GBGB/GRI Star Pelaw amongst five GBGB Track of the Year nominees THE GBGB has announced the shortlisted tracks for its inaugural Track of the Year Award. Introduced as part of GBGB’s greyhound racing centenary celebrations, the Award looks to celebrate the many achievements of the country’s most popular tracks in 2025. The shortlist has been decided following over 1,...
News Cove can find safe haven again in Tralee A4 grade she relishes STORMY COVE landed a fourth victory in seven A4 starts a fortnight ago so take the hint when she escapes a penalty for Tralee's 12.54 over 525 yards. Brigid Fitzgerald's bitch is well into the veteran stage of a career that has seen her tackle...
News Oxford focussing on Saturdays - tweaks dates of open events OXFORD is to focus its weekend racing on Saturday nights over the coming weeks with dates for next month's Category One bet365 Hunt Cup tweaked as a result. The Cowley track has been deciding week-by-week in terms of Saturday night or Sunday afternoon opens recently in consultation with...
News Solo And Go is into 5/2 for Gold glory despite round two reverse SOLO AND GO has firmed into 5/2 favourite for the €16,000 Tote Gold Cup despite second round defeat over Shelbourne Park's 525 yards course. Liam Dowling's charge allowed powerful kennelmate Ballymac Siun but battled hard to be beaten just a length and a half...
GBGB/GRI GRI launches 4-part docu-series covering the 2025 Irish Derby GREYHOUND Racing Ireland has announced the launch of a major new original production - The Story of the 2025 Irish Greyhound Derby - which will go live on Wednesday 18th February at 2pm. The four-part documentary series represents a significant step forward in how the Irish Greyhound Derby is captured...
News SIS trainer winning strike rates - 02/02/26 - 15/02/26 WEEKLY updates from the six UK greyhound tracks which feature regularly on the sisracing.tv service. Minimum requirement - 10 runners during the 14-day period. Doncaster's Malcolm Windrass boasted the best figures in the first two weeks of February with his 12 runners at the South Yorkshire track...
GBGB/GRI Payne's first GBGB webinar of 2026 well received by attendees THE GBGB has announced that it will be continuing its programme of free education opportunities for licence-holders in 2026. Last week, Professor Richard Payne delivered the first of the 'Continuing Professional Development [CPD]' sessions for this year with his webinar focussing on the musculoskeletal adaptations which greyhounds have,...
Irish Focus Ian Fortune's Weekly Irish Focus - Wednesday 11th Feb edition THE weekly Irish Focus takes in all the big racing in Ireland and is published on sisracing.tv every Wednesday. This week's edition features action from Curraheen Park, Limerick and Shelbourne Park. 0:00 /13:09 1×...
GBGB/GRI GRI in announcement of human awards recipients ahead of gala GREYHOUND Racing Ireland has announced the human recipients of the 2025 National Greyhound Racing Awards, recognising outstanding contributions to the sport across racing, welfare and community engagement. The Hall of Fame Award for 2025 is being presented to Peter and Aidan Comerford of Co. Kildare, in recognition of their long-term...
GBGB/GRI Liz and Rab McNair plus KSS net GWA ‘services’ award THE KSS Syndicate and the McNairs, trainer Liz and her husband and assistant Rab, have been announced as the latest recipients of the GWA Services to Greyhound Racing Award. Owners of the Year at the GBGB Awards on no less than nine occasions, the Kent-based set-up have also been one...
GBGB/GRI Bacon Burrger earns GBGB's award as Grader of the Year BACON BURRGER, trained by Paul Burr at Romford, is the winner of the 2025 GBGB Award for Graded Greyhound of the Year. The September 2022 daughter of Malachi and Geelo Gold Dust was a standout performer for her owners Kevin Bacon and Paul Burr around Romford in 2025, boasting a...
GBGB/GRI Shannon Brown announced as GBGB Kennelhand of the Year THE GBGB has announced that Shannon Brown has been named Kennelhand of the Year 2025. Shannon, who has recently turned 20, works alongside her father Paul Rutherford at Newcastle and was nominated for this award due to her unrelenting passion for the sport. Shannon’s dedication to the breed throughout...
