JACK PUTS CHARLIE IN 7TH HEAVEN

 

SIDAZ JACK ROCKETED FROM TRAPS TO WIN LAST NIGHTS DERBY FINAL AND PUT DERBY MAESTRO CHARLIE LISTER IN SEVENTH HEAVEN. THATS SEVEN, I REPEAT SEVEN, DERBY WINNERS!! THE MANS LEGACY JUST GROWS AND GROWS, HE IS, WITHOUT QUESTION THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TRAINER IN THE HISTORY OF THE SPORT.

 

OWNERS SIMON WOODER AND DARREN JOHNSON BECAME FRIENDS AFTER THEY LOCKED HORNS DURING THE 2009 EVENT. DARRENS KINDA READY CAME LATE AND FAST TO PIP SIMONS FEAR ZAFONIC ON THE LINE TO WIN THAT YEARS FINAL BUT RATHER THAN FUEL ANY BITTERNESS THE TWO HAVE SINCE BECOME GREAT FRIENDS AND SO DECIDED TO BUY A FEW DOGS TOGETHER AND HAVE A CRACK AT ACHIEVING JOINT VICTORY..... ENTER SIDAZ JACK.

 

BOUGHT AFTER A DEBUT WIN OF 28.88 IN GALWAY, AND TAKEN UNDER THE WING OF THE NEWARK MAESTRO, SIDAZ JACK (FORMERLY KNOWN AS HITTHEROADSTUD) ARRIVED AT WIMBLEDON SIX MONTHS LATER UNRACED IN THIS COUNTRY. AN UNLIKELY BACKGROUND FOR A DERBY CHAMPION MOSTWOULD THINK. BUT UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE MASTER THE YOUNG SON OF WESTMEAD HAWK SHOWED BREATH TAKING EARLY IN EVERY ROUND, ONE MONTH LATER ............. HE'S A DERBY WINNER!!

                 

 

WOULD YOU SAY  I'M SLIPPY

 

IN THE FINAL OF YOURS TRULY DERBY TOP FIVE DERBY WINNING PROFILES I'VE TAKEN YOU BACK DOWN MEMORY LANE TO WHAT I PERSONALLY CONSIDER THE BEST EVER ENGLISH DERBY. THIS EVENT WAS ABSOLUTELY FULL OF HOUSEHOLD NAMES!

 

TRAINED BY THE COVENTRY BASED BARBARA TOMPKINS THE WINNER OF THE 1983 DERBY WAS I'M SLIPPY. KNOWN MORE AS A SPRINTER PRIOR TO THE EVENT THE WHITE AND BLUE BRINDLED SON OF LAURDELLA FUN AND GLENROE BESS WAS BRED IN NORHETRN IRELAND BY JACK MULLEN BUT BOUGHT AT 12 WEEKS AND REARED ON AND SCHOOLED BY NONE OTHER THAN MODERN DAY LEGEND DESSIE (FARLOE) LOUGHREY OF LIMAVADY CO. DERRY. HE ENTERED THE DERBY AS A BIG PRICED CHALLENGER, NOT SURPRISING WITH THE GLITTERING ARRAY OF TALENT INVOLVED. THE LIKES OF GAME BALL, HAYMAKER MAC, AMAZING MAN, THE STRANGER, PATRICIAS HOPE AND DEBBYCOTT LAD WERE JUST A HANDFUL THAT I CAN REMEMBER IN WHAT WAS A BRILLIANT YEAR FOR THE COMPETITION.

 

WEARING TRAP 4 IN THE FINAL I'M SLIPPY BROKE FAST AND JUST EDGED THE SEAN BOURKE TRAINED GAME BALL (2) AROUND THE OPENING TURNS, HE REPELLED THAT RIVAL TILL THE LAST BEND WHEN HARRY CRAPPERS ON SPEC (3 LOOMED LARGE AND LOOKED THE LIKELY WINNER. SLIPPY DUG DEEP AND HELD SPEC WITH DEBBYCOT LAD (5) FLYING HOME FOR THIRD. IF YOU HAVE THE TIME TO WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE (IT IS 8 MINUTES LONG) YOU WILL BE TREATED TO THE FULL PARADE, SOME JAW DROPPING FASHIONS, A WONDERFUL GRASS TRACK AND COMMENTARY FROM THE LEGENDARY HARRY CARPENTER .... IT WAS A GREAT DERBY, A GREAT FINAL, WON BY A GREAT DOG WHO WENT ON TO DO GREAT THINGS AT STUD AND IT'S WELL WORTH A LOOK!!

 

 

NICE DOUBLE ON ANNUAL RGT NIGHT

 

LAST NIGHT WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST NIGHTOF THE YEAR FOR GRADED DOGS AT MONMORE WITH THE ANNUAL OWNERS ASSOCIATION/MONMORE RGT EVENT. ALWAYS WELL SUPPORTED FINANCIALLY BY ALL THE KENNELS THIS MEETING IS ALSO ALWAYS WELL ATTENDED WITH THE LOCAL PUBLIC WHO TURN OUT IN THEIR DROVES TO SEE THE RACING AND TH RETIRED DOGS.

 

WITH THE THURSDAY NIGHT MEETINGS CURRENTLY BEING SCREENED ON RPGTV THE EVENT GOT GREAT PUBLICITY FOR A VERY WORTHY CAUSE. AS HAS BECOME CUSTOMARY A RETIRED GREYHOUND FROM EACH KENNEL LEAD UP EVERY PARADE AND THEY ALL LOOKED TRULY MAGNIFICENT. FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE THE MEETING WENT VERY WELL, WE HAD A DOUBLE THANKS TO JON MILES OWNED THE LAST  LIGHT (ABOVE) AND THE NOW SCOTTISH OWNED CHANGING SKY, WHO  RAN A CRACKER TO LAND THE A2. LONGWOOD MONTY FINISHED SECOND TO THE LAST LIGHT AND IN THE FINAL RACE OF THE EVENING STEVE WARNERS FARLEY GENE LOOKED LIKE MAKING ALL BEFORE BEING COLLARED CLOSE HOME TO FINISH THIRD. NOT BAD RESULTS AT ALL FROM THE FOUR RUNNERS WE HAD.

MILES MORE THAN A GOOD OWNER

IN RECENT WEEKS WE'VE BLOGGED SOME OWNER PROFILES WHICH HAVE GONE DOWN RATHER SO CONTINUING THAT HERES ONE THAT WON'T ..... PARTICULARLY WITH THE PERSON PROFILED!

