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 !!

 

 

JAXX A REAL BASEMENT BARGAIN

 

FARLEY JAXX (ABOVE), CURRENTLY ADVERTISED FOR SALE ON THIS WEBSITE, PROVED HIMSELF A DECENT SORT IN THE MAKING WHEN DEFYING THE ODDS ON DEBUT THURSDAY NIGHT AT MONMORE. A JUNE 12 WHELP THIS STUNNING BLACK DOG SHOWED MARKED IMROVEMENT AND MADE EVERY STRIDE A WINNING ONE TO COME HOME THREE AND A HALF LENGTHS AHEAD OF HIS NEAREST RIVAL IN A PLEASING 29.06. HEAD LAD MIKE ANDERSON IS PICTURED RECIEVING THE TROMORA SPIRIT BITCH OF THE MONTH TROPHY FROM TRAINER PAT COWDRILL.

 

THIS IS A VERY RAW DOG INDEED AND COULD GO ON TO BE A VERY NICE GREYHOUND. HE IS FOR SALE (PREFERRABLY) TO STAY IN THE KENNEL, AT A VERY REASONABLE PRICE.  INTERESTED PARTIES CAN RING YOURS TRULY ON 07795097574 

 

 

 

BIG MIKE DEBUT AT HOVE TONIGHT

 

THE HIGHLY REGARDED FINAL BIG MIKE MAKES HIS DEBUT FOR US HOVE THIS EVENING IN IN A 285 METRE MAIDEN RACE. FROM  THE FIRST  LITTER OFF DAM FINAL OYSTER, A LITTER SISTER TO FARLOE TANGO, MIKE HAS SHOWN DECENT PACE IN HIS SPRINT TRIALS TO DATE AND THERE HAS BEEN MUCH TO LIKE ABOUT THIS FELLA. IF TONIGHTS NOT HIS NIGHT THEN THERE WILL BE OTHERS, YOU CAN BE SURE OF THAT.

 

ACCOMPANYING TO THE COAST IS VETERAN LONGWOOD FANTASY, A WINNER LAST WEEK AT NOTTINGHAM. THIS IS THIS FELLAS LAST RACE BEFORE HEADING TO BELLE VUE FOR AN UNPRECIDENTED THIRD ATTEMPT AT THE LAURELS, A COMPETITION THAT HE HAS BEEN RUNNER UP IN FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS

 

NICE YOUNG GUNS IN XMAS SALE

 

THE KENNEL CURRENTLY HAS SOME NICE YOUNG GREYHOUNDS FOR SALE SOME OF WHICH HAVE JUST GRADED ON AND SOME JUST STARTING TO GRADE. AS A GOOD WILL GESTURE ANYONE BUYING A GREYHOUND THAT IS NOT YET GRADED WILL NOT BE CHARGED KENNEL FEES UNTIL THE DOG HAS ITS FIRST RUN! THIS GIVES YOU ALL THE CHANCE TO PURCHASE AND NOT WORRY ABOUT FINANCES BEFORE IT IS ABLE TO PAY ITS WAY, AT WHICH TIME MONMORES PRIZE MONEY SHOULD MAKE FUTURE OUTLAY MORE THAN BEARABLE.

 

CHECK OUR FOR SALE SECTION OVER THE NEXT WEEK TO SEE WHATS AVAILABLE !!



 

 

 

BITTER SWEET VICTORY IN TRUTH

 

DESPITE MONMORE EDGING OUT HALL GREEN AT YESTERDAYS SECOND LEG OF THE BAGS TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP IT WAS STILL SOMEWHAT OF A BITTER SWEET VICTORY WITH THE BRUMMIES STILL HOLDING SWAY TO THE TUNE OF 44 POINTS GOING IN TO THE FINALE AT PERRY BARR A WEEK TOMORROW. DESWPITE ALL THE HOME TEAMS HUFF AND PUFF VICTORIES WERE HARD TO COME BY AND THE RUB OF THE GREEN NEVER FELL OUR WAY ON FAR TOO MANY OCCASSIONS. THAT SAID HALL GREENS HOUNDS PERFORMED BRILLIANTLY AND THEY THOROUGHLY THEIR ADVANTAGE AND MANY CONGRATS TO THEM.

