoria will accept a copy of a vaccination certificate confirming 

vaccination over the age of 12 months, minimum C3, signed by a vet to accompany the 

naming application. 

The greyhound will not be named unless they have this certificate, the fee is $40. 

NAMING A QLD WHELPED GREYHOUND? 

Queensland bred greyhound being named by breeder $25 

All others (including interstate namings) $37 

It is not necessary to provide the vaccination certificate with your naming application 

for Queensland whelped greyhounds. 

The vaccination certificate may be presented at the same time as the greyhound for 

naming and registration certificate clearance. 

The stewards can clear the greyhound's naming and registration certificate without 

sighting the vaccination record. 

QDOG REGISTRATION 

Qdog registration is automatic if a greyhound whelped in Queensland from a 

Queensland owned bitch and the breeder is a Queensland registered or licensed person. 

Greyhounds bred from bitches leased from interstate licensees or bred from bitches 

where an interstate licensee has provided a Breeder's Authority are not eligible for Qdog 

registration. 

If you think your greyhound is eligible for Qdog registration and it is not identified 

as such when draw to race please contact our office at your earliest convenience. 

Confirmation of Qdog registration will be confirmed prior to payment of Qdog 

bonuses. 


assist to raise the turnover, which is the 

lifeblood of our industry. 

From a Control Body perspective, I 

would like to thank you all on behalf of the 

industry. 

There have been a number of changes 

in personnel in the Authority over the past 

few weeks. 

Chas Clifford has been appointed to the 

position of Deputy Chairman of Stewards 

replacing Steve McGrath. 

David Taggart has been appointed to the 

steward's position vacated by Chas and 

Darren Barbour has been appointed to the 

position of Cadet Steward/Grader following 

the departure of Ordet Lowe. 

I welcome all three to their new 

positions and wish them well for their 

future in the greyhound industry. 

The three positions threw up a number 

of very good applicants and it was difficult 

for the panels to choose between the 

applicants. 

I thank all those who showed interest in 

the positions and thank them for taking time 

to apply. 

Yesteryear's Champs 

SENTINEL 

A son of Observation, Sentinel was 

a splendid dog who in 15 months from 

August 24, 1935 had 28 starts for 21 

wins and five placings. 

He held the 440, 660 and 700 yard 

records at Maitland, the 600 yard record 

at Harold Park, the 480 yard record at 

Griffith, the 480 yard record at 

Narrandera and the 570 yard record at 

Murwillumbah. 

Trainers 

please note 

When nominating for special 

events e.g. Novice, Time Trial, Young 

Guns etc, and it is the only event you 

wish your greyhound to be considered 

for please ensure you advise or state 

ONLY e.g. Novice Only, Time Trial 

only. 

Should you not indicate ONLY, the 

grading panel will then consider and 

include you in other events should your 

greyhound be eligible to compete in 

them.

THE annual North Queensland 

Conference was held late in July and a number 

of issues were discussed with the clubs. 

Those items included the draft 

constitution for the GRA, committee 

obligations, the Greyhound Adoption 

Program, QDog Incentive Scheme, general 

race day functions, funding, race dates etc. 

The full Board attended and all clubs from 

Bundaberg north were represented. 

Draft Constitution: The draft 

constitution for the GRA as a company has 

progressed further with a consultative meeting 

held with representatives of the south-east 

Queensland clubs in late June. 

That meeting agreed with the look of the 

constitution draft, with some minor changes 

and suggestions. 

Our next step is to collect feedback from 

the northern clubs, then make an application 

to the Office of Racing for a control body 

license. 

Committee Obligations: It was detailed 

to the clubs that committee members have 

responsibilities and obligations to their 

respective clubs. 

These involve the proper day to day 

management of the club and to ensure security 

and integrity of racing is not compromised. 

This situation has been brought about 

because of a recent lapse in swabbing 

procedure and kennel security. 

GAP: Kirsty O'Brien, our GAP coordinator, 

attended the conference and 

I RECEIVED a letter the other day, 

anonymous of course, making 

accusations of inconsistent penalties and 

double standards applying to positive 

swab inquiries. 

I must admit I was hesitant to reply, 

given the person has not got the fortitude 

to sign it and stand by their allegations. 

Perhaps a free shot. 

Fortunately the writer states they are 

now retired, if you can believe that. 

Well that's great, as a person so 

lacking in the knowledge of how our 

system works, and that of required 

natural justice to all, including stewards, 

is best retired. 

We are reminded by our Board 

members, and the Racing Appeals 

Tribunal, as to the constant presence of 

the principles of natural justice. 

Stewards do not expect aggrieved 

licensees to be happy with the findings of 

stewards' inquiries. 

THE laws and rules clearly state that 

all matters appearing before stewards 

must be treated on the individual 

evidence supplied and circumstances 

Darren Beavis 

explained to the club's the role of GAP and 

how it operates. 

A GAP branch has recently opened in 

Townsville which to date has been successful 

and well received in particular by the media 

and local councils. 

QDOG: The incentive scheme has been 

up and running for a month and we have 

already seen a handful of winners. 

The first, a $600 bonus at the Gold Coast, 

was won by Iron Steed, bred, raced and 

trained by Paul Felgate. 

The conference developed a timetable of 

QDog races for North Queensland which will 

be advertised to the industry as soon as 

possible. 

I'D like to welcome to the GRA new 

steward David Taggart and cadet grader 

Darren Barbour. 

Both started during July and we are 

Danny Ryan 

Chairman of Stewards 

that surround each case. 

However, why not exercise your 

rights of appeal instead of writing 

unsigned worthless letters posted from 

various areas. 

I am confident the double standards 

apply to the letter writer. 

Letters of complaint or phone calls 

properly addressing any matter are often 

received at the Authority. 

Hopefully, a great idea may result 

from them that may improve our 

industry. 

RECENTLY had a conversation with 

"The Don" and his good wife Vicky 

McKinnon. She is the one who does all 

the work. 

The Don tells me they have had a 

couple of weeks away and they are 

preparing the team for yet another 

assault on greyhound racing in both 

States. 

"Old School" trainers, the 

McKinnons have had their share of ups 

and downs and The Don and Vicky are 

set to fight another day. 

The Don is high on the list of larrikins 


HAPPY ENDO 

The daughter of Eddy Barry-The Beeb was raced by retired dairy farmer Clyde 

Keft. She was a prolific winner and raced into her fourth year, winning more than 50 

races. Among her victories were the 1978 TAB Tracks Championship and 1978 Country 

Championship (both at Wentworth Park), the 1979 Penrith Gold Cup, and 1979 and 

1980 Dapto Gold Cups. She held the 500m record at Wollongong and was placed in the 

1979 TAB Tracks Championship, 1979 Country Championship and 1979 Winter Stake. 

General Manager 

confident they will have long and successful 

careers with our industry. 

Both come to us with greyhound racing 

knowledge, youth, keenness and a willingness 

to see this industry great. 

THE world today is an electronic age and 

the GRA wants to embrace this even further. 

To date we have posted out weekly 

prizemoney statements to owners and trainers, 

but this will soon change. 

We are in the process of compiling an 

email database so owners and trainers can 

receive their weekly statements immediately 

via this avenue. 

We would expect most owners and 

trainers have access to email and will take 

advantage of this service. 

The GRA already has a database of some 

emails for owners and trainers, but we intend 

to expand this once the service is ready to 

from way back and clearly remembers 

the days when greyhound racing was 

much more fun. 

He is never backwards in making a 

speech or two about any topic you might 

raise, especially the Chairman of 

Stewards. 

Thank the good Lord, Vicky keeps 

him in check. I wonder how she does 

that? 

I must admit, I for one have missed 

the McKinnons at the races 

You can still have fun and win a race 

you know. A Group Race is waiting 

around every corner these days. 

For further information feel free to contact us. 

34 Sixth Avenue, Windsor QLD 4030 

Ph/Fax: 07 3857 1431 E-mail: ccooper3@bigpond.net.au 


come into operation. 

THE GRA is looking to expand the 

information available on our website for 

QDog Performances. 

We are looking at including the first split 

sectional, the best time of the day/night, the 

starting price and winner/second. 

Also we want to include box draw 

statistics for each greyhound. 

AS we said, this is an electronic age and 

the GRA is also planning to introduce on-line 

kennel returns. 

We expect the kennel return function to 

be ready within a month, expanded QDog 

Performances almost immediately, and email 

statements within a month or so. 

THE use of SMS messages could also be 

utilised by the GRA within the next few 

months. 

We are looking at introducing a service 

whereby box draws can be sent to mobile 

phones for the trainer or syndicate manager, 

or owner pertaining to their individual dog. 

This system could also work for GRA 

notices i.e. extension of nominations, 

scratchings, meeting cancellations etc etc. 

The Board will look at the costing of this 

service first, before making any final decision 

on its introduction. 

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Dart 

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Sonya and Troy Sharpe look over the new kennel complex. 

Tuesday September 4 

Heats: Lismore Workers Club Cup 520m (Group 2) 

Best 32 nominated (plus reserves) 

Heat prizemoney: 1st $1000 2nd $255, 3rd $130 unp $25 

Heats: John Stollery Novice 520m 

Greyhounds with one (1) to maximum three (3) wins at the close of Noms. 

Heats: Ron Winkler Smash Repairs Stayers Novice 720m 

Greyhounds with no more than four wins at close of Noms. (Maidens eligible). 

Noms close August 30 at 10am 

with NSW GRA Central Grader 

1300 664565 or 1300 664966 

For further info contact 

John Scholten 

Manager Lismore Operations 

Ph (02) 66 214106 

Sharpe Racing Kennels underway 

TROY Sharpe has done his 

apprenticeship and now he wants to take on 

greyhound training fulltime. 

And he's putting his hard earned cash 

behind the venture. 

Some months ago Encounter Kennels boss 

Rick Fall decided to build a new racing kennel 

on his Churchable property for partner Judy 

Griffiths. It was to be a 24-dog kennel. 

But when Troy heard of the proposal, he 

approached Rick to build a bigger and better 

racing kennel, double the size, split the costs 

and split the kennel. 

"My family and I are entrenched in town 

at Gatton, so when Rick was agreeable to me 

coming in halves in the expanded kennel it 

was exactly what I was looking for," said 

Troy. 

The kennel block will now contain 24 

kennels for Troy and the same number for 

Judy. It is built of cold room panels, will be 

fully air-conditioned and the empty-out yards 

will be fully undercover. 

They are in the process of building 150m 

sprint lanes as another training aid. 

Judy and Troy will train from the one 

complex, but be different entities. 

Troy is currently the sales and marketing 

manager for Davana Industries at Gatton. 

"I've got four dogs in training including 

Faith In Bundy who has been a multiple 

Albion Park winner," said Troy. 

"My neighbours Peter and Lyn Schmidt 

and my wife Sonya and I have just gone halves 

in a Black Enforcer-Kay Cee Chambers litter, 

the dam is the mother of Faith In Bundy." 

The Lismore GBOTA presents . . . 

$70,000 

2007 Lismore Cup Carnival 

Tuesday September 11 

Final Lismore Workers Club Cup 520m (Group 2) 

1st: $25,000 plus cup & rug & Service to Lethal Weapon 

2nd $5000, 3rd $2500, unplaced $100 each 

Harvey’s Towing Invitation 720m (Non Graded) 

Best 8 in any grade. 1st $4000 plus trophy and service to Addis Boy, 2nd $800, 3rd $400, 

unp $50 each 

Final Ron Winkler Smash Repairs Novice 720m 

1st $2500 plus trophy & Service to Halls Northern 2nd $500, 3rd $200, unp $20 each 

Final John Stollery Novice 520m 

1st $2000 plus trophy, 2nd $500, 3rd $250, unp $20 each 

Casino Rural Traders Invitation 420m 

Best 8 in 1/2/3 Grade. 1st $2000 plus trophy, 2nd $500, 3rd $250 unp $20 each 

S & L Sand & Gravel Best Eight 520m 

1st $2000 2nd $500 3rd $250 unp $20 

A K Turcato Painting Stake 520m 

(Grade determined by noms). 1st $1000, 2nd $250 3rd $150 unp $20 each 

Northern Rivers GBOTA Stake 520m 

(Grade determined by noms). 1st $1000 2nd $250 3rd $150 unp $20 each 

Fosters Maiden 420m 

1st $600 2nd $150 3rd $100 unp $20 each 

Highland Smash Repairs Maiden 520m 

1st $600 2nd $150, 3rd $100 unp $20 each 

Noms close September 6 at 10am 

with NSW GRA Central Grader 

1300 664565 or 1300 664966 


Troy has been hobby training for 10 years, 

has had more than his share of success, and is 

confident he can make a go of fulltime 

training. So he's on the lookout for more dogs 

to train. 

"Encounter Kennels has everything 

established for me to train successfully on a 

larger scale," said Troy. 

"There is a 400 metre straight track and a 

circle the replica of Albion Park. I've been 

helping out with the trials and know the run 

of the place." 

Troy, wife Sonya and their daughters Abbi 

and Demi, have given themselves 18 months 

to make the fulltime training venture work. 

"Of course I need dogs to fill the kennel, 

but this is my love, my passion and I know I 

will make a go of it," he said. 

He has the backing of his family. 

"I'd love to get syndicates involved in this 

industry and I'll be particularly keen to involve 

young people as owners," said Troy. 

"We have the training complex 

established, now we are keen to fill the 

kennels and start producing the big scale 

results." 

Faith In Bundy (Bright Ebony-Kay Cee 

Chambers) has won eight races including a 

couple over 600m at Albion Park. 

Her dam Kay Cee Chambers won 11 races 

including a 23.70 win at Tweed heads. 

"I know it's a big step," said Troy. "But 

as I said, I will get to do something I love, 

something I'm passionate about." 

That certainly sounds like a recipe for 

success. 

email 

lisgbota@nrg.com.au 

The Lismore GBOTA reserves 

the right to alter or amend 

this programme at their 

absolute discretion

Winter Carnival 

What a great Winter Carnival! 

Sensational racing, improved turnover, 

good crowds and a large number of people 

attending Albion Park greyhounds for the 

first time. 

The Function Room has been booked 

out from the beginning of May and up to 

the end of August. 

We are receiving very positive feedback 

from sponsors and patrons attending race 

night functions. 

The Club will be continuing to market 

to the function and party market over the 

next 12 months, with two new ads going to 

air on B105 from the middle of July. 

On the racetrack, we saw some 

sensational Group Racing. Congratulations 

to the connections of the following 

greyhounds on some fine wins: 

Group One VIP Petfoods Gold Cup 

Miss Grub 

Group Two Brandons QLD Derby 

Big Swell 

Group Three Queensland Cup 

Technoman 

Group One Garrards Winter Cup 

Big Swell 

On-Course Tote Turnover has been 

strong during the Carnival, despite very 

ordinary weather on some nights. 

A summary of the increase or decrease 

in on-course turnover from 2006 for our 

Thursday Night Features is below: 

Gold Cup Heats +39% 

Gold Cup Final +16% 

Derby Heats -36% 

Derby Final +6% 

Superstayers +36% 

Winter Cup Heats +26% 

Winter Cup Final +15% 

Overall for the Seven Nights +12% 

2008 Group Race Dates 

Given the success and standing of the 

Group 3 QLD Cup, the Club has decided to 

seek AGRA approval to move the Series to 

Thursday night from 2008. 

It is proposed the heats of the QLD Cup 

will be held on QLD Derby Final night. 

That will make the night one of the real 

feature nights of the Winter Carnival 

Calendar, and create a full nine week racing 

extravaganza for the Winter Carnival next 

year. 

The Committee also considered a move 

of the Group 2 Bogie Leigh Futurity, but 

decided to leave the event in March due to 

a very full Group Calendar for age 

restricted greyhounds in May and June. 

Proposed dates for next year are: 

condition and that anyone who raced 

their dog on the track had no respect Lismore for 30.17 

their greyhound. 

A local TV station picked up on it 

and 2KY Standing stood Paul down at ... for a week for 

his outburst. 

Paul now works in more modern 

broadcasting boxes at Wentworth Park 

which are carpeted, air-conditioned and 

even has a fridge and kitchen Lot facilities. 35 Smith Rd, Park Ridge 

PA is also a family man. 

His wife Pat (Paul has forgotten how 

long they have been married) is always 

Luke 

Gatehouse 

Group 2 Bogie Leigh March 20 & 27 

Group 1 Gold Cup May 29, June 5 

Group 2 QLD Derby June 12 & 19 

Group 3 QLD Cup June 19 & 26 

Superstayers July 3 

Group 1Winter Cup July 10 & 17 

Group 1 Brisbane Cup Dec 4 & 11 

Soccer Boys into Greyhounds 

The Club hosted the Regents Park 

Soccer Club Under 8s team on June 28 as a 

part of a joint arrangement between the 

Brisbane Club and the Regents Park Soccer 

Club. 

The boys and their families enjoyed a 

great night out in the Committee Room and 

had the honour of presenting a trophy to 

Belinda Reid whose greyhound Golden 

Marsha won the Club's trophy race. 

The boys had a great night out and had 

a real thrill being up close and personal 

with a greyhound. 

Race Callers Night 

The Club will be hosting a Race Callers 

night on Thursday August 2 as part of a 

tribute to original Gabba race caller Mick 

Cox. 

The race callers who have confirmed 

their attendance on the night are: Paul 

Dolan, John Brasch, Steve Hawkins, 

Damian Courtney, Pat O’shea, Alan 

Thomas, David Fowler, Anthony Jeffress 

and Danny Ryan. 

