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Due to the continual heavy rain, tonights public and tomorrow's private trials have both been cancelled. We apologise for the inconvenience. Please feel free to share. Thanks.
We have to make a last minute change to this Mondays trial session. Unfortunately we need to have our last trial at 7.15pm and as a result, we have decided to start our puppy trials at 4.00pm and our normal trials from 4,30pm to 7.15pm. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Please feel free to share this information.
Due to unforseen circumstances, we are only able to trial till 12.00 noon this Tuesday 27th October. First trial will be 7.00am. Apologies for the inconvenience.
With the temperature beginning to warm up, we have decided to push our Monday trials back by 1 hour from this Monday 19th October. New schedule will be as below.
5.30pm - puppy trials
6.00pm - regular trials followed by any finish ons.
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From this Tuesday 12th October, the private trials will come forward 1 hour and begin at 7.00am. Also, from Monday 2nd November, the public trials will go back 1 hour with puppy trials from 5.30pm and regular trials from 6.00 pm. Please feel free to share.
The Hunter region and surrounds will be well represented in next week's semi finals of the TAB Million Dollar Chase. One of the hopefuls, the Darryl Thomas trained Xerri stretched his legs in a final hit out at Ladbrokes Gardens today. Going around in a stewards trial, the Blue son of Fernando Bale and Miss All Class ran a fair 5.03 first section, but then really wound up running 17.15 down the back and then home in a very nice 12.10 for an extremely quick overall time of 29.25 sec, just .09 sec outside the track record. With the current career figures of 12 starts for 6 wins and 3 placings, Xerri has run quick times at several tracks including 29.38 at The Gardens, 24.89 at Maitland and 29.62 at Wentworth Park which will hold him in good stead next week. The other Thomas runner in the semi finals is Whitfield, a lightly raced litter brother to Xerri who has won 6 races from only 10 starts. Darryl also trains Sergis from the same litter who has won 4 from 5 starts and did train the ill fated Coniglio who was owned in the same interests as Xerri. Newcastle Greyhounds wishes Darryl and all local trainers involved tomorrow night and next week all the best.
Today saw the running of our latest Ladbrokes Monthly bonus race, a 5th grade 515m event. The winner was the John Miles trained Not Today in 29.76 sec with a margin of 3/4 length over Rose Of Lachlan. The win took the record of the black daughter of Keybow & Black Eva to 9 wins and 4 placings from only 14 starts. Not Today was the 2nd leg of a race to race double from the in form kennel of John with Lately winning in 15.23 sec over the 272m in the previous race.
After consultation with GWIC, we will be recommencing four dog puppy trials at our Monday trial sessions. These will be starting from Monday 12th October.
Got 2 dogs to stwards trail on Saturday over the 400 need 1 more if anyone can help me out let me know thank you
We're 3/4 of the way through the year and the current top 10 point scorers in the GOTY are, in alphabetical order as follows.
Aston Tatum
Aston Zodiac
Blue Bronte
Guy Incognito
Halcyon Prince
Little Miss Aria
Luchador
My Sapphire
Sketchy Boy
Texas Target
Newcastle Greyhounds would like to acknowledge Hunter trainer Kevin Keegan who passed away recently. Kevin raced his dogs with the "Kiss Me" prefix and bred last years Gardens GOTY Morse who to this day has won 36 races for trainer Sue Smith. Our thoughts and condolences go out to Kevins family and friends.
Attention Owners And Trainers Nominations for Saturday 19.9.20 have been extended to 1pm all distances.
🌟Million Dollar Chase Regional Final🌟
🥇Aston Zodiac - Geoff Grimwood
🥈Aston Lee - Jason Mackay
🥉Seen Around - Robert Vines
🧭 29.42
🙌🏻 Congratulations to all connections!
Could the following people please send us a Facebook message, you’ve won a MDC prize pack 🙂
Kathy Clark
Edward Wants
Sandie Finlay
Yvonne Gee
Roxy Farrell
Jock Oneil
The Board and staff of Newcastle Greyhounds would like to acknowledge the recent passing of industry stalwart Gerry Lee. Whilst a long time GBOTA member, he was probably best known at The Gardens as "the bagman" for popular bookmaker Graham Walshaw. As a trainer, he was also successful as can be seen below celebrating the win of Lady Cynthia in the Ladbrokes Red Dog final on 2019 Black Top night. Lady Cynthia had 12 starts at The Gardens for 8 wins. To all family and friends of Gerry, we offer our heartfelt condolences.
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