1991 Global animal charity Earthkind issues a scathing attack on the Irish Greyhound Board’s record on welfare and condemns the planned application for EU grants for greyhound breeders.
1975 Planning permission is granted for a new track at Ystrad Mynach in Glamorgan – “Valley”.
1993 Heavenly Lady completes a quality double when she adds the TV Trophy to her recent Golden Jacket win.
2013 Kildare track Newbridge shuts down due with the operators Morwell Racing no longer trading at the track. The IGB promise the track will reopen.
1996 The BGRB announce they are at an advanced stage of introducing a trainer indemnity form that will allow them to take over the ownership of any greyhound where the owner has abandoned it.
1969 Warfield Kennels, labelled “the best schooling track in the South”, is wound up after losing a High Court battle over noise. The owners of the kennel at Warfield in Berkshire are faced with costs and compensation amounting to over £4,500 (index linked to roughly £61,000).
2012 Trap six runners in the first set of Derby heats will be wearing a special Union Jack racing jacket to celebrate the Queens Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
1955 NGRC racing welcomes its newest private trainer, Joe Booth from Old Clipstone. Booth plans to operate a kennel of 12 dogs which include a hound rumoured to have been previously trained by him on the flaps, before joining Wembley’s Lesley Reynolds, English Derby winner, Pauls Fun, plus the highly rated Imperial Airways.
1992 Farloe Melody becomes the first dog to break 29.00 at Shelbourne Park on four consecutive occasions on is his way to landing his second Easter Cup.
1977 Scurry finalist Fiano is killed on the journey back to Adam Jackson’s kennel at Nothaw.
1955 Among the buyers at Aldridge Sales in Colonel Piere Volmerange who is buying greyhounds for the recently opened track in Algiers.
1998 Leos Midas ties for the record number of race wins when winning for the 103rd time in his career at Orange Park in Florida.
1957 The Government’s 10% tote tax is wreaking havoc on low dividend forecasts. In at least half a dozen cases winning punters have simply had their stake returned.
2014 Romford install a new type of starting trap, similar in design to those in use at Crayford and Monmore.
1947 A live hare appeared on the Yarmouth track shortly after a race was made void by the breakdown of its mechanical equivalent. Fortunately, it was not spotted by any of the runners.
1955 Skewen regular John Griffiths receives a six month prison sentence after forcing his way into the home of the track manager to complain about grading. When the manager eventually returned home accompanied by a policeman, both were assaulted by Griffiths.
2013 Former Romford handler Tony Dennis dies aged 81. During a career in which he trained at Rayleigh, Rochester, Ramsgate and privately, the shrewd Dennis handled a string of top stars including Kilcaskin Kern, Sundridge Bet U and Sados Choice. He was regularly implicated as being involved in the famed Rochester coup, something he always denied.
1957 Jack Tidbury, owner of the Bull Garage in Rainham paid a record price for a hurdler when purchasing Vintners Cup for £819 – equivalent of £21,860 – for the three time track record holder.
1993 Wimbledon plan to switch racedays, dropping Thursday, but introducing Wednesdays for a Tuesday-Wednesday-Friday-Saturday format.
2011 Derby winner Bandicoot Tipoki is retired after finishing lame with a serious tendon injury in an open race at Wimbledon.
