Reliving the Woolley Wilson – Para Main match race 43 years on

By Duncan Stearn

IT was arguably one of the strangest match races ever organised in Australia. On June 15, 1973 Australia’s highest prize money winning sprinter and perennial crowd favourite, Woolley Wilson, took on the new Richmond track record holder, Para Main, in a 537m test at the Londonderry raceway.

Woolley Wilson was one of the most loved sprinting greyhounds of any era. By the time of the match race he had contested 62 races and notched 34 wins, 13 seconds and two thirds. His prize money had reached $36,000, second only to the great Zoom Top, and the best for a sprinting greyhound.

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