Hobart Greyhound Racing Club
Welcome to the Hobart Greyhound Racing Club
Racing is held on Thursday nights at Tattersall's Park, the tri-code complex in Glenorchy, conveniently located about 10km from the the center of Hobart, Tasmania's capital city.
Racing is over three distances, 340m, 461m and 599m.
Home To Tassie's Group One - The Time Honoured Wrest Point Casino Hobart Thousand
First run in 1939 and set to run this year in December, with heats on the 10th and the final on the 17th.
$75,000 to the winner
The best 64 Greyhounds nominated plus reserves race over 461m for the coveted title.
Wrest Point Casino Hobart Thousand photo gallery here
June '09
Greyhound of the Month
STYLISH MONTY
Trainer Tony Dawson pictured with Greg Fahey
STYLISH MONTY Trained by Tony Dawson and owned by his mother Beth Dawson won both a heat of the Greg Fahey Mid Distance Championship 599m in 35.43 and the Final in 35.03. He also won the HGRC Premier Distance Stakes 599m by 2 and three quarter lengths in 35.17. Tony's dogs are on fire, having trained the greyhound of the month two months running from a small kennel is a great achievement.
HGRC (Inc)
PO Box 1221
Glenorchy
TAS 7010
Phone: (03) 6214 4261
Fax: (03) 6272 4013
Racing Manager: Peter Hayes
Mobile: 0409 968 386
HGRC Chairman:
Denise Fysh
Mobile: 0447 140 976
Thursday- Race Day Office
Phone: (03) 6214 4203
Fax: (03) 62144204
M.A. Morgan Stakes
The M.A.Morgan Stakes for Grade 3 greyhounds was won by Eagle Eye, trained at Penguin by Butch Deverell he jumped well from the 8 box to cross the field and led all the way to beat One Wheel by 4 and a half lengths in a quick 26.28.
M.A.Morgan is considered the Founding Father of greyhound racing in Tasmania and his incredible achievements over many years has been acknowledged with Morgan being inducted into the Tasmanian and National Hall of Fames.
TGOTBA
The TGOTBA Series was very sucessful racing over 2 weeks with Peter Dalton training the winner of Div 3 Glenrea Whisper who won by a head in 26.86.
Big Moose trained by Butch Deverell was back to brilliant form winning twice in the month and taking out Div 1. be sent out by punters at $2.10 Fav he won by 3 and a half lengths in 26.40. What a Greyhound!!!!
Division 2 was won by Lone Keysy trained by Graeme Barber paying a whopping $28.00, winning by 1 and a half lengths in 26.79
HGRC Member's Jackpot Race
Congratulations to Debbie Cannan who won the Jackpot race (Grade 5) with New Wonder winning by 6 and a half lengths in 26.87
OUTSTANDING TRAINING ACHIEVEMENTS at HOBART for
June'09
Gary Greig has a very handy dog on his hands with Mercury Morris who won twice and also picked up a second, we will be hearing more about this dog.
Mick Louth also had a great month with a double on the 18th, winning by a head with Sitka and Parsipanny who paid $15. He also had a win with Koocanusa and 2 places on the 25th.
Susan Gittus's kennel were at their best in June with a treble of wins from Della Pearl taking out an Invitation, Our Property and Vandelay, what an achievement on a night that poured with rain. Susan also won with First Alarm and she picked up a couple of places too. Russell Watts had good wins with Instant Rockstar and the unusually named Gundogdu.
Alan Anderson had a great win with Ridicule paying $45.00 lets hope he had a dollar or two on it.
Lorretta Luttrell trained greyhound King Street showed early speed to win by 2 and a half lengths in 19.66 from the 340m boxes.
Two wins for the Month for David Crosswell with Pedro's Link and Toohey's Queen, he also picked up two places with Elite Texan and Punk Buster.
UP COMING EVENTS AT HOBART
July 4th - Betfair Breeders Classic Qualifying Heats Tas Bred whelped on/after 1/7/07
July 9th - Betfair Breeder's Classic Semi Final
July 16th - Betfair Breeders Classic Final
The M.A.Morgan Stakes for Grade 3 greyhounds was won by Eagle Eye, trained at Penguin by Butch Deverell he jumped well from the 8 box to cross the field and led all the way to beat One Wheel by 4 and a half lengths in a quick 26.28.
M.A.Morgan is considered the Founding Father of greyhound racing in Tasmania and his incredible achievements over many years has been acknowledged with Morgan being inducted into the Tasmanian and National Hall of Fames.
TGOTBA
The TGOTBA Series was very sucessful racing over 2 weeks with Peter Dalton training the winner of Div 3 Glenrea Whisper who won by a head in 26.86.
Big Moose trained by Butch Deverell was back to brilliant form winning twice in the month and taking out Div 1. be sent out by punters at $2.10 Fav he won by 3 and a half lengths in 26.40. What a Greyhound!!!!
Division 2 was won by Lone Keysy trained by Graeme Barber paying a whopping $28.00, winning by 1 and a half lengths in 26.79
HGRC Member's Jackpot Race
Congratulations to Debbie Cannan who won the Jackpot race (Grade 5) with New Wonder winning by 6 and a half lengths in 26.87
OUTSTANDING TRAINING ACHIEVEMENTS at HOBART for
June'09
Anthony Bullock had a good month winning with Astral Moon and Arnhem Accident he also picked up 6 places.
Graeme Moate had good wins with Bond's Art and Cope.
Marg Rosendell 's kennels just keep going, she had a double with Agent Rusty who paid $10.00 (making his handler Amanda Grice very happy) and Munich Monelli who went out favourite and did not disappoint punters, after colliding twice he pulled away to beat kennel mate Zurich Monelli by almost 10 lengths.Graeme Moate had good wins with Bond's Art and Cope.
Gary Greig has a very handy dog on his hands with Mercury Morris who won twice and also picked up a second, we will be hearing more about this dog.
Mick Louth also had a great month with a double on the 18th, winning by a head with Sitka and Parsipanny who paid $15. He also had a win with Koocanusa and 2 places on the 25th.
Susan Gittus's kennel were at their best in June with a treble of wins from Della Pearl taking out an Invitation, Our Property and Vandelay, what an achievement on a night that poured with rain. Susan also won with First Alarm and she picked up a couple of places too. Russell Watts had good wins with Instant Rockstar and the unusually named Gundogdu.
Alan Anderson had a great win with Ridicule paying $45.00 lets hope he had a dollar or two on it.
Lorretta Luttrell trained greyhound King Street showed early speed to win by 2 and a half lengths in 19.66 from the 340m boxes.
Two wins for the Month for David Crosswell with Pedro's Link and Toohey's Queen, he also picked up two places with Elite Texan and Punk Buster.
UP COMING EVENTS AT HOBART
July 4th - Betfair Breeders Classic Qualifying Heats Tas Bred whelped on/after 1/7/07
July 9th - Betfair Breeder's Classic Semi Final
July 16th - Betfair Breeders Classic Final
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