A Sandown Cup Greyhound Betting Review

This page, compiled by our team of greyhound racing enthusiasts, will act as your complete guide to the best Sandown Cup greyhound betting sites. Keep reading below for a full review of the odds prices and the promotions you can find for the event at the top UK bookies and some historical info.

Sandown Cup Betting Promotions

Much like the Melbourne Cup, the Sandown Cup Tournament attracts a huge number of punters, which prompts betting sites to begin developing bonuses and promotions to deal with the demand. Unfortunately, however, these seldom extend to punters in the British Isles. As always, it’s well worth keeping an eye on bookmaker’s promotions pages just in case something pops up, but for the most part, there’s very rarely anything on offer for the Sandown Cup.

Sandown Cup Odds

Odds prices for the Sandown Cup are variable. It is no doubt a hugely popular event, however it is not, for British Punters at least, as popular as the Melbourne Cup or any other greyhound race in the British Isles. Betting sites are therefore not under any serious pressure to slash their odds prices in order to stay ahead of the competition, so the figures for the event have been known to be a little lower than you may have perhaps hoped – normally somewhere around the 77-78% mark.

Facts

The Sandown Cup is a Group 1 staying race that features only the most talented, best-trained greyhounds from Australasia. It is a flat race run over a distance of 715 metres, with the track record currently set by Bobby Boucheau, a male greyhound bred by Ray Forbes, that ran 41.57 in 2011.

Race Information:

First held:	1975	race location: Sandown Park Bold Trease, all-round hall of famer
Distance:	462m
Number of rounds:	8
Grades:	Category 1
Date held:	September
Prize money:	£15,000

Prize money for the Sandown Cup has grown substantially since it was first run back in the 1960’s. In 2014, the race cemented its status as the richest and most sought-after staying race for greyhounds in the world when a total of $250,000 in prize money was shared between the winners. Sweet It Is, a female greyhound owned by Braden Finn, won the 2014 Sandown Cup and earned $175,000; the second-place competitor, Tarks Nemesis won her owner $50,000; and Mepunga Tiara, also a female greyhound, won her owner $25,000.

Bold Trease

The Sandown Cup always be remembered as the race where Bold Trease, possibly the most successful greyhound ever to have raced, cemented his position as one of the best distance racers the world has seen. Between 1986-’89, Bold Trease managed the unthinkable and won the Sandown Cup four years in row, something that had never been done before and something that many experts still proclaim to this day will never be done again. In 1987 Bold Trease, a male trained by Norm McCullagh, was named the Victorian Greyhound of the Year and greyhound of the decade. He was also named in the Greyhound Racing Victoria and Australian Greyhound Racing Association Hall of Fame and has a bar named in his honour at the Warrnambool Greyhound Racing Club.

Historical Info

The Sandown Cup, previously known as the Woolamai Cup, was first held in 1963 and was won by an Australian-trained male greyhound named Briar View. The Race can boast to having laid host to some of the best greyhounds ever to have graced the track, including the aforementioned Bold Trease, as well as dual Sandown Cup winners, Paul’s Thunder (1970, 1971) and Lizrene (1972, 1973).

Two other Dogs have managed to win the Sandown Cup on more than one occasion, Sweet it is (2014,2015) and Irma Bale (2012,2013). While both dogs have indeed achieved something special, it must once again, however, be reiterated that no other dog has managed to come anywhere near the amazing feat achieved by Bold Trease back in the 1980’s. His memorable racing style, which saw him drop out, tail the field, and then pip the other competitors one by one in the final lap and then storm down the final stretch in dramatic style captured the hearts of fans and trainers alike and has seen him go down in greyhound racing history.