SUAVE IS SIMPLE WAY TO AIM HIGH

 

AT LILYPAD RACING WE ARE PROUD OF THE FACT THAT AIM TO GIVE THE RIGHT SERVICE FOR THE RIGHT MONEY, IE VALUE FOR MONEY! WITH THAT IN MIND AND IN VIEW OF MANY RECENT REQUSETS FOR SYNDICATE MEMBERSHIP WE WILL LAUNCH TWO 'RACING CLUBS' IN THE COMING MONTHS.

 

THE FIRST IS THE SUAVE RACING CLUB. INITIALLY IT WILL HAVE 4-6 MEMBERS AND EACH MEMBER WILL HAVE AN EQUAL SHARE OF THE TWO YOUNG EDEN GREYHOUNDS COUGAR AND DASHER. ALL SUAVE RACING CLUB GREYHOUNDS WILL CARRY THE SUAVE PREFIX SO THEY WILL SOON BECOME SUAVE COUGAR AND SUAVE DASHER. THESE TWO PUPS HAVE SHOWN REAL ABILITY IN TRILAS AND RACES TO DATE AND IT IS HOPED THAT THEY WILL CONTEST PUPPY OPEN RACES AND GO ON TO VERY NICE DOGS INDEED. THEY ARE ONLY AUGUST 13 WHELPS AND BOTH CAME TO US UNRACED WITH A MINMAL AMOUNT OF SCHOOLING. THEY HAVE COMFORTABLY BROKEN THE 29.0 SECS BARRIER AT MONMORE IN THEIR TRIALS DESPITE BEING VERY GREEN.

 

MEMBERSHIP OF SUAVE RACING CLUB WAS ONLY LAUNCHED LAST SUNDAY AT THE KENNELS AS LIZ AND I WERE KEEN TO GIVE OUR EXISTING OWNERS FIRST CHANCE TO BE INVOLVED IN WHAT WE BELIEVE TO BE AN EXCITING PROJECT FOR RELATIVELY SMALL MONEY. TWO MEMBERS SIGNED UP THAT MORNING, AND ANOTHER THAT AFTERNOON, SO 3 MEMBERS ARE IN PLACE. HOWEVER THERE IS STILL AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE WANTING TO BE INVOLVED TO DO SO. IT IS FAR FROM A CLOSED SHOP OR DONE DEAL AND WE'D LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN US .

 

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WOOD FAMILY 'DRAM' UP NEW STOCK

 

THE WOOD FAMILY, MARTIN (LEFT) RICHARD (RIGHT) STUART AND ROGER HAVE RECENTLY PLACED TWO YOUNG GODSEND PUPS WITH US TO TRAIN FOR THEM. THE TWO BLACKS (SEEN ABOVE) ARE TO CARRY THEIR NEW PREFIX 'WHISKY' WHICH BARES REFERENCE TO THE FAMILYS SCOTTISH CONNECTION. THE DOG IS APOLLO AND THE BITCH IS PATTINI AND THEY ARE JULY 13 WHELPS THAT CAME OVER FROM IRELAND AFTER BEING SCHOOLED BY  MARTIN TUCKER. THEIR DAM BORNA FENCE HAS ALREADY BEEN LUCKY FOR THE WOODS AS SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF THEIR CRACKING BITCH SIDELIGHT. THE PAIR WILL TRIAL AT MONMORE SHORTLY AND LIZ AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK RICHARD AND THE LADS FOR ENTRUSTING THEM TO US. THE WOOD FAMILY ALSO BOUGHT A BITCH FROM OUR OUR DROOPYS SCOLARI X ROEVIEW BEAUTY LITTER WHICH THEY NAMED WHISKY UPLOAD. SHE IS OVER WITH TUCKER BEING REARED AT HIS MOUNT CASHEL FACILITY. FINGERS CROSSED FOR THE FUTURE !!

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL

 

WE AT LILYPAD RACING WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL OUR OWNERS AND SUPPORTERS THE VERY BEST FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON. WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK FAMILY AND FRIENDS FOR THEIR HELP AND ADVICE OVER THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS AND WISH THEM THE VERY BEST FOR CHRISTMAS. WE ALSO WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME TO THINKOF THOSE LESS FORTUNATE THAN US AROUND THE WORLD AND FINALLY, TAKE THE TIME TO REMEMBER ABSENT FRIENDS.