JON MILES (LEFT) JOINED US AROUND SEVEN YEARS AGO, IN THAT TIME HE HAS BECOME FAR MORE THAN A GOOD OWNER HE IS MORE LIKE A BEST FRIEND TO YOURS TRULY AND WIFE LIZ. JON AND I HAVE TRAVELLED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WITH FARLOE ASHES AND DROOPY BETSON AND ONE OR TWO MORE OF JONS BETTER DOGS. SHARING MANY OF THE SAME FRIENDS WE REGULARLY SOCIALISE TOGETHER AT WEEKENDS AND NEXT WEEK WILL HOLIDAY TOGETHER WITH OUR PARTNERS IN THE USA. WE ALSO SHARE MANY INTERESTS AND ARE BOTH AVID FANS OF THE 80'S COMEDY ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES. IN RECENT YEARS JON HAS BECOME A PILLAR OF THE KENNEL OWNING MANY GREYHOUNDS OF VARYING ABILITY WITH US. WHILST ENJOYING THE ODD PUNT FROM TIME TO TIME JON ALSO HAS A CLOSE AFFINITY WITH HIS DOGS AND ALWAYS PROVIDES FOR THEM WHEN THEIR RACING DAYS ARE OVER. HE PARTICULARLY ENJOYS BREEDING AND HAS HAD MANY WINNERS WITH THE TWO LITTERS HE BRED FROM HIS EX-OXFORD RACER TINY LIGHT.

CONTINUING TO PLACE DOGS WITH US AND FORMER OXFORD COLLEAGUE ANGIE KIBBLE, JON AND HIS MUM AND DAD ROY AND SILV REGULARLY VISIT THEIR GREYHOUNDS AND ARE WELL LIKED BY ALL THE OWNERS. I COULD GO ON AND AND ADD SOME MEMORABLE HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR TIMES TOGETHER TO THIS PROFILE, BUT I'LL RESIST, BECAUSE HE'LL CRINGE WHEN HE READS IT ANYWAY. JON MILES IS AS A GOOD A MAN AS ANY WOULD WISH TO MEET AND LIZ AND I LOVE HIM LIKE FAMILY .... I'LL CLOSE BY SAYING 'GOTCHA! OI OI THE MONG!'

 

 

A NEW BUDDY FOR TERRY AND PALS

 

FORMER SMART IRISH PERFORMER FARLOE BUDDY ARRIVED WITH US AT VILLAGE FARM THIS MORNING AFTER BEING PURCHASED BY A BLAST FROM THE PAST AND A GOOD PAL OF OURS TERRY KENEALY AND THREE OF HIS PALS.

 

PREVIOUSLY WITH OWEN MCKENNA BUDDY WAS ON THESE SHORES JUST A FORTNIGHT AGO WHEN HE WAS ELIMINATED FROM THE GREYHOUND DERBY AT THE THIRD ROUND STAGE. PRIOR TO THAT HE'D WON HIS FIRST ROUND HEAT LOOKING VERY USEFUL INDEED. AS A PUP, HAVING ONLY HIS THIRD RACE, BUDDY FLEW AROUND SHELBOURNE PARK IN 28.27, HE'D ACTUALLY DEBUTED THERE IN A VERY RESPECTABLE 28.79 PRIOR TO THAT AND FOLLOWED HIS BARNSTORMING RUN WITH A 28.73 A FORTNIGHT LATER . HE ALSO TRIALLED ROUND LIMERICK IN 28.41 AHEAD OF THE CON & ANNE KIRBY MEMORIAL STAKE IN WHICH HE WAS SOMEWHAT UNLUCKILY ELIMINATED BEHIND KISSES FOR CLODA AFTER BAULKING AT THE FIRST TURN.

 

ON HIS DAY HE IS A VERY FAST DOG AND WE ARE DELIGHTED TO HAVE HIM. IF SETTLING, HE MAY WELL GO TO THE SUSSEX CUP BUT HIS LONG TERM OBJECTIVES (ALL BEING WELL) WILL BE THE ECLIPSE AT NOTTINGHAM AND THE ALL-ENGLAND CUP AT NEWCASTLE. LIZ AND I WOULD TO WELCOME TERRY BACK TO THE FOLD AND WISH HIM AND HIS PALS ALL THE BEST WITH THEIR NEW BUDDY!

SOME PICTURE WHAT A PICTURE

SOME PICTURE WAS AN ABOSLOTUE PHENOMENEN! TRAINED BY THE INCOMPARABLE CHARLIE LISTER FOR OWNER STEVE SPITIERI HE WAS GREYHOUND RACINGS DAVID BECKHAM IN 96 AND 97. HE'S THE FOURTH OF OUR DERBY TOP FIVE.

SOME PICTURE WON THE ENGLISH GREYHOUND DERBY IN 1997 WITH A FOOT PERFECT DISPLAY IN THE FINAL, LEADING EARLY AND RUNNING AWAY FROM THE EVENTUAL RUNNER UP HE KNOWS. EARLIER THAT YEAR HE HAD BREEZED THROUGH THE SCOTTISH DERBY AND SO LATER IN HE YEAR HE WENT TO SHELBOURNE IN A BID FOR THE ELUSIVE TRIPLE CROWN OF SCOTTISH, ENGLISH AND IRISH DERBY WINS. DESPITE ILLNESS (REPUTED TO BE A OFF-COLOUR) IN THE WEEK OF THE SEMIS HE MADE THE FINAL BUT FINISHED DOWN THE FIELD AFTER TAKING A HEAVY KNOCK AT THE FIRST BEND. TOMS THE BEST WON THAT FINAL, ALSO IN IT WERE VINTAGE PRINCE AND SPIRAL NIKITA. JUST SO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT A GREAT DOG SOME PICTURE WAS IN 1996 HE HAD ALSO WON THE SELECT STAKES AT WEMBLEY AND THE ECLIPSE AT NOTTINGHAM AS A RAW NOVICE.

 HE ALSO MADE THE BEST START TO A STUD CAREER EVER BEFORE MEETING HIS PREMATURE DEMISE WHEN IN HIS FIRST 100 MATINGS HE THREW A HUGE PUP PER LITTER PERCENTAGE AS WELL AS SIRING THE LIKES OF SEXY DELIGHT, KIT KAT KID, RUSHEEN PICTURE, REACTABOND SLICK AND FAT BOT SLIM. SOME PICTURE WAS A GREAT GREYHOUND IN EVERY WAY!!