Each caller will call a race on the night 

and we are also planning a relay race call - 

one race - four callers! 

Greyhound Data 

Greyhound breeders should be aware of 

the value of the fantastic website 

produced by Gunnar von Boehn in 

Stuttgart, Germany. 

The site can be accessed via 

www.greyhound-data.com 

It's well worth a look for the 

information available. 

The best of its kind. 

Wild Voodoo 

(Go Wild Teddy x Voodoo Princess) 

17 wins, his first 8 straight. Sensational early pace 

Best Times: Albion Park 30.17, Ipswich 25.17 & 30.85, 

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* * Who's Who's A A Bearing Bearing City class FFA bitch. 

Won heat Group 1 Nutrience Cup, finalist Publicans Cup, 

Lord Mayors Cup. Her best times at Albion Park 30.17 

(5.72), 35.29 (9.98). She is also from 100% winning litter. 

* * Some Some of of her her progeny progeny are: 

are: 

FARMOR AIMS (won Group 3 Dapto Maiden Classic) 

FARMOR RHYTHM (Group 3 finalist) 

BEARING WHO (class record) 

RUSTY BEARING (Silver Dollars) 

WHO'S LETHAL (Gateway to the Top finalist) 

BOGIE WILL (prolific Albion Park winner; 2nd 2006 

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Park; Citi Heritage 31.03. Who's Ya Bearing a clear half a second faster 

than any other finalist. His time 30.53 (13.11, second split record is 13.08).

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FEE $1650 

Black Dog, June 2003, 36.5kg 

Token Prince-Miss Corleone 

by Head Honcho 

a Winner 

Sizzling Image 

Black Enforcer-Wooshka Lee 

Wins 413m Maiden on debut 

at The Gardens on June 23 

at 17 months old 

June 23 was also the date of Black Enforcer's fourth birthday! 

Black Enforcer 

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The (August, 2007) Journal Page 6

Blue Brindle Dog, April 2002, 33.3kgs. 

Just The Best-Barrio Fiesta by West Cape. 

19 starts, 15 wins, 1 2nd, 1 3rd. Set or 

equalled four track records. 

Surf Lorian 

A Better Start 

Than Brett Lee 

Surf Lorian 

2007 

(From only seven months) 

GROUP 1 - 4 wins 

National Derby 

Slater 

(Surf Lorian-Wipe Out) 

Golden Easter Egg 

Slater 


Sandown Laurels 

Miss Hot Gossip 

(Surf Lorian-Roxy Reason) 

Winter Carnival Cup 

Big Swell 



The Temlee 

Slater 


Qld Futurity 

Honey Mist 

(Surf Lorian-Whispering Honey) 

WA Oaks 

Miss Hot Gossip 


Qld Derby 

Big Swell 


GROUP 3 - 1 win 

Qld Cup 

Technoman 

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Arvo's Athena 

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Dillon Memorial 

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Carnival Cup 

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By 

DAVID BRASCH 

DENNIS Trewin reckons Big Swell is a 

totally unaffectionate greyhound. 

Which is upsetting for Dennis and his 

partner, trainer Tina Womann, because they 

love Big Swell. 

The fact the Surf Lorian-Wipe Out dog 

has won the Group 2 Qld Derby and now the 

Group 1 Winter Carnival Cup within the space 

of a month or so, helps Dennis and Tina fall 

for their dog. 

"But that's just him," said Dennis. "He has 

no affection for anyone. I suppose he's just 

become so professional as a race dog." 

That's for sure because Big Swell, who 

has had to live in the giant shadow of his 

famous litter brother Slater, has emerged into 

a top class galloper in his own right. 

"Maturity," said Dennis. "That's what had 

done it for him. 

"He has always shown this sort of ability, 

but he needed to come into himself. And he's 

had quite a few injury problems which have 

stopped him showing his best until now. He's 

injury free now." 

Big Swell has injured a metacarpal, hurt 

a few toes on his front feet, but worst of all 

badly tore a bicep muscle. 

The dog has just turned two and a half 

and Trewin reckons even greater heights are 

ahead of Big Swell. 

"I've known his former owner Robert 

Jackson for years. In fact, we trained Wipe 

Out for a few country Victorian wins," said 

Trewin. 

"When the litter was broken in Robert told 

me how good they were and we offered to 

buy two of the dogs (Big Swell and 

Wavecatcher)." 

Robert thought it prudent to keep the dog 

he would later call Slater. 

"We paid $25,000 for the pair and Big 

Swell had earned $25,000 in Victoria before 

we brought him north," said Trewin. 


Albion Park 

1993 National Leader 

1994 Toban Leah 

1995 Flying Amy 

1996 Roanokee 

1997 Wine Glass 

1998 Shady Macbeth 

1999 Winged Runner 

2000 Short Model 

2001 Mint Mojo 

2002 Awesome Machine 

2003 Elite State 

2004 Trewly Special 

2005 Hades Rocket 

2006 Fenceline 

2007 Big Swell

In those four starts at Albion Park, Big 

Swell earned $82,000. 

"Despite the fact he doesn't show any 

affection at all, he is a lovely natured dog and 

you can do anything with him," said Trewin. 

The Cup victory was the second for 

Trewin and Womann who had won back in 

2004 with their very special dog called Trewly 

Special. 

"Trewly Special was a once in a lifetime 

dog for us," said Trewin when asked to 

compare that great galloper with Big Swell. 

Trewly Special had won a vintage Winter 

Carnival Cup coming from last to run down 

Bogie Leigh, Oxley Fawn and a dog called 

Surf Lorian a luckless fourth. 

Trewin admits Big Swell has "grown a 

leg" since he came north. 

"But everything is so well done when we 

come to Queensland," said Trewin. "It makes 

it so much easier when we know we are 

coming to stay with Paul Felgate and Kathy 

Evans. 

"And that helps the dogs settle in so well 

and that allows them to produce their best." 

But Trewin also admits Big Swell's 

maturity has also helped with his 

improvement in form from a top grade dog 

to a multiple Group winner. 

"Confidence is everything with 

greyhounds," said Dennis. "By the time this 

dog had won the Derby and then run fast time 

in his Cup heat, his confidence was sky high. 

"It didn't matter where he drew in the Cup 

final (he had the five), he was going to race 

well simply because his confidence was so 

good. 

"And it helped that the four dog (Leica 

Ruby) was always going to head for the rails, 

and the six dog (Technoman) was going to be 

slow out. 

"It was the recipe for success, and for 

once, how I read the race, worked out 

exactly." 

Womann and Trewin have 40 dogs in 

training at their Lara (near Geelong) property 

and have just built a new home. 

"This will help pay the building costs," 

he said. 

Group 1 Winter Carnival Cup 

(520m) Albion Park 

1 BIG SWELL $13 


Owner: Dennis Trewin 

Trainer: Tina Womann 

2 MISS HOT GOSSIP $2.80 


3 METICULOUS $7 

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5 Bogie Blaze $5 

6 Slater $2.70 

7 Leica Ruby $31 

8 Technoman $51 

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Winter Novice Final (420m) winner $400 

Maiden (420m) $385 

Maiden (520m) $385 

Tweed Valley Sprint (420m) Best 8, $660 

Stayers Stake (652m) no more than 7 wins at time of noms, maidens eligible, $585 

AUGUST 18 

Twin Towns Maiden Heats (420m) 32 maiden greyhounds, heats $385 

Coolangatta Stake (520m) Best 8, $660 

Novice stayers Stake (652m) up to 3 wins, maidens eligible, $585 

AUGUST 25 

Twin Towns Mixed Final (420m) $660 

Maiden (420m) $385 

Maiden (520m) $385 


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By DAVID BRASCH 

IT was 1974 and Mary Burman 

was married just two weeks when 

husband Ray headed off with his 

hockey mates to a night at the 

Cairns greyhounds. 

The club had some greyhounds 

available for giveaway ... a bid to 

attract newcomers into the 

industry. 

When the takers for the dogs 

were few and far between, and 

Ray's hockey mates took a decided 

step back, Ray thrust up his hand 

and all of a sudden Mary found 

herself mother to a greyhound. 

She's been in greyhound racing 

ever since. 

The Burmans have been so 

indoctrinated into greyhound 

racing that they moved to Park 

Ridge and established their own 

training complex, rearing a litter 

Ipswich Greyhound Racing Club 

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CORPORATE $$$ NIGHT CHALLENGE 

5TH GRADE SERIES 520m 

Heats Tuesday August 7 

Final Tuesday August 14 

Final $5000 to Winner 

Restaurant Open on Final Night - Bookings Required. 

"Make a Night of it." 

(Remember Wednesday is the Exhibition Holiday.) 

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Final 520m Wednesday August 29 

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or two along the way. 

They have had just one break from 

greyhound racing since 1974. 

In 1984 they landed Fashion Bow 

(Bowetzel-Copper Fashion) winner of the Qld 

Constellation at the Gabba. 

From 1988 until the mid 1990s, Mary and 

Ray spent time raising their family. In 1995 

their then 17-year-old son Paul, unknown to 

his parents, was regularly heading out to 

Albion Park greyhound meetings. 

"Paul dragged us all to the dogs one night 

to see the new superstar greyhound called 

Flying Amy," said Mary. "It was the night of 

the Eukanuba Cup final and Amy was 

brilliantly. 

"Paul wanted us to get back into dogs." 

Ray had been growing a number of things 

on the Park Ridge property including custard 

apple trees. 

"Ray said, if the family wanted us to get 

back into dogs, then they had to clean up the 

straight track which was no mean task," said 

Mary. 

That done, the Burmans were back in 

dogs. 

While feature races have been on the light 

side since then, the Burmans have always 

been able to produce a quality galloper from 

their kennels. 

Ima Rockstar (Golden Currency-Trojan 

Osti) earned $44,000 in stakes and made his 

presence felt in top grade around Albion Park. 

He was placed in a Qld final of the 

National Distance, and also made the final of 

the Association Cup in Sydney and the Winter 

Chase at Albion Park. 

But late in 2004 the Burmans had a handy 

bitch called Up And Down who came from 

the Voodoo Lady damline made famous by 

Michael and Helen Ivers. 

She had won 12 races for Ray and Mary. 

She was versatile, winning in 20.19 up 

Capalaba where she won four races, running 

20.11 at Beenleigh, and 22.74 in two wins at 

the Gold Coast and a sharp 30.71 around 

Ipswich. 

But she also sealed her destiny as a 

potential broodbitch with four wins at Albion 

Park the best in 30.70. 

Her litter contained the brilliant Chief 

Voodoo a Queensland Cup finalist at 

Beenleigh in 2002 behind Subic City. The Qld 

Cup would later play a huge role in Up And 

Down's career. 

A sister called Voodoo Volts won a heat 

of the Laurels at Sandown, and another 

brother Voodoo Fever was a Cannington 

winner. 

It's the same damline as Texas Gold, 

Quidame, Lucy's Light and Tricky Creek and 

her litter brother Thunder Creek. 

So Ray and Mary had every reason to feel 

confident Up And Down would produce at 

stud. 

Her first mating was to Southern Champ 

and she produced a pretty smart dog called 

Explosive Touch. 


Mary found 

herself married 

to greyhound 

racing 

Group 3 Qld Cup (600m) 

Albion Park 

1 TECHNOMAN $3.80 

(Surf Lorian-Up And Down) 

Owner: Mary Burman 

Trainer: Ray Burman 

2 SPECIAL PHANTOM $14 

(Token Prince-Jessie's Cape) 

3 SPECIAL DIAMOND $22 

(Bearability-Girl Diamond) 

Others: 4 Thunder Ahead $44, 5 Classy 

Dresser $7.70, 6 Kath's A Star $5.90, 7 

Noble Class $45, 8 Jinderra Flame $2.10. 

Time: 35.59. 

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Surf Lorian 

West Cape 

Barrio Fiesta 

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Credibility 

Yo Yo's Boy 

Yo Yo City 

Up And Down 

Malawi's Prince 

Voodoo Princess 

Voodoo Lady 

Then in January 2005 she whelped to Surf 

Lorian, the just retired superstar sprinter. 

From the litter has come Skinny Magic, 

Wave Gromit, Iconic Ruler, Iconic Surf, 

Sonic Surf ... and the sensational Technoman. 

All bar one is a winner, four have won at 

Albion Park. 

And Technoman, through driving rain, 

recently landed the Burmans their first Group 

victory when he proved himself the top 

middle distance galloper in the land with 

victory in the time-honoured Queensland 

Cup. 

"It's our first Group win and our biggest 

thrill," Mary told The Journal. 

Already Technoman, who has always 

been something special in the Burman kennel, 

has taken his earnings to $51,310 (to time of 

writing) with 19 wins. His victory in the Cup 

took his Albion Park 600m record to nine 

starts for eight wins. 

"Ima Rockstar won $44,000 but he took 

100 starts to do it," said Mary. 

The Burmans are in awe of Technoman. 

"It's his chase," said Mary. "He just wants 

to win." 

The Qld Cup, steeped in history, was just 

another example of that chase in 2007 with 

Technoman downing Special Phantom and 

Special Diamond. 

The Burmans have come a long way since 

1974 when Ray came home from hockey with 

a greyhound. They wouldn't have it any other 

way. 

Qld Cup (Albion Park) 

2007 Technoman 

2006 Andy Palmer 

2005 Ray Reltub 

2004 Kelly's Spirit

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Worth the wait 

CAROL Hill has been there, done that, 

so she decided to bring the boys along for the 

lucky ride. 

Carol heads the CRBL Syndicate which 

is made up by Richard Bettles, Ben Maher 

and Lex Long. 

Carol, of course, raced former Queensland 

greyhound of the year Glanzend, who was 

trained by her dad Ernie. 

Ernie turned 83 recently and was at home 

watching on TV when the syndicate's bitch 

Capalina stormed away on a rain-soaked track 

to win the Dave Brett Memorial maiden at 

Albion Park by a mere 14 and a half lengths. 

The four are workmates or footy mates. 

Carol, obviously, is a workmate. 

A year or more ago the four decided to 

get another greyhound. 

"I've been friends with Jason and Seona 

Thompson for ages, so I rang Jason and asked 

about some pups for sale," said Carol. 

Jason put them onto a couple by Monsters 

Inc-Token Portrait. Jason had taken Monsters 

Inc to greatness including a second to Bogie 

Leigh in the Australian cup. The dam Token 

Portrait is a half sister to top flight sprinter 

and now successful stud dog Primo Uno. 

The syndicate paid $1000 each for the 

then three-month old pups and sent them off 

to Darryl Schafer to be reared. 

"The dam was unraced but broke down 

before she could get to the track," said Carol. 

"We liked the fact she was by Token Prince 

and I wanted his blood in the broodbitch." 

Sandra Hunt and Ray Russell took the 

pups after breaking in and then the problems 

started. 

"She came on season twice and had to be 

tossed out of training just when she was about 

to race," said Carol. 

"First it was in November last year, then 

she had to miss the Vince Curry series early 

in 2007." 

But good things come to those who wait 

and the Brett Memorial fitted perfectly into 

her campaign this time in work. 

"I've known Ray Russell for 40 years," 

said Carol. "There are no better trainers 

around than he and Sandra." 

The syndicate has since bought a couple 

of pups by Ben's Fury-Natural Arch, the dam 

having already produced multiple Albion 

Park winner Doozra, as well as Qld Derby 

runner-up Look Down Sooty. 

Ben and Richard were both partners in 

Doozra. 

Capalina is just the third dog raced by the 

syndicate. She is highly promising as the Brett 

Memorial proved. 

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2 ROCK THE WAVES $5.60 

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Others: 4 Bomber Babe $22, 5 Soft And 

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Blacklaw Girl $21, 8 Spiral Star $4.80. 

Time: 30.98. 


LEFT: Capalina scores a runaway victory in 

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When Frank produced littermates 

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"But I'd done it at Ipswich on a Saturday 

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"It was with a Pretty Short litter I had. 

From memory the dogs were Pretty Kate, Just 

As Good and Pretty Magic. 

"Just As Good was a smart galloper who 

ran .02 outside the 431m track record at 

Ipswich back then." Young Dorrianne (Yo Yo's Boy-Sister 

Blue) was a member of the extra smart litter 

Frank bred in 2001 and took to a swag of 

shortcourse wins during their careers. He 

repeated the mating in 2002 and produced 

Young Mal and Young Yo. 

Young Dorrianne won seven races at 

Albion Park and Ipswich. Young Ethel May 

won 11 including four at Albion Park, Young 

Sonia won seven. 

Young Mal won 10 races including seven 

at Albion Park and Young Yo landed 12 wins, 

four at headquarters. 

They all trace back to Sister Blue (Toss 

The Teddy-Blue Series) a granddaughter of 

Nev Robson's Tweed Galaxy winner Go 

Series. 

He and Billy McDonald bought Sister 

Blue soon after she started racing and Frank 

admits he probably paid too much for her. 

"But it was in the QBIS days and we got 

our money back, and she's bred some good 

pups since then," he said. 

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This time it's Michelle's Mine, Young Intruder and Young Black Onyx. 

ABOVE LEFT: Michelle's Mine wins at Albion Park with her brothers chasing. 


Dorrianne's litter to Trendy Leigh and they 

are the only dogs he now has in training at his 

two-acre Caboolture property. 

"They are showing potential and will win 

plenty of races," he said. "I love those short 

course dogs. They seem to be able to race for 

much longer. I don't really need 520m dogs." 

