šš„ššššš”š š”ššŖš¦ Racing Post Greyhounds TV has underlined its commitment to Irish greyhound racing by agreeing three major sponsorship deals for 2022 with Mullingar Greyhound Stadium‘s Cesarewitch plus the Juvenile Derby and Puppy Oaks at Shelbourne Park Greyhound Stadium all coming under the channel’s banner.
This follows on from a near 50 per cent increase to a minimum of 19 live Irish broadcasts was announced last month, the first of which saw Skywalker Barry’s RCETS Gold Cup victory shown at the start of February. Read more about this great news on Talking Dogs on https://bit.ly/3uVxbe8.
“When the dogs come in, we weigh them in, we check their cards, we use a scanner to check their microchip and we check the tattoos in their ears”.
In Part 3 of #OurGreyhoundsOurLives, Behind The Track Series 2, we visit Kilkenny Greyhound Stadium, where we see all the behind the scenes action and preparation that goes into the running of a race meeting.
The IGOBF also sponsored the private tracks during the Memorial Night of racing on November 12th/13th and The IGOBF were central to negotiations which saw prizemoney for all races doubled on that occasion. The Memorial night was organised to remember all the lives of those people from the greyhound community who passed away between March 2020 and November 2021.
It was very well received by our members and by the wider greyhound community and generated a lot of excellent publicity.
2. Ongoing communications with GRI on behalf of our members.
Promotion of new rehoming, welfare and traceability measures and communication re same to all our members via social media, emails, WhatsApp groups and through the individual GOBAS.
3. Delegates from The IGOBF and affiliated GOBAS have spoken positively about greyhound racing on several occasions on local and national radio programmes.
They have also defended the greyhound community in the national and local media.
4. Letters to newspapers have been written and published and The IGOBF, the Irish Coursing Club and Greyhound Racing Ireland issued a joint statement objecting to the text in a Folens school textbook which caused widespread consternation amongst greyhound families and the greyhound community.
This matter is still ongoing between Folens, GRI, the ICC and The IGOBF.
5. Throughout the pandemic the IGOBF has shared the numerous updates and changes in health and safety protocols with all members and our GOBAS cooperated so there were COVID officers in place at the tracks.
6. Individual GOBAS have sponsored stakes and various races at their local tracks.
E.g. The recent Intertrack (Thurles v Clonmel) competition held at Clonmel stadium during the 2022 Coursing festival was sponsored by Tipperary GOBA.
7. The IGOBF surveyed the nine GOBAS for their key priorities and have made an executive summary of these priorities which will be discussed with our new CEO at a meeting the date of which remains to be confirmed.
8. The IGOBF commissioned and sponsored two series of videos entitled BehindTheTrack in 2021 and 2022.
These docuseries have been very well received and supported and have been shared with hundreds of thousands of views on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok and Youtube.
Series 1 BehindTheTrack 2021
Series 2 BehindTheTrack 2022
9. Statements pertaining to important matters in the greyhound industry published on The Greyhound Star.
12. Promotion of Greyhound racing on local radio stations and in the local newspapers.
The chairman of The IGOBF coordinated with delegates to organize regular reports and slots on the sports programmes on the local radio stations.
13. The IGOBF has coordinated communication to the Minister for Agriculture on behalf of its members on many occasions.
(Letter writing from members saying what greyhound racing means to them).
14. Represented and brought local issues from various tracks to the board of GRI and at the Greyhound forum on behalf of members.
See minutes of meetings with GRI and Consultative forum minutes.
15. A dedicated team of loyal members that work closely with the executive of The IGOBF have established very popular and well supported social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tiktok.
All these social media groups are helping the IGOBF discuss, plan and attain the objectives for our members.
These online groups have many thousands of members and have had millions of views online.
All these groups have numerous links with other pro racing supporting websites and social media networking.
E.g. Racing Greyhounds Of Ireland (Facebook), Greyhound Chat (Facebook)
It means that the online greyhound community plays a vibrant and active role in communicating knowledge, best welfare practices, news from racing and the most recent updates relevant to our sport.
We are delighted to present the first episode of our second series of #BehindTheTrack.
Meet the fittest canines in the world (greyhounds), in training with Ireland’s Fittest Family 2021, the Mahoneys from Wexford. This family loves their greyhounds.
This channel aims to promote awareness of the great lives racing greyhounds have in Ireland
In part 2 of our #Behind the tracks Series 2, we head to the kingdom Greyhound Stadium where we get an insight into how fundraising and the venue has benefited local charities and organisations.
THEĀ IGOBF Annual General Meeting due to be held next Tuesday, December 14, will NOT now take place at the Killeshin Hotel, due to the current restrictions. Instead, it will now take place on Zoom
Kerry Wednesday 3rd November 8 pm Kingdom Greyhound Stadium
Northwest Sunday 14th November 7 pm Fir Trees Hotel, Strabane
Kilkenny AGM held Limerick/Clare Wednesday 27th October 7.30 pm Limerick Greyhound Stadium Northern Tuesday 19th October 7 pm Drumbo Park Tipperary AGM held Waterford Wednesday 20th October 7.30 pm Waterford Greyhound Stadium Western Wednesday 3rd November 8 pm Tonerys Bar, Bohermore Wexford Wednesday 3rd November 8 pm Enniscorthy Greyhound Stadium
A memorial night is to be held during the month of November at all greyhound tracks to commemorate all those people connected to our greyhound community who have died since the pandemic began in February 2020. We also remember and thank those who worked in all frontline services especially in our health services during this exceptionally difficult period.
Many of the greyhound community suffered a family bereavement during COVID and due to Lockdowns and various public gathering constrictions we did not get an opportunity to meet,to grieve together, to mark the passing of our family member, our neighbour or our friends because funerals were held privately and with no mourners or public attendance allowed.
All GOBAS are asked to work with track management to organize a Memorial night at their local stadium. We will remember all those lost since February 2020 by printing the names/ photo and a couple of lines of remembrance on the race card.
Anyone connected to the greyhound community that wishes to mark the passing of a family member/ friend or neighbour should contact one of the GOBA committee members at your local track or leave the request into the office at the stadium.
All tracks will shortly advertise the date of the Memorial night on The Sporting Press.
Those we love donāt go away. They walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near. Still loved, still missed and very dear.
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