Posts in category Remember When

1989 Peterborough unveil their new £500,000 Raceview Restaurant. 2010 Droopys Del Sol wins a Sunderland 828 metre marathon open at …

1987 Two former racing office assistants are to become journalists. Bruce Millington, formerly in the Catford and Hackney racing offices …

1949 The four London owned GRA tracks are currently installing weighing scales in the racing racing paddocks. This follows a …

1949 Journalist Leo C Wilson produces an interesting article on ‘colour prejudice’. He accepts that dislike of white dogs for …

2009 The GBGB officially takes over the running of the greyhound industry. It has nine named directors (the veterinary director …

1949 Behattan Marquis (Countryman-Behattan, Jan 47) finishes the year as the most prolific and successful open racer of 1949. Owned …

1994 Chairman Paddy Milligan informs the NGRC/BGRB that the GTA is no longer prepared to run the annual awards evening. …

2007 Former Belle Vue vet Paul Evans is found guilty of ‘disgraceful conduct’ by the Royal Veterinary College after admitting …

2006 The Gorvernment announces that it will not impose an independent watchdog for the greyhound industry in the impending Animal …

1969 The NGRS announce that they will prosecute any off-course bookmakers who return forecast bets struck on evening greyhound meetings …