Frank has been in greyhound racing for 

40 years. His father Syd bred dogs for years, 

mainly show dogs. 

"I got my first dog from Ron McLean the 

politician in the 1970s. Its name was Lucky 

Parade and I won a race with it, but it wasn't 

much good." 

But Lucky Parade instilled in Frank a love 

of the industry. He and wife Maris moved to 

Caboolture seven years ago but are likely to 

be on the move again within the next six to 

18 months. 

"All the properties in our street are being 

bought up for industrial sites," he said. "I'm 

on the lookout for another greyhound 

property now, hopefully down Waterford 

way." 

Frank has had plenty of good dogs in the 

40 years he's been training, plenty who more 

than paid their way and provided him with a 

constant stream of winners. 

Of his latest litter, he says Michelle's Mine 

is the best. 

He has recently whelped litters with Young 

Ethel May (to Black Lee) and Young Yo (Wild 

Voodoo). 

"Unfortunately we lost Young Dorrianne 

a little while back," he said. 

Way back in Ipswich's Saturday night 

racing, when Frank produced that initial 

trifecta of littermates, it paid $660. "A mate 

of mine from work got the trifecta," said 

Frank. 

The latest trifecta paid $375 but Frank 

says while he back the winner and won on 

the race, he did not get the trifecta. 

He's been retired from work for more than 

15 years but declines to admit to his age. "I'm 

as old as rum ... and I don't even drink it," he 

said. 

He can't see himself with a dog or two but 

knows with the two litters he has just whelped, 

he'll be in greyhound racing for plenty of years 

to come. 

"The dogs keep you active," he says. 

And besides ... there are plenty more 

trifecta results to be had yet.

DARREN 

Barbour (right) has 

joined the GRA 

Grading Panel. The 

21-year-old started 

as assistant to Chief 

Grader Eddie 

Little early in July. 

And he comes to 

the GRA and the 

Grading Panel with 

a number of years 

experience in the industry helping out some 

of the leaders of greyhound racing. 

Darren's uncle Brian Mailton has been 

a trainer for a number of years and 

currently races the handy galloper Dawn's 

Faith a winner of 12 races. 

"My parents Royce and Patricia were 

in the industry years ago and that got me 

interested," said Darren. "For the past few 

years I've had a handler's license and have 

been working at my uncle's property at 

Prenzlau where Fred Harvey has about 40 

young dogs," he said. 

In that time his hands-on experience 

has come helping training of the ilk of Tony 

Brett and Ron Ball. Darren admits to a love 

DAVID Taggart (right) has been 

appointed to the stewards' panel at the GRA. 

Taggart, 28, brings to the GRA a decade 

of greyhound ownership and breeding, 

several years work in the harness industry as 

a cadet steward, and a lifetime of racing 

involvement. 

Born and raised in Melbourne, David's 

grandfather Edward bred and raced harness 

horses all his life. 

"My parents were not really involved in 

racing, but it rubbed off on me," said David. 

He and a few mates bought a Head 

Honcho dog called Saddlebuck which won 

at Shepparton and ran a host of placings, just 

enough to wet the appetite of a bunch of young 

Victorians. 

"We bought a bitch called Copper Maid 

and she won five races form us and then bred 

a litter by Ashigga with her," he said. 

"Unfortunately we kept the two slow ones 

although a few of the litter won quite a lot of 

races in Tasmania." 

Another bitch called Mac Honcho (Head 

Honcho-Maclady) was handy for the boys and 

she too went to stud to produce a litter to Hot 

Chill. 

In the meantime, David was honing his 

skills in gaming working for the Fawkner RSL 

for seven years. 

During this time he also undertook a two 

year diploma course in horse breeding 

through the Northern Melbourne Institute of 

Tafe. 

"It was a very hands on course and taught 

me a great deal about the breeding industry," 

he said. 

David won himself a part-time job in 

harness racing as an assistant club steward at 

race meetings at Bacchus Marsh. 

It stood him in good stead as in October 

last year he picked up a position as a cadet 

steward with the Queensland Harness Racing 

Board. 

"I signed over all my dogs to my mates in 

Victoria when I got the job in Queensland," 

said David. 

But by this time greyhound racing has got 

right into David's blood. 

"Greyhound racing has always been my 

passion," he said. "I was always at The 

New 

Faces 

at the 

GRA 

of greyhounds. A number of his mates are 

in a syndicate which race a dog from the 

Brett kennel. 

"When I saw this position advertised I 

jumped at the chance to apply," said 

Darren. "It's the toughest role in the 

industry and I know I've got a bit to learn 

but I'm looking forward to it." 

Darren admits he's learnt enough 

about grading from the trainers he has 

helped to start at the GRA with a great 

knowledge of the subject. 

"I know how the grading system works 

and I've taken a keen interest in it myself." 

It's that knowledge that won him the 

position with the GRA. 

Meadows as a teenager because we lived 

nearby." 

When Steve McGrath left the GRA early 

this year, and Chas Clifford was promoted to 

deputy chairman, it left a vacancy on the 

panel. 

David applied and got the job. 

He started late in July. 

NOW A 

PROVEN 

SIRE 

Owen Edmonds 

Trapped 

For Sharon and Barry (Morris) 

Time and again I hear it said, I’m giving greyhounds away 

I’ve had enough of this bloody sport, just for something to say 

I can’t take a trick, me dogs have gone off, I’m having a case of the jitters 

Next thing you know you're back there again, breeding up two bloody litters 

It's like a disease without a known cure, it obviously runs in the blood 

It's not only men the women do too, love putting the broodbitch to stud 

Attempts have been made to resist the urge, genuine "definately nots" 

Till the cycle of mating draws towards time, then it’s maybe we can sell the lot 

Pick out a sire, we don’t have much time, don’t miss the date of her season 

We may keep a couple, or three at the best, or somewhere there within reason 

Then it’s up to the sire, you hope it don’t miss, you're as keen as ever before 

You're as anxious to see if she’s having pups, so you head for a scan to be sure 

Remember those words you uttered before, I’m sick of this bloody game 

And here you are "mumbling’’ saying what have I done, I must be bloody insane 

I need more dogs like a hole in the head, and a hole is what I deserve 

Then along come the pups, you take a look, then tumble straight back to earth 

Ten healthy pups in one whelping box, which one is the best of the ten 

It’s then that you realise this breeding disease, has smitten you once again 

I suppose there are some that can master the urge, to breed a litter or two 

Theres others that buy them if the breeder will sell, that is a gamble by you 

Your yards are silent where the pups used to be, It's then you really do know 

Be as it may after years in the game it’s hard to pack up and go 

Yes, greyhounds and racing as a true sport, is something that surely does please 

And it may have its moments, and it can be hard work, but it’s also a pleasant disease 

Matt O'Connor sent in these pics of 

one of his pups have plenty of fun. 

Now if only Matt could teach them to 

run instead! 

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Hermione Holly 

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SOME MORE YOUNGSTERS THAT HAVE KICKED OFF IN FINE STYLE 

AND FROM A WIDE RANGE OF BLOODLINES, With Both Sex's Performing! 

Cavalli BK Dog , Malawi's Marina x Malawi's Prince - 4 Starts ... 3 Wins 

Won first up and made final of Grafton Classic Maiden ,When had a graded race there went 23.28 Bod 23.26. 

Then stepped out at Gold Coast 401m with out a look, Led early ran 22.79 Bod 22.72 

Glossy Conquest BK Dog, Glossy x Mighty Glory x M.P. 6 Starts 4 wins 

Won last four on end, two at Sandown 515m best 30.03 and back to back wins at Geelong 457m. 

Litter brother Intrepid Journey wins last two starts. 

Old West White&RF Bitch, Many Tricks x Head Honcho 4 Starts 1-1-1 

Glen Abbey Lass White&RF Bitch Littermate 2 starts 1-0-0 

Glen Abbey Sam BK Dog Littermate 2 starts 1-0-0 

All three won there maidens with in a week over the 500s Traralgon & The Meadows. 

Motown Mama BK Bitch, Saintly Aston x Fortified Speed 2 Starts 2 wins 

Won maiden heat & final at Ipswich 520m. Led both times running 31.15 for final. 

Litter mate Bd Dog Ronan's Red wins at G/Coast 23.13 

Whisky Nick WB Dog Cawbourne Pearl x Big Ginger Boy 2 Starts 2 Wins 

Won both starts over the 508m at Dapto, Led both times, Littermate Cawbourne Bandit 

Won and placed at only 2 starts over 508m. 

Gard's Goose BK Dog, Wating List x Worthy Reward 2 Starts 1 Win 

Ran Bod 30.61at TRQ 513 mts at first start 4th in Final. Littermate to Wait On Buddy. 

Catch The Flash BK Dog, Tracys Two x Point Two 5 Starts 1-0-1 

Made Eric Thompson semi final, used the draw at Albion Pk 395m 23.13 

Both BK Litters sisters are very strong and get 500m. 

Insulator WRF Dog , Thunder Dance x Lansley Bale 5 Starts 1-2-0 

Won first up at Ballarat then 2 seconds at Warrnambool and Horsham 

Crumpet BD Bitch , Sugar Shot x Hotshot 4 Starts 2 wins 

Won heat and semi of Warragul 424m Vic Breeders, checked out of it in final. 

Checked again in heats of Group 1 Laurels. Sandown. 515m 

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Mariette Mortimer and 

Michael Petrohilof and their 

daughters Deanne and 

Melissa with Mitoje Boy. 

COL Bell can be a persuasive man, 

specially when it comes to anything to do 

with Totally Serious. 

Totally Serious is the son of Ashigga- 

O'Shanti Col raced out of the Morris 

kennel with huge success a couple of years 

ago. 

When Totally Serious went to stud Col 

gave him a chance by advertising him and 

chasing bitches to be mated to him. 

One of the first he mated was She's 

Travelling the multiple Albion Park 

winner whose first litter to Elite State 

produced a number of high class sprinters 

including Michael Miller Memorial winner 

Mr Quicksilver and Capalaba Derby 

winner Serious State. 

In November 2005, the bitch whelped 

to Totally Serious. Col approached his 

friend Todd Brown about buying one of 

the pups. 

Todd went straight to mates Michael 

Petrohilof and Jeff Ballinger and before 

they knew it they had a greyhound. 

Michael and Todd got to know each 

other at the RSL at Ipswich. Michael 

helped out Bribie Island's premier TAB 

agent and former rugby league prop 

forward of some note, Kevin Lever. 

Both have since moved to Ipswich and 

worked together at the Ipswich RSL. Todd 

now works in an air conditioning business 

run by Jeff. 

Jeff is also a godparent for one of Todd 

and his wife Brook's children. 

"Todd and I went up to Barry Morris' 

property and had a pick out of three or 

four of the pups from the litter and went 

for the blue dog," said Michael. 

The pup was reared at George 

Zammits' and went into training with Dale 

Mortimer ("the best trainer in Ipswich"). 

Brook Brown stepped in and gave a 

name to both the syndicate and their dog. 

He became Mitoje Boy, a combination of 

the first two letters of all three owners. 

And when Mitoje Boy sped out from 

the rails upon debut to win a Maiden over 


GWYDIR BOY 

A son of Chief Havoc and whelped 

in 1948, he made history by winning 11 

consecutive top grade races in Sydney. 

(Albion Park hero Token Jet won 10 in 

2006.) 

Boy! That's 

a great start 

431m at Ipswich, the celebrations began. 

"Mitoje Boy is not my first dog," said 

Michael. "I raced a dog called Sudden Fear 

with my brother Chris and it was trained 

by Dale Mortimer back in 1991. 

"He won his first two races at Ipswich 

and won later on at Lawnton but then 

broke down." 

When it came to finding a trainer, 

Michael went with a proven recipe and 

Dale got Mitoje Boy to train. 

Mitoje Boy is the first venture into 

greyhound racing for Todd and Jeff. 

As an added feature of the victory, 

Michael's daughters Deanne and Melissa 

ventured to Ipswich for the race. 

"Both girls were at Ipswich back in 

1991 when Sudden Fear won, and it was a 

great thrill for us that they came to Ipswich 

to see Mitoje Boy win," said Michael. 

While Michael, Todd and Jeff are 

content to just see Mitoje Boy make it to 

the races, all three quietly hope he can 

continue to develop into a smart dog. 

"We are happy to have him on the 

track and happy to be having a bit of fun," 

said Michael. 

Mitoje Boy is not the only member of 

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Trainer Dale Mortimer, 

owners Michael Petrohilof, 

Brook and Todd Brown and 

Jeff Ballinger. 

And Serious Union is also showing 

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That Col Bell knew his faith would be 

repaid. Michael, Todd and Jeff are happy 

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IN 1991, Ebrahim Limbada brought his 

family from the southern African country of 

Zambia to Australia ... Brisbane to be exact. 

And in the process, he was about to set 

greyhound racing in Queensland on a 

course of change. 

Obviously Ebrahim was little aware this 

would unfold, albeit 14 years later. 

Among his family was nine-year-old 

Ismail. The three Limbada children would 

finish their education in Brisbane, and then 

head on to higher education. 

"We all did business related courses at 

university," said Ismail. 

In March 2004, Ismail, his brother 

Mohammed, and sister Nadia, looked 

around for a business to develop. They 

found a factory in Bathurst that had been 

involved in the pet food industry. 

"We bought the factory," said Ismail. 

"The machinery was in place but the 

factory was a little run down and we had to 

build it back up again, as well as build up a 

client base for the products we planned to 

produce. 

"The pet food industry was new to us." 

The company the trio formed would be 

called Feedwell Stockfeeds PL. 

"At first we started producing dry foods 

for other companies, both large and small 

companies," said Ismail. "We had Japanese 

clients and most of our dry food went 

there." 

But in July 2005, Ismail decided he 

wanted to get their own brands of pet food 

going. Ismail, now 25, was living in 

Bathurst at the time but at the start of 2007 

moved back to Brisbane to help grow the 

business. 

"We introduced a Life Cycle brand of 

dog foods called ENDURO which caters 

for adult, puppy and working dogs. These 

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Ismail Limbada and a shipment 

of Enduro Racer about to head 

out to greyhound trainers. 

products are made using kangaroo meat as 

the main source of protein." 

An approach from a local greyhound 

trainer one morning in a pet store in 

Bathurst saw a change for Feedwell 

Stockfeeds. 

"He told us he and other greyhound 

trainers wanted a different dry food product 

for their greyhounds, something different 

and better from those they were using. It 

also had to come in at a more cost efficient 

level than other well known greyhound 

foods," said Ismail. 

Ismail went straight to a nutritionist in 

Queensland who has long been the number 

one consultant to the pet food industry. 

"The trainers told us they wanted a 

product that would help maintain the fitness 

of their dogs with enough protein and 

enough fat, but not enough to make the 

dogs fat," said Ismail. 

The recipe we came up with is now 

called Enduro Racer. 

"It contains 18 percent protein and 8.2 

percent fat which is the ideal balance," said 

Ismail. "It can be fed with meat but 

primarily it was designed to be used 

without supplementation as it contains all 

the vitamins and minerals to maintain a 

greyhound at its peak condition. 

"However, all greyhound trainers seem 

to supplement their foods, no matter what 

can be shown to them about the products." 

Enduro Racer was trialed in different 

kennels and Ismail and his company took 

on their feedback and adjusted the formula 

to produce the product it is now. 

"The feedback has never been 

negative." 

Enduro Racer is a unique product on the 

market. 

"We filter out all the powder before the 

product is packed so the trainer will be able 

to use every bit of the product that is in the 

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bag," said Ismail. 

"It seems many other brands collect a 

lot of powder at the bottom of the bag 

which is wasted product and wasted money. 

"We have also decided to stick with 

fairly plain packaging to enable us to keep 

costs down and rather keep the quality of 

the product up by spending more money on 

the product itself. 

"We use better ingredients and are still 

very cost competitive when compared to 

other greyhound products on the market." 

Enduro Racer went on the market in 

Queensland but things were moving slowly 

until Feedwell got the boost they needed 

when premier trainer Tony Brett tried it on 

his superstar team and loved it. 

"We were at the racetrack one night and 

approached Tony to see if he would give 

our product a try," said Ismail. "He was 

impressed and has been using it ever since." 

From scratch, Enduro Racer now turns 

over around 17 tons a month in Queensland 

and northern NSW. 

"Gradually we are gaining recognition 

and creeping into the markets in the 

southern states," said Ismail. 

"Obviously we want to grow our 

product and we are happy with the way 

trainers are accepting it more and more, and 

we are always on the lookout for more 

distributors." 

With the nutritionists' help, the company 

has also developed Enduro Complete a 

balanced adult formula, Enduro Plus, a 

working dog formula, Enduro Full Boar, a 

hunting dog formula, and Enduro Puppy. 

All these products draw their protein 

from a very lean source which is kangaroo. 

Feedwell is currently working on a 

product for allergy sensitive dogs and this 

should be out in the market in the near 

future. 

Enduro Racer is a recipe for success. 

Just ask Tony Brett.

After 17 years, it 

was worth the wait 

FOR the past 17 years Kelvin Muller has 

wanted to buy a greyhound but never did. 

Kelvin frequently looks at all greyhound 

related websites and has a very good 

knowledge of breeding. 

Enter workmate Gary Belcastro, who has 

owned greyhounds for years, and Nathan 

Goodwin, who has trained Gary's dogs and 

wanted Kelvin to be a part of the industry. 

