1933 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year

1933 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
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The 1933 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the eighth year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Roll of honour

Major Winners
Award	Name of Winner
1933 English Greyhound Derby [1]	Future Cutlet
1933 Irish Greyhound Derby [2]	Monologue
1933 Scottish Greyhound Derby [3]	S.L.D
1933 Welsh Greyhound Derby [4]	Beef Cutlet

Summary

The industry continued to experience a boom with attendances steadily increasing. However the totalisator ban enforced by the government was impacting profits with 17,000 jobs affected. The situation did not deter new tracks opening, with at least 28 known tracks starting racing during 1933. ^[5] Future Cutlet won the 1933 English Greyhound Derby before being retired, his owner Mr Evershed set up a trust fund for the champion so that he would live in luxury for the rest of his life. ^[6]

Tracks

London remained the main focus point for racing with Walthamstow Stadium, New Cross Stadium, Wandsworth Stadium and Stamford Bridge joining the tracks already operating. ^{[7] [8]} A small flapping track (independent) called the Crooked Billet Greyhound & Whippet track was bought by William Chandler who then went about building Walthamstow. ^[9] Wandsworth stadium cost £100,000 to build and seated 20,000 and New Cross could accommodate 25,000 people but was only an independent track at this stage. Stamford Bridge was capable of holding 100,000 spectators and was home to Chelsea F.C.; the Greyhound Racing Association (GRA) controlled the Stamford Bridge racing with the track's supply of runners coming from the GRA kennels at the Hook Estate in Northaw. ^{[5] [9]}

The availability of a venue for greyhound racing did not seem to be a problem and included Thorpe Greyhound Track (an ice skating rink in the winter) ^[10] and Derby Greyhound Stadium (a former prison). ^[11]

Tracks opened

Date	Stadium/Track	Location
4 January	Wakefield Greyhound Stadium	Wakefield
12 January	Owlerton Stadium	Sheffield
25 February	Seaforth Greyhound Stadium	Liverpool
? February	Halfway Greyhound Track	Kingskerswell
11 March	Horsley Hill	South Shields
27 March	Blackburn Greyhound Stadium	Blackburn
1 April	Hyde Park Greyhound Stadium	Sheffield
7 April	Squires Gate Greyhound Stadium	Blackpool
15 April	Southend Stadium	Southend-on-Sea
15 April	Wandsworth Stadium	London
29 April	Derby Greyhound Stadium	Derby
7 June	Holburn Stadium	Aberdeen
9 June	Oldham Greyhound Stadium	Oldham
9 June	Barrmill Stadium	Galston
17 June	Thorpe Greyhound Track	Norwich
19 June	Walthamstow Stadium [12]	London
23 June	Granvue Greyhound Stadium	Stevenston
24 June	White City Stadium	Nottingham
24 June	Aylesbury and District	Hartwell
? June	New Cross Stadium	London
22 July	Gloucester & Cheltenham Stadium	Longlevens
31 July	Rotherham Greyhound Stadium	Rotherham
3 August	Enniscorthy Greyhound Stadium	Enniscorthy
12 August	Cappielow Park	Greenock
21 August	Irvine Caledonian Stadium	Irvine
6 October	Blantyre Greyhound Stadium	Blantyre
16 December	Tams Brig Greyhound Stadium	Ayr
unknown (pre-November)	Stamford Bridge	London
unknown	Lonsdale Park	Workington

News

Nine famous greyhounds from the GRA kennels, at Northaw, appeared at Selfridges in Oxford Street which attracted 10,000 visitors. ^[13]

Competitions

The newly inaugurated Gold Collar at Catford Stadium offered £1,000 prize money, a substantial amount only surpassed by the English Greyhound Derby itself. The Derby champion Wild Woolley back with Jack Rimmer, added this new event to his successes. A second major event was introduced in Scotland at Powderhall Stadium called the Edinburgh Cup. ^{[14] [15]}

Beef Cutlet easily defeated his rivals during the Welsh Greyhound Derby final at White City Stadium, Cardiff in a time of 29.56 seconds, before Long Hop failed to defend his Grand National title, following a short head defeat to Scapegoat. ^[13] Three weeks after the Derby, Beef Cutlet surprisingly lost to Elsell in the Cesarewitch final but made amends in the Record Stakes at Wimbledon winning the race against four of the best dogs in training, Future Cutlet, Goofy Gear, Brave Enough and Failing. ^[13]

A new star called Creamery Border came to prominence when winning the Scurry Gold Cup, he was put with Arthur 'Doc' Callanan who was now a trainer at Wembley and had nursed the dog back to health in 1931. This was his first track event in England and went unbeaten throughout the competition. Winning his heat and semi-final, he went on to win the final by six lengths in a track record time, from Chesterfield Jewel, with the Oaks winner Queen of the Suir behind them. The Laurels went to Wild Woolley, trained by Jimmy Campbell once again; Queen of the Suir made the Laurels final before successfully defending her Oaks title for trainer Stanley Biss one month later. Creamery Border went lame and failed to finish in the semi-finals of the Laurels. ^[13]