WARNER FAMILYS GUILTY PLEASURE

BARRY WARNER (RIGHT) AND HIS WIFE LYNETTE AND SON JAMIE ARE THE FIRST TO ADMIT THAT NEARLY ALL  OF THEIR TIME IS TAKEN UP RUNNING THEIR BUTCHER SHOP AND THAT AFTER THAT THERE IS TIME FOR LITTLE ELSE. BUT BARRY WILL ALSO TELL YOU THAT HE LOVES HIS GREYHOUND RACING WITH A PASSION AND ENJOYS NOTHING MORE THAN HAVING VISITING THE KENNELS TO SEE HIS DOGS OR (WHEN HE HAS THE TIME) ATTENDING THE TRACK TO WATCH THEM RUN.

'SOME PEOPLE PLAY GOLF OR LIKE A SMOKE OR A DRINK, I DON'T DO ANY OF THOSE THINGS ..... I HAVE MY DOGS AND THAT DOES ME!' (BARRY WARNER)

BARRY FIRST JOINED US WHEN WE WERE AT OXFORD AND DESPITE THE FACT THAT HIS FIRST DOG BLACK JAM TOOK TEN RACES TO TROUBLE THE JUDGE AND AFTER THAT WAS HARDLY PROLIFIC HE HAS TRUSTED US WITH HIS DOGS SINCE 2005. YOURS TRULY IS THE FIRST TO ADMIT THAT WHEN WE MOVED FROM OXFORD I DIDN'T EXPECT BARRY TO BE AN OWNER THAT CAME WITH US, DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE IS SO HEAVILY COMMITED WITH WORK AND FAMILY IN THE OXFORDSHIRE AREA. BUT HE DID, AND BARRY AND HIS FAMILY HAVE NOT ONLY STAYED WITH US BUT THEY HAVE INCREASED THEIR NUMBERS (WE NOW HAVE 8 GREYHOUNDS FOR THEM) AND CONSTANTLY OFFER ADVICE, SUPPORT AND A LEVEL-HEADED OPINION ON ISSUES FACING THE KENNEL AND THE SPORT. THEY ARE LOYAL OWNERS BUT ALSO GOOD FRIENDS AND WE THANK THEM FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT.

 

 

GREAT DAY FOR YOUNG TYLER

 

YESTERDAY WAS A BIG DAY FOR MANY IN THE SPORT OF GREYHOUND RACING AND CAN I START BY OFFERING CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THOSE CONNECTED WITH THE SIX FINALISTS IN THE GREYHOUND DERBY AND IN PARTICULAR MY PALS CHARLIE LISTER AND KEVIN HUTTON. YESTERDAY ALSO TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT DAY FOR OUR GRANDSON TYLER.

 

 VISITING US FOR THE WEEKEND HE WAS UP AND ABOUT BRIGHT AND BREEZY IN ANTICIPATION OF SPENDING TIME IN THE KENNELS AND SEEING HIS GREYHOUND TYS CLARABELLE, WHO HE IS NURSING BACK FROM A BROKEN METACARPAL AND NOW TRYING TO GET FIT FROM A SEASONAL BREAK, WORK ENOUGH FOR A FIVE YEAR OLD (LOL). YESTERDAY HOWEVER TYLER WAS ALSO LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET A RIDE ON FULL SIZED TRACTOR THAT CAME TO CUT OUR FIELD AND HE ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! THOSE OF YOU THAT KNOW HIM KNOW THAT HE HAS FEW FEARS AND HE JUMPED STRAIGHT UP IN THE CAB AND WENT CRUISING ROUND THE FIELD WITH OUR LOCAL FARMER DAN.

 

THAT WAS NOT TO BE HIS ONLY MEMORABLE EVENT OF THE DAY AS LAST NIGHT HE JOINED MY WIFE LIZ AND I AT MONMORE AND WAS PROMPTLY CALLED UPON TO RECIEVE A TROPHY (ABOVE) WHEN MONAGEA LEE WON THE NINTH RACE ON THE CARD. HE WAS SO CHUFFED AS HE WANDERED BACK THROUGH THE CARD IT BROUGHT A LUMP TO YOURS TRULYS THROAT. I SOON SWALLOWED HOWEVER WHEN UPON LEAVING HE TRIED TO HELP LOAD THE DOGS ON THE VAN AND DROPPED AND BROKE HIS TROPHY!! 'NEVER MIND GRAMPY' HE SAID ' WE'LL JUST HAVE TO GET ANOTHER WINNER WON'T WE' ............... PRICELESS! 

 

EVERYONE REMEMBERS THE HAWK

 

EVERYBODY INVOLVED WITH GREYHOUND RACING IN RECENT YEARS REMEMBERS THE UNCOMPARABLE WESTMEAD HAWK. HIS RACES AND HIS STYLE OF RUNNING MADE HIM LEGENDARY AND WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OFTHE BEST GREYHOUNDS EVER IF NOT THE BEST DERBY WINNER EVER. SO CONTINUING MY TOP 5 DERBY WINNER PROFILES ON THIS BLOG LETS EMEMBER WESTMEAD HAWK.

 

HAVING HIS FIRST DOZEN RACES IN GRADED COMPANY COULD BE SEEN AS AN UNUSUAL START FOR A CHAMPION GREYHOUND, BUT I BELIEVE THAT IN THIS CASE IT WAS THIS THAT MADE WESTMEAD HAWK THE DOG HE BECAME. AT THIS POINT THE DOG LEARNED HOW TO COME THROUGH A FIELD AGAINST DOGS THAT HE WAS UNQUESTIONABLY FASTER THAN AND THAT MADE IT ACHIEVEABLE WHEN HE RAN IN THE TOP CLASS. THE FOLLOWING YEAR (05) SAW HIM BREAK ON TO THE OPEN RACE SCENE AND WIN OVER FOUR AND SIX BENDS, HE SATYED WELL AND  REMEMBER HE HOLDS THE TRACK RECORD FOR 630M AT MONMORE. IT WAS A STRANGE BUT VERY CLEVER SCHOOLING AND IT WAS  FROM THAT BACKGROUND HE HEADED TO WIMBLEDON AND WON HIS FIRST DERBY BEATING BLONDE MAC ON FINAL NIGHT IN 28.56.

 

HE THEN WENT TO SHELBOURNES EQUIVILENT AND MADE THE FINAL ONLY TO BE BEATEN IN TO 5TH BEHIND HE SAID SO. IT WAS AT THAT POINT THAT THEIRISH PEOPLE AND THE IRISH BREEDERS GOT THEIR FIRST LOOK AT HIM AND FULLY APPRECIATED WHAT THEY'D SEEN.AMAZINGLY HE TURNED UP NEXT IN THE PRODUCE STAKES WHICH WAS SOMEWHAT OF A FORMALITY AND HE WON THAT AT HALL GREEN IN 28.44. FROM THERE HE WENT TO SHAWFIELD FOR THE SCOTTISH DERBY BUTWAS BEATEN INTO RUNNER UP BY FEAR ME.

