Posts in category Remember When

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 …

2006 Irish stud dog Smooth Rumble is put to sleep following a long illness. His progeny included Centaur Corker, Maxie …

1960 Engineers from London Electricity Board invite representatives from greyhound tracks to see the latest advances in under soil heating. …

1961 NGRC racing has two new owner trainers. One of the pair would remain in the industry for the next …

1952 29 of the 35 runners “slipped and slided” their way through race a meeting at Eastville (Bristol). It was …