It almost didn’t happen. After more than 40 years in the sport hoping for a Cup victory illness threatened to ruin the night. Gerald Kleeven had to drag himself off his sick bed to handle Luca Neveelk in the Geelong Cup tonight.
Melbourne trainer Peter Akathiotis is striving to break tradition when his star greyhound Nockabout Aussie ($14.00) contests Friday night’s $64,000 Group 2 SITA Geelong Cup. Virtually every big name trainer in Victoria lives in regional areas and, as such, most feature races are trained by people from the bush. Akathiotis, of Reservoir, is one of a select few greyhound trainers that lives within 15 kilometres of Melbourne’s CBD. He knows what it’s like to win a major race, having trained ...
As heats of the SITA Geelong Cup were run on Friday night, some of the town’s premier trainers were in South Australia for the Group 1 Adelaide Cup final, won by Andrea Dailly’s Allen Deed. The first five placegetters in the Adelaide Cup, in fact, are trained in the Geelong region, as the Kelly Bravo-trained Blurred Lines was runner-up, while Jeff Britton’s kennel filled third, fourth and fifth places with Oakvale Destiny, Texas Titan and Cosmic Wise respectively. Allen Deed ...
