OXFORD greyhounds go live on Sky Sports for the second time this year when they host a charity meeting in aid of injured jockey Scott Taylor at the Stadium on Tuesday, August 8.

Oxford featured live on Sky with the Trafalgar Cup in February and now Cowley will welcome a host of top jockeys and racing personnel in a bid to raise funds for Scott Taylor, a young National Hunt jockey who was badly injured in a fall last year.

The meeting will be sponsored in the main by bookmakers William Hill who will back the eight televised races, including two 2,000 events the William Hill Hurdle and William Hill Marathon and those races alone are bound to attract the best in the country.

One sure to line up in the marathon is top distance star Spenwood Wizard whose incredible unbeaten run of 17 victories came to an end at Sheffield on Tuesday when the 950m proved a step too far.

The evening is being organised by Steve Murphy, a keen racegoer and greyhound owner, who is hoping to raise a tidy sum for the unfortunate Taylor.

GREYHOUND racing will be back with a bang tonight after a week's rest due to the refurbishment of the running surface at Cowley.

Contractors have been working around the clock to replace the old sand and drainage at the circuit and by Wednesday afternoon had almost completed the task.

The track will certainly look different with the bends cambered and the gulley for the new Swaffham McGee hare being flanked by turf each side throughout its length of the circuit.

It's bound to take some hounds a while to adjust to the new conditions and form could go out of the window during the first few meetings.