 

HE CAME TO WIMBLEDON IN 2006 AS THE FAVOURITE AND AS THE PEOPLES CHAMPION. AS ALWAYS HE NEVER LET THEM DOWN WINNING THE FINAL IN INCREDIBLE FASHOIN WHEN PICKING UP MINEOLA FARLOE CLOSE HOME IN 28.44. THE WHOLE COUNTRY REJOICED.

 

WESTMEAD HAWK WON THE 2005 & 2006 PRODUCE STAKES AND ENGLISH DERBYS, WAS RUNNER UP IN THE 2006 SCOTTISH DERBY AND THE MADE THE FINAL OF THE 2005 IRISH DERBY. HE IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A DERBY LEGEND!!

 

 

 

JIM AND SANDRA STILL GOING STRONG

 

TIME AGAIN FOR ANOTHER KENNEL PROFILES AND TODAY IS THE TURN OF LOYAL OWNERS JIM AND SANDRA O SULLIVAN.

 

WE HAVE TRAINED GREYHOUNDS FOR THE O SULLIVANS FOR WELL OVER A DECADE AND THEY ARE HELD IN HIGH REGARD BY ALL AT GAYDON. THEIR FIRST GREYHOUND  (WHICH THEY STILL HAVE AT HOME) NEVER TROUBLED THE JUDGE  BEFORE BEING DISQUALIFIED BUT FROM THAT DAY ON THEY'VE CERTAINLY HAD THEIR FAIR SHARE OF ENJOYMENT AND INDEED SUCCESS.

 

 WHEN THEY PURCHASED THEIR NEXT GREYHOUND FARLOE CHARITY, FROM DES LOUGHREY, THEY COULD HARDLY OF ENVISAGED THE IMPACT SHE WOULD HAVE ON THEIR NEXT DECADE OF OWNERSHIP! THANKS TO CHARITY (AND DES  OF COURSE) THEY HAVE RUBBED SHOULDERS WITH SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN OUR SPORT AND AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. SHE PRODUCED THE LIKES OF FARLOE FERDINAND, A CRACK SPRINTER THAT WON LOADS OF RACES AND MADE THE SCURRY GOLD CUP FINAL, FARLOE CYCLONE AN AEROPLANE DOG THAT SUFFERED CAREER THREATENING INJURY IN HIS SECOND TRIAL YET STILL WENT ON TO WIN IN OPEN CLASS, FARLOE MYSTERIO WHO WAS RUNNER UP IN THE WIMBLEDON PUPPY DERBY AND MADE THE PALL MALL FINAL AND FARLOE KRAVEN WHO WON THE 2011 CESARAWITCH AT OXFORD. THEY ALSO HAD A STRING OF GREAT GRADED DOGS IN THEIR TIME WITH US TO DATE INCLUDING THE FARLOES ELLA, PAGAN, MAFI AND PRICELESS AND ALSO GLENROE SANDRA. THEY CURRENTLY STAY TRUE TO THEIR ROOTS BY JOINTLY OWNING FARLOE BUTTERCUP WITH ALAN BRANDOM. SHE IS A SISTER TO FARLOE WARHAWK AND WILL ALSO BE USED AS A BROOD ........ DEJA VU ME THINKS!

 

 

 

PACIFIC PUTS WARNERS IN PARADISE

 

BARRY WARNER AND HIS FAMILY WERE GIVEN WELCOME RESPITE FROM A SPELL OF BAD LUCK WITH INJURIES WHEN THEIR PARADISE PACIFIC GOT UP IN A DRAMATIC FINSH IN HEAT 3 OF THE MINNOESOTA YANK 1977 MAIDEN STAKES AT COVENTRY LAST NIGHT.

 

ENTERING THE FIRST BEND DETACHED AT THE BACK OF THE FIELD THE ENIGMATIC BLACK TRACKED WELL THROUGH TRAFFIC TO EMERGE IN THIRD PLACE AS THEY ENTERED THE BACK STRAIGHT. WITH FAVOURITE HOLDEM TIGHT IN THE LEAD THE LOCALS WERE IN FULL CRY BLISSFULLY UNAWARE OF PEPES (PACIFICS KENNELNAME) TERRIFIC PACE FROM THERE ON IN. HE RUSHED UP THE INSIDE TO ALMOST LEAD AT THE 3RD BUT WAS SHUT OUT AND LOST 2 OR 3 LENGTHS, BUT SHOWING GREAT TENACITY HE RENEWED HIS CHALLENGE IN THE HOME STRAIGHT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF INTERFERENCE TO PREVAIL BY THE SHORTEST OF MARGINS IN 29.67.

 

HE HAS DRAWN TRAP 3 IN THE DECIDER BUT HAS PLENTY TO FIND WITH CHRIS ALLSOPPS EXPRESS GIANT WHO LED TRAP TO LINE TO WIN IN 29.21. LINDA PRUHS BELLINTOR TOM WON THE OTHER HEAT IN 29.79.

DROOPYS JETS INTO FAVOURITISM

THE FRASER BLACK TRAINED DROOPYS JET ASSUMED THE MANTLE AS FAVOURITE FOR THIS YEARS WILLIAM HILL GREYHOUND DERBY LAST NIGHT WHEN PRODUCING A FAULTLESS PERFORMANCE TO BEAT THE PREVIOUSLY UNDEFEATED MARKET LEADER BALLYMAC VIC. 

BOLTING FROM TRAP ONE HE EDGED IN FRONT OF VIC GOING INTO THE FIRST BEND AND GALLOPED ON TO HOLD THAT RIVAL BY ONE AND A QUARTER LENGTHS IN A MAGNIFICENT 28.22. MY GOOD PAL KEV HUTTONS SCREEN CRITIC WAS THE SAME DISTANCE BACK IN THIRD AND THE THREE PROGRESS TO SATURDAYS SEMIS IN GREAT SHAPE. MY OLD MATE BUDDY BARRIE DRAPERS BALLYMAC ESKE CONTINUED HIS UNBEATEN CHALLENGE FOR THE TITLE WHEN LEADING AT THE THIRD TO BEAT HOLDEM SPY AND TEEJAYS BLUEHAWK .28.37. CHARLIE LISTERS SIDAZ JACK AND MARTIN WHITES BITTLES BAR WERE TRAP TO LINE WINNERS OF THE OTHER TWO QUARTER FINALS AND WE ARE IN FOR A TREAT AS SATURDAYS SEMIS LOOM LARGE!!

 

 

 

DERBY COUNTDOWN: RAPID RANGER

 

CONTINUING AS PROMISED WITH MY TOP 5 MOST MEMORABLE DERBY WINNERS HERES A BRIEF LOOK AT THE ULTRA CONSISTANT RAPID RANGER, OWNED BY RAY WHITE AND TRAINED BY THE MAESTRO CHARLIE LISTER.

