ALL THE BEST FOR 2014 FROM US

 

LIZ AND I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THE OPPOURTUNITY TO WISH YOU ALL THE VERY BEST FOR 2014. WE HOPE THE NEW YEAR BRINGS ALL THE HAPPINESS YOU ALL DESERVE AND THAT IT SEES STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AT ALL TIMES.

 

ON A PERSONAL NOTE WE HOPE TO LEAVE BEHIND THE SADNESS THAT THE END OF 2013 BESTOWED ON US AND MOVE FORWARD TO SECURE A PROSPEROUS TWELVE MONTHS FOR ALL CONNECTED WITH THE KENNEL. WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS FOR THE SUPPORT YOU'VE SHOWN US IN ALL THAT WE DO.

 

MANY THANKS AND ENJOY YOURSELVES, HAVE A GREAT NIGHT !!

 

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

 

LIZ AND I AND ALL THE STAFF AND DOGS AT LILYPAD RACING LTD WOULD LIKE TO WISH YOU ALL A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS. HAVE A GREAT TIME OVER THE FESTIVE PERIOD, INDULGE YOURSELVES AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY BUT TRY NOT TO FORGET  THOSE LESS FORTUNATE THAN YOURSELVES. THOSE WITH NO HOME OR MONEY AND THOSE IN HOSPITAL, SPARE A THOUGHT FOR  THOSE SERVING WITH OUR ARMED FORCES AT HOME AND ABROAD ENSURING OUR SAFETY ..... AND RAISE A GLASS TO  ABSENT FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES YOU SHARED.

 

THANKS TO YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD ONE !!!!

 

 

ROSCOES AN ACE IN THE MAKING

 

FARLOE TANNER, CALLED 'ROSCOE' BY HIS OWNERS ALAN BRANDOM AND JIM AND SANDRA O' SULLIVAN, ARRIVED AT VILLAGE FARM LAST WEEK AND IS SETTLING IN WELL SO FAR. THE HEAVYWEIGHT PUP HAS PLEASED IN HIS EARLY TRIALS AND WILL NOT BE RUSHED AS A BRIGHT FUTURE ISEXPECTED. BY CASHEN LEGEND AND FARLOE BROOK THIS POWERFUL BLACK HAS TIPPED IN AS HEAVY AS 86LBS IN HIS TRIALS TO DATE. HE HAS A PARTICULARLY LOW CENTRE OF GRAVITY HOWEVER AND I WOULD SUGGEST A LOT OF HIS WEIGHT COMES FROM BEING WELL BONED, HE IS DEFINATELY NOT A LEGGY TYPE AT ALL. HOPEFULLY HE WILL PROGRESS AND REALISE HIS POTENTIAL AND REPAY THE FAITH THAT THE O'SULLIVANS AND MR B HAS PUT SHOWN IN HIM. ALL THE BEST ROSCOE AND ALL CONCERNED!!

 

 

SMART SUCCESS FROM THE GENT

 

RAW NOVICE CASUAL GENT CONFIRMED HIS PROMISE WITH VICTORY IN ONLY HIS SECOND RACE AT MONMORE ON SATURDAY NIGHT. SOMEWHAT UNLUCKY ON DEBUT THE JULY 12 ACE HI RUMBLE WHELP WEIGHT WENT TO TRAPS WITH PLENTY OF EXPECTATION ON HIS SHOULDERS AND DESPITE STARTING POORLY RAN A TERRIFIC RACE TO GET UP IN THE SHADOWS OF THE POST TO JUSTIFY FAVOURITES ODDS OF 6/4 AND WIN THE 'SCOOBY BLUE' TROPHY FOR HIS OWNERS KNOWN ALSO AS THE CASUAL GENTS.

 

A TWELVE MAN SYNDICATE FORMED ON FACEBOOK FROM ALL OVER BRITAIN ONLY TWO OF THE GENTS MEMBERS WERE ON HAND TO RECIEVE THE TROPHY, KEVIN PERISI (FAR RIGHT) AND STEVE REASON WHO HOLDS OUR GRANDSON TYLER  ON THE PODIUM. YOURS TRULY AND KEVIN PERISI HOLD SIGNS TO READ 'BIG SPUD'  THE NICKNAME OF SYNDICATE MEMBER ROBERT THOMSONS FATHER WHO PASSED AWAY RECENTLY. BIG SPUD LOVED HIS GREYHOUNDS AND WOULD HAVE BEEN FIRST AT THE TRACK GIVEN THE CHANCE.  SPUDS FATHER HANDLED THE 1971 LAURELS WINNER BLACK ANDREW AND THE FAMILY HAVE A LONG HISTORY WITH THE SPORT.

