[1] Michael May, the Rakaia owner-trainer, with Cot Case Cutie after her win at Forbury Park yesterday. Photo by Tayler Strong. John Guthrie, a greyhound owner-trainer for 15 years, won two races on the same day for the first time yesterday at Forbury Park.
Guthrie, president of the Otago Greyhound Racing Club, won maiden races with Old Ozark and Shadow Wolf, the 2yr-old brothers. Guthrie bred the pair from a mating of the Irish dog Droopys Marco and Whata Darling.
Sydney owner Hayley Gilbert won races yesterday with Cawbourne Ocky and Cawbourne Motif, a sister and brother.
Cawbourne Motif was one of three wins for leading trainer John McInerney.
Cawbourne Ocky is trained at Rakaia by Marcia Flipp. She also won with Jimmy C (named after harness horseman Jim Curtin), who she races with Gavin Chapman.
Rakaia owner-trainers Allan Joyce and Michael May won successive races yesterday with the sisters Cot Case Cutie and Sing Cilla Black.
Calum Weir (23), who was named young achiever of the year for greyhound racing on Saturday, was at Forbury Park yesterday tending to dogs trained by his brother Greg at Rangiora. Four By Two was a winner.
• John McArthur, the chairman of Greyhound Racing New Zealand and an owner-trainer, has been fined $2000 and ordered to pay costs of $500 in regard to his dog Miss Gigi returning a positive test to a prohibited substance.
Miss Gigi was disqualified from first place in a Wanganui race on August 26 and McArthur ordered to repay the stake money of $828 by R. M. Seabrook and A. Dooley of the Judicial Control Authority.
Miss Gigi tested positive to morphine, the result of being fed bread containing poppy seeds.
McArthur took responsibility for the situation. It was taken into account that he had been involved in the greyhound industry for 30 years and had not previously offended. He was aware poppy seeds could return a positive test. His negligence in not checking the ingredients of new bread source was found to be at the low end of the scale.
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