 

A FLYING EARLY PACED BRINDLE, THIS SON OF COME ON RANGER WON BACK TO BACK ENGLISH DERBYS IN 2000 AND 2001. HE WON FOUR ROUNDS OF THE MILLENIUM EVENT INCLUDING THE FINAL FROM TRAP 2 (ABOVE) BEATING RACKETHALL JET IN 28.71. HE WAS SOLID THROUGHOUT BEATING DOGS LIKE FARLOE CLUB, DEERFIELD SUNSET AND JUDICIAL PRIDE.

 

RANGER THEN WENT TO THE IRISH DERBY WHERE HE WON TWO HEATS BUT FINISHED A GALANT 2ND IN THE FINAL, BEATEN ONE AND A HALF LENGTHS BY JUDICIAL PRIDE.

 

IMPECCABLY HANDLED BY CHARLIE LISTER RANGER, DESPITE THE ODD INJURY INBETWEEN RANGER TURNED UP AT THE 2001 DERBY IN AS GOOD A FORM AS EVER AGAIN WINNING FOUR ROUNDS, LEADING ALL THE WAY IN THE FINAL TO BEAT THE SUPER  FAST SONIC FLIGHT BY THREE AND A QUARTER LENGTHS. THE WINNING TIME QUITE AMAZINGLY WAS 28.71 ...... EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE PREVIOUS YEAR !! WELL I DID SAY HE WAS ULTRA CONSISTANT !!

SKYS THE LIMIT AT ROMMERS

WE'RE OFF TO ROMFORD TONIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AGES. WE HAVE TWO RUNNERS, BOTH YOUNG DOGS, IN THE CORAL MAIDEN 400. WE'VE ALWAYS HAD AN AFFINITY WITH THE ESSEX VENUE DESPITE NOT HAVING THE GREATEST STRIKERATE THERE. ITS A REAL  'LID PINGERS' DREAM SO WE ARE HOPING THAT THE BOYS REPEAT THE 4.25 AND 4.29 MONMORE SECTIONAL BREAKS OF RECENT WEEKS THIS EVENING AS THAT SURELY WOULD GIVE THEM REAL CHANCES.

CHANGING SKY HAS MADE AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT AT MONMORE, DESPITE ONLY HAVING FOUR RUNS THERE HE HAS ALREADY RUN WITH THE REAL CREAM AND HAS STILL BEEN ABLE TO SHOW HIS EARLY PACE. DENNIS BECKETTS DALCASH SKYWAY IS A POWERFUL NOVICE WITH VERY LITTLE EXPERIENCE. THAT SAID HE HAS RAW PACE AND A STACK OF ABILITY. HE HAS POSSIBLY BEEN THROWN  IN AT THE DEEP END THIS EVENING BUT HE SHOWED GREAT EARLY PACE ON FRIDAY TO GO TO THE BEND WITH CORREN PRICES UNDEFEATED PROSPECT KERRIS HAWK AT PERRY BARR. HE CAME OFF SECOND BEST AT THE BEND ON THAT OCCASSION BUT IF HE TRAPS I'M CONFIDENT, JUST LIKE CHANGING SKY, HE HAS A REAL OPPORTUNITY OF VICTORY.

MORAL STANDARDS (1994)

 

YOURS TRULY HAS DECIDED THAT ON OCCASSION OVER THE NEXT FORTNIGHT I WILL DEDICATED THIS BLOG TO FIVE OF MY MOST MEMORABLE DERBY WINNERS OF OUR SPORT. TODAY ITS THE TURN OF MORAL STANDARDS.

 

TRAINED BY TONY MEEK, WHO HAD WON THE 93 EVENT WITH RINGA HUSTLE,  MORAL STANDARDS WAS A BREATHTAKING WINNER OF THE GREYHOUND DERBY. HIS OFF THE PACE STYLE OF RUNNING MADE HIM A REAL CROWD PLEASER AND HIS PEFORMANCE ON FINAL NIGHT WAS AS GOOD AS IT GETS. THE WHITE AND BLACK SON OF DUAL PURPOSE SIRE FLAG STAR AND DAM NO WAY JOSE WAS TWO YEARS AND A MONTH OLD WHEN HE CAME FROM THE BACK TO RUN IN THE BIGGEST NAMES IN THE SPORT IN A THEN RAPID 28.59. IN THE FINAL THAT YEAR WERE BLISTERING EARLY PACERS AYR FLYER, FLAG THE FAWN AND UP THE JUNCTION AS WELL AS THE BRILLIANT MOANING LAD WHO WAS TO GO ON TO WIN THE DERBY THE FOLLOWING YEAR. CHARLIE LISTER, WHO HAD THEN JUST JOINED THE PROFESSIONAL RANKS, ALSO HAD A RUNNER WITH ULTRA CONSISTANT CALLAHOW DALY. MORAL STANDARDS WAS A GOOD A WINNER OF THE DERBY AS YOU'LL SEE, HE HAD TO BE TO BEAT A FIELD LIKE THAT!

 

 

 

.... ARE YOU SHAW GARRYS WON?

 

ALTHOUGH WE HAD JUST THE THREE RUNNERS YESTERDAY AT MONMORE WE DID MANAGE A DOUBLE WITH THE LAST LIGHT AND BALLINGARRY SHAW (ABOVE)  WINNING THE A7 AND THE S2 RESPECTIVELY. IT WAS PARTICULARLY PLEASING FOR GARRYS (SHAWS KENNELNAME) OWNERS THE WARNER FAMILY AS DESPITE HIS UNDOUBTED SPEED THE POWERFUL BLACK HADN'T TROUBLED THE JUDGE SINCE EARLY OCTOBER WHEN WINNING AN A1 OWNERS BONUS SERIES. THAT DAY YOU'D HAVE SAID HE LOOKED LIKELY TO GO ON TO MUCH BETER THINGS AND INDEED, HE DID REPRESENT THE TRACK IN THE BAGS CHAMPIONSHIP LAST YEAR ALBEIT WITHOUT SUCCESS.

 

NOW, QUITE UNBELIEVEABLY, SEVENTEEN RUNS AND EIGHT MONTHS AFTER WINNING HIS OWNERS THAT £500 TO THE WINNER FINAL AT MASSIVE ODDS OF 10/1 HE'S FINALLY CROSSED THE LINE INFRONT AGAIN. LIVING PROOF (IF NEEDED) THAT THE POWER ABOVE 'GIVETH .... AND THEN HE TAKETH AWAY!' 