Ireland

In Ireland the owners of Harold's Cross Stadium were left angered when Shelbourne Park was once again handed the Irish Greyhound Derby. Mr Tynan representing the track had pointed out that the previous year Paddy O'Donoghue had promised that they could hold the event in 1933. Irish Coursing Club chairman John Bruton explained that they could not cancel a ruling by the club that had already made. Tynan stormed out of a meeting with Harold's Cross refusing to run any classic competitions or their qualifying races and threatened to run their own Irish Championship. ^{[16] [17]}

Brilliant Bob, a May 1931 whelp, by Other Days out of Birchfield Bessie was bred in County Tipperary by Billy Quinn, and he sold a half share to an Irish farmer. The dog came into prominence as a puppy, when he won Ireland's oldest coursing event, the Tipperary Cup. When he was introduced to track racing the brindle-fawn dog finished runner-up in the Easter Cup and then won the St Leger at Clonmel Greyhound Stadium over 550 yards in 31.53. ^{[18] [6]}

Principal UK races

Gold Collar, Catford (May 20, 400y, £1,000) Pos Name of Greyhound Trainer SP Time Trap 1st Wild Woolley Jack Rimmer 1-3f 26.63 4 2nd Deemster Mike Fred Livesly 3-1 26.71 1 3rd Doctor Gray Arthur Doc Callanan 25-1 26.83 3 U Luttrell (West Ham) 100-7 2 U Luvett's Double Albert Bedford 100-7 5 U Warrior Guide Arthur 'Doc' Callanan 25-1 6

Welsh Derby, White City (Cardiff) (Jun 3, 525y, £80) Pos Name of Greyhound Trainer SP Time Trap 1st Beef Cutlet John Hegarty 29.56 2 2nd Dashing Cut Arthur 'Doc' Callanan 30.20 3 3rd Hingam Happy 30.52 4 4th Scartaglin Rover 1

Grand National, White City (Jun 10, 525y h, £300) Pos Name of Greyhound Trainer SP Time Trap 1st Scapegoat Albert Jonas 6-1 31.20 4 2nd Long Hop Johnny Bullock 13-8 31.21 1 3rd Scallywag II Claude Champion 4-5f 31.29 3 4th Bronze Dragon Stan Martin 20-1 2

Cesarewitch, West Ham (Jul 15, 600y, £450) Pos Name of Greyhound Trainer SP Time Trap 1st Elsell William Dixon 100-7 34.22 5 2nd Beef Cutlet John Hegarty 1-5f 34.42 4 3rd Benhur (West Ham) 100-6 34.90 3 U Racketeer II 100-6 1 U Roving Loafer Sidney Probert 33-1 2 U English Warrior Barlow 33-1 6

Scottish Greyhound Derby, Carntyne (Jul 22, 525y, £130) Pos Name of Greyhound Trainer SP Time Trap 1st S.L.D Jack Tallantire 4-9f 30.30 5 2nd Mick That Miser (Powderhall) 6-1 30.46 1 3rd Doona Knot 5-1 30.54 2 U Nightlight 20-1 3 U Readable 12-1 4 U Haughty Boy II 10-1 6

Scurry Gold Cup, Clapton (Aug 5, 400y, £600) Pos Name of Greyhound Trainer SP Time Trap 1st Creamery Border Doc Callanan 13-8 23.31+ 1 2nd Chesterfield Jewel Leslie Reynolds 100-8 23.79 2 3rd Roysterer Bob Burls 8-1 24.03 6 U Queen of the Suir Stanley Biss 11-10f 5 U Clandown Swallow Paddy Fortune 100-6 3 U Geraldus Catford 100-6 4

Laurels, Wimbledon (Sep 2, 500y, £700) Pos Name of Greyhound Trainer SP Time Trap 1st Wild Woolley Jimmy Campbell 100-30 28.80 6 2nd Clandown Swallow Paddy Fortune 100-8 29.04 5 3rd Silver Seal II Johnny Bullock 7-4f 29.05 1 U Queen of the Suir Stanley Biss 4-1 2 U Bronze Dragon Stan Martin 33-1 3 U Fallinga Jerry Hannafin 3-1 4

St Leger, Wembley (Sep 30, 700y, £600) Pos Name of Greyhound Trainer SP Time Trap 1st The Daw Sidney Probert 6-4f 41.24 1 2nd Trinidad Leslie Reynolds 3-1 41.68 2 3rd English Warrior Barlow 7-4 41.92 4 4th Top Pace Sidney Orton 10-1 3

Oaks, White City (Oct 28, 525y, £300) Pos Name of Greyhound Trainer SP Time Trap 1st Queen of the Suir Stanley Biss 2-5f 30.23 2 2nd Gladsome Rose Charlie Ashley 7-1 30.47 4 3rd Morris Warrior D Costello 100-8 30.55 3 U Avion Beauty Leslie Reynolds 33-1 1 U Just an Idea Johnny Bullock 25-1 5 U Sweet Cherry Stanley Biss 6-1 6

Key

U = unplaced
+ = Track Record

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