I was delighted to receive an email from Greg Moore of Cessnock in the Hunter Valley of NSW. Greg had found the History Website and brought back memories of his family’s involvement in Greyhound Racing in the 60s-70’s. His family operated resting & rearing yards at Mt Vincent, plus a Straight trial track on the property. His Grandfather was George Harris, and his mum, Gloria Moore, 90 years old and still loves & cherishes her memories of Greyhound racing and often talks about her dogs. Gloria’s best dog was Local Linen. Gloria is struggling a bit now, but is still at their family home of 70 years at Mt Vincent, Greg’s Dad is 95 years old. Greg recalled that the family were friends with a popular dog muscle manipulator, the legendary Jack Irwin, then of Wyong. Greg spent many school holidays at Jack Irwin’s property at Wyong, where he was friends with son John. Mother was Dawn & other children are David, Stephen & Sue. David continued racing dogs. I was amazed by the number of dogs each Sunday that lined up for treatment from Jack.
I have included a couple of Local Linen’s winning photo’s and a first for the Website some recordings from Bakelite winning records in the day.
