2018 A new scheme organised by Doncaster trainer Terri Leach re-homes 77 ex-racers in just four months.
2018 Harlow are unable to declare a tricast dividend after three runners are withdrawn from a 415m open and one of the remaining trio, Shoemakers Molly is unable to complete the course.
2018 Former champion trainer Chris Allsopp announces that he is giving up training. His Monmore contract will be taken over by Lee Field, who started out as an owner, before making the move from ‘owner trainer’, all the way through to professional trainer.
2018 Greyhound racing is banned in Florida, the US state with the most greyhound tracks, 13. Racing will cease by 2020.
2018 The administrators confirm the sale of Towcester to Fermor Land LLP, a company with very close connections to the Hesketh family.
2018 Hove introduce a new distance of 490 metres.
2018 Shawfield grader Galloping Frank is knocked over in his first open race at Shawfield. He had won his first nine graded races in a row. A £10 accumulator would have netted £71,866.
2018 Yarmouth boss Simon Franklin announces that the track will be making cuts in 2019 after incurring a six figure loss during the year. Cutbacks will include a reduction in trial sessions and reducing the number of graded reserves.
2018 The GBGB announces a series of kennel sweepstakes restricted to British bred runners. Each will carry a £500 first prize plus £200 to the winning breeder.
2018 Jean Liles, formerly at Crayford, Towcester and Central Park, is the latest training appointment at Romford. Central Park immediately advertise for a replacement with Monmore also looking to make appointments.
2018 Dorotas Wildcat become the first Eclipse/English Derby winner since Some Picture, 22 years earlier, when landing the Nottingham Cat 1 event. Kevin Hutton’s black beats Droopys Verve by a length, there was a length and a half between them in the Towcester decider.
2018 Kilkenny and Waterford are the latest tracks to join the ‘8am starters’, following UK tracks Henlow and Harlow.
