The 2025 Sylvester Doyle Puppy Championship, along with support events of the Ray Boundy memorial and Gippsland Cup were concluded on Sunday 20th July.
A balmy day of 14 degrees was the order of the day but hey it is like footy a winter sport, so there was plenty of coats and beanies on display early but the sunshine was a pleasant surprise. Of course, the greyhounds were well catered for.
Several trainers had a few dogs making the finals and many of these greyhounds coursed unsuccessfully last week and you guessed it, they improved out of sight this week. Punters watch for them hit the tracks in the next 10 days.
In our feature puppy feature Event 1 the Sylvester Doyle Puppy Championship where we saw Levi Design and Vista Vampire exit slips and go head-to-head but by the half way mark Lachlan Scott’s Levi Design had moved ahead defeating Murray Collyer’s Vista Vampire. Levi Design’s win was a sound win over very good company. These two greyhounds coursed exceptionally well over the two weeks and they are a credit to their trainers.
In Event 2 the Ray Boundy Memorial we saw some more seasoned campaigners hitting their straps as we head towards the final three coursed meetings of the season with Andrew Paraskevas’ Walk With Pride defeating Emma Scott’s Trefusis.
The maiden Event 3 for those maidens that have done their best but failed to break their coursing maiden status we had the Gippsland Cup and here we saw the Nolan family take the both the winners and the runners up purses when Both Sides for Justin defeating Juju Blue for Michelle.
The supporting events placings were as follows: –
Event 4 Elgas All Aged Stake
This event was won by Ashton for the Scott Fortitude Synd trained by Emma Scott when she defeated Are Gringhuis’ James’s Entity.
Event 5 Veolia Mixed Puppy
Three solid courses over the day saw Donald Rhodes’ Rattlin’ Bones defeat Taylor Thornton’s Take Aim.
Event 6 Larmax Trading Maiden Dog
A second win for the day for the Paraskevas team and this time John Paraskevas’ Shake The Dust did just that with a well won course in the final over Graeme Campbell’s Tommy.
Event 7 RAM Locksmith Maiden Dog
Donald Rhodes’ Nambrok Nick run some awesome times during the day one being an earth shattering 16.37 in the final he clocked 16.88 with his win over with a strong win over the Aaron Campbell trained Paw Waldo.
Event 8 Winning Post Greyhound Supplies Maiden Dog
Blazing Dino for Shayne Jarvis defeated Miss My Brother for Sean Lithgow.
Event 9 Cranbourne Greyhounds Maiden Bitch
Fail In Style another one for Taylor Thornton got the choccies this time with a win over Donald Rhodes’ Greta’s Gold.
Event 10 Sandown Greyhound Racing Club Maiden Bitch
Lamia Nonna Mary for Paul Cusack defeated Pink Gin for Cheryl Pirani, both were having their coursing debuts.
Run of the day was taken out by Dean Allsop’s Casey Ace.
Next Meeting
Keep those nominations rolling folk.
The next coursing meeting is the last one at Longwood Coursing Club on 3rd August and it is a slips to boxes meeting whereby the winners and runners up of 4 events head to a final at Shepparton over the 390 metres on the 11th August. This is the lat meeting at Longwood during the 2025 coursing season. Then we are back at Lang Lang towards the middle and end of August (17th & 20th) for the commencement and conclusion of the season with the Waterloo Cup. This season has been our 152 year.