"Nathan phoned Gary at work one 

Thursday and said to bring me over to the 

dogs that night, he had found me a dog to 

buy," said Kelvin. 

That dog was a bitch called Syanna (Primo 

Uno-Rossa Antico). 

"I was keen to buy her full sister Miss 

Testa who was in great form and is owned by 

Paul Felgate, but Nathan said she was up in 

grade after winning six from seven starts in 

North Queensland and that Syanna would be 

a much better buy," he said. 

"I have followed the dogs and gallops for 

years, but I just never went as far as buying a 

dog, just kept following the races, results and 

every now and then go to a race meeting. 

"I went to a meeting last year at 

Townsville over the carnival and Gary was 

racing a dog called Saddlebags. 

"Nathan said the dog was a good thing 

and to have something on. 

"There was about 15 of us there, so we 

nearly brought the house down cheering for 

Saddlebags and he won right on the line. 

"I thought to myself afterwards how good 

was that, but still never thought at the time of 

buying a dog." 

Goodwin spoke to Felgate and he said 

Syanna would beat Miss Testa at any track 

any time, so Goodwin was pushing for Kelvin 

to buy Syanna from long time friend Steve 

Hawkins who had bought Syanna from 

Felgate. 

"Syanna was something licked at her first 

start and she was only in our kennels for six 

days," said Goodwin. 

"Unbelievably the next week she was not 

required for a maiden so I told Kelvin we 

would go to Cairns and probably get a quid 

on three unplaced starts, two of which were 

at the Gold Coast." 

The rest is history. Syanna, at the time of 

writing, has won four straight and seems to 

be improving each start with a personal best 

of 22.24 at Townsville. 

"I would love to buy some more now, but 

my wife Sandra has just bought a new car, so 

I will have to wait," said Kelvin. 

"But I do have permission to get another 

soon." 

Gary and Kelvin work at Queensland 

Sugar. 

"The boys at work ask each time we have 

a conversation is this an owner's and trainer's 

meeting, which we love to play on to," said 

Gary. 

"Kelvin is a pretty quiet bloke after the 

wins but I can guarantee you it would be just 

like winning a Group race for the bigger 

owners. 

"I am sure he is pretty happy he agreed 

with Nathan about buying Syanna." 

Gary Belcastro did not get off scott free. 

In this deal Nathan also purchased Wild 

Miss Barry (Go Wild Teddy-Althorpe Miss) 

a litter sister to Group winner Go Makatan. 

"I felt a bit obliged when Kelvin bought 

Syanna, so I took Wild Miss Barry who has 

only been out of the money once in five starts 

in the north," said Gary. 

Syanna and Wild Miss Barry are trained 

by husband and wife team Nathan and Rhonda 

Goodwin. 

In times when it is so important to get new 

people into the sport, it is great to see Kelvin, 

Sandra and their three sons Chris, Matthew 

and Harry enjoying racing and cheering 

Syanna home. 

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past seven of those as a professional trainer. I've found that 

greyhounds need consistency in their diet. With a lot of the big name 

brands of kibble rising in price. We were losing a lot of kibble that had 

turned to dust. And after soaking a lot of kibbles just turn to mush. 

I was just not getting the consistency I was after. 

We gave "Enduro Racer" a try, containing 8% fat and a high protein 

level we found it to be just the right combination we were looking for. 

It soaked up a lot of water without turning to mush. The dogs liked the 

taste and my greyhounds are racing as well as they ever have. 

With "Black Enforcer" winning the Group 1 "Topgun", Australia's 

richest one out race, "Quidame" running 34.79 seconds, the second 

fastest time over the 600 metres at Albion Park, I am only too happy to 

recommend Enduro Racer as a great kibble for the racing greyhound. 

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Kelvin 

Muller and 

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Chris, 

Matthew, 

Harry and 

Sandra 

with 

Syanna.


WALKING is one of the best forms 

of recovery for stroke victims. 

Victorian greyhound man Don 

Hazzard didn't need to be told twice 

during his recovery from a stroke six 

years ago that he had to start walking. 

He had the ready-made companion à 

a greyhound. 

And Don has walked himself right 

into history with Sky Hazzard 

(Bombastic Shiraz-Blue Sky Hazard) 

who downed a trio of superstar staying 

bitches Miss Grub, Miss Brook and 

Ellie's Diamond to land the $20,000 

Superstayers (710m) at Albion Park. 

Don spent time in a wheelchair after 

that stroke, and for a time used a walking 

frame before he was strong enough to hit 

the streets. 

"I had a pup on a farm and when it 

came home, I worked out a route for 

myself and the dog and I still walk it 

today," he said. "I picked an area where 

I wouldn't be seen if I happened to fall 

over. The falls got less and less." 

That pup was not much good but Don 

kept him until just a few months ago 

when he got ill and had to be put down. 

It got Don keen again. "I was thinking 

about giving the dogs away and was down 

in the dumps," said Don. "I had a boat and 

was planning on doing some fishing." 

He answered an advert for a litter of 

pups Mick Edwards (of Boomeroo fame) 

had for sale. 

"I remember you," Edwards told 

Hazzard. "I raced you in a final at Olympic 

Park back in the 70s and you won it with a 

dog called Haphazard." 

Edwards sold Don the bitch pup from 

the Hotshot-Blue Delilah litter for $600, 

way under the price he advertised. 

She would be named Blue Sky Hazard 

and would go on to win a host of 

shortcourse races at provincial tracks in 

Victoria before going to stud to produce 

"superstayer" Sky Hazzard. 

"I always had troubles with her," said 

Don. "Only a few months ago I rang Mick 

Edwards and thanked him for selling me 

that bitch. And Mick was one of the first 

people on the phone the morning after the 

Sandown Cup." 

Don hazard got into greyhound racing 

in a roundabout way back in the 1970s. 

"I was a bit of a punter of the dogs and 

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won a quadrella one night that paid $839," 

he said. "An Army mate of mine knew a 

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"I knew nothing about dogs so the mate 

bought one for me from Tony Duke." 

It was by Miller's Moss-Makana and 

Don promptly got him home and reared 

him in the back yard. When time came for 

the pup, now named Haphazard, to race 

Don could not find a trainer. 

"So I put him in a race myself. It was 

at Wangaratta and he won. A couple of 

weeks later he went to Olympic Park and 

won again. 

"Two weeks after that he went back to 

Olympic Park and won again and then won 

two weeks later. 

"I then nominated him for a distance 

series at Olympic Park and he got a start 

as a reserve and won again." 

Haphazard had started the ball rolling. 

A former professional cyclist, Don 

Hazzard has spent a lifetime in sport. He 

was a long-time trainer for Footscray and 

has been made a life member of the club 

that is now the Western Bulldogs. 

As part of his prize for the Superstayers 

at Albion Park, a free service to Surf 

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Lorian was included. 

There is no bigger fan of the Western 

Bulldogs than Surf Lorian's studmaster 

Tony Apap. 

"Sky Hazzard's mother will be going 

to Surf Lorian as soon as she comes on 

season next," said Don. 

Superstayers (710m) 

Albion Park 

1 SKY HAZZARD $4.40 

(Bombastic Shiraz-Blue Sky Hazard) 

Owner-trainer: Don Hazzard. 

2 MISS GRUB $1.70 

(Solve The Puzzle-Arenia Miss) 

3 MISS BROOK $2.20 

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WHEN Garry Gilbert was a youngster he 

made a vow to himself he would not work on 

the railway nor have greyhounds. 

Garry, 51, spent 20 years on the railway, 

and is now planning a shift next year to 

Murwillumbah to establish a greyhound 

property. 

How things have changed. 

"I probably didn't have much chance of 

escaping an involvement in greyhound 

racing," Garry told The Journal. His family 

includes Keith Hayes who, until his death a 

few years ago, ran a successful pet food 

business catering for the greyhound industry, 

as well as Eric Hayes who was a greyhound 

trainer for many years before moving into 

thoroughbreds. 

And his own brother Bill still has a few 

dogs in Casino. 

Garry is originally from Casino, where he 

got himself a greyhound or two when he was 

a youngster. 

He remembers his first dog well. 

"It was named Namoona Rebel and it won 

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at its first race start for me," said Garry. It 

was also the dog's only win. 

"I was training mostly giveaways in those 

days, but having quite a bit of success with 

them. In fact, I bought half my first home out 

of winnings on the dogs." 

In those days Garry was working on the 

railway. "I got one of the best dogs I've had 

from two mates who worked with me on the 

railway," said Garry. 

The boys are Johnny Appleby and Johnny 

Day. The dog was one of the best named ... 

Apple A Day. 

The two Johns always fought over how 

the dog should be trained and eventually they 

gave up and answered a call from Garry to 

give him a chance at training Apple A Day. 

"It was 1980 and I set Apple A Day for a 

first-up bet, but he was beaten a head, by a 

dog called Call Me Roscoe," lamented Garry. 

Apple A Day knocked up winning races 

for Garry after that. 

Garry has been living at Tivoli on the 

outskirts of Ipswich for 16 years and since 

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Garry Gilbert puts 

his magic hands over 

one of his kennel. 

1993 has run a sports massage clinic, working 

six days a week and at times keeping 20 to 30 

of the local footballers on the paddock. 

And in the early 2000s, one of Garry's 

clients was that wiley old greyhound man, Ray 

Gatti, who two decades earlier had produced 

Call Me Roscoe to tip out Apple A Day by a 

head and deny Garry that betting plunge. 

"I had Ray on the table working on his 

back problem when I reminded him of that 

race," said Garry. "And here's your payback 

..." 

There have been plenty of winners in the 

days since Apple A Day. Our Downfall won 

six of eight. 

"One of the best was Daphne's Choice a 

21kg bitch who landed a couple of big plunges 

for her owner 'Nobby' O'Brien and I at the 

Gabba." 

In one of those, Nobby sidled into the 

betting ring at the Gabba and spotted 10-1 

about Daphne's Choice. "Nobby had $500 

each way and turned to walk away when the 

bookie asked if he wanted it again. Nobby 

produced the extra thousand and the bitch won 

easily." 

When the sports massage clinic took off 

in 1993, Garry had to scale down his 

greyhound training. 

"It is actually sports structured alignment, 

aimed at getting the pelvis and shoulders 

straight," he said. "It's the first ingredient you 

need for greyhounds. Get the pelvis and 

shoulders straight to be able to run. 

"If you, or a greyhound, are not 

structurally aligned, then you nor the dog can 

run straight." 

In the meantime Garry met and married 

Leanne on 10-5-03. "On the 5-10-04 our son 

Geordie was born," said Gary. "Leanne was 

in room 10, floor five. It was Caulfield Cup 

time and I went straight out and backed 

number five, Elvstroem who won and I had a 

huge win. 


No railway, 

no dogs 

"And Makybe Diva won the Melbourne 

Cup that year as number five." 

In the past 10 months, Leanne has gone 

back to work part-time while Garry looks after 

Geordie and runs his clinic and he has gone 

back to training dogs. 

He has three in work including recent 

Group 3 Qld Cup finalist Noble Class, 

Morgan Trick and Samuel Trick the latter two 

from long-time friend Darryl Schafer. 

"Noble Class has the ability to win a big 

race but he is slow early so in reality he may 

not even get out of fifth grade with a problem 

like that," said Garry. 

"In most races you need an element of 

luck, and when you come from behind like 

Noble Class you need even more luck." 

Ray Armfield has been mates with Garry 

and Darryl for years and Ray raced Noble 

Class' granddam Hayley's Angel. He owns 

Noble Class. 

"The first trial I gave him at Capalaba he 

ran 20.20 when the next best on the day was 

20.70," said Garry. "We had a good win on 

him in his maiden. 

"But he's been hard to train although this 

time in work he's going really well." 

Garry is as astute a trainer as most. "Darryl 

has been sending me a few dogs, and Tommy 

Noble has become my biggest fan. He's been 

impressed with the work I've done with Noble 

Class." 

He laments the days of the Gabba are now 

gone. "The atmosphere, the bookies ... 

everything about it was exciting," he said. 

The future for Garry Gilbert is in 

greyhound racing. "By the end of next year 

I'm hoping to have bought a property at 

Murwillumbah to get more into training 

dogs," he said. "Leanne is really keen to 

embrace it and so am I." 

The next thing, Garry will be looking at 

going back to the railway!

LEADING Melbourne trainer Jason 

Thompson (pictured) has rated up-andcoming 

chaser Proven Alias the fastest 

greyhound he has had in his kennel. 

The black No Intent-Proven Booty dog 

burst onto the racing scene with a stunning 

win in a heat of the Geelong Cup last 

October. 

He clocked the fastest heat time of 25.44 

seconds for the 457m trip despite copping 

some interference and defeated eventual 

Cup winner Dyna Checa. 

He missed the start and got into a heap 

of trouble in the final, finishing sixth. 

Thompson said he hoped the 

greyhound could stay sound to contest 

races like the National Sprint 

Championship and Melbourne Cup in 

coming months. 

The dogs has had 22 starts for 10 wins 

and six placings, but had to overcome ongoing 

injury concerns. 

He won his first race at Sandown 

recently in a slick 29.69 and has previously 

been one of only a handful of dogs to break 

27 seconds at Horsham (26.94). 

Thompson said his main aim was just 

keeping Proven Alias in one piece so he 

could continue racing. 

He said the dog broke a metacapal 

when being broken-in. 

“About eight months ago he had a 

JUNE 8 

Stewards present: DM Ryan (chairman), G Thorsby 

(acting deputy). 

Stewards convened an inquiry in relation to the urine 

sample taken from Lonesome Road on April 12 at 

Brisbane Club (placed 2nd) which returned positive to 

methylprednisolone. 

Stewards took evidence form trainer Mr R Gardoll 

of Iluka and a written submission from vet Gary Carter. 

Stewards charged Gardoll under AR 122 which states: 

"The owner, trainer or person in charge of a greyhound 

nominated to compete in an event shall produce the 

greyhound for the event free of any drug". 

Gardoll pleaded not guilty, but was found guilty and 

fined $500. Lonesome Road was disqualified under AR 

124 (1). Gardoll was read his rights of appeal. 

JUNE 15 

Stewards present: DM Ryan (chairman), C McLune 

(investigations), G Small (steward). 


sample taken from Brindle Chaser on April 28 at 

Capalaba (placed 1st) which returned positive to 

caffeine, theobromine, theophylline and paraxanathine. 

Stewards took evidence form trainer Mr G Price of 

Ormiston. 

Stewards charged Price under AR 122 which states: 

"The owner, trainer or person in charge of a greyhound 



Price pleaded guilty and was suspended for two 

months and fined $500. Brindle Chaser was disqualified 

under AR 124 (1). Price was directed to return the 

prizemoney to the GRA and was read his rights of 

appeal. 

JUNE 18 

Stewards concluded an investigation into the 

scratching of Berella Diva from the heats of the Eric 

Thomson Memorial at the Gold Coast on May 6. 

Stewards interviewed: Stacey Mortensen, part-time 

administration officer at the Gold Coast Club; Julie 

Mortensen, secretary Gold Coast Club; John Young, 

treasurer Gold Coast club; John Fredericks, NSW 

trainer; Ron Ball, trainer; Gail Thorsby, acting deputy 

chairman of stewards. 

Stewards established that on May 6 the Gold Coast 

Club took a late scratching from an unknown person on 

the telephone. The receipient of the call failed to 

ascertain relevant information from the caller and the 

information subsequently passed to stewards was only 

a race number and greyhound number. 

Stewards notified the TAB and Berella Diva was 

declared a late scratching at 3.09pm. 

The information passed to stewards was later found 

to be incorrect and the wrong greyhound had been 

withdrawn as Ball arrived at the track with Berella Diva 

and advised stewards he had not scratched his 

greyhound. 

Fredericks, who trains Bank Boss, failed to arrive at 

the track by conclusion of kennelling and this confirmed 

the wrong greyhound was scratched. 

Stewards contacted the TAB in a bid to have Berella 

Diva reinstated, however, this could not be done. 

Andrew Thomson 

stress fracture in the bone above that wrist 

and I tried to keep him racing with it,” he 

said. 

“But he just kept pulling up lame. It 

Stewards inquiries 

Stewards found a lack of information taken from the 

person telephoning the scratching, not following correct 

protocols, and human error led to the incorrect 

greyhound being withdrawn. 

Stewards have ordered a complete overhaul of club 

procedure for handling of scratchings throughout 

Queensland. Stewards have also directed all clubs adopt 

the uniform procedure, document and training regarding 

this procedure. 

JUNE 29 

Stewards present: DM Ryan (chairman), L Fraser 

(chief steward Rockhampton). 


sample taken from Thunder Devil on April 12 at 

Rockhampton in Race 3 (placed first) which returned 

positive to Tropyl Tropate. 

Stewards took evidence from trainer Mr D Taylor of 

Rockhampton. 

Stewards were in possession of documentation 

received from Racing Science Centre that identified a 

number of non-compliance issues involving all four 

samples taken at the meeting. 

After lengthy discussions, stewards reached the 

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was operated on by Des Fagan. He scraped 

the bone and drilled holes in it to promote 

callousing. He hasn’t pulled up lame on it 

since we’ve had him back on the track.” 

Thompson said in the past he had 

difficulty getting enough work into Proven 

Alias so he could show his true ability over 

500 metres. 

“He is the fastest dog I’ve ever trained. 

I’ve never had a faster dog. He may not 

reach the heights of some of my other good 

dogs but for actual ability he’s right up 

there.” 

