Punting adversaries from years gone by in Robert Halliday (left) and Malcolm Bingham caught up at Tara Raceway’s meeting last Sunday. Halliday is still racing a few greyhounds on a regular basis although he concedes that his punting days are now well behind him. But there was a time when Halliday and Bingham, one of the local bookmaker legends in the early days of local greyhound racing, had engaged in many spirited punting duels at the local greyhound meetings. While Halliday’s punting days are now just a distant memory and Bingham’s satchel-swinging days a thing of the past, the pair certainly enjoyed their get-together when reminiscing about old times.
Robert Halliday prepares afternoon tea for the Bench Boys at Tara Raceway last Sunday – a chocolate bar, separated with a fine piece of cutlery on his special cutting board.
Adelaide Crows tragic and Tara Raceway regular Garry Harding of Mount Gambier has enjoyed a fair amount of success along the way with his greyhounds. But he’s still working his way up the chain of command out at Tracie and Karen Price’s Compton Kennels. In fact, from the look of it, he’s started at the very bottom and still has a way to go.
Bill Ward, one of the driving forces behind the early days of greyhound racing in Mount Gambier, celebrated his 90th birthday last week. Bill was a member of the South East Greyhound Racing Club committee when racing commenced out at Glenburnie in July 1979. He was also president of the Mount Gambier Greyhound Racing & Coursing Club from 1991 through to 1997 when greyhound racing commenced at the Lake Terrace East venue.