 

WELL DONE TO ALL INVOLVED AND CASUAL GENT COULD WELL BE WORTH KEEPING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF, HE HAS PLENTY OF ALL ROUND SPEED AND IF HE POLISHES HIS STARTING UP HE COULD GO ON TO BE A VERY NICE DOG INDEED!

 

 

 

TIMBER ARRIVES IT MUST BE XMAS

 

THEY SAY THE FESTIVE SEASON BRINGS JOY AND GLAD TIDINGS TO ALL, WELL IT CERTAINLY DID TO YOURS TRULY ALBEIT A LITTLE EARLY WHEN TIMBER YARD, OWNED BY THE EVER PATIENT BARRY WARNER, FINALLY GOT HIS HEAD INFRONT FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE FEBRUARY IN THE FINAL RACE AT MONMORE LAST NIGHT. INFACT THE KENNEL WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FIRST RACE AND THE LAST RACE WINNERS ON THE NIGHT WITH ANN CROFTS AND BEN HUGHES'S MONAGEA LEE MAKING EVERY POST A WINNING TO KICK-OFF THE EVENING. BUT THE ACCOLADES OF THIS BLOG HAVE TO GO WITH TIMBER YARD FOR STICKING AT IT OVER THE PAST NINE MONTHS! TIMBER (SAM TO HIS OWNER) HAS RUN MANY GOOD RACES SINCE HIS LAST VICTORY BUT HAS PERHAPS JUST NOT HAD THE RUB OF THE GREEN DURING A LOSING RUN THAT SPANNED 23 RACES. IT WAS GREAT TO SEE HIM WIN, FOR THE DOG AS MUCH AS FOR HIS OWNER AND MANY THANKS TO THOSE INVOLVED.

 

 

NEW YEAR SEES PUPS FOR SALE

 

APART FROM SPELLING WHAT WE (LIKE ALL IN GREYHOUND RACING) HOPE IS A PROSPEROUS YEAR JANUARY WILL ALSO MEAN MEMBERS OF THE PREMIER  FANTASY X ROEVIEW BEAUTY  (BITCH ABOVE) LITTER ARE READY TO FIND NEW OWNERS. WHILE WE DON'T ENVISAGE TOO MANY MAKING THE OPEN MARKET I'M SURE THAT THERE WILL BE A BITCH OR TWO AVAILABLE SHOULD ANYONE FANCY IT! THESE ARE THE BEST OF PROVEN LINES AND THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CROSS IN THE RECENT YEARS. THEIR MOTHER AS WELL AS BEING VERY GOOD ON THE TRACK HERSELF WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF A VERY GOOD LITTER AND HER DAMLINE IS THE EXCEPTIONAL.

 



 

 

COLIN & KIM JOIN US AT LILYPAD

 

COLIN EDWARDS AND HIS WIFE KIM HAVE JOINED US AT VILLAGE FARM AND QUICKLY ADDED TO THEIR NUMBERS. THEY CAME TO US WITH MISS POPPY SOCKS (WHO RAN AT DONCASTER) AND THEN PURCHASED FARLOE BASHFUL (FAWN)  FROM US AFTER A VERY SAD EPISODE INVOLVING A SAPLING OF THEIRS.

COLIN & KIM VERY KINDLY GAVE EX-LONG DISTANCE QUEEN MIDWAY SKIPPER A HOME WHEN HENRY CHALKLEY DECIDED IT WAS TIME SHE PUT HER FEET UP. MISS POPPY SOCKS HAILS FROM SKIPPERS FIRST LITTER AND COLIN & KIM ALSO PURCHASED FROM HER SECOND CROP BY KINLOCH BRAE. THEY HAD A LOVELY DOG REARED BY JANE HOUGHTON AT DUNHAM AND WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO HIS RACING CAREER. UNFOTUNATELY, FREDDY AS HE WAS KNOWN, CONTRACTED PNEUMONIA A FORTNIGHT AGO AND SADLY PASSED.

THE EDWARDS (DESPITE BEING HEARTBROKEN) REMAINED PHILOSOPHICAL AND COMMITED TO THEIR LOVE OF THE DOGS AND THE SPORT AND WE WERE DELIGHTED WHEN THEY STEPPED IN TO BUY FARLOE BASHFUL. LIZ AND I WISH THEM THE BEST OF LUCK ... THE SPORT NEEDS MORE PEOPLE LIKE COLIN & KIM!!