 

 

TWEETING WITH THE BEST OF 'EM !!

 

GREETINGS LOYAL BLOGGERS !! JUST TO LET YOU THAT (SHOULD YOU WISH TO) YOU CAN ALSO FOLLOW REULTS AND EVENTS INVOLVING THE LILYPAD RACING TEAM AND ITS GREYHOUNDS AS THEY HAPPEN ON TWITTER. YOURS TRULY WILL DO HIS BEST TO KEEP YOU UP TO THE MINUTE WITH RESULTS AND INCIDENTS INVOLVING YOUR GREYHOUNDS AND THE POINTS OF INTEREST THROUGHOUT THE SPORT AS THEY OCCUR.

 

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OF COURSE THIS WILL NOT CHANGE THE POSTING OF THIS BLOG IN ANYWAY, I KNOW FROM YOUR FEEDBACK THAT MANY OF YOU ENJOY READING OUR BLOGS JUST AS MUCH AS YOURS TRULY ENJOYS WRITING THEM. THE BLOG IS A VERY COMPREHENSIVE (AND AT TIMES CONTROVERSIAL) VIEW OF MY TOUGHTS AND OPINIONS, IT ALSO CONTAINS PROFILES ON OWNERS AND DOGS ETC AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. THE TWITTER ACCOUNT WILL BRING YOU BREAKING NEWS IN SHORT FORM ONLY.

 

 

STALWART ALAN KEEPS US GOING

 

 OWNER ALAN BRANDOM HAS THE PRICELESS ATTRIBUTE OF REMAINING OBJECTIVE WHEN ALL IS NOT GOING WELL. ALAN HAS BECOME A STALWART OF OUR KENNEL HAVING HAD DOGS WITH US FOR OVER THIRTEEN YEARS. HE LOVES HIS GREYHOUNDS AND HAS MISSED WALKING THEM AT THE WEEKEND AROUND A DOZEN  SINCE JOINING US. HE HAS A REAL AFFINITY WITH  HIS HOUNDS AND ALWAYS HAS TWO AT HOME AS PETS. CURRENTLY HE HAS KENNEL LEGEND FARLOE SUPERB (ABOVE) AND FORMER TOP GRADE OXFORD RAILER EGMONT KATHY LIVING WITH HIM AT HIS CHESHAM HOME.

 

FIERCELY LOYAL, ALANS CONTINUED ENTHUSIASM FOR HIS GREYHOUNDS IS A BENCHMARK FOR US ALL TO ADHERE TOO. HE HAS WEATHERED MANY CHANGES IN OUR SPORT AND SUFFERED MANY SETBACKS BUT HE RARELY MOANS, NEVER GETS ANIMATED AND ALWAYS REMAINS POSITIVE. HE IS ALWAYS ON HAND TO OFFER YOURS TRULY ADVICE OUT OF A DILEMMA AND IS A TRUE GENTLEMAN. I WISH I WAS LIKE YOU AL ........ YOUR A LEGEND MATE.

 

 

THANK GOD THE DAY HAS COME

 

ITS HERE FOLKS, JUNE 12TH 2013, NOT A BIG DAY IN MOST PEOPLES CALENDAR I'M SURE BUT FOR ME IT COULDN'T COME QUICK ENOUGH! TONIGHT, FROM 7.25 ONWARD YOU WILL SEE PAT CURTIN ON THE SOFA OF THE RPGTV STUDIO GIVING HIS VIEWS ON THIS YEARS WILLIAM HILL GREYHOUND DERBY.

 

FOR WEEKS NOW THEY HAVE BEEN ADVERTISING THIS FACT AND IT HAS PROMPTED AN UNPRECIDENTED AMOUNT OF TEXTS, PHONE CALLS AND BANTER AT THE EXPENSE OF YOURS TRULY. EVEN THE GRA SAW FIT TO DEPOSIT HIS FIRST ROUNDS DERBY PRIZEMONEY INTO MY BANK ACCOUNT. SO HERE IT IS IN LAY MANS TERMS:

 

ABOVE IS A PHOTO OF PAT CURTIN:

PAT CURTIN A GREYHOUND TRAINER BASED AT COUNTY WICKLOW IRELAND.

PAT CURTIN THE TRAINER OF LEADING DERY FANCIES KEREIGHT KING, POWER OF GOD, SHELBOURNE GEOFF AND TRAINER OF 2008 IRISH DERBY WINNER SHELBOURNE ASTON.

PAT CURTIN WHO WILL APPEAR ON RPGTV TONIGHT!!

 

BELIEVE OR NOT THERE ARE TWO GREYHOUND TRAINERS CURRENTLY PLYING THEIR TRADE IN THIS SPORT THAT SHARE COMMON GROUND ...... THEIR NAME!!

MERLIN SAYS ........ 'HIGH PROFILE ATTACHMENTS ARE NOTHING NEW!'

WHILE PEOPLE  CONTINUE TO PONDER THE 'BREAKING NEWS' THAT CHARLIE LISTER, MARK WALLIS AND KELLY FINDLAY ARE TO PROVIDE GRADED RUNNERS AT COVENTRY IN THE NEAR FUTURE MERLIN WONDERS WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT? THE THREE TRAINERS IN QUESTION REGULARLY PATRONISE THE OPEN RACE MEETINGS THERE, MARK WALLIS USED TO SUPPLY GRADED RUNNERS THERE UNDER THE LAST OWNERS, KELLY FINDLAY IS RELATED TO THE CURRENT OWNER AND CHARLIE (INFACT ALL THREE) WILL ONLY WANT GRADED RUNNERS AS A STEPPING STONE TO BIGGER THINGS SO ITS ONLY NATURAL TO WANT THE FAIREST RUNNING TRACK WITH THE BEST SURFACE AND LOWEST INJURY RATE IN THE COUNTRY!

HIGH PROFILE ATTACHMENTS ARE NOT NEW, UNATTACHED OPEN RACE TRAINERS IN RECENT YEARS AND IN FUTURE YEARS WILL DWINDLE. YOU SIMPLY CANNOT GO TREKKING AROUND THE COUNTRY FOR PRIZE MONEY THAT IN MOST CASES DOESN'T COVER A JOURNEYS EXPENDITURE. IN THE PAST YEAR DEAN CHILDS HAS JOINED HOVE AND PAT ROSNEY RUNS GRADED AT PERRY BARR. CRAIG DAWSON AND JIMMY WRIGHT RUN AT NEWCASTLE. THESE TRAINERS ATTACHING THEMSELVES TO TRACKS IS NOT SENSATIONAL ITS SIMPLY ECONOMICAL.

