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.
It wasn’t all that long ago that Grandma Vicki would bring her twin granddaughters out to Tara Raceway on a Thursday afternoon. But Parker and Kenzie are now at school and sister Oaklee, fast approaching three years of age, with bag of lollies in hand, joined her grandmother last Thursday for a day at the dogs.
Blue Moon Marie was back among the winners at Tara Raceway last Sunday after winning the Williams Crane Hire Stake (512 m). By Blue Moon Rising out of 2019 Mount Gambier Cup winner Galactic Athena, the brindle bitch has been a remarkable story after spending 12 months sidelined by injury before successfully returning to the track for Koroit trainer Peter Keane and local owners Noel Miller and Peter Lamond. Pictured from left are Anne and Peter Keane, Noel Miller and Betty Hartshorne.