 

CHANGING SKY, OUR ONLY REPRESENTATIVE, AGAIN DONE US PROUD BY FOLLOWING UP ON HIS WIN AT HALL GREEN TO TAKE VICTORY IN THE FIRST DIVISION DOGS. IT WAS A GREAT DAY FOR OWNERS IAN GRAY AND STEVE TERNENT (ABOVE BETWEEN YOURS TRULY AND HEAD LAD MICK ANDERSON) WHO ALONG WITH TWO FRIENDS MADE THE JOURNEY DOWN FROM EDINBURGH TO SEE THEIR BOY TRIUMPH !! WELL DONE TO ALL CONCERNED.

 

 

WE'LL JUST KEEP PLUGGING AWAY

 

ONLY THOSE THAT ARE MOST CLOSE TO ME KNOW I HAVE A STRONG LOVE OF THE ARTS, PICTURES AND WORDS CAN SAY SO MUCH AND EXTRACT SUCH DIFFERING REACTIONS. AT LILYPAD RACING WE DO WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN! WE STRIVE TO DO OUR BEST BY THE RACING GREYHOUNDS IN OUR CHARGE A ND ULTIMATELY IT SHOULD FOLLOW THAT IN DOING SO WE ALSO DO RIGHT BY THEIR OWNERS. SINCE MAY WE'VE HAD A SOMEWHAT TORRID TIME BY OUR STANDARDS BUT WE WILL NOT WANDER FROM THE PATH THAT LIZ AND I SET WHEN WE STARTED THIS BUSINESS, WE LOOK AFTER OUR DOGS AND IN DOING SO LOOK AFTER OUR OWNERS!

 

IN THE COMING WEEKS WE HOPE TO CONTINUE TO BUILD UPON OUR RACING STRENGTH AT MONMORE AND WELCOME BACK SOME OF THE BIGGER GUNS OF THE KENNEL TO PREPARE FOR NEXT YEARS ASSAULT ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE. WE HAVE NEW DOGS ARRIVING EACH WEEK AND DESPITE HAVING TO ENDURE MANY A SETBACK IN RECENT WEEKS WE WILL NOT BE DENIED!

 

 

GET WELL SOON MR BECKETT

 

LIZ AND I AND ALL THE STAFF AND OWNERS AT VILLAGE FARM WOULD LIKE TO WISH DENNIS BECKETT A SPEEDY RECOVERY FROM HIS RECENT ILL HEALTH. THE MOST LIKEABLE OF GENTLEMAN DENNIS WAS NOTICEABLE BY HIS ABSENCE LAST SUNDAY AND WE WERE SHOCKED TO LEARN THE MAIN MAN HAD BEEN FORCED TO TAKE AN UNSCHEDULED SHORT STAY IN HOSPITAL. FORTUNATELY HES BACK HOME IN BRACKLEY NOW BUT HE WON'T BE WITH US FOR A FEW WEEKS YET AND ANYONE WHO KNOWS HIM KNOWS THAT WILL DIIFICULT ENOUGH FOR HIM TO COPE WITH.

 

DENNIS ADORES COMING TO THE KENNELS TO SEE HIS TWO GREYHOUNDS PARADISE AVIVA AND DALCASH SKYWAY WHO HE CAN BE SEEN PICTURED WITH (ALONG WITH WIFE DEBBIE) ABOVE. HE RELIGOUSLY BRINGS THEM SOME FRESH SALMON ON A SUNDAY MORNING. HE IS A VERY TALKATIVE, VERY POSITIVE AND A TRUELY LIKEABLE CHARACTER THAT IS WELL REGARDED THROUGHOUT THE KENNEL. SEE YOU SOON DEN !!!

