RD RACING JOIN HARRY AT COV

 

GREAT FRIENDS & FORMER OXFORD BOOKMAKERS RICHARD (ABOVE) AND ROBERT DUNN ARE TO TAKE UP A PITCH AT COVENTRY STARTING TONIGHT. THEY ARE ANOTHER SHREWD ACQUISITION BY COV SUPREMO HARRY FINDLAY WHO IS CATAPULTING THE BRANDON CIRCUIT INTO THE FOREFRONT OF THE GREYHOUND SCENE.

 

TOGETHER WITH ACE JUDGE DAVE MARTIN THEY COLLECTIVELY FORM RD RACING AND WERE NO. 1 BOOKMAKERS AT OXFORD FOR THE PAST DECADE. IN RECENT MONTHS THEY HAVE PROVEN VERY POPULAR AT PERRY BARR AND WILL CONTINUE THEIR PITCH AT THE BIRMINGHAM VENUE ALSO. I'M SURE THAT THEY'LL DO A GREAT JOB AND PROVE JUST AS POPULAR AT COVENTRY.

 

GOOD LUCK LADS !!

NEW ARRIVALS IMMINENT

 

 

YOU WILL ALL BE PLEASED TO HEAR THAT I HAVE MANAGED TO SECURE THE PURCHASE OF SOME VERY NICE YOUNG GREYHOUNDS FROM ONE OF THE UKS TOP BREEDERS.

 

 

ANYONE INTERESTED IN OWNING A GREYHOUND OR ADDING TO THEIR CURRENT NUMBERS CAN CALL FOR A NO OBLIGATION INSIGHT INTO THESE IMMINENT ARRIVALS.THEIR IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE WITH PRICES THAT SUIT ALL POCKETS. 

 



AVIVA PROVIDES INSURANCE IN LAST

 

DENNIS BECKETTS  ULTRA CONSISTANT BLUE PARADISE AVIVA (ABOVE) CAME WITH A RARE RATTLE OFF THE LAST BEND TO PREVAIL BY THE SHORTEST OF MARGINS IN THE FINALE AT MONMORE TONIGHT. ENTERING THE BACK STRAIGHT IN THIRD PLACE SOME SIX OR SEVEN LENGTHS BEHIND THE ELECTRIC STARTING SHADES OF DESYA, EVIE (AVIVAS PET NAME) WOUND UP FULLY ROUND THE THIRD AND FOURTH BEFORE SPRINTING UP THE RUN IN TO GET UP IN A PHOTO FINISH.

 

THIS ENSURED AN EASIER DRIVE HOME AS ALL OF OUR FOUR PREVIOUS RUNNERS HAD FOUND PLENTY OF TROUBLE AND FAILED TO MAKE THE PLACINGS. THANKFULLY NONE SEEM ANY THE WORSE FOR THEIR EXPLOITS AND WILL BE FINE TO DO BATTLE ANOTHER DAY.

 

* Photo supplied by DAVID YANEZ (YAN Photography)

DOUBLE TREBLE WITH THE PEBBLE

 

WHEN LONGWOOD PEBBLE (3/1) WON THE 5.47 AT MONMORE THIS EVENING IT WAS NOT ONLY THE FINAL LEG OF A 139/1 BAGS TREBLE FOR THE KENNEL,  IT WAS ALSO THE FINAL LEG OF A TREBLE ON THE DAY FOR RUNNERS WITH THE LONGWOOD PREFIX AND MY GREAT PAL OWNER TRAINER COLIN CALLOW.

EARLIER HIS LONGWOODS WARRIOR AND BOUND HAD WON THEIR RESPECTIVE SEMI-FINALS OF THE PINPOINT ARC AT SWINDON SO PEBBLES WIN (ALTHOUGH NOT QUITE AS ILLUSTRIOUS) JUST ABOUT PUT THE ICING ON THE CAKE FOR THE SHIFNAL HANDLER. COLIN HAS PUT ALOT OF TIME, EFFORT AND MONEY INTO THE SPORT AND HAS A CRACKING LITTLE FAMILY TEAM THAT ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT THEIR GREYHOUNDS.  WE WISH HIM ALL THE LUCK FOR THE FINAL!!

