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1996 New Catford trainer Atkins has a ‘mixed’ first meeting. Of his first four runners, one wins, one is KO’d, …
1996 New Catford trainer Atkins has a ‘mixed’ first meeting. Of his first four runners, one wins, one is KO’d, …
1981 Two fund raising meetings, one at White City and one at Perry Barr, staged in memory of recently deceased …
1928 April 28 – the NGRC is created with 43 member tracks. 2008 Frank Wright, formerly an assistant to Martin …
1964 New owner Bernard Shannon writes his first letter to the Greyhound Express describing the “cancer” of large numbers of …
1993 Yarmouth need a metal detector to find a handful of tin tacks that had been thrown onto the track …
1947 A notice in the Portsmouth racecard reads “Racing will be held every Wednesday and Saturday evening and will take …
1965 Walthamstow introduce an injury compensation scheme for all graded runners at the track. The owner of any dog that …
1965 Celbridge stud keeper Paddy Kelly reports that Hi There, one of the most important post war sires, has died …
1951 Catford’s newest trainer is former British lightweight boxing champion Matt Wells who won a Lonsdale Belt outright. 1987 Following …
1971 February 11 Greyhound Racing’s Freedom Bill is having its second reading in the House of Lords. Introduced by Lord …