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Troy Little, with an update on "John from Epping" - our greyhound! (04.06.26)
03 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim.
Talk to me, talk to me, all I want.
Chapter 2: What is the background of the greyhound named John from Epping?
conversation starters life's never flat when you power every moment with the signet power bank signet.com this is a john from epping johnny from epping spot but he's having a couple of weeks off self-managed um he'll be listening though and we've got a new we've got a partnership and we've got a greyhound and it's going to run in his name john from epping is the name of the greyhound um
It's a female. There you go, Tim. She's just been broken in, part of the education, and one of Australia's leading form analysts. We like to call him Little Troy, but his name's Troy Little, and he joins us on the line. Okay, Troy, welcome.
Morning, guys.
Chapter 3: How is the greyhound's training process structured?
Good to be here.
Good to have you. This is exciting for us.
Chapter 4: What challenges did Troy face in acquiring the greyhound?
Just tell me about this dog. What have we got ourselves into?
Well, the big hutch put me on a journey a few months back to try and find us a dog for the show for Johnny and I went hard and wide with my networks and it was tough to find and eventually we got a hold of Ian Garland and he bred a litter up at Bendigo and a couple of them broke him well and he was able to sell us one of them and here she is, Johnny from Epping. So she's had a...
break-in process where she got broken in. She just pulled up a little bit sore.
Chapter 5: What does the breaking-in process for greyhounds entail?
Oh, no.
Little Troy, little Troy, what's going on? We haven't gone too hard too early, have we?
No, it's very natural. When the pups go through a break-in process, it's their first time on the pre-season track. So they're put to the test for the first time and they usually pull up a bit sore because their bones and that are a bit immature. So she's come back to Ian's and she's going to have about three weeks off, just chilling, just resting and recovering.
And then I spoke to Ian and he said he'll put her straight into pre-season.
Chapter 6: How do greyhounds learn to chase during training?
So that'll be about six to eight weeks of trialling and practising her up and educating her around the tracks around his area. And hopefully at about that period, pending no hiccups, she'll get to the track for us. But her sister did run last Friday night. So anyone following out there, her sister is called Serge. And it raced at Bendigo last Friday night and ran a nice fourth.
Chapter 7: What is the significance of the greyhound's health and recovery?
It was very green. It looked like she had some improvement in her. But she's in the final of a Pink Diamond Sprinter, which is a race at Bendigo where all the trainers sort of aim at nice young pups at this sort of race. And it's a really good form line. Happy to watch here Friday night.
For anyone else watching out there that wants to follow along, race four, number four, Bendigo called Serge, and that's Johnny's little sister.
I'm identifying a problem, little Troy, if you don't mind me saying. We've got two female dogs. One's named John and one's named Serge.
Yeah, the timeline and what was required was very tough to get in a certain period, so the pitch was all we had to go with.
Okay, let's get a male dog and call it Sue at some stage as well.
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Chapter 8: How long does the pre-season training last for the greyhound?
So just the breaking in process, what happens and what occurs during that breaking in process? Get him on the bunny, Timmy. Get him on the bunny.
Yeah, they just learn how to chase, how to put their head down. They learn how to get loaded into a box and they get taught how to bring themselves up to the front of the box so that when the lids are there, they're ready to come open. The worst dogs in the world to be betting on are the ones that jump up and down and sit back in a box.
So they just try and teach them and calm them down in there because a lot of dogs get excited, especially when they're having their first few starts of the races and they just get over racing and over keen in there and all of a sudden the lids come up and they miss the start.
So
It's a very important process. It's just like teaching a good footballer good habits early on and trying to ingrain them as they start racing.
You haven't checked this dog's eyes, have you, by any chance, little Troy? I say this for a reason. We got a dog with Jonathan Brown when we first started on SEN 20 years ago.
It was going beautifully, too.
Very, very impressive dog. And then its eyesight started to go. I had to put a bell in the bunny at the end just so it knew where to go.
Well, they did have a big whistle on one of the lules there for a while, Gaz, so the dogs could hear it, but I've never heard of one. I hope you haven't jinxed Johnny going, No, God, no.
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