Tony Brealey

Pleased to have the chance to write the Monday column for the Racing Post.

@rhymeswitsnoopy @AndrewJoker @SportingPressIE @Drakesport @IanFortune @Emmabuckley2009 @kevhuttonracing @mariakennedy99 @RPGreyhounds @UKGreySales @PremGreyRacing Love it great way to promote some great stud dogs.

Every week we take 2 full pages in the @SportingPressIE to advertise all the Stud dogs. This week we tried something different. What do people think?

@PatrickGuilfoy4 @Tarsna @shelbournepark @RomfordDogs Great picture ❤️

Magical Mary (centre) pictured with her two sons Magical Luka (left) and Magical Major (right). Thanks to Yvonne Harrington for taking their picture this week.

Lovely afternoon at @TowcesterOffice for the British Bred Final looked after really well. Great food and rosettes and photo to keep as mementoes. So important to make owners feel valued. Result was what I expected always was going to be hard against some incredible dogs. Lottie the only bitch and oldest in the race did us proud getting into a cat 1 final. She’s my superstar ❤️. Well done Memphis ran a great race.

Looking forward to seeing Lottie in the final.

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Well done Vhagar ⁦@MWDpartnership⁩ on winning our ⁦@bet365⁩ Challenge Cup ⁦@Oxford_Stadium⁩ ⁦@RPGreyhounds⁩ ⁦@RPGreyhounds⁩

@MWDpartnership From Oxford today

Another brilliant weekend!😅 Proper Heiress was fantastic once again last night in defending his Olympic title from last year and winning his 6th Category 1 in just one year!💥🏆 An ultra consistent dog and so lovely in the kennels, what a boy Harry is ❤️ Thank you @SteveNashPhotos for more brilliant photos.

Action was taken straight after the second incident you missed my point I’m concerned about how we prevent this happening again at any track clearly the issue was because of lack of maintenance and the board are reviewing all traps with tracks with a focus on how they are maintained. People should be bothered about my view I’m on the board to represent owners and pushed for a review of traps at all tracks.

@BrealeyTony Why is anyone bothered about your view , this needed immediate action from the track / Gbgb and not 5 days later someone having a view ! What happened is inexcusable for the professionalism of our game ! It looks second rate and you are commenting when the horse has bolted

Trap failures As owner practitioner director I want to give my view on what happened at Sunderland. As an owner it was awful to see the dogs put at risk thankfully no dog was seriously injured. My other concern was for the staff standing in front of the traps because if the traps had opened early it could have resulted in serious injury to them. The early report from Sunderland backs up my assessment of what was at fault compromised air pressure. I’ve managed a business reliant on pneumatic systems for 47 years so can offer an insight in best practices in terms of general and preventative maintenance methodology. So I’m pleased I will be on the team doing the review of traps at the GBGB. I would also like to reassure everyone that the GBGB took this issue seriously and the GBGB board did discuss this at length in our meeting on Wednesday in London. I’ve investigated incidents on many occasions and a couple of my early pre review observations are when traps are checked the flag should be waved at the side of the traps and reduces the time in front of the traps, some tracks already operate that operation and Oxford have done this for some time. The other area for improvement is to look at ways to fill the gap between trap gates this was the route dogs took and caused them to become trapped. I think Sunderland acted quickly to investigate the cause and bought in the appropriate support to help that investigation. People have said Sunderland should have been penalised but they will have suffered significant financial cost with racing being suspended so they already have been penalised. Whilst it’s sad to see this I’m confident some good will come from this in the long term. A review of traps and an agreed best practice on planned preventative maintenance hopefully will reduce the risk of this happening. As always please let me know if you have any suggestions about what I should raise at our review.

@HjDimmock @SALACRES @PhilMilner I agree but I’ll keep banging the drum so that welfare is a higher priority across the whole sport especially at tracks.

@SALACRES @PhilMilner @BrealeyTony For me it’s the double standards that are shown we as trainers have welfare shoved down our throats week in week out & we more than adhere to those standards yet Gbgb seem to let tracks & promoters off lightly when it comes to safeguarding the dogs we provide these tracks.

@ChasingGreatPod @RichieTaberner Only Claire @Dreaminkennels1 would go to this trouble. She loves all her pups. Credit to the greyhound world

Lovely to receive this message from Brian Hough tonight. Below is a British bred litter of 6 (Good News x Skywalker Lizzie) celebrating their 5th birthday. Despite all being retired, and spread across 5 different homes, plans were made for them all to meet up again, and have (1)

@kierondawson Let’s make contact by DM and arrange a get-together face to face or on line.

@BrealeyTony As chair of the Monmore Green Owners Association, I would welcome time to have a conversation on all greyhound matters.

The Monday column from racing post only had 650 words but initially wrote well over 1200 so a follow up to come soon

Great to see Denver win tonight.

@thereal8dog @SALACRES @SarahDrake4900 @AndrewJ79530603 The criteria used for the election was owners who had an active dog at the date they set were sent voting cards.

Yes you’re right and I’ve challenged and it’s being dealt with. In the rules we have no definition of what an owner is therefore no criteria for who can vote. This is being defined but staff changes on the regulation team have delayed it. It’s frustrating but I’m pushing for the definition to be included in the rule book. I mentioned it again at today’s board meeting.

On train back from another board meeting owners rep making very good contributions to all those out there asking about British bred problems he’s battling hard for you !!! It’s not a negative journey home today

I’m conscious it’s a while since I’ve updated on my Owner Practitioner Director role . I’m writing the Monday column for the racing post. This will give an overview of my first few months and the issues I’m dealing with. I also want to share my frustrations as an owner at present. I’ve always said I’m happy for anyone to contact me direct for help and support which lots of owners have. I will post my article on social media on Monday.

@RichieTaberner @mollyhiron @AeroGreyhounds @tawneysnotwrong @oxfordstadium Well done

Our @mollyhiron parades her first winner for the @AeroGreyhounds team and for owner @tawneysnotwrong in the @oxfordstadium puppy derby