 

 

FEELING BETTER AND BACK ONLINE

 

GREETING READERS !! BIG APOLOGY FOR THE DELAY IN BLOGGING BUT THIS WAS DUE TO POOR HEALTH AND THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW ME KNOW THAT I MUST HAVE BEEN QUITE UNWELL TO BE OFF-LINE FIOR ANY GREAT PERIOD OF TIME.ANY WAY I'M BACK NOW AND READY TO GET UP AND AT EM !!

 

UP TO DATE NEWS INCLUDES THE ELIMINATION OF LONGWOOD FANTASY FROM THE BETFRED ECLIPSE AT NOTTINGHAM. FANTASY, KNOWN AS CHARLEY WARLEY TO US, WAS FOURTH IN LAST NIGHTS SECOMD SEMI FINAL. THERE IS A GREAT FINAL LINE UP HOWEVER AND WE WISH ALL THE FINALISTS THE BEST.

 

BACK HOME THE KENNEL HAS SUFFERED A LITTLE KENNEL COUGH AND THIS HAS PARTICULARLY AFFECTED THE PREMIERFANTASY X ROEVIEW BEAUTY PUPS WHO HAVE NOT ENJOYED THE BEST OF HEALTH IN RECENT WEEKS BUT WILL HOPEFULLY BOUNCE BACK SOON.

 

WE CONTINUE TO HAVE MORE ARRIVALS AT VILLAGE FARM AS WE CONTINUE TO BUILD FOR THE COMING YEAR. WE HAVE HAD ALOT OF INTEREST IN OWNING AND PLACING DOGS WITH US IN RECENT MONTHS AND OF COURSE WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE SUPPORT.



 

 

FANTASY HOPES TO ECLIPSE RIVALS

 

LONGWOOD FANTASY A RECENT INTAKE FROM COLIN CALLOW HEADS TO NOTTINGHAM TONIGHT TO TAKE PART IN THE BETFRED ECLIPSE STAKES OVER 500M. ALTHOUGH A VETERAN 'CHARLIE' AS HE'S KNOWN TO US ALL IS STILL RUNNING WITH THE BEST OF THEM AND WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT HE CAN PROGRESS THROUGH TONIGHTS HEAT. FINGERS CROSSED !!

 

 

JAYJAYS OFF LIKE A ROCKET

 

ITS NOT OFTEN TRAINERS LIKE THERE ASSESSMENT OF A RACE OR A GREYHOUNDS CHANCE TO BE COMPLETELY WRONG BUT IT HAPPENED TO ME LAST NIGHT AND TO BE HONEST I DIDN'T MIND A BIT!! FARLOE OAK (ABOVE) IS A GREYHOUND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT SO MANY TIMES ON MY WEBSITE ESPECIALLY IN THE NOW DE-FUNCT TRAINERS TALK THAT RAN MONTHLY ON OUR OLD SITE. HE WAS A DOG WITH THE WORLD AT HIS FEET, HE HAD AQUITTED HIMSELF WELL OVER FOUR BENDS AGAINST SOME OF THE BEST PUPS AROUND  SUCH AS SILVERVIEW PERKY, FARLOE ICEMAN AND SKYWALKER TEDDY. SADLY, AT 23 MONTHS, HE SUFFERED A BADLY BROKEN HOCK AND WHAT WAS, IN MY OPINION, POTENTIALLY THE BEST STAYER IN THE COUNTRY WAS LOST TO OWNER BARRY WARNER AND THE KENNEL.

 

BARRYS PAITENCE AND LOVE OF HIS HOUND SAW THE DOG RACE AGAIN OVER A YEAR LATER BUT ALAS THE OLD SPEED WAS LOST FOREVER. LAST NIGHT THOUGH HE ROLLED BACK TIME AND LED EVERY STEP TO DO 29.10 AT MONMORE WINNING BY NEARLY 7 LENGTHS. I ADMIT THAT I DIDN'T THINK HE HAD THE SPEED TO WIN OVER 480M ANY MORE ............. I'M JUST SO PLEASED I WAS WRONG!!

