Tony Brealey

Would be great to see some good top graded races on the box seat.

Great video

Run with Bud and Coppice Maximus Great job of schooling them by Brendan Barnes. First pups from Coppice Lyla.

Pleased to have the chance to write the Monday column for the Racing Post.

Lovely afternoon at @TowcesterOffice for the British Bred Final looked after really well. Great food and rosettes and photo to keep as mementoes. So important to make owners feel valued. Result was what I expected always was going to be hard against some incredible dogs. Lottie the only bitch and oldest in the race did us proud getting into a cat 1 final. She’s my superstar ❤️. Well done Memphis ran a great race.

Looking forward to seeing Lottie in the final.

Trap failures As owner practitioner director I want to give my view on what happened at Sunderland. As an owner it was awful to see the dogs put at risk thankfully no dog was seriously injured. My other concern was for the staff standing in front of the traps because if the traps had opened early it could have resulted in serious injury to them. The early report from Sunderland backs up my assessment of what was at fault compromised air pressure. I’ve managed a business reliant on pneumatic systems for 47 years so can offer an insight in best practices in terms of general and preventative maintenance methodology. So I’m pleased I will be on the team doing the review of traps at the GBGB. I would also like to reassure everyone that the GBGB took this issue seriously and the GBGB board did discuss this at length in our meeting on Wednesday in London. I’ve investigated incidents on many occasions and a couple of my early pre review observations are when traps are checked the flag should be waved at the side of the traps and reduces the time in front of the traps, some tracks already operate that operation and Oxford have done this for some time. The other area for improvement is to look at ways to fill the gap between trap gates this was the route dogs took and caused them to become trapped. I think Sunderland acted quickly to investigate the cause and bought in the appropriate support to help that investigation. People have said Sunderland should have been penalised but they will have suffered significant financial cost with racing being suspended so they already have been penalised. Whilst it’s sad to see this I’m confident some good will come from this in the long term. A review of traps and an agreed best practice on planned preventative maintenance hopefully will reduce the risk of this happening. As always please let me know if you have any suggestions about what I should raise at our review.

The Monday column from racing post only had 650 words but initially wrote well over 1200 so a follow up to come soon

Great to see Denver win tonight.

I’m conscious it’s a while since I’ve updated on my Owner Practitioner Director role . I’m writing the Monday column for the racing post. This will give an overview of my first few months and the issues I’m dealing with. I also want to share my frustrations as an owner at present. I’ve always said I’m happy for anyone to contact me direct for help and support which lots of owners have. I will post my article on social media on Monday.

Great to be at Monmore for Enzo dog of the month presentation

What a greeting for Claire Conley from Ebenezer when he returned to her. Claire who bred and reared Ebenezer as he was known to her returned from his trainer Mark Russell after finishing racing. Racing name Coppice Ebby completed 72 races finishing in the top 3 in 40 of them and competed in graded and open class racing. He’s already got a meet and greet booked with a prospective owner. It was great to see him greet Claire with so much happiness. He’s been such a happy dog and a pleasure to own. He came back from his trainer in super condition. Loved from birth, loved in racing and with his personality will be loved in retirement.

Nice to see Aries win again. Paraded by super boxer Ben Collins.