Trainers are reminded that nominations for the Easter Sunday race meeting at Bendigo  close at 8am Thursday April 13. Apart from the four finals that are to be run two Special Event features will be conducted with the TOPCAT VIDEO PRODUCTION STAYERS CUP offering a first prize of $12,000 to be run over 660m and the RAILWAY STATION HOTEL EASTER CUP over 500m worth $3,000 to the winner.

13th ANNUAL GOLD RUSH CARNIVAL KICKS OFF THIS WEEK AT BENDIGO    The annual Gold Rush Carnival at Bendigo, now in its 13th year, gets underway at Lord’s Raceway Thursday night when the first nine of sixteen heats for the Golden City Concrete Plumbing Gold Rush Maiden will highlight the Thursday night program.   It is rare these days in any series to get more than eight or ten heats and in particular maiden series’ have dropped off in entries ...

MOTHER AND OFFSPRING TO COMPETE AT SAME MEETING   It is extremely rare that any athlete or sports person gets to compete at the same time as their children and even more rare for animals to do so which makes Thursday night’s Bendigo greyhound race meeting a little out of the ordinary.   As the annual Gold Rush Carnival kicks off this week starting with heats of the rich Golden City Concrete Pumping Gold Rush Maiden local sprinter Sparkeen will ...