Thompson has trained a string of 

Group 1 winners, including gun sprinter/ 

stud dog Awesome Assassin. 

“I don’t rate Proven Alias the quickest 

lightly. He could break any track record 

on any track I take him to,” he said. 

conclusion the level of the breach of compliance was 

high and that natural justice could not be properly 

afforded to the trainer involved. Stewards withdrew the 

sample and no further action was taken. Stewards are 

seeking direction from the Board as to the course of 

investigation to be taken to rectify any further system 

failures involving samples taken in Rockhampton. 

JULY 6 

Stewards present: C Clifford (Deputy Chairman), C 

McLune (Investigations). 

Stewards opened an inquiry into the urine sample 

taken from Yorklee Town on April 25 at the Gold Coast 

in Race 4 (placed 8th) which returned positive to 

Methylprednisolone. 

Stewards took evidence from trainer Mr A Marras of 

Yorklea. 

He was charged under AR 122 which states: "The 

owner, trainer or person in charge of a greyhound 



Marras pleaded guilty and was fined $500. Yorlkee 

Town was disqualified under AR 124 (1). Marras was 

read his rights of appeal. 

Troy Sharpe is branching out to fulltime 

training after a successful hobby career of 10 years. We 

are a proven kennel having produced multiple Albion 

Park, TAB and Provincial winners. 


“I took him to Geelong and he ran 25.22 

on a trial day. I don’t usually trial him. 

He’s run 19.50 over the short. 

“I took him to Ballarat when he was 17 

months and put him in a half field and he 

ran 25.03 on a cold winter morning. There 

were a heap of people there who witnessed 

the run.’’ 

Thompson said Proven Alias would 

only grow more confident with racing. 

“He hasn’t really let go. If he keeps 

pulling up sound he’ll get more confident 

and go better,” he said. 

“He needs to win a lot of races to be 

the best race dog I’ve had, but for pure 

speed he can run.” 

Thompson said the winning 29.69 run 

at Sandown was hopefully a hint of what 

was to come. 

“He hasn’t had much 500m 

experience,” he said. 

“With a few more runs he’ll go a lot 

faster. I’m not going to make any 

outlandish predictions. If he stays sound 

he’ll go quicker, that's all I’m going to 

say.” 

Thompson said Proven Alias was a dog 

he would use at stud. 

“I know how quick he is, I just hope he 

gets to show everyone else,” he said. 

Thompson has 15 greyhounds in work 

and attributed a recent run of hot form to 

good dogs and good box draws. 

In the past couple of months 

Thompson, 38, has won both the Group 1 

Laurels at Sandown and the Western 

Australian Oaks with Miss Hot Gossip for 

Queensland owner/breeder/trainer David 

Robartson and the Group 1 Maturity with 

Run’s House, which Thompson also bred. 

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Legend's track mark. His best victories were the Surf Life Savers Cup, The NSW Sprint 

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Moree Services Club Outback Sprint Final (421m) winner $1000. 

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$5,000 to the winner and the $10,000 to 

the winner Young Guns series. 

September sees the running of the 

Derby and Futurity series, the Memorial 

Trophy over 630m and the start of the 

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October brings this period to a 

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Puppy Auction and the Group 2 City of 

Ipswich Gold Cup sponsored by the 

Ipswich City Council. 

These feature race nights will be 

supported by special guests and many 

support events. 

Details of these races are available in 

this Journal or can be obtained by 

contacting the club. 

The Q Dog race series certainly have 

attracted the attention of trainers with 

these races receiving quality and 

quantity nominations. 

It is also great to see that the races 

have been won by dogs who qualified for 

the bonus. 

We are currently preparing the 

Highland Smash Repair Puppy Auction 

catalogues. 

They will shortly be available from 

the club and more details can be 

obtained by contacting the club. 

Don't miss out on being part of the 

race series where dreams are made. 

MACKAY 

As we have just celebrated the 31st 

Anniversary of the Mackay Club it was 

good to see many new people attend to 

make it a great night. 

Congratulations to all the winners on 

the night. 

Many thanks must go to new 

sponsors Brett and Kathy Frolley from 

Jolt Health Bar who sponsored the 

Anniversary Sprint won by If By Magic 

trained by Barbara Sam. 

It was great to see a full field over 

541m for the Colleen Jackson Memorial 

with this race won by Farmor Torque 

from the Wayne Scott kennels. 

Many thanks to Colleen's children, 

their partners and families and the 

Hedrick family for their continued 

sponsorship of this race. 

Club President John Brider made a 

surprise presentation to Brett Frolley in 

recognition of his success with 

greyhound breeding which has produced 

many good dogs but those lately being 

the brilliant Slater, Big Swell and 

Beachley to name just a few. 

We hope to see many more good 

nights like this one. 

Thanks to all those who continue to 

support us. 

GOLD COAST 

Membership fees are now due. 

New members are more than 

welcome to come to the office to pick up 

a membership form. 

Member's fees are $66 including 

GST.

A YOUNG man with many memories of 

years travelling with his father has been 

blessed with an ideal start to greyhound 

ownership. 

At the age of 25, Stuart Gemmell 

purchased his first dog a year ago and success 

has come quickly. 

As a boy, Gemmell travelled to plenty of 

race meetings with his father Bill including 

their regular Christmas visit to the Wauchope 

carnival and the Coonamble carnival in 

October. 

"I still remember the trip to Wauchope, it 

was a great time," Stuart said. "It is a shame 

to see the decline in the industry. Crowds and 

bookmakers have faded away since I was a 

boy." 

His dad, after 40 years, decided to have a 

break from the sport but for Stuart his time 

was just starting. He phoned the Greyhound 

Recorder in the hope of finding someone to 

sell him a dog. 

He was advised to ring Mick Phillips at 

Triple Crown Lodge and after doing so went 

to the Southern Highlands property to look 

at pups. 

"I paid $6000 for Crack The Safe (Big 

Daddy Cool-Glossy) and then paid $10,000 

for a package deal of two pups named Still 

Hoping (Placard-Magic Trick) and Intrepid 

Journey (Whisky Assassin-Glossy)," Stuart 

said. 

"I paid the money only because of the 

professional way in which Kon Kola operates 

and felt satisfied and confident the money 

would be well invested." 

And that it has been. Crack The Safe was 

the first to race and has won at Dapto, 

Lithgow, The Gardens and Maitland. 

Still Hoping won her maiden at Richmond 

in a flying 30.63 and has since won there over 

600m and 700m winning by 11 lengths. 

But the real story is going to come from 

Intrepid Journey who has won two of her five 

starts both at Goulburn, second win running 

a near record over the 457m and winning by 

12 lengths 

Her run home time was that of top grade 

standard and she has since trialled beyond 

expectations at Wentworth Park and was to 

be set for a special Gardens/Wenty series in 

late July. 

Stuart has been a Godsend for his father 

in recent times. 

Gary Clark 

New South Wales 

His dad had a bad fall from a tree and is 

also battling cancer, a slow process but one 

that Stuart is confident the dogs will play a 

major part in. 

"He rarely got out of bed, so there was 

only one way to fix that and I now take him 

to all the meetings, all he lives for now is the 

dogs. 

" I returned the favour for all those years 

he took me everywhere," Stuart said. 

His father had some handy dogs, Quality 

Legend (a track record holder at Singleton), 

Thanks Mick 

Capalaba staged the Mick Cox 

Appreciation day in July and the great 

man was persuaded into calling the race 

named in his honour. 

And after a break of 30 years, he 

showed he had lost none of the gamlour 

and colour he put into racecalling with a 

polished display. 

He received a huge ovation at the end 

of the race. 

Past Hoping and his favourite 

Saturday Smile. 

"He was my favourite, a 

Harold Park winner over the 

732m and a great dog up the 

old Richmond straight," Bill 

said. 

"In fact, he was my first and 

was trained in the early stages 

by Paul Cauchi who was in the 

process of starting out himself. 

"The cancer doesn't worry 

me, I love the dogs and couldn't 

be more happy for Stuart, he is 

a great young bloke." 

There is a story behind 

every name and that is the case 

with Gemmell's three dogs. 

Still Hoping was named 

after his father's dog Past 

Hoping. 

Crack the Safe came from 

an incident at the local TAB. 

"My mate won plenty on a 

trifecta and told the manager to 'Crack The 

The Home-Grown Champion 

with the OUTCROSS pedigree 

Vesuvio 

21 starts, 13 wins, 3 2nds 

Won 2005 Statewide Challenge (Albion Park in 30.14) 

2nd 2005 Group 2 Lismore Cup 

Finalist 2005 Group 1 Paws of Thunder (WPk) 

Finalist 2005 Group 1 Winter Carnival Cup (Alb Pk) 

Finalist 2005 Group 3 Gold Coast Cup 

Ran: 30.01 Albion Pk; 29.96 Wentworth Pk (beating trk rec holder 

Benny's Toll); 30.27 Lismore; 25.65 Gold Coast (near record); 

22.68 Gold Coast (near record) 

Won first eight starts. Made TWO Group 1 finals in first 15 starts. 

Only Qld dog in Group 1 Winter Carnival Cup. One of three Qld 

dogs shortlisted for TOPGUN. 

Sire: REGGEMITE (Topgun winner. Sire of Tears Of Jupiter, Ruddikan, 

Fitzroy Jim, Wotan Angel, Timely Thoughts, Duel's Me Mum) 

Dam: ITALIAN PRINCESS Winner, dam also of ... * Italian Special 

(finalist Group 3 Gold Coast Cup; 14 wins, Alb Pk, GC, Lismore) * Colosseo 

(10 wins, Ips, GC, Cap) * Monte Bello (winner Capalaba) * Sofiemite 

(winner Alb Pk, Ips) * Italian Energy (Ips Futurity) 

This is the damline of TROJAN TEARS, KOBBLE CREEK, 

RELIABILITY, ROCKING RAMBO, LONG SHADOW, TIP TOP 

TEARS, STYLISH BOUNDER, CONVINCING LEE etc etc 


Safe', so I used that," Stuart said. 

Intrepid Journey was named after 

Gemmell watched a military documentary in 

which a plane was named "Intrepid", so the 

outcome was obvious. 

Gemmell was a talented young sportsman, 

a good golfer and a smart soccer player for 

Blacktown City when he was 17 but injury 

forced him from the field. 

He had to eventually have a back 

operation after a disc pushed onto a nerve, 

which shot the pain into his left calf muscle, 

thus ending his sporting ambitions. 

He has no idea what career path he may 

take as playing soccer and golf was his only 

goal but he has had some time as a job 

consultant and may venture back into that 

position soon. 

As for training, well that is also on the 

agenda. 

"Too soon yet, I still need to learn plenty 

more. 

"Education is the deciding factor in 

success, I found that out at school. 

"All I was interested in was playing sport 

and the written work came second," Stuart 

confessed. 

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for the education of their pups and 

Trialling their Fast Race dogs. 

So if you want to know what our track is really like, just ask any of these Elite 

Trainers for their opinion about our facility. Our track is a safe option for 

your valuable Dogs to Trial on and you can actually get a true guide how your 

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New members 

I would like to welcome the 12 new 

members who have joined the Association 

in the last month! 

It is very pleasing to see such a 

significant influx of members, especially 

just over a one month period. 

The new QGBOTA Member jackpot is 

a fantastic innovation; it is exciting and 

gives a lot back to our members. 

Obviously trainers are responding by 

joining the QGBOTA and I hope we can 

see continued memberships as those 

jackpot pools escalate. 

Our new newsletter is also doing a great 

job keeping people informed of what is 

going on with the QGBOTA as well as 

raising our profile. 

It may not be TIME magazine just yet, 

but we are committed to improving it each 

month. 

Jackpot begins 

The QGBOTA Member Jackpot makes 

its long awaited debut this month. 

Here are the Jackpot fixtures for the 

month of August. 

Capalaba - Race 1 August 4 

Gold Coast - Race 1 August 7 

Ipswich - Race 1 August 15 

Albion Park - Race 1 August 24 

If the trainer of the winning greyhound 

Black 

Tragically retired due 

Lee 

to hip support injury 

Winner Gateway to the Top (Alb Pk) 

Runner-up 2005 Perth Cup (to Sun Hero) 

Third 2005 Adelaide Cup (to Collide) 

Finalist 2005 Silver Chief 

Winner Alb Pk 30.19, 30.20 (23 mths), WP 30.20 (24 mths), Mead 29.86, 

30.19 (26 mths), SP 29.80, 29.82 (28 mths), Ang Pk 29.34 (29 mths), 

Cannington 30.38 (31 mths). Never reached full maturity. Won on all city 

tracks in Australia. Contested Group 1 finals. 

Brad Newman 

GBOTA News 

is a financial member of the QGBOTA they 

will receive the jackpot, which will start off 

at $50 at all tracks. 

If the winner is not a member, the $50 

will jackpot to next month's jackpot race at 

that particular track. 

Good luck! And if you aren't a member, 

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Greyhounds on prime time 

Congratulations to all involved with the 

story on Channel 9's Extra about Slater and 

the Winter Carnival Cup. 

This type of blue chip media exposure 

is invaluable to the sport, especially 

improving our public image and promoting 

signature events such as the Winter 

Carnival Cup. 

I think Luke Gatehouse, BGRC General 

Manager and Darren Murray, trainer of 

Slater both represented our industry with 

pride on the show and came across very 

well. 

I especially would like to congratulate 

Darren as he made a great effort to shed 

some light on the real nature of greyhound 

racing. And he did so with a beautifully 

short and concise statement. 

"The public deserves to know that 

greyhound racing has become very special," 

said Darren Murray, trainer of Slater. 

I think we should all take Darren's lead 

and be ambassadors for our sport when ever 

and where ever possible. 

We certainly don't all get opportunities 

to be on free to air television, radio or Sky 

Racing but we can still represent the sport 

For appointments or Inquiries Phone Rick Fall 

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and dispel a lot of myths among friends, 

family and colleagues. 

General Meeting 

The QGBOTA will be holding a general 

meeting at 6pm August 6 in the Albion Park 

Members Bar. 

I invite all members as well as those 

interested to attend. 

The Committee has agreed to have a 

general meeting every two months. I 

believe this is an important element of what 

the QGBOTA is, we are an industry body 

and our power comes from the people. 

We will further discuss a timeline for 

meetings for the next 12 months at the 

meeting. 

Capalaba Trial Discount 

Remember QGBOTA members receive 

$1 off trials at Capalaba when presenting 

their membership card. 

Anyone interested in saving some 

money on trialing who isn't a member, I 

invite you to join the QGBOTA. 

Membership 

Membership forms are available on our 

website QGBOTA.com, in our monthly 

newsletter, at our weekly BBQ at Albion 

Park on Fridays or by contacting a 

committee member. 

Cost is $10 for individual membership 

or $15 for a family. 

For further membership details please 

contact out Secretary Pat Marchant on 

39010932. 

Brad Newman 0400 880295 or allstar@iinet.net.au 

Next General Meeting 

August 6, 6pm Members Bar, Albion 

Park. 


SCURLOGUE 

CHAMP 

The Irish bred, but English raced, son 

of Sand Man won 51 of his 63 starts and set 

20 track records all over marathon 

distances, starting favourite 60 times. 

He won 16 open races in succession and 

became a household name throughout 

England attracting crowds of up to 9000 to 

watch him race. 

The feature that so attracted nationwide 

interest was his almost total lack of interest 

in the race until so late in the event it was 

thought he had no chance of winning. 

He would be up to 20 lengths behind the 

field with a lap to go. 

Yet he won two TV Trophies, the Sporting 

Life Marathon, the Cesarewitch, the 

Regency and a host of other features. 

He pulled up after 300m in the 

"Showdown" with champion Ballyregan 

Bob at Wembley. Twice he "DNF".

George with Straken 

after a Lismore win. 

EVERY time Georgia Anne wins for 

Anne Southee, the cheers go up at Casino. 

The Bombastic Shiraz-Nightmare Lil 

bitch has been doing a bit of that lately ... 

winning. And Anne's elder brother George 

has kept up the cheering. 

For George was supposed to have raced 

Georgia Anne. 

Nightmare Lil, the former handy 

Albion Park performer, whelped a litter 

of nine pups and George offered to rear 

one for one for his sister. 

George is 72, has acreage at Casino and 

is always looking for a dog or two to train. 

"He had the two dogs and I gave him 

the bitch to rear with them and then race," 

said Anne. 

"But when they got to about seven or 

eight months old, the two dogs were 

picking on the bitch a fair bit so George 

said I should take her back home to 

Queensland." 

It was always understood that when the 

bitch had her rearing finished and was 

educated she would go back to George to 

race. 

Unfortunately, in the meantime George 

came down with lung cancer. 

So the bitch stayed with Anne. 

"I named her after the pair of us and 

that's how she is named Georgia Anne," 

said Southee. 

George has recovered from his battle 

with cancer but these days has only one 

dog in training, a littermate to Georgia 

Anne and her brothers Big Nightmare and 

Gunamatta, called Straken. 

The lung cancer has left George short 

of breath, but he's guided Stracken to eight 

wins at Lismore. 

"George had a lung removed, but he's 

a fighter," said Anne. 

Anne even offered to send Georgia 

Anne to her brother but he declined saying 

he can't really handle more than one dog 

at any one time. 

"He makes sure he watches every race 

she is in," said Anne. 

And lately he's been doing a bit more 

cheering because Georgia Anne has been 

in consistent form including a couple of 

wins at Albion Park. 

Anne reckons she will get 600m with a 

bit more maturity. 

