The Premier Greyhound Racing Classic has "an entry full of quality"

2026 Premier Greyhound Racing Classic

Sunderland racing manager Derek Hope has expressed himself delighted with the entry for the Premier Greyhound Racing Classic.

Six heats of the Category One event take place over 450m live on the PGR service on Friday and, with 52 entries received by the Wearside venue, the £20,000-to-the-winner was heavily oversubscribed.

"I can only apologise to those who missed out but it was an entry full of quality with the likes of Woltemade, Slingshot Poppy and last year's second Bockos Buster all in the hat, plus it was great to have Irish interest with Barry Clancy's Droopys Monk," said Hope.

The Premier Greyhound Racing Classic will be the first Category One in the north east to use the new seeding system with an additional rails to middle seeding category alongside the establishing seeding options. 

Newcastle and Sunderland joined the pilot scheme on November 1 after the trial was introduced at Romford, Sheffield and Towcester.

The Premier Greyhound Racing Classic at Sunderland starts on Friday with the semis a week later and the final, the centrepiece of a gala card, on Friday, November 20.

Premier Greyhound Racing Classic ante-post odds

5/2 Slingshot Poppy

5/1 Droopys Monk

11/2 Woltemade

9/1 Glengar Phantom

10/1 Good Acclaim, Grouchos Chief

16/1 Vernon Mist

20/1 Bockos Buster, Ropewalk Ranger

25/1 Arthur Tomato

33/1 Brickhill Tamika, Hasselbomb, Indian Mist

40/1  Coppice Saphire, Rolo Genie

50/1 Arthur Bitter, Ballymac Buddy, Ballymac Shontae, Foulkscourt Bono, Romeo Astron

100/1 Brother Patrick, Droopys Orator, Droopys Punch, Essjay Mercury, Glasheen Eagle, Hollyhill King, Im Here, Millhill May, Mossend Brute, Pressure Tie, Romeo Dutch, Romeo Hanyu, Snazzy Bolger, Taylor The Best, Toddys Wolf, Unsurprisingly

Premier Greyhound Racing Classic Form