Let's deal with other websites...

The race card service on the Racing Post website is a valuable asset for race fans who want to punt at home on TV dog meetings; or wish to prepare before going to a crowded bookmakers shop or the local greyhound track. Although, I must say, that a number of tracks have withdrawn permission from the Racing Post to post race data on its website. How is that for meanness? The bookies must love those tracks.

Ah! but in recent weeks there have been changes… brought about because of evening greyhound racing on Sky channel 854 sponsored by William Hill bookmakers with a link to the William Hill website at http://williamhill.co.uk

If you go to this site you can access the race cards with all the necessary data for the two meetings covered by channel 854 plus there is an interesting feature where six animated greyhounds leave their traps and head for the winning post to show the best times; you can also access, with the help of the cartoon dogs, the fastest starting dogs.

There is also a live radio commentary on many of the dog races throughout the day. So well done the William Hill organization!

There is no need to stop at U.K. websites as there is a good website in the USA at http://www.rosnet2000.com which has links to Australia and other countries. At Rosnet you can access race cards with absolutely loads of information from many tracks plus video playback of previous races and also live pictures of races. There is, of course, links to betting sites where you can bet in dollars or euros.

There is another good website run by the British Greyhound Racing Board (BGRB) called http://www.thedogs.com/ where you can check the dog results from all the meetings and get some good information about dog racing in general. The tracks are shown on a map and there is a link that takes you to each track where you can access the type of races run there and, more importantly, access the track records of the various races; which is a very good starting point to start from when trying to judge the quality of dogs. It is good to know the track records at your local stadium as a guide to betting; I keep them in my notebook and take a view of races, especially open races with the times in mind.

Come racing.!!