Georgia Anne wins 

at Albion Park. 

George and Anne make 

a great pair 

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Cup win may set a trend 

EARLY in March, a stress fracture 

of the hock forced Townsville ownertrainer 

Graham Thomson to halt Trendy 

Black in his tracks. 

The son of Trendy Leigh-Sweet Emily 

Rose had long been one of Townsville's 

best gallopers. 

"He was out for 10 weeks but has 

come back better than ever," said 

Graham. 

That was certainly evident when he 

held off a smart field to win the recent 

Cairns Cup (544m) and fulfil one of 

Thomson's dreams. 

"In fact, the break from racing seems 

to have helped his stamina," said 

Graham. "Before the spell he was 

struggling to run out a strong 498m at 

Townsville, but he was strong in the 

straight in the Cairns Cup final." 

Too strong in fact. 

Thomson has to pinch himself when 

he realises his Cairns Cup dream has 

come true. 

"There has always been something 

about the Cairns Cup," he said. 

"So many chase it and it's been won 

by so many good dogs over the years. It 

seems to have an aura about it that some 

of the country cups don't have." 

Thomson admits his luck with dogs in 

recent weeks hasn't been that great. But 

it all turned around on Cairns cup heats 

night. 

"He had to jump Skillington when he 

stopped dead at the winning post in his 

heat and he just got into third," said 

Graham. 

"He got a start in the final as the 

fastest third." 

Then when it came time for trainers 

to pick their box draw, Thomson strode 

forward with only boxes three and five 

left. 

"I said if he drew one, two or three he 

had a great chance of winning the final," 

he said. "And I picked the three." 

Trendy Black dashed to the front in 

Graham Thomson and his daughter Katelyn with 

Cairns Cup winner Trendy Black. 

the back straight and held off Eiswein 

and Illusion Star to win the final and 

give Graham Thomson his greatest thrill 

in greyhound racing. 

It was a "night of nights" for 

Thomson as he also won a Maiden final 

with Fresian Star (a litter sister to 

Trendy Black) and was runner-up in the 

Cup Consolation with Cool Black. 

Thomson paid just $800 for Trendy 

Black as a three-month-old pup from 

breeder Derek Ardvidson. 

"I'd won a couple with a giveaway 

Derek had sent me a little while before," 

said Graham. 

"I was keen to get a pup and wanted 

it from some new bloodlines and Trendy 

Leigh really appealed to me. 

"I spoke to Derek and he said he had 

a litter he had just bred and I could have 

one of the pups for $800. I told him I 

wanted the biggest black dog, and this is 

him." 

Trendy Black headed north and 

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Graham reared the pup himself with a 

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Trendy Black broke in easily and 

always showed ability. He contested the 

Cairns Cup in 2006 and was third to 

eventual final winner Devine Gem in a 

heat but, unlike this year, missed out on 

a chance at the big money. 

He has raced the best the north has 

had in recent times and was second to 

Lady Lorian in a Cairns Young Guns in 

December last year. 

"After the hock injury I brought him 

back in sprints and he ran some really 

great races," said Graham. 

Trendy Black is usually sound and 

Graham reckons he'll be back for 

another tilt at the Cairns Cup in 2008. 

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TEGIMI 

Long before Brett Lee was ever 

thought a champion, Tegimi was rated 

by many as the best classic dog seen in 

Australia for many a year. 

The son of Irish Derby winner Lively 

Band* and Temlee's sister Viola Lee, 

swept all before him in 1978-79. 

He won the Vic Peters Memorial at 

Harold Park by five lengths in 26.35 the 

second fastest winner ever. 

He then was an unlucky second in 

the NSW St Leger at Wentworth Park. 

He followed this with victory in the 

National Derby in 30.78 the fastest 

recorded by a Derby winner to that 

time. 

And to top this, he then won the Bi- 

Annual Classic at Harold Park on a slow 

track in 26.38 coming from last to win 

by five lengths.

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OVER the many years I've been in 

greyhound racing, one of the biggest changes 

to the industry has been the influence of vet 

science. 

And the industry in Queensland has had 

some of the best vets we could hope for. They 

are among the best in the world. 

In the 1970s, we had a broodbitch called 

Sagacious Queen who was starting to have a 

litter to Kid Springdale. It was her first litter 

and eventually she would have 12 pups all of 

which survived. 

She was having complications during the 

delivery. 

I rang Richard Eaton-Wells, who at the 

time was a young vet just starting out. 

Richard came to my home at Strathpine. 

He brought along a young female friend to 

keep him company. 

Richard stayed all night, delivered the 

pups, all 12 healthy, and would not accept 

one cent payment for having done it. 

Richard will have a shudder about 

refusing payment. 

Our erstwhile 

Chairman of 

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Memories 

Two litters later, Sagacious Queen had a 

litter to Wild Port. Richard's mate Ian 

McBryde came out to vaccinate the litter. 

Unfortunately, the vaccination did not take 

and all the 13 pups got parvo. 

Ian worked overtime and saved all but one 

of the pups. 

We were so pleased we gave Ian a pup 

which turned out to be Report Card who won 

a couple of races at Lawnton and Capalaba. 

He was a wide runner and not suited by the 

Journal columnist, veteran 

trainer Syd Norris recently 

lost his greatest mate Doug 

"Poochy" Lucas. 

He named this Primo Uno- 

Rossa Antico dog Poochy in 

honour of his mate and the 

dog has since been a Gold 

Coast winner for Syd. 

Put the other 

knee down Roger 

and say one for 

my dogs 

Gabba. 

Ian asked me to find a home for him so 

my wife Jeanette took him over herself and 

raced him at Capalaba just about every week 

and he won greyhound of the year in 1984 

there. 

It is amazing that Ian and Richard were 

friends for so long. 

And even today, they can barely stay away 

from each other. 

Ian has a house in Tuscany in Italy and 

Richard often would holiday in the house. 

Only a short time ago the house next door 

became available and Richard snapped it up. 

They will be neighbours. 

On a recent visit to Albion Park, I noticed 

Jim Sheridan working as a club steward. 

I've known Jim's family for many, many 

years, back to the 1950s. 

The family is well known in both 

greyhound racing and rugby league. Jim's 


Coominya Lodge 

280 LARSENS RD, COOMINYA 

uncle Arthur was a rep player and Jim's 

brother Pat was a rep hooker in northern 

NSW. 

I got many dogs from Arthur Sheridan. 

The Sheridans did me a great favour many 

years ago. I was heading to Lismore to buy a 

dog called Bovec for 50 quid. On the way 

home I stopped in to see Pat Sheridan (father 

of Jim and Pat). 

When I told Pat I had bought Bovec, he 

pulled out a dog called Main Guy (Perfect 

Knight-Gloaming Rose) and said I could buy 

him for 15 quid and he would beat Bovec for 

sure. 

Pat was pretty right because Bovec was a 

fighter and Main Guy won his first five 

straight for us, even if one of those was a 

hurdle race. 

Arthur had some outstanding greyhounds 

in his day. 

Gail Thorsby is now one of the stewards' 

panel at the GRA. Years ago I bought a pup 

from Gail and her husband Steve. 

He was a bit frightened of storms. One 

day during a storm the pup jumped the fence 

at home and headed off. 

He later raced as Miracle Mile. He got 

his name because after he jumped the fence 

at home he headed down Samsonvale Road 

towards the Strathpine shopping centre. 

The pup ran on the white centre line of 

the road with traffic either side of him and 

was eventually caught at Bray Park railway 

station by Ces Hay. 

Today, Ces and his son Jason have bought 

the handy little race bitch Spot Rocks. 

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2006 Shepp Cup, 2006 The Great Chase (Shp), TR Shepparton 450m, Bendigo 430m, 

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3rd Dam: CHARIOT OF MIDGE 

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2nd dam of: BOB COAD (2 wins Spk 30.34) 

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DR GODDARD (2 wins Wpk 30.68) 

JUST A SMARTY (5 wins Spk 30.11) 

JUST TAYLA (WA Derby finalist) 

MISS KIDMAN (Mea 30.54) 

WHO'S THIS (Mea 30.39) 

4th Dam: MAD MIDGE 

dam of: TESTA’S TIGER (1990 Sale Puppy Classic) 

GRACIE MORRIS (1991 Anniversary Tphy Opk) 

2nd dam of: PLUGGER FEVER (1993 Silver Chief Opk) 

WILJAVER (1996 McKenna Mem Spk) 

TRANQUL FLAME (1994 City Of Springvale Tphy (Spk) 

INCACIA RUNAWAY (1993 NSW Country Cship (Wpk) 

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3rd dam of: LILLI PILLI LAD (1999 Maiden Thousand (Hob), TR Devonport 452m) 

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STORM DANCER (2002 Victorian Derby (coursing) 

PROPER VICTORY (TR Goulburn 457m) 

FINAL IMAGE (2004 Launceston Cup) 

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4th dam of: COLLICA (2000 Devonport Cup) 

TROUSERS (1999 Vic Breeders Mdn (Spk), Sire) 

LABYRINTH (1999 Sandown Laurels, 2000 Warragul Cup) 

ISA BROWN (2002 Aust Cup (Mea), 2002 Cran Cup) 

BLACK ANVIL (2001 Warragul St Leger) 

SPIRIT OF WILL (2003 Perth Cup Consolation (Can) 

ROBUST CHARACTER (2003 Capital Classic (Act), 2003 Country Cup (Ces), 2003 

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5th dam of: KNOCKABOUT CHER (2004 Cran Puppy Classic) 

ALL STYLE (2004 Recorder Challenge (Wpk) 

CARUSO (2005 Vic Breeders Mdn (Mea) 

No Haphazard pedigree 

DON Hazzard will long be remembered 

in greyhound racing in Australia for mostly 

the wrong reason. 

Don accidentally tripped the starting 

boxes releasing the 2007 Group 1 Sandown 

Cup field on its way minus the lure. 

But Don should best be remembered as 

the breeder of an exceptional litter of 

gallopers by Bombastic Shiraz-Blue Sky 

Hazard which includes his top line stayer 

Sky Hazzard. 

It was Sky Hazzard who was among the 

Sandown Cup field prematurely set on its 

way. 

He was also a finalist in the recent 

McKenna Memorial at Sandown after 

winning his heat in fine style with 

Queensland's own Miss Brook in his wake. 

He then came to Queensland to win the 

Superstayers (710m) at Albion Park beating 

Miss Grub, Miss Brook and Ellie's 

Diamond, the Group 1 Gold Cup 

placegetters. 

Sky Hazzard isn't the only fine performer 

in the litter. 

His brother Kylordan was a finalist in 

the Group 1 Golden 

Easter Egg early in 

the year, and Deep Sea 

Hazard was a finalist 

(behind Sky Hazzard) 

in the Wangaratta 

New Star Classic. 

For all intents and 

purposes, Sky 

Hazzard and his 

littermates are the 

product of the 

champion of his time 

Bombastic Shiraz and 

the Hotshot bitch Blue 

Sky Hazard. 

The dam won six 

races, five at Bendigo 

and one at Shepparton 

all over short courses. 

Obviously her lack 

of stamina prevented 

her winning on city 

tracks despite a handful of attempts. 

Her own dam Blue Delilah won 21 races 

in a brilliant career, but she too was unable 

to get much past 400m. 

Third dam Misty Di was also a top notch 

galloper winning 15 races in 36 starts but 

numbering several Sandown wins among 

her career highlights. She won eight of her 

first 14 starts in Tasmania 

Misty Di was a daughter of the top line 

bitch Sydney Dingaan who also won 14 

races while matching it with the best the 

country could offer at the time when winning 

the 1985 Melbourne Cup. 

At stud, Misty Di produced Group 

performer Go Diesel. 

Blue Delilah is the dam of top notchers 

Beilharz Sunset and Power Of Grey. 

But back to Sky Hazzard and his 

littermates. They are the result of some of 

the most astute balancing acts seen in a 

pedigree today. 

Firstly there is Blue Sky Hazard 

(Hotshot-Blue Delilah). 

The feature of this pedigree is the fact 

this bitch boasts a Sires Sex Balance to 

Chariot Supreme through the male Shining 

Chariot in Hotshot's damline, and the 

female Misty Di in the direct damline of Blue 

Delilah. 

Add to this the fact Blue Sky Hazard is 


Ginger 

Black Shiraz 

Dark Horizon 

Bombastic Shiraz 


Bombastic Blonde 

Blonde Bombshell 

SKY HAZZARD 

Acacia Ablaze 

Hotshot 

Mary La Maze 

Blue Sky Hazard 

Head Honcho 

Blue Delilah 

Misty Di 

in-bred to the half brothers Acacia Park 

(grandsire of Hotshot) and Brother Fox 

(third sire of Blue Delilah) coming through 

on the top line of both sire and dam. 

When Don Hazzard came to mating Blue 

Sky Hazard, he went straight to Bombastic 

Shiraz, maybe not because of his intensely 

in-bred pedigree, or the cross he would 

achieve with his mating, but simply because 

Bombastic Shiraz had just won the Sandown 

Shootout, Melbourne Cup and Topgun, the 

only dog to do so. 

Bombastic 

Shiraz (Black 

Shiraz-Bombastic 

Blonde) is one of the 

most intense 

examples of inbreeding 

about. 

He is in-bred to 

the top flight litter 

brothers Buka 

Sunset (damsire of 

Black Shiraz) and 

Malawi (second sire 

of Bombastic 

Blonde). 

In Bombastic 

Shiraz, the litter 

brothers Buka 

Sunset and Malawi 

come in perfectly 

balanced through 

the middle of the 

pedigree in a 3x3 

pattern. 

Bombastic Shiraz also carries a Sires Sex 

Balance to Waverly Supreme, another to 

Temlee and yet another to Second Stage. 

And we have already seen that Blue Sky 

Hazard herself boasted a well balanced 

pedigree. 

What Don Hazard did achieve when he 

put Blue Sky Hazard to Bombastic Shiraz 

was even more intense sire balancing. 

Sky Hazzard, Kylordan and Deep Sea 

Hazard all carry Sires Sex Balancing to 

Shining Chariot (through the female Blond 

Bombshell in Bombastic Shiraz, and the 

male Benjason in Blue Sky Hazard). 

They also carry another SSB to 

Eaglehawk Star (through the male Ginger 

in Bombastic Shiraz, and the female 

Pahurehure Lass in Blue Sky Hazard). 

Sky Hazzard, Kylordan and Deep Sea 

Hazard will turn three in October 

So it is obvious they have at least another 

year of racing ahead of them and all that 

time to further enhance their already 

glowing reputations. 

The first pair are outstanding gallopers, 

Group performers. 

Their pedigree infusion, and the fact they 

are by top class gallopers and tracing to 

Group performers in their immediate 

damline, expected nothing less.

Spotlight on Breeding 

Is it all a matter of chance? 

Are we all going overboard with the whole process of breeding? 

Afterall we have double crosses, linebreeding, outcrossing, inbreeding, triple crosses and 

don't forget the modern theories of crossing through the middle of the pedigree and Rasmussen 

Factor. 

There are rules of Segregation, Filial Regression, Independent Assortment and Ancestral 

Inheritance. 

We have dominant and recessive genes; positive and negative traits, unit characteristics 

and we all read this as a pedigree, a family tree. 

Now if you think you have control of all these variables and have Mother Nature on your 

side, then keep on doing what you're doing! 

But the bottom line is the basic industry facts and figures; they alone can give you some 

form of insight into what is your true chance of success. 

The study I have tabulated and summarised shows a 10-year period between 1995 to 2004 

of Queensland breeding success and failure. 

It does not have names of sires or dams; it shows pure statistics for the period. 

It is based upon declared litters recorded and published by The Journal for litters born in 

Queensland. 

It is calculated by using the number of pups born, not named or raced. 

After all the only constant here is we know how many are declared born, we can never 

measure how many don't survive or make it to the track. 

Rating Scale for Litters: 

TC Top Class - Has more than one individual city winners with high performance. 

AV Average - Litter includes at least one individual city winner (ICW) or top provincial 

performers. 

AV+ - Is a combination of the above ratings. 

NG No Good - No individual city winners and at best minor low grade provincial wins. 

Qld Born Litters 

Years Litters Born Litters tracked to 30/4 AV+ rated Litters AV+percentage 

2007 —— 124 —— —— 

2006 393 131 —— —— 

2005 334 109 —— —— 

2004 342 129 71 20.8 

2003 341 123 58 17.0 

2002 362 126 88 24.3 

2001 323 102 64 19.8 

2000 386 132 89 20.8 

1999 401 156 73 18.5 

1998 412 129 75 18.2 

1997 411 126 65 15.8 

1996 415 125 65 15.6 

1995 425 131 69 16.2 

1994 431 —— —— —— 

1993 445 —— —— —— 

1992 443 —— —— —— 

1991 430 —— —— —— 

1990 447 —— —— —— 

1989 430 —— —— —— 

* Data based on The Journal breeding extracts from Jan 1989 to May 2007. 

Influencing Events: 

* Compulsory DNA Testing effected litters born after October 1994 

* The existence of QBred System to encourage increase litters from 1998. 

* The cancellations of QBred System approximately end of 2003. 

SNAPSHOT 

In the 10-year period under review from 1995 until 2004 inclusive there was 3817 litters 

whelped with approximately 26,719 pups born. 

Average pup in a litters each year have been at a consistent seven. 

Throughout the period under review, an approximate percentage of 20% was achieved for 

average plus (AV+) i.e.: 1-5 ratio (717 litters from 3817 born). 

