2012 Norwich players Steve Morison and Grant Holt launch their new syndicate at Yarmouth.
1966 In a newspaper interview, Ted Dickson regrets not giving up his electrical business sooner to concentrate on greyhound training. The Basingstoke trainer has managed a winner a fortnight since taking out his private trainers licence at the start of the year. He is assisted by John Cox.
2014 Mal Thomas, the trainer of two Waterloo Cup winners (Johns Mascot and Teds Move) and Regency winner Trans Domino, dies following a lengthy illness.
1986 Ned Power’s Odell Supreme (Citizen Supreme-Odell Tansy, Nov 85) is carrying all before him. On November 1 he wins the £2,500 Waterford Glass Trophy. A week later, he leads an Irish 1-3-6 victory in the Anglo-Irish at Wimbledon before completing the month by taking the Irish leg of the event at Shelbourne Park with the English trio of Westmead Move, Westmead Wish and Olivers Wish finishing second, third and fourth.
2012 The Manchester Puppy Cup is cancelled after failing to attract enough entries.
1952 Jack Harvey lands the Olympic for the third time in four years with British bred Ballinasloe Lassie. The four-timer had been foiled the previous year when Arrow Boy was beaten a neck.
1980 Ernie Gaskin’s home bred Devilish Dolores (Glin Bridge-Dancing Dolores, follows up her recent 20-1 victory in the Oaks by winning the puppy equivalent at Wimbledon in 28.03 for the 460 metres.
2002 GRA’s Mike Raper suggests “sabotage” after the Belle Vue hare cable was found to be damaged due to two tears and the replacement cable “went missing”. The Friday meeting was cancelled.
1964 King Wonder, winner of the Spring Cup on the track at Dunmore earlier in the year, added coursing’s Tipperary Cup to his Conaught Cup success. The Jack Mullan trained dog is a litter brother to Irish Derby winner Wonder Valley, Millies Dandy (McAlevey Gold Cup) and Lucky Wonder.
2014 The Irish Greyhound Board reports that there were just 15 positive drugs tests for the first half of the year.
2008 Martin White’s Wise Thought completely dominates the Betfred Eclipse at Nottingham. 3-1 ante post with the sponsors, the son of Climate Control reaches the final unbeaten (1-3f, 1-4f, 1-3f) and then lands the £8,000 decider at 2-5f.
2015 There were few surprises when BAGS published their 2016 fixtures list. As anticipated, Wimbledon and Towcester were removed from the schedule, Ladbrokes owned Crayford and Coral owned Hove both gained fixtures. Sittingbourne and Peterborough were both rescheduled. Ladbrokes announce a 10% prize money increase at their two tracks for 2016.
1988 Perhaps the most famous turn-up for many years occurs in the first round of the Guineas at Hackney when beaten Derby favourite Curryhills Gara (2-5f) is beaten a short head by Mossy Moore (150-1). The locally trained winner is owned by Racing Post journalist Jim Austin. Gara is withdrawn lame from the second round where Mossy is eliminated.
2014 November 19 – the GBGB’s newest track, Towcester, stages its first trial session.
2002 Within days of the BGRB launching New Deal, a row breaks out between Nottingham and Betfair. The betting exchange chose the launch to renege on its agreement not to bet on the Eclipse Final.
1964 The Irish Coursing Club admit to a few teething problems, a year after introducing the earmarking of puppies. The biggest problem concerns individual pups being sold and moved prior to the whole litter being tattooed.
2004 Walthamstow announce a £100,000 track improvement project which will include the installation of a Sealey hare.
2012 Trainer Maurice Rice faces a stewards enquiry after withdrawing six runners from a Peterborough BAGS meetings.
2015 Greyhound racing is delighted by DEFRA’s review of the Welfare of Greyhound Regulations 2010. They conclude “‘We are not consulting on whether greyhound racing should be banned. The Government does not believe that the problems identified in the initial findings are insurmountable. The Government has no plans to ban greyhound racing. Neither has the government any plans to set up its own statutory regulatory body. Introducing a new body may well require primary legislation and certainly public funding. Due to the relatively small number of tracks and the steps that have already been, and are being, taken by the industry we do not believe that it would be proportionate to introduce a new statutory body and we are not consulting on that as an option in this consultation.’”
