68 STARTS 34 WINS, 9 SECONDS, 10 THIRDS Date Placing Box Grade Track Distance Time Margin Price To/From Comments Hilda Williamson trained Coven Vista initially October 3, 1975 2nd 5 Juvenile White City 502.5m 30.53 15l – 1l 7/1 Call Me Roy Winner a champion, also making debut October…
Archive: May 2020
Tumble Bug’s racing record
Inductee Hall of Fame December 2015 Black dog (Menang – Proposed), Whelped January 1945 Owner/Trainer Cliff J.Abraham Date Placing Box Grade Track Distance Time Margin Price To/From Comments 2/09/1946 Won Erina Stakes Wyong 316y 16 4/5 2l – 3l 7/1 Captain Fuller 20/09/1946 Won 4 5th Grade Wyong 316y…
Peter’s Treasure racing record
Inductee Hall of Fame 2015 Date Placing Box Grade Track Distance Time Margin Price To/From Comments 26/07/1958 3rd 9 Juvenile Heat Hobart 540y 30 6/10 5l – 3l 16/1 Quanta’s Rocket 2/08/1958 2nd 10 Juvenile Final Hobart 540y 30 2/10 7l – 3l 20/1 Angola Girl 6/09/1958 4th 7 Juvenile…
Western Idol’s race record
Inductee Hall of Fame December 2017 Brindle bitch, Whelped January 1959, KUERSON — RUBY STOKER Date Placing Box Grade Track Distance Time Margin Price To/From Comments April 2, 1960 3rd 3 Juvenile Launceston 548y 30 13/16 1.5l -1.5l 7/1 Rockoon April 9, 1960 Won 5 Juvenile Hobart 540y 30…
Gary Sutton
Inductee Hall of Fame December 2014 A lad born at Ulverstone on April 3 1945, living at nearby Nook, with absolutely no family involvement in racing whatsoever, and who only became interested in Greyhound racing through a friend, joins the elite in our sport, as a member of the Hall…
J.G. “Jack” Nelson
Inauguaral inductee to Hall Of Fame 2007 J.G.”Jack”Nelson was a partner with his brother in Mountain Ices (an Ice Cream factory in Launceston). He was also an S.P. bookie who built a house with five kennels and an office at Malunna, which became the site of the White City greyhound…
M.A. “Arthur” Morgan
Inauguaral inductee to Hall Of Fame 2007 Clearly, Irishman Michael Arthur Morgan, who had turned sixteen the day left for Australia in 1921, shaped the face of Greyhound Racing in Tasmania more than any other contributor. He was the founding father of track racing as we know it today.
Ollie & Des Illingworth
Inducted into Hall of Fame 2008 The Illingworth name is synonymous with greyhound racing in Tasmania and father and son Ollie and Des Illingworth are members of the Tasmanian Greyhound Hall Of Fame. Ollie Illingworth and Launceston Cup winner Win Sheen Oliver Illingworth Oliver James Illingworth was born…
Don Bomford
Inductee Hall of Fame 11/12/2010 Has anyone given greater service to any Club than Don Bomford has to Hobart? Definitely not. Has there been a more popular participant in our sport than Don Bomford? I think not. A Dashing young Don Bomford Born at New Norfolk on August…
Raymond Lawrence Foley
Inductee Hall of Fame 10/12/2011 Ray Foley will be remembered as one of Tasmania’s finest Greyhound administrators, serving as permanent part time Secretary of the Launceston Greyhound Racing Club for twenty two years, but also as the founder, financier and long term editor of the “Bible of Tasmanian Greyhound Racing”………The…