1975 GRA announce an increase in compensation to owners whose dogs are seriously injured whilst racing at their tracks. The figure rises from £100 to £150 (approx. £1,935 today). Any dog representing a GRA track in an inter-track will also be paid up if injured in an ‘away match’.
1989 Hull stages its last meeting at its Holderness Road track.
2015 Belle Vue trainer Andy Heyes, whose big race wins include the Laurels and TV Trophy, decides to leave the greyhound industry due to its financial state.
1958 Walthamstow are introducing a sixth set of hurdles for all future jumping races.
2015 A5 graded prize money (with 2022 index linked equiv.) Crayford (£117/£143) Hove (£119/£145) Kinsley (£59/£72) Newcastle (£118/£144), Nottingham (£104/£127), Perry Barr (£53/£65) Sheffield (£95/£116), Sunderland (£118/£144), Swindon (£81) Towcester (£95/£116), Yarmouth (£60/£73)
1957 In addition to the sales of racing and coursing dogs, Aldridges have good entries for their sapling sales. 151 lots go under the hammer raising £5,700 (index linked – £152K) including four member of an Endless Gossip litter which make £712 (£19K).
1971 Three litter brothers with the ‘Giglis’ prefix, Champ, Warrior and Star, all made their track debuts on the same night at Manchester White City and won races 1, 2 and 3.
1953 Sir Louis Greig, KVE, CVO and chairman of the Greyhound Racing Society died following a long illness. His motto for greyhound racing was “face it, realise it and administer it cleanly”
2015 English Derby betting: 12 Laughil Blake, 25-1 Bearatipp, Newinn Yolo, 3-1 Droopys Nidge, Lenson Sanchez, 40-1 Rafas Wee Jet, Sidarian Blaze, Farloe Blitz. Laughil Blake is injured in his next race and doesn’t travel. Of the top 20 in the betting, only Farloe Blitz would make the final.
1934 Tommy Johnston, who recently joined West Ham from Edinburgh, is to take over breeding and resting kennels at Giddea Park. One of the first arrivals will be the winner of the second Greyhound Derby, Boher Ash.
2015 Kevin Hutton won the last four races of the Trainers Championship meeting to land the title at Central Park The 1,286-1 quartet were Forest Sara (9-4), Jolly Redeye (5-1), Swansalona Dive (5-1) and El Pedro (10-1).
1985 Walthamstow are the latest track to introduce video replays of races.
1957 Greyhound registration papers and Stamford Bridge racecards were found in a room at Goldens Farm, near Billingshurst alongside the bodies of Myrtle Argent and her son, Anthony. The body of Mrs Argent’s second husband Frederick – a known heavy gambler – was found alongside a shotgun in a bedroom. All three died from gunshot wounds.
2011 Stud dog Ardkill Jamie is stolen from owner Kieran Mangan’s kennel in Edenderry.
1987 Timworth Edward finishes top British coursing sire for the second consecutive year.
1954 An optimistic Wimbledon owner names a greyhound after the big talking point of the day, the possibility that Chancellor Butler will reduce the betting tax on greyhound tracks. Butlers Budget seems fortuitously named and refused to chase.
1989 Dancing Pride (Spartacus-Never Sweeter) is sold for £10,000 (approx. £28,600 today) at Wimbledon Sales after a 27.89 trial. Trained by Barry Silkman the dog goes on to half a dozen minor opens, through he also collects a £1,500 invitation race at 12-1.
2015 GBGB annonce the appointment of two new stipes, Paula Clare and Kaye Smith though within a week, Smith, a former RSPCA inspector, changes her mind.
1957 London owner Harry Bradshaw receives an insurance pay out of £1,000 (equiv to £26,700 today) following the death of Cautious Customer in a kennel fight at Clapton Stadium’s Claverhambury Kennel. Customer had never raced for his new owner having been bought after breaking Dunmore King’s track record for 525 yards at Celtic Park.
2015 Derby winning trainer Bruno Berwick leaves the sport after losing an appeal for a cocaine positive test on a runner at Perry Barr. Berwick maintains throughout that the result was due to accidental contamination from workmen at the kennel using the drug for recreational use. During the same week, a court finds against a bus company who sacked a driver when he tested positive for the same drug. The court determined that no account had been taken of the possibility of accidental contamination on bank notes handed to the driver.