Further in-depth analysis of the statistics show the average plus litters have approximately 

two individual city winners in each (see further table and study below). 

This gives a return of 1484 ICW over 26,719 litters born. 

This shows that to produce a city winning pup the chances are just under 5%, actual ratio 

of 1-18. So for every 18 pups born you get one city winner, extrapolate this figure, for every 

90 pups there is five worthy of a city victory. 

FURTHER INSIGHT 

Let's extract more in depth figures for the 1999 and 2000 calendar years. 

In this we will look at proven verses unproven dams and city winning dams verses non- 

by Stuart Thompson 

city winning dams. 

Defining the dams in to each category was at the time of the whelping what was that dam, 

e.g.; proven/unproven. 

Because in retrospect a dam could be known as a proven dam but actually at the time of 

the reviewed litters was unproven. 

The review covers two years 1999 and 2000. 

OVERALL 

ICW/Born 

Years Litters AV+ rated litters Individual C-Ws Pups Born Ratio 

1999 401 73 134 2807 1-21 

2000 386 89 168 2702 1-16 

PROVEN DAMS 


1999 140 29 82 982 1-12 

2000 135 33 66 945 1-14 

UNPROVEN DAMS 


1999 261 44 52 1825 1-35 

2000 251 56 102 1757 1-17 

CITY WINNING DAMS 


1999 200 49 92 1400 1-15 

2000 193 64 117 1351 1-11 

NON-CITY WINNING DAMS 


1999 201 24 42 1407 1-33 

2000 193 25 51 1351 1-26 

SNAPSHOT 

Proven v Unproven analysed 

The proven dam has a better chance than the unproven dam of producing a city winner. 

However, in the sample these results are inconsistent with the unproven dams ratio changing 

drastically from 1-35 to 1-17 in one year. 

This can occur due to the debut of a quality broodbitch such as Heart Spark in 2000 that 

left six individual city winners from her first litter that raced in 2001-04. 

City Winning Dam v Non-City Winning Dam analysed 

The city winning dam has a much greater chance than a non-city winning dam. 

Clearly trends for both years revealed significant gaps in the ratio for a chance of a city 

winner. 1999 1-15 vs. 1-33 and 2000 1-11 vs. 1-26. 

Overall analysed 

Combine both 1999 and 2000 calendar years: 

Proven dams - 148 icw from 1927 pups at a return 1-13 (7.7%) 

Unproven dams - 154 icw from 3582 pups at a return 1- 23 (4.3%) 

City winning dams - 209 icw from 2751 pups at a return 1-13 (7.5%) 

Non city winning dams - 93 icw from 2758 pups at a return 1-30 (3.3%) 

Overall for this two years reviewed - 302 icw from 5509 pups at a return 1-18 (5.5%) 

162 AV+ litters from 787 litters at a return 1-5 AV+ litters (20.6%) 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT 

Well there you have it! 

And don't forget every year new genetic truths are revealed, startling in their implications 

and this opens up more of the unknown which creates further opinions, theories and rules. 

Then we have our subjective thoughts and discriminations to contend with and don't forget 

those that influence our judgement; Marketers, Editors, Publishers, Studmasters and Columnists 

to get into our heads. 

But still we continue to breed litters and champions emerge to once again keep our dreams 

alive. 

So is it chance based upon statistics or shrewd deductions based upon known theories and 

rules? Or, perhaps a bit of both. 

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GAP relies on volunteer foster carers to 

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assist in the assessment of dogs so they can 

be matched to their perfect home. Here is a 

story from Anne Thompson, who started as a 

foster carer with GAP's Townsville branch 

earlier this year. Her contribution has been 

invaluable to the success of greyhound 

adoption in Townsville. 

A Foster Carer’s Story. 

It started innocently with an article in the 

paper asking for people to foster greyhounds. 

I was a lonely housewife whose husband 

was away for three weeks at a time and I was 

going quietly crazy sitting at home by myself 

so thought I would call to see what it was all 

about. 

I had never had anything to do with 

greyhounds before, never even seen one in 

the flesh until Ruth brought Baccus around 

with her when she came to inspect our place. 

We asked all sorts of questions, most of 

them silly and all Ruth could do was gush 

about how our yard was perfect and we could 

have two dogs and even three on occasion. 

We were quick to stomp on that idea and 

just wanted to see how we went with one first. 

A week later we got Goldie (now known 

as Hyro) and had her for a week. 

She was perfect. She was quiet, timid and 

we tip-toed around each other, too scared in 

case we did something wrong. 

We had Goldie only a week before Ruth 

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organised a reshuffle and I was to get Daisy. 

And so it started. 

Each dog has its own personality and each 

couple (of dogs) has their own quirks. 

Daisy and Sam were just cruisey, didn’t 

get into trouble and were happy to mellow 

out and dig holes in the lawn. 

Kate and Snoopy were your classic 

hounds, got out of bed at seven for breakfast, 

back in bed by 7:15, out of bed at 5:30 for 

dinner and the “Don’t Disturb” sign was out 

by 7:30pm. 

Sharni and Storm used to hunt out dirty 

socks and “kill” them (don't bother with 

expensive toys, balled up socks are greyt). 

These two figured out they couldn’t stop 

on polished wood floors and had the best time 

playing tag down my two metre hallway and 

crashing into the wall at the end. 

We have had some close calls. 

Friends and family come around and we 

now tell them to park on the street until we 

get home to catch the dogs. 

We learnt this the hard way when my Dad 

came to visit and opened the gate to drive his 

car in. He expected them to stay in the yard 

like most other dogs but of course both greys 

took off. Luckily, both had stopped for a 

comfort break on the grassy verge a metre 

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from a busy road and that is where I found 

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so badly I could barely drive. 

The most common questions are “How do 

you give them up?” and “Don’t you get 

attached?” The answers are we don’t fight 

against getting attached to the dogs but choose 

to think we are looking after a friend’s dog 

for a couple of weeks. 

We also get a buzz handing over a dog 

we have grown to love and understand to a 

great family who are going to love it and give 

it the best of life. 

We do see some of the dogs occasionally 

because they come to the off-leash park and 

we catch up with their new owners who have 

become our new friends. 

You can’t be a reserved or shy person and 

have a greyhound. They are greyt way of 

meeting people because they will push their 

heads into any hand available and beg for a 

pat. Most people will stop to talk to us because 

of their breed and most people are really 

positive and share memories of growing up 

with hounds as kids. 

Only one person has been slightly negative 

and after five minutes of being pestered for 

pat after pat admitted that 50 years was a long 


Anne 

Thompson 

and Daisy 

(Burning 

Secutiry). 

time to hold an opinion and he may have to 

change his mind about hounds because he 

could see that ours were “wonderful”. 

Because there has been so much greyt 

publicity recently about the Townsville and 

Thuringowa councils changing their muzzling 

laws, we get many people telling us we don’t 

have to muzzle the dogs. 

We smile and explain the dogs are still in 

foster care so are required to wear the muzzle. 

We are now onto dog number 10 and we 

have had up to three dogs at once. 

Since February this year we have only 

been without a hound in the house for maybe 

six days. And as much as hubby professes to 

love not having a dog under foot, after a day 

he says it is lonely and tells me to ring Ruth 

and “put an order in” for another dog. 

All in all, I love being a foster carer. 

Each new dog is just that, a new dog and 

a fresh start. We have to forget about every 

other dog that has come though our house 

because each one is going to be different and 

at a different stage of “the transition”. 

I can guarantee each one will be full of 

personality, full of love and for half an hour 

a day, full of beans. I can think of a lot worse 

things to come home to. 

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The great name behind the pedigrees 

This is most of an article run in the then 

Queensland Greyhound Monthly in February 

1980. 

WAVERLY SUPREME 

The versatile brindle was bred in February 

1972 by Seamus Mulvaney and John 

Flanagan at Laurdella Kennels in County 

Dublin, Ireland. 

After winning his first three grading trials 

at Kilkenny, Waverly Supreme was beaten at 

his first two race starts before scoring his first 

win at Shelbourne Park in 29.75. 

At 17 months of 

age the brindle was 

set the formidable 

task of contesting 

the Irish Derby and 

although he didn't 

win the heat he 

performed 

admirably to get to 

the semi-final. 

After being 

eliminated in the 

semi, Waverly 

Supreme put up a 

superb performance 

to win the Derby 

Consolation in 

29.30 and although 

this was eight 

lengths slower than 

Bashful Man's 28.82 

in the 1973 Derby 

final, Bashful Man's 

clocking still stands 

as the fastest time 

ever recorded in a 

final of Ireland's 

premier classic. 

W a v e r l y 

Supreme then 

appeared in the Burmah Castrol Puppy Derby 

at Harolds Cross and after wining his first 

round heat, he finished third in the second 

round before winning his semi-final in 30.12. 

The brindle had no luck in running in the 

final of this prestigious Puppy Cloassic and 

finished fourth, seven lengths behind 

Blessington Bopy (Monalee Champion-The 

Powder Pot) in 29.68. 

However, the son of Supreme Fun had 

made an impression on Matt Bruton and Cyril 

Scotland and the partners purchased Waverly 

Supreme for a substantial sum. 

The following season the brindle returned 

from a winter spell with three starts over 525 

yards at Shelbourne Park with his best effort 

being a third, but he was already giving 

indication that he would be better suited over 

a bit of ground. 

Waverly Supreme lined up for his next 

start over 600 yards at Shelbourne Park and 

was victorious defeating his rivals in 34.20. 

The following week he saluted the judge 

again in 34.12 before returning a 33.88 the 

following week for a treble in the space of 15 

days. 

The classy galloper next appeared in the 

Cambridgeshire and after being placed in the 

first two rounds, struck trouble in the final 

and finished fourth, ten and a half lengths 

behind Laroline (Monalee Champion- 

Nelson's Farewell) in 33.68. 

Having already reached the finals of the 

Puppy Derby and Cambridgeshire, Waverly 

Supreme was entered for the Guinness Leger 

over 550 yards at Enniscorthy. 

In the first round he was compensated for 

his ill luck in the Cambridgeshire final when 

odds away to score by six lengths from the 

favourite in 31.10, the second fastest time 

recorded in the first round. 

Incidentally, the fastest time in the first 

round was 30.95 to the credit of Greenane 

Duke (Monalee Champion-Fly Spray) who 

was also imported to NSW for stud. 

Waverly Supreme gave nothing else a 

chance in the second round when he began 

brilliantly and led all the way to score by six 

lengths from Supreme King in 31.15. 

After being beaten three-quarters of a 

length in his semi-final, his bad luck continued 

in the final when he finished eight and a half 

lengths behind Millie's Express (The Grand 

Silver-Gaultier Millie) in the decider in 30.70. 

Just when it appeared that Waverly 

Supreme was destined to never win a major 

feature event he was tried beyond 600 yards 

for the first time and was entered for the Bord 

nag Con TV Trophy over 750 yards at 

Shelbourne Park. 

This time the result was never in doubt 

and the brindle won his heat in 43.41 before 

returning a scintillating 42.39 in the final a 

new track record which is still standing today. 

His next seven starts were over 525 yards 

at Shelbourne Park and Waverly Supreme 

was two "opens" in 29.48 and 29.64 before 

contesting in the Irish Cesarewitch over 600 

yards at Navan. 

The son of Supreme Fun finished second 

in his first round heat and semi-final and won 

over 550 yards at Shelbourne in 30.92 

between the semi and final, but the 

Shelbourne run had taken its toll and Waverly 

Supreme was unplaced behind Ballinattan 

Boy (Myross Again-Arklow Bay) in the 

Cesarewitch final in 34.06 on a track rated 

half a second slow. 

The brindle's final mission was as one of 

Ireland's representatives in the Carroll's 

International over 550 yards. 

After defeating Monalee Expert (English 

Derby winner Jimsun's litter brother) by a 

length and a half in his semi-final in 30.92, 

Waverly Supreme went into the Irish final in 

a field that included Carrowkeal Red and 

Bower Flash (laer Bower Streak) who both 

finished up at stud in Australia. 

Waverlly Supreme started at 6-1 in the 

final but could only manage fifth, some 11 

lengths from the winner Tommy Astaire (Ivy 

Hall Flash-Miami Star II) who broke the 

existing track record with a brilliant return of 

30.35. 

COREY PEARCE PICTURE 

This pared .02 off the previous record of 

30.37 which was held by Tommy Astaire's 

sire Ivy Hall Flash. 

The next venue was White City London 

for the English leg and the brindle was 

eliminated in his semi-final when he finished 

third, seven and a quarter lengths from the 

winner Lady Devine in 30.03. 

Waverly Supreme bounced back to win 

the Consolation final when he stormed home 

to catch the early leader Uno's Test (USA) in 


the shadow of the post in 30.34 on a track 

rated slow. 

This was to be Waverly Supreme's last 

start as he broke a hock shortly afterwards in 

a solo trial at Shelbourne Park. 

In a career that spanned 17 months from 

May '73 to October '74, this brilliant racer 

contested 44 races for an overall tally of 16 

wins and it takes a good dog to win a third of 

his race starts in open company in England 

and Ireland. 

Waverly Supreme's winning average was 

better than 30% and he won over all distances 

from 525 yards to 750 

yards. 

Apart from winning 

the TV Trophy, he made 

the finals of two classics, 

Puppy Derby and 

Cesarewitch, as well as 

reaching the finals of 

feature events the 

caliber of the 

Cambridgeshire, 

Guinness Leger and 

Derby Consolation. 

Waverly Supreme's 

litter is Laurdella Fun 

who had a great season 

during 1974 in England 

where he won the 

Midland Puppy Derby at 

Wolverhampton, the 

north of England Puppy 

Derby at Brough Park 

and the Manchester 

Puppy Cup at Belle Vue. 

Laurdella Fun also 

finished third in the 

Yorkshire Puppy Derby 

at Leeds and was a 

finalist in the Puppy 

Derby at Wimbledon 

won by Tory Mor. Laurdella Fun is now at 

stud in Ireland. 

He is siring excellent stock the caliber of 

the 1978 Irish Oaks winner Hail Fun. 

The article also mentioned Waverly 

Supreme's dam Octum. It said: 

Octum has been an excellent broodbitch 

in Ireland and her dam Clerihan Heather 

produced the 1972 Guinness Sweepstakes 

winner Clerihan Venture. 

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5th Grade Heats 431m (QDog Heats) 

5th Grade Final 520m Corporate Dollar Night 

Challenge Winner $5000. 



Noms) 


AUGUST 21 



5th Grade Final 431m (QDog Bonus) 

4th/5th Grade Heats 520m 

Best 8 520m or 431m (Dist depends on Noms) 



AUGUST 28 


Highland Smash Repair Final 431m 


4th/5th Grade Final 520m 


Best 8 431m or 520m (Dist depends on 

Noms) 


SEPTEMBER 4 


Heats Derby 520m Best 32. Dogs 30 Months 

& Under at close of Noms 

Heats Futurity 520m Best 32. Bitches 30 

Months & Under at time of Noms 



SEPTEMBER 11 


Final Derby 520m. Winner $5000 

Final Futurity 520m. Winner $5000 

Memorial Trophy 630m Best 8. Winner 

$3000 

4th/5th Grade Heats 431m QDog 


Noms) 


SEPTEMBER 18 



Heats Highland Smash Repair Auction Series 

431m. Noms close for heats on 18th & 25th 

September with the GRA on September 13 

4th/ 5th Grade Final 431m QDog Bonus 


SEPTEMBER 25 



Heats Highland Smash Repair Auction Series 

431m. Noms Close with GRA September 13 


FORTHCOMING EVENTS 

WEDNESDAYS (Class 3) 

JULY 25 






Nominations) 

Novice Stake 520m (Must be stated on 

Nomination) 

4th/5th Grade 630m 


AUGUST 1 






Nominations) 

Novice Stakes 431m (Must be stated on 

Nomination) 



AUGUST 8 






Noms) 

Novice 520m (Must be stated on Nom) 


AUGUST 15 




4th/5th Grade Heats 520m (QDog Heats) 


Noms) 


1 Win/Maiden 630m 


AUGUST 22 

Highland Smash Repair Maiden 520m 


4th/5th Grade Final 520m (QDog Bonus) 

Young Guns Heats (520m) conditions apply 


AUGUST 29 



Young Guns Final (520m) winner $10,000 




SEPTEMBER 5 






Noms) 

Novice Stakes 520m (Must be stated on 

Nom) 


SEPTEMBER 12 




5th Grade Heats 520m Q Dog 


Noms) 

Novice Stakes 431m(Must be stated on Nom) 

1 Win/Maiden 630m 


SEPTEMBER 19 

Highland Smash Repair Maiden 520m 


5th Grade Final 520m QDog Bonus 



Noms) 

Novice Stake 520m (Must be stated on Nom) 

5th Grade 630m QDog Bonus 


SEPTEMBER 26 






Noms) 

Novice Stake 431m ( Must be stated on Nom) 


GOLD 

COAST 

TUESDAYS (Class 3) 

JULY 31 

Novice (401m) 

Maiden Heats (401m) 


Best 8 (457m) 



5th Grade (650m) 

AUGUST 7 


Best 8 (401m) 

5th Grade Heats (401m) 

Novice (457m) 



AUGUST 14 



Novice (401m) 

5th Grade Heats (457m) QDOG 

Best 8 (457m) 



AUGUST 21 

Best 8 (401m) 



Novice (457m) 



AUGUST 28 

Novice (401m) 



Best 8 (457m) 




SEPTEMBER 4 

Best 8 (401m) 



Novice (457m) 




SEPTEMBER 11 

Novice (401m) 



Best 8 (457m) 




SEPTEMBER 18 

Best 8 (401m) 




Novice (457m) 


Maiden heats (457m) 


SEPTEMBER 25 

Novice (401m) 



Best 8 (457m) 



5th Grade (650m) QDOG RACE 

WEDNESDAYS 

(Class 2) 

JULY 25 

2007 Gold Coast Cup Heats (457m) 


AUGUST 1 


Gold Coast Cup Final (457m) winner $25,000 


Best 8 (457m) 

Stayers Cup (650m) Best 8 

5th Grade-Maiden (650m) 

AUGUST 8 


3rd-4th Grade (401m) 


Best 8 (457m) 


4th-5th Grade Heats (457m) 


AUGUST 15 

Best 8 (401m) 




4th-5th Grade Final (457m) 



AUGUST 22 




Best 8 (457m) 




AUGUST 29 

Best 8 (401m) 







SEPTEMBER 5 




Ear-branding, 

marking up 

Graham Haswell is available at the 

following times for the marking up of 

greyhounds for naming and the clearance of 

the greyhound's registration certificate for 

racing and/or other purposes. Proof of 

vaccination may be presented at this time. 