 

ELSEWHERE, THE FOUR FARLOE PUPS WERE GIVEN THEIR FIRST TRIALS AT MONMORE AND WE WERE VERY PLEASED WITH ALL OF THEIR EFFORTS. RIGGLER, JAXX, ACE AND COUTURE DID 15.93, 16.13, 16.18 AND 16.55 RESPECTIVELY IN CONDITIONS FAR FROM IDEAL.

LEE STRIKES FOR BEN (WILL) & ANN

MONAGEA LEE SOLD ON THIS WEBSITE FOR SMALL MONEY WON AGAIN YESTERDAY ON MONMORES BAGS AND CONTINUES HIS STEADY PROGRESS UP THE GRADE. PURCHASED BY OUR SATURDAY GIRL ANN CROFT AND HER PARTNER BEN HUGHES (PICTURED ABOVE WITH LEE AND SON WILL) THE STRIKING BRINDLE HAS A DECENT BIT OF EARLY PACE AND GREAT MIDDLE AND I COULD SEE HIM IMPROVING FURTHER.

A SON OF SHANEBOY LEE  THIS BOY HAS WONDERFUL CONFIRMATION BUT IS ALSO A BIT RESERVED IN CHARACTER AND ALL AT THE STAFF AT THE KENNELS AND MONMORE PARADER KAREN ELWELL HAVE SHOWN GREAT PATIENCE TO HELP BRING HIM ROUND. HE'S GETTING THERE, AN BEING AN OCTOBER 11' WHELP I'D BE CONFIDENT THAT HE WILL GO TO WIN A FEW MORE RACES FOR ANN, BEN AND WILL!!

HALLOWEEN JACKPOT IN VEGAS

ROCKAFELLA VEGAS ENDED A FRUSTRATUNG BARRON SPELL FOR LOYAL OWNER SCOTT CHURCH AND GIVE HIM A 'TRICK' AND A 'TREAT' TO REMEMBER ON HALLOWEEN. BURST CLEAR GOING IN TO THE FIRST TURN VEGAS SHOWING TERRIFIC SPEED TO BURN OFF HIS RIVALS AND PUT THE 'TOMS TORNADO DOG OF THE MONTH TROPHY' TO BED BY THE THIRD BEND. HE CAME HOME UNCHALLENGED IN A DECENT 29.30.

SCOTT HAS BEEN VERY ACCOMODATING OVER THE PROBLEMS JOHNNY (VEGAS'S KENNEL NAME) HAS HAD IN RECENT MONTHS WITH A SPLIT TO THE BOTTOM OF HIS FOOT. INFACT THE DOG REQUIRED SURGERY TWICE TO FINALLY SOLVE THE PROBLEM AND LAST NIGHT SAW THE FIRST SIGNS OF A RETURN TO THE OLD ROCKAFELLA VEGAS! BIG THANKS TO SCOTT FOR HIS PATIENCE AND A HUGE WELL DONE TO JOHNNY!!

MERLIN BRINGS US UP TO DATE

ITS TIME FOR OUR OLD FRIEND  MERLIN TO BRING US TO SPEED WITH NEWS FROM THE KENNEL. LETS START WITH THE BREEDING PROGRAM. BROOD BITCHES ROEVIEW BEAUTY AND PARADISE DIGICOM HAVE BOTH NOW WHELPED DOWN, BEAUTY HAVING 8 PUOPS BY PREMIER FANTASY AND DIGI HAVING 8 PUPS BY HEAD BOUND. RECENT HEAVY WEATHER ALTHOUGH GREAT FOR THE GROUND HAS PUT US BACK IN OTHER RESPECTS BUT OUR REARER CATHY EDWARDS REPORTS THAT THE BALLYMAC ACE X PARADISE DIGICOM LITTER HAVE ALL HANDSLIPPED AND CHASED WELL AT ELLESMERE PORT!

