REMEMBER WHEN: MARCH
1980 The industry’s most crooked track, Southend, are ordered, by the NGRC, to hold a stewards enquiry into a graded …
1980 The industry’s most crooked track, Southend, are ordered, by the NGRC, to hold a stewards enquiry into a graded …
1962 An Oxford punter landed the biggest ever forecast dividend ever on a British track when a 4-1 chance beat …
1991 A 58 year old accountant received a three year jail sentence for driving through the main gates at Catford …
1951 Colonel General Critchley reveals that the majority of greyhounds entering the GRA’s nine tracks are now bred by the …
1953 Colonel Critchley, the GRA chairman announces that the company bred 320 pups the previous year. It is 17 years …
1975 Bord na gCon purchase Limerick track at Markets Field. They now own half of Ireland’s 18 greyhound stadia. 1953 …
1952 A meeting of track owners are informed that a mechanism for automatically opening the starting traps which most rejected …
1947 January 20 Mr E Harper’s Jesmond Cutlet (Beef Cutlet-Lady Eleanor) dies aged 12 years. The winner of 30 open …
1970 Yarmouth have reduced admission charges since more than doubling their tote retention from 6% to 12.5% following the change …
1947 With food shortages hitting tracks hard, the Wandsworth Group ask owners of any greyhounds currently off the racing strength …