WE AT LILYPAD RACING WERE JUST AS THRILLED WITH ALL OUR VICTORS, THE OTHER SCORERS BEING FARLOE CORLEONE (6/1) AND STEVE WARNERS FARLEY GENE (3/1) WHO LANDED HIS A5 IN TRAP-TO-LINE FASHION. BOTH GENE AND CORLEONE HAD BEEN KNOCKING ON THE DOOR IN RECENT WEEKS AND WHILE IT WASN'T ALTOGETHER EXPECTED IT WAS STILL NICE TO SEE THEM GET THEIR JUST DESERTS.

* photo supplied by DAVID YANEZ (Yan Photography)

CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR

LAST NIGHTS FIRST RPGTV MEETING CAME AND WENT WITHOUT THE KENNEL TROUBLING THE JUDGE. I POSTED YESTERDAY ABOUT HOW STRONG THE CARD WAS, THE QUALITY WAS VERY HIGH, AND I WAS VERY HAPPY WITH THE MANNER IN WHICH OUR DOGS COMPETED. BARRY WARNERS FARLOE OAK FINISHED 2ND (8/1) AND HE WAS FOLLOWED BY PARADISE PACIFIC 2ND (6/1), FARLOE VIOLET 3RD (5/1), TIMBER YARD 2ND (3/1) AND FINALLY MONROE LUCY 3RD (5/1).

MONMORES BAGS INTERTRACK TEAM CAPTAIN KIM BILLINGHAM WAS A GUEST ON THE TELEVISED EVENT BUT EVEN SHE AND REST OF THE STUDIO FOUND IT HARD TO TIP WINNERS FROM SUCH A TOUGH CARD, AND TO BE FAIR I DON'T THINK THE SURFACE INITALLY SUITED SOME OF THE RUNNERS, IT WAS A TAD ON THE SLOW SIDE FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE NIGHT. IF NOTHING ELSE IT GAVE THE REST OF THE COUNTRY AN INSIGHT TO THE QUALITY OF MONMORE GREENS GRADED STRENGTH.

MONMORE BACK ON 212 WITH A BANG

TONIGHT SEES THE LONG OVERDUE RETURN OF MONMORE TO CHANNEL 212'S RPGTV. UNABLE TO PARTAKE THROUGH THE WINTER MONTHS DUE TO BAGS COMMITMENTS LADBROKES FLAGSHIP VENUE IS ALWAYS WELL RECIEVED AND ITS GRADED RACING IS SOME OF THE PROGRAMMES MOST COMPETITIVE.

TONIGHTS CARD HAS A WEALTH OF QUALITY WITH ALL BAR 3 OF THE RACES BEING A4 OR HIGHER. SOME OF THE TRACKS TOP DOGS ARE ON VIEW AND WITH THE RECENT UPTURN IN THE WEATHER A GREAT SPECTACLE IS IN THE OFFING. RPGTV HAS REALLY TAKEN OFF SINCE INCREASING TO A FIVE NIGHT A WEEK FORMAT. THE PRODUCTION IS IMPROVING EVERY EVENING AND IT NOW HAS A SIZEABLE FOLLOWING.

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IT IS A CHANCE TO 'STICK YOUR CHEST OUT' (HENCE THE ABOVE PIC LOL) WITH OWNERS REVELLING IN THE CHANCE OF THEIR DOG HAVING A TELEVISED APPEARANCE. FOR THE STADIUM IT IS A CHANCE TO SHOWCASE ITS PRODUCT AND FOR THE HANDLERS A CHANCE PERHAPS TO RAISE THEIR PROFILE. THE KENNEL HAS JUST FIVE RUNNERS AND I FEAR A WIN MAY BE HARD TO COME BY WITH DOGS EITHER MOVING IN GRADE OR IN TRAP BUT AS ALWAYS WE WILL GIVE IT OUR VERY BEST SHOT AND LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING THE CHALLENGE. ROLL ON 7.25 !!