 

 

 BAGS HATTRICK FOR LILYPAD

 

YESTERDAYS BAGS MEETING AT MONMORE SAW OUR RUNNERS PERFORM ADMIRABLY AND THE CLOSE OF PLAY SAW TEAM LILYPAD RUN OUT WITH A VERY DECENT HATTRICK! THE JON MILES OWNED THE LAST LIGHT WAS THE FIRST PART OF THE TREBLE WITH A TRAP TO LINE VICTORY IN 29.29. THIS WAS THE DOGS 20TH VICTORY IN A BUSY CAREER THAT HAS SEEN HIM IN THE FIRST TWO IN OVER 33% OF HIS RACES. NEXT TO SCORE WAS THE LOCALLY-OWNED DUNEANE FLYER WHO CONTINUES TO PROGRESS AFTER SEASONAL REST. THIS LADY IS PERFORMING BETTER EVERY WEEK AND MAY YET HAVE A FUTURE OF A LONGER DISTANCE. WE WERE PLEASED FOR CONNECTIONS WHO HAVE BEEN VERY PATIENT. FINALLY THE HATTRICK WAS COMPLETED BY KEN PRITCHARDS KENZ WHITE NIGHT WHO HAS SETTLED IN REALLY WELL AND HAS NOW SCORED IN 50% OF HIS RACES.

 

 

BUSY BUSY BUSY AT THIS TIME

 

THE CHRISTMAS PERIOD USUALLY MEANS A WIND DOWN FROM WORK FOR MOST OF THE COUNTRY, HOWEVER, IF YOU WORK WITH GREYHOUNDS IT TENDS TO SPELL A VERY BUSY SCHEDULE INDEED. GREYHOUND RACING DOESN'T STOP FOR THE FESTIVE PERIOD AND THE CARE OF ITS PROTAGONISTS IS AN ALL YEAR ROUND DUTY IN ANY CASE.

 

THE STAFF AT VILLAGE FARM WILL BE RUSHED OFF THEIR FEET FOR THE NEXT MONTH OR SO AS WE COMBINE A BUSY XMAS RACING SCHEDULE WITH OPEN RACING AND A STRONG TRAINING SCHEDULE FOR SOME OF THE KENNELS BIGGER NAMES THAT ARE DUE BACK FROM INJURY. THE LIKES OF LONGWOOD BOUND, FARLOE BUDDY, DALCASH SKYWAY, PARADISE AVIVA AND PARADISE PACIFIC ARE ALL ON THE COMEBACK TRAIL AND ALOMST READY TO TRIAL.

 

THE KENNEL ALSO CONTINUES TO ADD TO ITS RACING STRENGTH AT MONMORE WITH A DOZEN OR SO CURRENTLY GRADING IN AT PRESENT. HUGE THANKS FROM LIZ AND I FOR THE STAFFS HARD WORK, WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM HERE AT LILYPAD RACING, GOOD WORKERS AND GREAT PEOPLE TO BOOT!

 

 

 

CASUAL GENTS SECURE THE ACE

 

ELEVEN LADS THAT FOLLOW FOOTBALL CLUBS FROM ALL OVER BRITAIN HAVE FORMED A SYNDICATE AND CALL THEMSELVES 'THE CASUAL GENTS' HAVE PURCHASED YOUNG PUP FARLEY ACE FROM US AND HE WILL NOW RUN FOR THEM UNDER THE NAME 'CASUAL GENT.' A JULY WHELP BY ACE HI RUMBLE X DROOPYS FLOSS THIS RAW NOVICE HAS SHOWN A REAL APPTITUDE FOR RACING WINNING HIS GRADING TRIALS IN TENACIOUS MANNER AND WILL SOON DEBUT AT MONMORE GREEN AND THE LADS CAN'T WAIT TO GET THERE.

 

THE ELEVEN, WHO ARE FOLLOWERS OF DERBY COUNTY, BRISTOL ROVERS, BRIGHTON,  WEST HAM, HEARTS, SWINDON TOWN AND OXFORD UNITED ARE ALL MEMBERS OF THE SAME FACEBOOK GROUP AND CONTACTED RECENTLY EXPRESSING AN INTEREST IN BECOME OWNERS OF A RACING GREYHOUND. THEY DECIDED ON ACE OR 'GENT' AS HE IS NOW AND LIZ AND I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME AS OWNERS, THANK THEM FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND WISH THEM ALL THE BEST FOR THE FUTURE. THE SPORT NEEDS AS MANY OWNERS AS POSSIBLE, ITS GREAT TO GET SO MANY ATTACHED TO THE ONE DOG !! ALL THE BEST BOYZ !!