Posts in category Remember When

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 …

2010 Platinumlancelot, the reigning Hurdler of the Year breaks a wrist in an open at Sittingbourne and is retired. At …

1950 W J Cearns dies following a short illness. The former office boy invested his life savings in the failing …