Australian Racing Greyhound News
Labor MP Yasmin Catley throws her support behind greyhound racing
By Katherine Ernst Labor member for Swansea, Yasmin Catley, has thrown her support behind the greyhound racing industry as the sport faces a permanent ban at the hands of the Baird government. Premier Baird announced on Thursday he intends to ... Read More »
Troy Grant: “Senate Inquiry Is A False Hope”
By AAP The NSW coalition government is facing an internal revolt over its move to shut down the greyhound racing industry. The NSW Nationals appear to be at odds over the contentious ban, with some members including Cootamundra MP Katrina ... Read More »
NSW greyhound shutdown will massively affect Victoria
By Katherine Ernst GREYHOUND racing in Victoria has a problem it has barely acknowledged. A big problem. The announcement by Premier Mike Baird that greyhound racing in NSW would be shut down from July 1, 2017, casts serious doubt on ... Read More »
Racing Australia boss hits back at animal welfare claims
By AAP Thoroughbred racing boss Peter McGauran has hit back at suggestions the industry loses track of horses in great numbers as a protest group calls for an inquiry into the sport. The chief executive of the thoroughbred regulatory body, ... Read More »
Zambora Brockie’s Winter Cup win allows for momentary celebration
By Katherine Ernst ZAMBORA Brockie provided some momentary joy for heartbroken greyhound racing enthusiasts on Thursday night when taking out the Group 1 Winter Cup (520m) at Albion Park. Hours after the NSW Premier Mike Baird announced the state government ... Read More »
Welfare groups call for horse racing inquiry after greyhound ban
By AAP AN animal welfare group has called for an inquiry into the horseracing industry, saying like greyhound racing, thousands of animals are killed because they are deemed uncompetitive. The Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR) says about 10,000 ... Read More »
New blood is answer to reclaiming greyhound ‘social licence’
By Kevin Pitstock It was an ordinary Sunday, July 10, 2016, but a meeting of a few hundred people in Warners Bay may have been the final nail in greyhound racing’s coffin in NSW. It confirmed everything right and wrong ... Read More »
Leading trainer Dean Swain stunned as drones invade his property
By Katherine Ernst LEADING NSW greyhound trainer Dean Swain has spoken out in shock after a drone was pictured hovering above his Western Sydney training establishment on Saturday morning. Swain, who has been very vocal against the NSW state government’s ... Read More »
The rocky road to Sydney more evident after NSW greyhound ban
By Dr Des Fegan AS I drove back through New South Wales last Friday morning it was obvious to me that great hinterland outside the Sydney CBD has been a long neglected part of the state. The backblock roads of ... Read More »
Greyhound racing in NSW hoisted on its own petard
By Duncan Stearn The announcement by the Baird government that it will ban greyhound racing in New South Wales starting from the beginning of July 2017 is yet another reminder of how the sport/industry failed over a long period of ... Read More »
