• Mark Wallis announces that Bruisers Bullet’s racing career is over after the dog broke down in his first trial following a nine month lay-off. Better news concerns the arrival in the kennel of Towcester Story, now renamed Antigua Fire and a first handslip for Brinkleys Poet who was injured seven months earlier.
  • Ricky Holloway wins his third Springbok with Burgess Brandy who beats a very decent field in 29.67 (-20) for the Central Park jumps course. Unfortunately, the novice jumper is badly injured just two races later and doesn’t race again.
  • Graham Holland takes the forecast in the Easter Cup at Shelbourne Park as Clona Blaze leads home Clonbrien Prince in a smart 28.37 (550).
  • Owner Andy Pelley found himself in an unusual presentation situation at Monmore when his Goldies Hotspur dead heated with Aayamza Breeze, a bitch he jointly owns as part of the Aayamza syndicate.
  • King Turbo becomes one of a very rare club to have won five Cat 1 titles when he takes the Hove Winter Derby.
  • Monmore grader Tony Williamson serves up one of the best photo finishes of the year in an A7 graded race http://greyhoundstar.co.uk/tony-award-best-photo/ ‎
  • On the subject of photos, we produced a great collection courtesy of Simon Harris’s book Care of the Greyhounds which featured the impressive GRA Hook Kennels at Northaw in 1933 http://greyhoundstar.co.uk/remember-northaw-special/
  • Hayley Keightley takes her strike rate to 50% as Roxholme Nidge wins the Steel City Cup. His career strike rate is 13:17 or 91%It is also a great month for Patrick Janssens who picks up two Category Two events and the invitation, Racing Post Juvenile. He finishes the month leading the Trainers Championship table on 248 points, 79 points clear of Mark Wallis
  • Jimmy Fenwick gives a 17 month old pup his first official trial. He clocks 29.10 (-20) for Newcastle’s 480 metre. You know who it is of course!
  • Three track records were broken at Central Park on the same night. Caislean Fifi set a new best for the 265m hurdle course (16.55), Troy Bella became the first greyhound to break 16.00 for the same flat course (15.99) and Patrick Janssens Affleck Bolt covered the 642m course in 39.33.
  • Out of interest, March will prove the most prolific month of the year for major open race finals, followed by June and December.