 

 

 

WARHAWK SETS FARLOE BUZZING

 

THE SECOUND ROUND HEATS OF THE WILLIAM HILL GREYHOUND DERBY SAW A WELCOME RETURN TO FORM FOR FARLOE WARHAWK WHO FLEW FROM TRAPS TO RECORD AN IMPRESSIVE 28.31 IN THE OPENING HEAT ON SATURDAY NIGHT. THIS ALSO LIFTED THE GANG IN THE YARD AT THEIR FARLOE LANE BASE BACK IN CO. DERRY., NORTHERN IRELAND.  YOURS TRULY SPOKE TO DES LOUGHREY JUST YESTERDAY AND HE EXPRESSED HIS DELIGHT IN SEEING WHAT WAS UNQUESTIONABLY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PUPPY IN TRAINING LAST YEAR SHOW HIS TRUE FORM AT LAST.

 

THERE WERE NINE FARLOE BRED OR CONNECTED GREYHOUNDS ENTERED FOR  THE DERBY THIS YEAR, OF WHICH SADLY ONLY FOUR REMAIN. THE SECOND ROUND CLAIMED FARLOE LUIGI, TROJAN, BARRACUDA, CALVIN AND EDEN STAR. THAT LEAVES FARLOE WARHAWK, BUDDY, CHICO AND TANGO. STILL PLENTY OF TALENT THAT COULD YET HAVE A SAY IN THE OUTCOME COMPETITION, BUT SURELY ANY FURTHER IMPROVEMENT FROM WARHAWK WOULD SEE HIM AS THE YARDS TOP CONTENDER. 

ITS ALL OR NUFFINK FOR TRISH

 

POORMANS TRISH (ABOVE), WHO WAS OFFERED FOR SALE ON THIS WEBSITE AT A VERY FAIR PRICE, WAS FOOT PERFECT FOR NEW OWNERS THE 'ALL OR NUFFINK' SYNDICATE IN THE SECOND RACE ON LAST NIGHTS BEGS CARD AT MONMORE. BOLTING OUT OF TRAP THREE THE JULY 11 DAUGHTER OF HEAD BOUND MADE ALL TO WIN IMPRESSIVELY IN 28.99.

 

HEAD SYNDICATE MEMBER GARY THOMPSON GOT IN EARLY TO BUY THIS LITTLE LADY FOR A GROUP OF PALS AND GAVE HIS SYNDICATE THE RATHER  TONGUE IN CHEEK NAME THAT HE FELT SUITED THEM WELL.  I FEEL CERTAIN THAT SHE WILL GIVE THEM MANY MORE GREAT NIGHTS IF LAST NIGHTS PERFORMANCE IS ANYTHING TO GO BY. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A NUMBER OF DOGS FOR SALE ON THIS SITE, IF DON'T SEE ONE THAT SUITS FEEL FREE TO GIVE YOURS TRULY A CALL ON 07795097574 TO DISCUSS SOURCING A DOG THAT MEETS YOUR CRITERIA.

IN THE KNOW TO PLAY WITH ZIDANE

 

THE KENNELS LACK OF RECENT LUCK SAW A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT YESTERDAY WITH THE JON MILES OWNED YOUNGSTER IN THE KNOW AND GARY THOMPSONS VETERAN EDEN ZIDANE BOTH PREVAILING WITH TRAP TO LINE VICTORIES FROM THE RED JACKET.

 

IN THE KNOW, A HOMEBREAD BY BLACKSTONE GENE OUT OF SHOW CLASS, IS BLESSED WITH TERRIFIC EARLY PACE BUT FINDS RUNNING OUT THE ENTIRE RACE A LITTLE TOO MUCH EFFORT ON MOST OCCASSIONS. YESTERDAY HOWEVER, HE STAYED FOCUSED FOR ALL BUT THE LAST TWENTY YARDS BY WHICH TIME HE HAD AN UNASSAILABLE LEAD. HE POST A CAREER BEST 29,34. OLD TIMER EDEN ZIDANE HAS HAD A WONDERFUL CAREER TO DATE, WITH FIFTEEN VICTORIES FROM EIGHTY STARTS, A TERRIFIC EFFORT WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT THE DOG HAS HAD TWO BAD GRACILLUS INJURIES. HE'S BEEN A GREAT SERVANT TO THE KENNEL AND TO LOYAL OWNER GARY THOMPSON. 

LADY LUCK DESERTS US AT PRESENT

YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THE SAYING ....'IF IT WASN'T FOR BAD LUCK WE WOULDN'T ANY' .... WELL THAT SEEMS CERTAINLY TO APPLY TO US WHERE MONMORE RACE MEETINGS ARE CONCERNED. NOT ONLY DO WE SEEM TO HAVE FALLEN FOUL OF A DREADED INJURY JINX BUT LADY LUCK HAS ALSO DESERTED US WHERE A WINNER IS CONCERNED! LAST NIGHT OPITIMSED ALL OF THAT WHEN EVERY MOVE OUR RUNNERS MADE SEEMED TO BE A WRONG ONE!

THAT SAID, ALL OF US THAT EITHER WORK WITH OR OWN RACING GREYHOUNDS KNOW THAT CAN HAPPEN AT TIMES, PARTICULARLY WITH THE GRADED HOUNDS, AND WE MUST WEATHER IT BY REMAINING FOCUSED, STAYING OBJECTIVE AND CONTINUING TO WORK HARD. I'M A BIG BELIEVER IN KARMA, AND WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND, SO IF WE ALL KEEP POSITIVE I'M SURE OUR LUCK WILL TURN. HANG IN THERE PEEPS!!

GREAT TO SEE THE BIG MAN BACK

 

IT WAS GREAT TO SEE MY OLD PAL GARY WILTSHIRE BACK ON THE SOFA AT RPGTV LAST NIGHT GIVING HIS TIPS FOR COVENTRY AND ROMFORD. I FIRST MET GARY WHEN I WAS 20 AT OXFORD STADIUM AND EVEN THEN HE WAS A MAN WHO'D HAVE AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT ON ANYONE HE MET. THEY SAY 'A LIKEABLE ROGUE' AND BACK THEN I GUESS THAT WAS HOW I SAW HIM BUT OVER THE YEARS YOU BEGIN TO REALISE THAT HE'S JUST A LARGER THAN LIFE REALLY NICE GUY. HE PULLS THE ODD STROKE BUT YOU HAVE TO IN HIS LINE OF WORK AND ONE THING YOU CAN SAY ABOUT GAZZA IS THAT HE STANDS BY HIS CONVICTIONS.

