Greyhound-Data Help page
You can search for dogs using the dogs racing name.
The search can be narrowed by searching for dogs with
- a specific gender (male/female)
- a specific coat color
- a birth brith year / decade
- a specifying a birth/standing land.
When you search for a dog, the kennel name is considered as well.
Example:
Kennel name: Fireline
Dog Name: Easy Rider
We recommand you to search for this dog with his full name,'fireline easy rider', or with 'easy rider'.
But you can also search for this dog with "fireline *" or with "* easy *" or with "* rider".
Please note that the asterix * is used as a placeholder.
Our search is tuned to find similar sounding names as well.
This can help you to find dogs even will small typos in the search string.
Of course for best results you should spell the dog names correctly.
If you have problems spelling a name you are looking for then
you can use placeholders:
- The ? is a placeholder for one letter.
- The * can be used as a placeholder for many letters.
If you don't know the racing name of the dog then please try to search for
it by tattoo number.
You can search for dogs using the ear/tattoo number.
Thanks to the support of Mr Jerry Desmond and Ms Hellen Cullinan from the Irish studbook, Greyhound-Data knows nearly all Irish tattoo numbers.
Of many US dogs we have at least the litter number (left ear).
Unfortunately, we have very few English and Australian tattoo numbers.
Irish dogs
Irish dogs have 2 letters in the right ear and 3 letters in the left ear.
E.g.: TH - YVD
The first letter of the tattoo in the right ear establishes the whelping year.
| A = 1982 | B = 1983 | D = 1984 | E = 1985 | H = 1986 |
| I = 1987 | J = 1988 | K = 1989 | L = 1990 | M = 1991 |
| N = 1992 | P = 1993 | Q = 1994 | R = 1995 | S = 1996 |
| T = 1997 | U = 1998 | V = 1999 | X = 2000 | Y = 2001 |
| Z = 2002 | A = 2003 | B = 2004 | D = 2005 | E = 2006 |
| H = 2007 | I = 2008 | J = 2009 | | |
English dogs
Have usually three letters and a number in the right ear.
E.g. ABD2
The figure denotes the number of the pup in the litter.
If the litter has more than nine pups, the number is replaced by a letter.
The first two letters indicate the birth year.
| D-E | = 1990 |
| G-I-J | = 1991 |
| J-K-L | = 1992 |
| M-N | = 1993 |
| N-P-Q | = 1994 |
| Q-R | = 1995 |
| R-S-T | = 1996 |
| T-U-V | = 1997 |
| V-X | = 1998 |
| X-Y | = 1999 |
| Y-Z | = 2000 |
As we have very little English tattoo numbers in our database, it is very unlikely that you will find a English dog via his tattoo.
Please call the English Studbook office to get the racing name of an English bred dog.
English Stud Book Tel: 01638 667381
US dogs
US dogs have three digits and one letter in the right ear and a max 6 digit number in the left ear.
The number in the left ear is the litter number. All pups of one litter have the same number.
The right ear contains the birth month and specifies the pup in the litter.
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Right Ear TattooThe first one to two digits encodes the month of birth. In this example, it is the eleventh month, or November. The last digit encodes the year of birth within the past decade. In this example, '4' indicates that the birth year was 1994. Finally, the letter encodes litter order. In this example, 'B' indicates that this greyhound was the second oldest of the litter. |
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Left Ear TattooThe five digits encode the litter registration number of this greyhound and is the same for all pups of this litter. |
As we have only the litter number of the US dogs, please search for the whole litter.
(In other words, please search with the left ear number only.)
Australian dogs
We have very little Australian tattoo numbers.
Please ask the studbook.
If you can't find a dog using the 'tattoo search' at Greyhound-Data then please contact your local studbook.
We recommand to search for races by specifying the country or stadium and the year.
In addition to this you can search for races by distance or the race class.
Famous races can be searched for by using the Name of the races.
Don't type in any names of running dogs here.
If you are looking for the races of a specific dog then please search for the dog using the dog-search and look at the list of races of this dog on the dog pedigree page.
If you are interested in the races of a specific stadium please have a look at the Stadia page.
The stadia page provide an overview of all stadia of a country.
Each track has it own page with useful information as
- Track address
- List of trackrecords
- Trapstatistic
- Overview over the race per distance and year
- Quarterly average and best times
Use the statistics page to create your own ratings for sires, dams or top racers.
You can specify how your 'own' statistic is calculated.
All races are grouped in classes - you can specify how many points each race class gives.
The points of each dogs are calculated by multiplying the points for the race class
times the point factor of the place.
You can specify the factor of the place as well.
The Greyhound-Data team defines the classes for the feature races and for the fastest times of the year:
| 'class one' | the best class is equivalent with the 'group one' races |
| 'class two' | is equivalent with the 'group two' races |
| 'class three' | is equivalent with the 'group three' races |
| 'class' | for all other feature and major races. |
| 'TrackRecord' | a trackrecord |
| 'Fastest of Year' | (Season's Fastest) for the the fastest time of the year |
The idea behind the classes is to make performance measurable and comparable.
A win in a group one race should be worth more than a win in a group three race.
Why do we not count wins only, like in the old tables?
We think that a win in itself is not a distinguishing mark.
The winner was the quickest but against which dogs?
In every race you will have inevitably a winner, even in a snail race.
With the fastest times of the year we consider the best performances at all tracks.
If you think speed is what can be passed on by a sire then you should give a lot of points
for the fastest time of the year. Because you might have your own assessment you may give
points for every class of the race (ClassPoints) and you may give PlacePoints for:
the winner,
the runner up
and the other runners.
Our statistic program calculates the Performance Points {ClassPoints * PlacePoints}
for every race of a runner from the chosen year and country and adds them to the
list of sire/dam or, if you choose "Top Dog", to the dog itself.
Then we show you a sorted table with the dogs/sires/broods, their breeding,
the number of offspring, the number of TopPerformers(= runners in the feature races),
the number of runs from the TopPerformers and the sum total of the PerformancePoints
for the sire/brood.
Below the statistic you can see all races which contributes points.
Here you can make one statistic for all English and Irish races and you can look at the
English and Irish races seperately, too. For US and AU we have reliable data for the
statistic since 2001, for IE and UK since 1997.
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