Ballarat Greyhound Racing Club

Formed in 1935 in one of Victoria’s great gold rush cities, the Ballarat Greyhound Racing Club was originally located at Broadway Park, Creswick Road, Ballarat. In the 1970s, the Club built a racing complex at Morshead Park which hosted its first race meeting in December 1978. The club has a 220 guest seating capacity with function rooms available for a wide range of events.

Today, the club holds over 100 race meetings every year, including the Ballarat Cup in December, and is one of only three clubs in Victoria that offers qualifying trails. The club employs 4 people full time and up to 7 casual workers on race day while greyhound racing contributes over $16 million annually to the region in wages and buying goods and services locally.

The Ballarat Greyhound Racing Club enjoys an ongoing partnership with the City of Ballarat, a range of local business sponsors, families from the districts and many community-based organisations.

The club offers a range of community groups access to its facilities for fundraisers and charity days.

The Great Chase

This annual event raises money for community groups that work with the aged and disabled and gives their clients a great day out at the races. Since 2003 the Ballarat Great Chase Community Days have donated around $20,000 to local community groups.

GAP

The Club hosts Greyhound Adoption Program (GAP) adoption days and regular assessments for retiring racers so they can enter GAP.

Craig Fletcher
Chair

Anita Godfrey
Vice Chair

Paul Armstrong
Interim Treasurer

Sheldon Hamilton
Racing Advisory Committee Representative

Racing Advisory Committee
Peter Desmond, Darrell Leathan, Daniel Cuddy &  Sheldon Hamilton.

Jodie Faralla
General Manager

Di Pyers
Looking for some part-time work as a young mother, Di Pyers joined the Ballarat Greyhound Racing Club as a typist one evening a week and with no background in the sport. Over the next few years, Di took on more and responsibilities, eventually becoming Club Treasurer and then Manager at Ballarat, one of the first female club managers in Victoria. Then, and by now well involved in greyhound racing, Di decided on a change in career and is now one of Victoria’s senior greyhound racing stewards, travelling around the State to make sure race meetings are run with integrity and animal welfare as the highest priorities.

Daryl and Colin Brennan
Daryl and Colin are twin brothers who run a plastering business but their real passion is the greyhounds. They’ve had many good wins over the years, supported by their father Clive who discovered the sport through them and got right into the dogs too. On their 150 acre property just outside Ballarat, they’ve built from scratch a greyhound breeding, rearing and training facility that takes full advantage of its beautiful bush setting. Here they care for both their own dogs and others they’ve taken in to revive their racing careers, working on the principle that “a happy dog races happy and races well.”

Ballarat Greyhound Racing Club

Corner of Rubicon & Sutton Streets, Ballarat, Victoria 3350
PO Box 175R, Reden, 3350

Enquiries and bookings

Email: ballarat@grv.org.au
Tel: (03) 5335 7201

Racing: Midday Mondays and Wednesday nights. Trial sessions each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

• Restaurant
• Licensed
• TAB and ATM on premises
• Wheelchair accessible
• Children’s playground
• Free parking

Race Day Photographer 

Peter Morganti

0428 378 049

peter@atbloodstock.com.au

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