 

 

REST IN PEACE DESSIE LOUGHREY

 

YESTERDAY SAW THE PASSING OF A TRUE LEGEND OF THE GREYHOUND WORLD WHEN DES LOUGHREY OF LIMAVADY, CO. DERRY PASSED AWAY AFTER A BATTLE WITH CANCER. DES HAD BRED GREYHOUNDS FOR FIFTY YEARS AND HAD BUILT THE FARLOE NAME UP TO ICONIC STATUS THROUGHOUT THE INDUSTRY. TO THOSE WHO KNEW HIM HOWEVER HE WAS A VERY PRIVATE MAN, WHO SHYED AWAY FROM THE LIMELIGHT AND PREFERED TO LET HIS WORK DO HIS TALKING. HE ALWAYS HAD TIME FOR PEOPLE AND WAS NEVER TO BUSY TO OFFER ADVICE OR SUPPORT AND THIS WAS DUE TO HIS LOVE OF WHAT HE DID. EVRY YEAR HE WANTED TO BREED ONE FASTER THAN HIS LAST. FOR ME HE WAS BRITAINS GREATEST REARER/BREEDER BUT HE WAS ALSO A TRULY GOOD FRIEND. LIZ AND GOT TO KNOW THE LOUGHREY FAMILY VERY WELL AND DES, AND HIS WIFE BERNIE (WHO HE'LL NOW BE REUNITED WITH) INSTALLED VALUES AND PRINCIPALS IN TO THEIR CHILDREN THAT WILL LIVE ON FOREVER. THE LOUGHREYS KNOW THE 'RIGHT' WAY TO DO THINGS.

 

REST IN PEACE MY FRIEND, I, WE'LL NEVER FORGET YOU ....

 

KENNEL HITS FORM WITH 4 WINNERS

 

AFTER A LENGTHY PERIOD OF UNDERPERFORMING THE KENNEL AT LAST SEEMS TO BE FIRING AGAIN. LASY NIGHT SAW US RETURN 4 WINNERS, A SECOND & TWO THIRDS FROM SEVEN RUNNERS AS THE DOGS REALLY HIT PEAK FORM.

 

GIRLS ON FILM OWNED BY MARK & VANESSA NEWTON MADE TWO WINS ON THE BOUNCE AS DID CASUAL GENT FOR FOOTBALL SYNDICATE THE CASUAL GENTS. FARLOE LILY, IN ONLY HER THIRD STRART, GOT OFF THE MARK FOR MY WIFE LIZ AND COULD BE A NICE PROSPECT DESPITE AND INJURY SETBACK WHEN SCHOOLING. THE LAST OF THE FOUR WAS CORLEY ROYAL WHO WON HIS HEAT OF THE OWNERS BONUS SERIES WITH A FINE BACK RUNNING PERFORMANCE THAT GOES TOTALLY AGAINST THE GRAIN. WELL DONE TO ALL THE DOGS AND THEIR OWNERS AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PATIENCE DURING OUR LEAN SPELL.

 

 

WORTHY PROVES A WORTHY WINNER

 

WORTHY ACE OWNED BY STALWART OWNER ALAN BRANDOM PREVAILED IN THE SHADOWS OF THE POST TO LAND THE FARLOE KRAVEN & FARLOE MYSTERIO RETIREMENT STAKES AT MONMORE LAST NIGHT. THE RACE WAS SPONSORED BY JIM AND SANDRA O' SULLIVAN AND OF COURSE ALAN BRANDOM WHO WERE THE OWNERS OF THE TWO HOUNDS THAT HAVE RECENTLY RETIRED. DESPITE ADMITTING TO BEING SLIGHTLY EMBARASSING TO WINNING HIS OWN RACE ALAN WAS DELIGHTED IN THE MANNER SHE RAN COMING FROM A SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE POSITION TO GET UP CLOSE HOME.

 

LITTER BROTHERS FARLOE KRAVEN AND MYSTERIO WERE GREAT SERVANTS FOR THEIR OWNERS AND FOR THE KENNEL AND BOTH RICHLY DESERVE SOME TIME ON THE SOFA. KRAVEN LIVES WITH THE O' SULLIVANS BUT MYSTERIO IS STILL IN NEED OF A LOVING HOME!

WE'LL JUST KEEP PLUGGING AWAY

IT WOULDN'T TAKE A BRAIN SURGEON TO DEDUCE THAT THE KENNEL HAS HIT A LULL IN PERFORMANCE IN THE PAST FORTNIGHT OR SO, BUT AS MANY OF YOU KNOW THIS TIME OF YEAR, REGULAR CHANGES TO THE WEATHER MEAN THAT BUGS ARE RIFE AND KENNEL SICKNESS CAN REAR IT'S UGLY HEAD. THE TERM KENNEL SICKNESS COVERS A BROAD SPECTRUM OF AILMENTS INCLUDING GASTRIC PROBLEMS AND COUGH. OUR PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN GASTRIC WITH LOSS OF APETITE, VOMMITING OR LOOSE MOTIONS IN OUR GREYHOUNDS. OFCOURSE ITS NOT ALWAYS EASY TO SPOT AND EVEN WHEN WE DO AND WE WAIT TILL ITS SEEMINGLY PASSED THE DOGS CAN STILL UNDERPERFORM FOR UP TO A FORTNIGHT OR SO. ALL WE CAN DO IS STAY CALM, KEEP TO OUR ROUTINE AND WAIT TILL THIS PASSES THROUGH WHICH IT WILL IN DUE COURSE.