Ear branding and marking up of litters is 

by appointment only. 

Ipswich - Every Thursday Night 6-7.30pm 

(kennel block) 

Mango Hill Trial Track last Sunday of 

month 8-9am 

Ph 54796640 

or 0419 726773

Best 8 (457m) 


4th-5th Grade Heats (457m) QDOG RACE 

SEPTEMBER 12 

Best 8 (401m) 


5th Grade heats (401m) 


4th-5th Grade Final (457m) QDOG FINAL 



SEPTEMBER 19 




Best 8 (457m) 



5th Grade (650m) QDOG RACE 

SEPTEMBER 26 

Best 8 (401m) 







CAPALABA 

JULY 28 

4 x 5th Grade Series Finals 

Open Time Trial. Best 8 racing against clock. 

Winner $800 + trophy. 

Maiden 

Maiden Bitches 

Novice 

Novice Bitches 

5th Grade 

5th Grade Bitches 

4th Grade 

AUGUST 4 

3rd-4th Grade Heats 

5th Grade Heats, best 16 that have had at least 


10 starts and won no more than 3 races 

anywhere. 1st-4th in first final, 5th-8th in 

second final. 

2 x Maiden Series Heats. Every starter makes 

a final. 

Novice 


5th Grade 


Best 8 

AUGUST 11 

3rd-4th Grade Final, 1st $600 + trophy. 

5th Grade Finals. 1st final winner $500; 2nd 

final winner $250. 

Maiden Series Finals. 1st final winner $400; 

2nd final winner $200. 

Maiden 


Novice 


5th Grade 


4th Grade 


Best 8 

AUGUST 18 

Tommy Hoyland Memorial QDOG 5th Grade 

Series. 4 heats, every starter makes a final. 

QDOG on first final only. 1st-2nd to a final, 

3rd-4th to a final, 5th-6th to a final, 7th-8th 

to a final. 

Veterans Stk, greyhounds 4 years and older 

at date of race. Winner $300. 

Maiden 


Novice 


5th Grade 


4th Grade 


Best 8 

AUGUST 25 

Tommy Hoyland Memorial 5th Grade Finals. 

1st final (QDOG) winner $1000; 2nd final 

QLD STUD DOG STATISTICS 

March 2007 

Statistics include: Results of all types of services by Qld registered stud dogs; Results of all types of services by interstate stud dogs to Queensland owned 

bitches. The highlighted services are inseminations by a Queensland registered fsi facility to; Interstate owned bitches with a registered breeding unit from 

interstate registered stud dog. Abbreviations: - NIW - Not in Whelp, APD - all pups deceased, NNR - no notification received from breeder, I-S B - 

Interstate Breeder. Y - artificial insemination, C - artificial insemination with a chilled breeding unit; F - artificial insemination with a frozen breeding unit. 

The GRA does not record the breeder’s name of interstate whelped litters. 

Sire Dam Serve Whelp Dog Bitch Breeder AI Clinic 

Black Enforcer Superstylin 1-3-07 28-4-07 3 2 Sesko 

Black Enforcer Kay Cee Chambers 1-3-07 1-5-07 6 2 Bundy Boys Synd 

Black Enforcer Extremities 2-3-07 3-5-07 4 6 Yates 

Black Enforcer Woops A Daisy 11-3-07 13-5-07 3 5 Snowpatch Synd 

Black Enforcer Just Kissy 12-3-07 15-5-07 4 Muller 

Black Enforcer Miss Candy Cane 16-3-07 17-5-07 4 3 Arthur 

Black Enforcer Black Eye Dooley 26-3-07 28-5-07 2 4 Dull 

Black Enforcer Stargari Heiress 29-3-07 2-6-07 1 Noon 

Black Enforcer Farmor Zippy 31-3-07 31-5-07 3 5 Scott 

Bobniak Danse Macabre 5-3-07 9-5-07 4 4 Lennon F Manly Road 

Bond Happy Forest 1-3-07 3-5-07 5 4 Grezlo F Manly Road 

Bond Bally Roney 17-3-07 18-5-07 3 8 Madden F Manly Road 

Brett Lee Teddy’s Ajay 26-3-07 Niw Grady F Manly Road 

Carnage Corona And Lime 10-3-07 15-5-07 1 Team Henderson Synd Y 

Closing Argument Kudargra Web 29-3-07 1-6-07 1 Thompson 

Collide Next Station 7-3-07 10-5-07 5 1 Three Amigos Synd Y 

Collision Tourist Kate 4-3-07 8-5-07 3 2 Moonlight One Synd F Sternberg 

Collision Double Guess 6-3-07 6-5-07 4 2 Robartson Y 

Collision La Macarena 11-3-07 12-5-07 5 3 Falvey F Manly Road 

Elite State Ebb’s Ebony 14-3-07 Niw Grezlo F Manly Road 

Elite State Delicate Lee 29-3-07 1-6-07 0 3 Thrupp F Manly Road 

Fiery Asset Amanda Reen 2-3-07 Niw Boston 

Fiery Asset Emcee Maggie 5-3-07 Niw Lennon Y 

Flying Penske Tricky Customer 10-3-07 11-5-07 6 4 Keep F Manly Road 

Primo Uno Leah Stanley 5-3-07 6-5-07 4 4 Parker F Sternberg 

Pure Octane Classy Angel 1-3-07 4-5-07 4 2 Butibam Synd Y 

Surf Lorian Madarci 6-3-07 10-5-07 7 4 Grezlo Y 

Surf Lorian Jericho Rose 9-3-07 14-5-07 3 1 I-S B 

Surf Lorian Tear Drop Creek 12-3-07 12-5-07 5 3 Dwyer Y 

Surf Lorian Modern Nikita 12-3-07 13-5-07 5 4 Rule 

Surf Lorian Whispering Honey 16-3-07 Apd Carrington 

Surf Lorian Awesome Checks 19-3-07 Niw Hines 

Surf Lorian Worthy Walnut 30-3-07 1-6-07 2 2 I-S B F I-State Clinic 

Tropical One Gretchen Bale 6-3-07 6-5-07 6 6 Camp 

Where’s Pedro Star Mate 4-3-07 4-5-07 2 4 Butibam Synd F Sternberg 

Whisky Assassin Oreo 9-3-07 11-5-07 4 5 Carrington Y 

Wild Voodoo Smoking Cinders 12-3-07 17-5-07 7 4 Peschke 

Wild Voodoo Oops Sorry 31-3-07 4-6-07 6 2 Burn 

winner $400; 3rd final winner $300; 4th final 

winner $210. 

5th Grade Time Trial. Best 8 5th graders 

nominated. Racing against the clock. Winner 

$800 + trophy. 

Maiden 


Novice 


5th Grade 


4th Grade 


Best 8 

SEPTEMBER 1 

3rd-4th Grade Heats 

5th Grade Heats, Best 16 that have had at least 

10 starts and won no more than 3 races 

anywhere. 1st-4th to final; 5th-8th to final. 

Maiden Heats. 1st-4th to final; 5th-8th to final. 

Novice 


5th Grade 


Best 8 

SEPTEMBER 8 

3rd-4th Grade Final, winner $500 + trophy. 

5th Grade Series Finals. 1st-4th final winner 

$500; 5th-8th final winner $250. 

Maiden Finals. 1st-4th final winner $400; 5th- 

8th final winner $200. 

Maiden 


Novice 


5th Grade 


4th Grade 


Best 8 

SEPTEMBER 15 

4 x 5th Grade QDog Series Heats. Every 

starter makes a final. 

Veterans Stake, 4 years and older at date of 

race. Winner $300. 

Maiden 


Novice 


5th Grade 


4th Grade 


Best 8 

SEPTEMBER 22 

5th Grade Series Finals. QDog on first final 

only. 1st-2nd final winner $800; 3rd-4th final 

winner $400, 5th-6th final winner $300; 7th- 

8th final winner $210. 

Maiden 


Novice 

Corey Corey Pearce 

Pearce 

Photography 

Photography 

For all your race photos at 

Albion Park (Mon, Thurs, Fri) 

and 

Ipswich (Tues, Wed) 

Ask us about specialised photos 

of your champion. 

0417 000130 



5th Grade 


4th Grade 


Best 8 

SEPTEMBER 29 

3rd-4th Grade Time trial, racing against the 

clock. Fastest $800 + trophy. Normal penalty 

race. 

Maiden 


Novice 


5th Grade 


4th Grade 


Best 8 

BUNDABERG 

JULY 28 


Best 8 (550m) 

Graded as noms permit 

AUGUST 4 



AUGUST 11 



AUGUST 18 Committee Day 

President's Cup (550m) Best 8 


AUGUST 25 



SEPTEMBER 1 

No racing 

SEPTEMBER 8 

BGBOTA Maiden Heats (460m) 


SEPTEMBER 15 

BGBOTA Maiden Final (460m) prizemoney 

$1000 


SEPTEMBER 22 

BGRC 5th Grade Heats (460m) 


SEPTEMBER 29 

BGRC 5th Grade Final (460m) winner $300 


OCTOBER 6 

No racing 

OCTOBER 13 

Maiden-5th Grade (550m) 


OCTOBER 20 

Anniversary Cup Heats (550m) 4th-5th Grade 

Graded as noms permit

OCTOBER 27 

Anniversary Cup Final (550m) 


TOWNSVILLE 

JULY 30 (Mon) 

4th-5th Grade Heats (380m) 

Flying Sprint Heats (380m) 

Maiden, graded 

AUGUST 4 

Maiden Final (380m) 1st $450 

Flying Sprint Final (380m) 1st $750 

4th-5th Grade Final (380m) 1st $550 

Townsville Cup Final (498m) 1st $6000 + 

rug and trophy, 2nd $1500, 3rd $750, unp 

$50 

Cup Consolation (498m) 1st $750 

Best 8 (643m) 1st $750 


AUGUST 9 

No racing 

AUGUST 16 


AUGUST 23 

Young Guns Heats (380m) 30mths or younger 

at 23-8-07. 


AUGUST 30 

Young Guns Final (380m) 1st $2500, 2nd 

$1000, 3rd $500 


CAIRNS 

JULY 28 

No racing 

AUGUST 4 

No racing 

AUGUST 6 

3rd-4th Grade (410m) 1st $225 

Maiden/graded 

Renzo Renzo Park 

Park 

Kennels 

Kennels 

* Rearing * Spelling 

* Pre-Training * Pet Transport 

Limited rearing numbers available. 

Pups handled & run daily. Fed beef, 

fresh cows milk, eggs, calcium etc 

Wormed Regularly. Shaded pens & 

water hole in running paddock. 

Peter & Helen Simpson 

(02) 66335115 

0438 792348 

CAMPAD ELECTRONICS 

& SELTRONICS SERVICES 

We are Agents for TGS and Laserex 

laser therapy 

* Sale, services & repairs of 

* Laser Therapy, Ultrasounds 

* Muscle Simulators, Magnetic 

Therapy 

* All repairs guaranteed by Qualified 

Electronics Technicians 

26 Keith Street Capalaba Qld 4157 

Ph: 07 3245 2008 Fax 07 3823 3428 

campad@campadelectronics.com.au 

www.campadelectronics.com.au 

EFTPOS and credit cards welcome 


AUGUST 11 

No racing 

AUGUST 18 

Anniversary Cup Heats (544m) 4th-5th Grade 

Maiden/graded 

AUGUST 25 

Anniversary Cup Final (544m) 1st $285 

Maiden/graded 

SEPTEMBER 1 

Father's Day 3rd-4th Grade (410m) 1st $225 

Maiden/graded 

SEPTEMBER 8 

No racing 

SEPTEMBER 15 

Gary Neiper Memorial (410m) Best 8, 1st 

$275 

Maiden/graded 

SEPTEMBER 22 

Shortcourse Heats (410m) 1st $275 

Maiden/graded 

SEPTEMBER 29 

Shortcourse Final (410m) 1st $310 

MACKAY 

JULY 26 

Maiden/graded 

AUGUST 4 (Saty afternoon) 

Nev Jackson Bracelet (456m) Best 8 bitches, 

1st $435 

Maiden/graded 

AUGUST 9 

Maiden/graded 

AUGUST 16 

Maiden/graded 

AUGUST 23 

Heather Jensen Memorial (456m) 4th-5th 

Grade, 1st $365 

Maiden/graded 

AUGUST 30 

Maiden/graded 

SEPTEMBER 6 

Maiden/graded 

Quality Transport Service by 

Road with Regular and 

reliable scheduled services. 

Regular services operate between 

Sth East Qld and Sydney and Nth 

NSW via Pacific & New England 

Highways. Extensive coverage to 

Regional Qld ... North to Cairns, West 

to Mt Isa, Southwest to Charleville. 

For full details view our website. 

Contact: David and Sierra Gallagher 

Ph (07) 5530 2710 

Mob 0418 775 456 

www.dogmovers.com.au 

SEPTEMBER 13 

Young Guns Heats (456m) 30 months at time 

of heats 

Maiden/graded 

SEPTEMBER 20 

Young Guns Final (456m) 1st $2500 plus rug, 

2nd $1000, 3rd $500 

Maiden/graded 

SEPTEMBER 27 

Maiden/graded 

ROCKHAMPTON 

JULY 28 (D) 

5 Win Series Final (407m) 1st $400 

Club Maiden (510m) 1st $350 


AUGUST 2 (N) 


Best 8 (510m) $500 + trophy & rug 


AUGUST 11 (D) 

5th Grade Final (407m) $400 

Battlers Stk (407m) 4th-5th grade, not won 

in past four starts 


AUGUST 23 (N) 

4th-5th Grade Heats (510m) $500 + trophy 

Best 8 (407m) $400 + trophy 


SEPTEMBER 8 (D) 

4th-5th Grade Final (510m) $500 + trophy 



CQ Futurity Heats (510m) bitches whelped 

on or after 1-1-05 

Maiden 1000 Heats (407m) 


SEPTEMBER 20 (N) 

CQ Futurity Final (510m) 1st $1000 + rug 

and trophy 

Maiden 1000 Final (407m) 1st $1000 


Clover Cottage 

Kennels 

(Specialising in Pup Rearing) 

Now in operation for 6 years. Outstanding 

Pups to Graduate from our Farm include: 

IN FOR LIFE 

(Group 1 Nat Sprint) 

BUCKINGHAM CHUCK 

(Group 1 Nat Sprint 2nd; won Qld final) 

MR RAUDONIKIS 

(Group 1 Maturity finalist) 

ANGELICA TRICK 

(Group 3 GC Cup finalist) 

Numerous City, TAB & Country winners. 

Contact Darryl & Sue Schafer 

(02) 66339043 



Battlers Stk (510m) 4th-5th grade, not won 

in past 4 starts 


OCTOBER 4 (N) 




OCTOBER 13 (D) 

Young Guns Heats (510m) 30 months at time 

of heats 


OCTOBER 18 (N) 

Young Guns Final (510m) 1st $2500 


OCTOBER 25 (N) 

Tomorrow's Champion Heats (407m) no 

more than 3 wins 


Classified 

Advertisers 

Please Note 

Cheques and money orders 

for payment of one-off 

Classified Adverts should 

be made payable 

to the 

Greyhound 

Racing Authority 

of Qld 

GREYHOUNDS FLY 

WITH JET PETS 

Ph 1300 668 309 or 

03 9339 4300 

Ask for Tammy or Jason Lock

Genetic Full Brother to Elite State ... 

ool's H 

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Fool's ool's 

Sire: Just The Best 

Dam: Heart Spark 

* A top class city performer with a 30.06 Albion Park win at 19 months 

* From an outstanding litter that included: 

Cardio Spark (6 wins), City Of Sydney (22), Shrewd Slater 

(12), M’Lady’s Fool (20), Sparkaholic (11), White Spark (13) 

* Out of broodbitch gem Heart Spark * Proven at stud * 100% blood 

brother to Elite State 

Stud Fee $660 (inc GST) 

Pups bought from 

Elite State Lodge 

can be reared by us 

All whelpings have been natural births. 

Heart eart 

Elite Elite Elite Elite Elite State State State State State Lodge Lodge Lodge 

Lodge Lodge 

Contact Jim Osborn 

0403 220 077 or (07) 5424 6625

August'07 - Greyhounds Queensland

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