sportsview trophy

It was shown onBBC and was introduced By Peter Dimnock later became TV Trophy

Booked Six and Chantilly Lace were the earliest winners I can remember. I think it was run at the same track every year for a while, then, different tracks got a turn. cheers.

We bred a bitch called Pamelas Runaway who the handicapper wouldnt let on the card because she was waiting.Ended up giving her away to a flapper and she ended up with her name changed to Elbony Rose.Went on to win numerous big races and should have won the TV Trophy but was waiting all the way round the track.I would have only been about 9 or 10 at the time and can remember as far back as my brain goes running away to the top of the field with a towel and shouting like a crazy person waving the towel on the pups all hurtling towards me at a rate of knots after they had been slipped and closing my eyes and praying they missed me when i threw the towel away.Later became a gallop and a lure but tbh those were the good old days.

http://greyhound-data.com/d?r=364

Lucky Hi There won it

hi diddle won it at white city Manchester,early 70s,
33/1, think it beat a w/city dog called pand

love that mm

I used to catch the hare at swansea and skewen,inside hare,lift the arm,turn your back and wait for the hit! Took plenty as im sure you did!

Hi Diddle won it at Belle Vue 1970

Bairn.. I seem to recall Booked Six winning at Clapton many years ago out of Tr 6.

Greytom.. Lucky Hi There ..Bit of a Tool.. Clapton Trained .

Spectre has to be one of the best winners, prior to winning in 1968 he had finished 2nd in the 1967 Derby to his litter brother Tric Trac.
Also in that litter was the leger winner Forward King.

Spectre my all time great dog loved him

greytom.
hi diddle won it at white/city,
and you can have 33/1 that it won it at the zoo,

Correct starr got my tracks wrong

Did Shady Begonia win it ?, seem to remember another couple or more of great stayers of that era... Miss Taft.. Movealong Margo.. Husky Crazy.

Just checked and I got it wrong, as Spectre won it in 1967 at Hove. Shady Begonia won it in 1968 at Romford.
You can check all the winners at thedogs.co.uk website.

Hi Diddle won at Belle Vue in 1970 trained by Heasman at 10/1.
For some reason it was not run in 1971 and 1972.

try greyhound-data.com

Won TV Trophy in 1970 880 yards, White City, Manchester 51.90. "Greyhound Magazine", March 1980, page 31

for a minuet there i really thought i was going senile
but when you where there and bet the dog you tend to remember these things,
and what makes it even more easy to remember was borrowing a fiver of me mum to bet it,
and telling her to watch it win on TV and not to expect me home till very late.

I got that information from thedogs website, starr. According to their records it was the 1969 final that was run at White City and won by Cash for Dan.
I don't doubt your memory at all though, as I know how these things stick in your memory. I can remember dozens of ordinary graders at Clapton in the 60s as if it was yesterday!
Strangely I can't recall that final in 1970 at all.

TRACK         YEAR         DIST         NAME         SIRE-DAM         TRAINER         TIME         SP
TV Trophy         Belle Vue         1970         880yds         Hi Diddle         Spectre - Scintillas Spark         P Heasman - Unattached         51.95         10-


Here is a copy from the website.

when u were goin 33s thot i must hav been rong starr was drinkin big at the time