Irish Focus Ian Fortune's Weekly Irish Focus - Wednesday 4th Feb edition THE weekly Irish Focus takes in all the big racing in Ireland and is published on sisracing.tv every Wednesday. This week's edition features action from Clonmel and Shelbourne Park. 0:00 /15:57 1×...
GBGB/GRI GBGB chair Davies calls out MPs 'misleading claims' in debate SIR PHILIP DAVIES, the GBGB chairman, has hit back publicly at claims made by Liberal Democrat MP Liz Jarvis in a recent parliamentary debate on the government’s welfare strategy for England. Jarvis, the MP for Eastleigh, said during the debate: “Between 2017 and 2024, across the UK more than...
Major Races Cody rolls back the years to star at Tralee in a quiet start to 2026 23/01 - Tralee: Astra Kennels Stakes - Labana Cody LABANA CODY, two months after his fourth birthday and giving at least a year to all his rivals, was a comfortable winner of the €4,000 Astra Kennels Stakes over 525 yards at Tralee's Kingdom Stadium. Owned and...
News Holland strikes again in Unraced as Clyde shocks favoured Spot GAYTIME CLYDE credited trainer Graham Holland with an incredible sixth victory in the past seven stagings of the event by landing the €6,500 final of the Rural Kennels Open Unraced Stake over 525 yards at Clonmel. Kennelmate Newinn Spot, unbeaten going into the decider, was a hot 4/6...
News Twinkle the star in BetGoodwin final as punters pile into 'jolly' ALRIGHT TWINKLE, all the rage from an opening 4/9 down to an SP of 3/10, proved far too good for her rivals in the £500 final of the BetGoodwin Standard over 450m at Oxford. Trained by Dave Lewis for Darryl and Gordon Roome, the July 2023 daughter of...
Irish Focus Ian Fortune's Weekly Irish Focus - Wednesday 28th Jan edition THE weekly Irish Focus takes in all the big racing in Ireland and is published on sisracing.tv every Wednesday. This week's edition features action from Clonmel, Limerick and Tralee. 0:00 /8:39 1×...
News Nominations announced for the Irish National Greyhound Awards The nominations have been announced for Ireland's 2025 National Greyhound Awards with the ceremony to be held at Shelbourne Park Greyhound Stadium on Sunday 8th March. The quality of the nominees across each of the seven categories is evidence of a tremendous year on the track and the...
News Juvenile Classic final at Tralee added to sisracing.tv schedule THE €11,000 final of the T. Nolan & Sons CVRT Centre Juvenile Classic at Tralee's Kingdom Stadium on Friday 6th March has been added to the sisracing.tv live schedule. Now in its second year of the current sponsorship, the prestigious competition promises thrilling racing action for...
News GRI/SIS reveal 2026 big-race schedule adding early rounds GREYHOUND Racing Ireland and SIS have jointly announced planned big race coverage for 2026 which will include earlier rounds in major competitions such as the Con & Annie Kirby Memorial, Irish Oaks, Irish Laurels and Irish St Leger. As ever, the flagship event is the BOYLESports Irish Derby which will...
News GBGB eyes centenary year with celebration of past and present THE GBGB has launched the social media hashtag #CelebratingOurStadia with venues past and present to be featured. It comes ahead of the centenary year of greyhound racing in the UK in 2026, the first regulated meeting having taken place at Belle Vue in Manchester on July 24th 1926 when in...
Irish Focus Ian Fortune's Weekly Irish Focus - Wednesday 21st Jan edition THE weekly Irish Focus takes in all the big racing in Ireland and is published on sisracing.tv every Wednesday. This week's edition has a double-dose of Clonmel action plus the pick of Shelbourne Park's Saturday card. 0:00 /17:28 1×...
News Thurles ready to stage its first Saturday morning SIS meeting THURLES will break new ground on Saturday [24th January] when staging its first morning meeting since joining the SIS service in August last year. The famous Townpark venue, which is home to the Tipperary Cup, opened in 1948 and had been racing on Saturday evenings only prior to signing up...
