Greyhound Clubs Australia has chosen Queensland’s Tom Tzouvelis as 2024/25 Trainer of the Year at their Brisbane event on 29 August.
Tzouvelis pleaded guilty to doping two greyhounds with cobalt at Ipswich in November 2021.
https://qric.qld.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Stewards-Report-Tom-Tzouveilis.pdf
And then there’s this:
https://qric.qld.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Stewards-Report-Tom-Tzouvelis-2.pdf
Another point to note was Geoff Rose being inducted into the GCA Australian Hall of Fame. The NSW administrator and NSW GBOTA Chairman said in 2017, of another participant, “Dose [sic] anybody know this bloke he drugs dogs” .
https://australianracinggreyhound.com/news/gbota-chairman-cops-criticism-for-online-activity/88573/
Rose has been on the board of AGRA (now Greyhound Clubs Australia) for more than three decades. The McHugh report revealed industry documents that showed 17,000 greyhounds were being killed every year; that’s 510,000 dead greyhounds over 30 years.
One award is named the GCA Paul Wheeler Dam of the Year. The “king” of greyhound racing, Paul Wheeler, was in 2018 found guilty of exporting 10 dogs to the hell of China.
Racing Queensland and the Queensland Greyhound Racing Club hosted the awards in Brisbane, with the event “spearheaded” by QGRC’s new CEO Ashley Baker and deputy CEO Jodie Pagan.
Queensland is among the most abusive of states. This year 23 dogs have been killed on tracks, and dozens more have died from their racetrack injuries, while more than 1,100 have been injured while racing. At least 125 greyhounds in total have been recorded as deceased in Queensland in 2025.
At least 14 dogs have died after racing at The Q, the $86m crisis-ridden scandal that has swallowed $44m of taxpayer money.
Why did Brisbane’s Princess Theatre host an industry that kills greyhounds and devours public funds?