 

THE FRANKIE DETTORI MAGNIFICENT SEVEN WILL LIVE LONG WITH ALL OF US BUT IT PHYSICALLY NEARLY KILLED GARY. ASK HIM AND HE'LL TELL YOU, BUT HE NEVER MOANS, HE DOESN'T BEGRUDGE ANYONE A WINNER. GARY WAS GIVING HIS TIPS ON TV LAST NIGHT ...... DON'T FORGET ITS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE SAME ON OUR FORUM TODAY IN THE LILYPAD RACING TIPPING COMP!!

 

 

BRAES VERY MUCH A MAN IN DEMAND

 

RECENT YEARS HAS SEEN THE BREEDING SCENE CHASE ITS TAIL SOMEWHAT WHERE THE TOP STUD DOGS ARE CONCERNED. NOBODY HAS COME REMOTELY  CLOSE TO STEPPING INTO THE SHOES OF THE UNSURPASSABLE TOP HONCHO. THIS IS PROBABLY DUE TO THE SATURATON OF TOP HONCHO BLOOD WITH MANY OF THE BROODS CARRYING THE GENE OF THE GREAT MAN HIMSELF OR THAT OF HIS MOST POPULAR SON DROOPYS VIERI. HOWEVER, IT SEEMS A RELATIVELY YOUNG STUD DOG IS NOW BEGINNING TO MAKE HIS MARK AND IS  WINNING OVER MANY OF THE IRISH BREEDERS IN PARTICULAR.

 

KINLOCH BRAE IS THE DOG THEY ALL WANT TO VISIT AT PRESENT AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE VERSATILITY OF HIS OFFSPRING YOU CAN SEE WHY. HE THROWS EARLY PACE AND STAMINA. DOGS AS QUICK AS RAZLDAZL JAYFKAY AND AS STRONG AS CAPOOLEY ASH. DOGS WITH THE SPEED OF BALLYMAC VIC AND THE CONSISTANCY OF RAZLDAZL GEORGE.

KINLOCH BRAE IS PROVING VERY POPULAR AND THE FOUR PUPS PICTURED ABOVE COULD BE GREYHOUNDS THAT FURTHER ENHANCE HIS REPUTATION. THEY ARE BY TYRUR BERNIE (YEAH MAN X FARLOE RESERVE) AND VERY MUCH LOOK THE PART ALREADY. ALTHOUGH ONLY SEVEN MONTHS YOURS TRULY SAW ENOUGH TO RECENTLY SECURE THE BLACK DOG IN THE PHOTO FROM DES LOUGHREY. DES IS A FAN OF KINLOCH TOO AND THAT IS ALL THE ENDORSMENT ANYONE SHOULD NEED.

 

SIMON SAYS ........ 'HOW MANY?!!'

 

 

WITH ANOTHER DELUGE OF POOR PERFORMANCES AND SUBSEQUENT LAME/SORENESS OVER THE WEEKEND I'M OFF TO VET SIMON GOWERS HARE AND HOUNDS PRACTICE AT SWINDON AGAIN TODAY TO HAVE ANOTHER VAN FULL OF EXAMINED FOR SOUNDNESS. I MENTIONED LAST WEEK HOW FIGURES ALWAYS SEEM TO RISE AT THIS TIME OF YEAR  AND EARLY INJURY DETECTION IS KEY, THE KENNEL TAKES NO CHANCES. THAT SAID  EVEN I'M SURPISED AT THE NUMBERS INVOLVED OF LATE. 

OUR STRENGTH HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT DECIMATED IN RECENT WEEKS WITH AN ARRAY OF TALENT SIDELINED THROUGH INJURY. A REAL SHAME AT ANYTIME BUT PARTICULARLY NOW AS WE WERE PLAINLY AT OUR MOST COMPETITIVE. PLEASE GOD IT SLOWS DOWN SOON !!

 

 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZZIE

 

I'M SURE ALL OUR OWNERS WOULD LIKE TO JOIN ME IN WISHING MY WIFE LIZ A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. APART FROM BEING MY WIFE OF OVER FIFTEEN YEARS LIZ IS ALSO MY BUSINESS PATRNER (LILYPAD RACING LTD IS AS MUCH HERS AS IT IS MINE) AND WE ARE TOGETHER NEARLY EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY. ANY OF YOU THAT VISIT THE KENNELS WILL KNOW JUST HOW HARD LIZ  WORKS, ALL OF US INVOLVED AGREE THAT SHE IS UNSTOPPABLE AT TIMES. TODAY SHE CELELBRATES HER BIRTHDAY AND WILL SPEND THE AFTERNOON IN THE COMPANY OF HER DAUGHTER MICHEALA, HER GRANDCHILDREN TYLER & AVA AND YOURS TRULY. HAVE A GREAT DAY BABES, YOU DESERVE IT. X

ESKE DRAWS RED IN ROUND TWO

DERBY HOTPOT BALLYMAC ESKE TRAINED BY BARRY DRAPER HAS DRAWN HIS FAVOURITE RED JACKET FOR ROUND TWO OF THE WILLIAM HILL CLASSIC AT WIMBLEDON NEXT WEEKEND. SHOWING GREAT TRACK CRAFT THE FYING FAWN WAS PERFECTION PERSONIFIED AS HE MOVE THROUGH THE GAPS AND ACCELERATED UP THE HOME STRAIGHT TO PREVAIL ON THE LINE IN FRIDAYS HEAT THREE.

YOURS TRULY WATCHED EVERY HEAT OF THE FIRST ROUND INTHE COMPANY OF DES (FARLOE) LOUGHREY AT HIS HOME IN CO. DERRY. DES HAS SAID FROM THE GET GO THAT HE FEELS BALLYMAC VIC IS THE FASTEST DOG INTHE UK ON HIS DAY, BUT HE QUESTIONED THE FACT THAT HE HAS YET TOWIN A COMPETITION OUTRIGHT. TIME WILL TELL BUT I WOULDN'T DOUBT HIM AS HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE RUNNERS  WAS QUITE FANTASTIC. I ENJOY EVERY MINUTE OF THE MANS COMPANY, EVEN IF OUR MULTIPLE BETS PROVED FRUITLESS!! (LOL)

SHANEBOY STRIKES EARLY

SHANEBOY ALLEY SHOWED HIS CUSTOMARY EARLY PACE TO WIN HIS HEAT OF THE WILLIAM HILL DERBY AT WIMBLEDON. OTHERS TO IMPRESS WAS THE ULTRA CONSISTANT BALLYMAC ESKE, BALLYMAC VIC AND KEREIGHT KING.

THIS IS A MEGA STRONG DERBY AND THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WILL PROVIDE US WITH GREAT ENTERTAINMENT. DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE YOUR DERBY THOUGHTS AND FANCIES ON OUR FORUM !!