 

SCOLARI LOOKS OK TO ME

TWO OF OUR GREYHOUNDS WERE HUGELY IMPRESSIVE ON THEIR FiRST LOOKS AT MONMORE YESTERDAY. DENNIS BECKETTS RECENT ACQUISITION DALACASH SKYWAY, A RAW UNRACED SEPTEMBER PUP, POSTED A VERY RESPECTABLE 15.81 IN A SPRINT TRIAL AND CHANGING SKY, HAILING FROM TRALEE AND A SON OF BLACK SHAW SHOWED A LIKING FOR THE CIRCUIT WHEN POSTING 28.94 WHEN TRIALLING OVER FOUR BENDS

 

CRACK IRSH HOUND SCOLARI EXPRESS, NOW TRAINED IN ENGLAND BY MONMORES PAUL SALLIS, WAS FASTEST OF THE SESSION YESTERDAY CLOCKING 28.40 FOR HIS FIRST SPIN. ONE WOULD HOPE HE COULD BUILD ON THAT AND HE LOOKS IN GREAT SHAPE FOR HIS TILT AT THE GREYHOUND DERBY.TALKING TO PAUL AFTERWARDS HE SAID THAT THE DOG HAS SERIOUSLY EARLY PACE AND HAS SETTLED WELL. IF HE SHOWS HIS ELECTRIC EARLY PACE , RUNS THE CORNERS AT PLOUGH LANE AND BREAKS FROM WIMBLEDONS ANTIQUATED TRAPS HE COULD GO VERY WELL FOR CONNECTIONS. GOOD LUCK TO THEM.

 

 

 

OLD BOYS REUNION

 

LAST WEEKEND SAW A WELCOME REUNION OF OLD FRIENDS AT GAYDON. JIM AND SANDRA O SULLIVAN BROUGHT OLD KENNEL SUPERSTAR FARLOE FERDINAND (LEFT) TO SEE US AND ALAN BRANDOM HAD 9 YEAR OLD FARLOE SUPERB WITH HIM ALSO.

 

FERDINAND WAS A SCURRY GOLD FINALIST WHO WON SPRINT OPENS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AT A TIME WHEN THE DIVISION WAS AT IT STRONGEST FOR YEARS. HE BEAT THE LIKES OF JIMMY LOLLIE, OFFICER DONAGH, BOHERBRADDA MAC AND HIS TELEVISED BATTLE WITH MISS LEE MUST HAVE BEEN ON OF THE BEST SPRINT FINISHES EVER.

 

SUPERB WAS AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND IN OUR KENNEL, THE TIGHEST OF RAILERS HE HAD A GREAT PUPPY OPEN CAMPAIGN CLOCKING 26.60 IN OXFORD (WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT 26.30 IN LATER YEARS!) AND WENT ON TO WIN THE OXFORDSHIRE GOLD TROPHY BEFORE INJURY CURTAILED HIS CAREER.

 

BOTH NOW ENJOY THE SOFAS AT THEIR OWNERS HOME AND LOOKED VERY WELL. IT WAS A JOY FOR YOURS TRULY AND THE GANG HERE AT LILYPAD RACING TO SEE THEM AGAIN, AND WE JUST HAD TO SHARE IT WITH YOU.

SERGE FOR TRIALS STARTS TODAY

Multi-track Open winner Droopys Betson (above) has a comeback trial before racing at Monmore this afternoon. This prompts the start of a week that will see many of the Kennels more established Greyhounds comeback from injury as well as some new faces get their first sight of the Wolverhampton venue.

 

Although we have been a slow to register new Greyhounds this year, the pace will quicken over the coming weeks with more arrivals imminent and a number of young prospects currently schooling.

 

Betsons Owner and long time friend Jon (Milo) Miles, despite having already put his hand in his pocket this year, has now started making preparations for next and recently purchased two classicly bred bitch pups that will travel to the uk this week for rearing.



 

 

MYSTERIOS COMEBACK GOES OK

 

Last nights action at Monmore saw a return to racing for Farloe Mysterio. Sidelined since August with hip and hock injuries the dual distance Black lined up in an A3 event and was touched off in a photo finish. I'm more than happy with that as the rust was evident for all to see and He will need runs before he comes good.

 

Elsewhere on the card the kennel managed a double thanks to FARLOE VIOLET who was most impressive winning an A3 trap-to-line in a smart 28.70 and John Allens CHANS DREAM who made every stride a winning one to win an A8 in 29.18.

New website

Welcome to our new website, we apologise for the delay but are back on track now and are raring to go.
We will be updating the blog on a regular basis keeping owners and regular viewers bang up to date with all things doggy at Lilypad racing.
We have on board David Yanez of Yan Photography who will be providing plenty of high class images on a regular basis so lots to look forward to.

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