ON THE RACING FRONT BUT STAYING WITH PUPS THE 4 THAT ARRIVED A MONTH OR SO FROM DES LOUGHREY HAVE YET TO TRIAL. FARLOE RIGGLER AND FARLOE COUTURE AND FARLEY JAXX AND ACE ARE ALL GALOPING IMPRESSIVELY AND START TRIALLING AT MONMORE THIS WEEK. WE WERE WAITING FOR THE WEATHER TO BREAK IN EXPECTATION OF A SAFER RUNNING SURFACE ETC. THEY ARE ALL FOR SALE AND WILL BE PRICED IN THE NEXT FORTNIGHT SO LOOK AT THE 'FOR SALE' SECTION OF THIS WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO.

ON THE GRADED SCENE WE ARE CONTINUING TO BUILD ON OUR NUMBERS AT MONMORE ALBEIT SLOWLY BUT SURELY. WE HOPE TO BE UP TO AROUND THIRTY  FIVE BY THE END OF NOVEMBER. KENS WHITE NIGHT HAS RECENTLY JOINED US FROM ROMFORD SO A BIG HELLO AND WELCOME TO HIS OWNER MR KEN PRITCHARD. STEVEN TERNENT AND IAN GRAYS CHANGING SKY HAS BEEN DOING US PROUD AT MONMORE AND WON HIS BAGS SIS CHAMPS RACE AT HALL GREEN SO WE ARE VERY PROUD OF HIM.

ON THE OPEN RACE FRONT FARLOE BUDDY IS NEARLY READY TO TRIAL FOLLOWING HIS WRIST LIGAMENT PROBLEM, COLIN CALLOWS LONGWOOD BOUND WILL ALSO BE READY TO TRIAL IN ABOUT A FORTNIGHT. LONGWOOD FANTASY WILL TAKE PART IN THE ECLIPSE AT NOTTINGHAM. JIM O' SULLIVAN, ALAN BRANDOM AND BOB MCFARLANE HAVE PURCHASED FINAL BIG MIKE FROM EMMET HAZELETT AND HE WILL BE AIMED AT SHORT FOUR BEND PUPPY OPENS UNTIL MARCH. THIS IS BOBS RETURN TO OWNERSHIP AFTER A DECADE OR MORE SO WE WISHING HIM AND ALL OUR OWNERS ALL THE BEST FOR THE FUTURE.

LOSE A BATTLE ..... BUT WIN A WAR
DESPITE SUFFERING A HEAVY DEFEAT YESTERDAY IN THE FIRST LEG OF THE BAGS SIS CHAMPIONSHIP AT HALL GREEN WE MUST REMAIN VIGILANT AND RETAIN FOCUS AND BELIEF THAT WITH TWO FURTHER LEGS TO GO WE CAN RETRIEVE THE SITUATION. HALL GREEN MADE FULL USE OF HOME ADVANTAGE AND SOME SMART DRAWS TO LEAD HANDSOMELY AFTER THE FIRST DAY BY 53 POINTS ON 134, PERRY BARR HAVE 64 AND WE HAVE 81. MANY ALREADY BELIEVE THIS IS AN UNASSAILABLE LEAD ........................ BUT IS IT???

I HAVE A SAYING THAT I REMIND MY OWNERS OF ON OCCASSION, IT GOES  '... DEFEAT IS ONLY A NEGATIVE EVENT IF YOU CAN'T TAKE ANYTHING POSITITVE FROM IT!' YESTERDAY WENT BADLY FOR US BUT IT'S HOW WE REACT TO THIS THAT IS IMPORTANT. I'M CONFIDENT THAT IF WE ROLL OUR SLEEVES UP AND PUT THE WORK IN AND WE RETAIN A GOOD TEAM SPIRIT THROUGHOUT THAT WE WILL GO INTO THE LAST LEG WITH EVERY CHANCE.

 

 

CHANGING SKY AHEAD OF STORM

 

WEATHER FORECASTERS ARE PREDICTING THE WORST STORM SINCE THE 80'S LATE TONIGHT OR EARLY TOMORROW MORNING SO HOW FITTING WOULD A BOLD SHOW FROM OUR VERY CHANGING SKY BE IN THE FIRST LEG OF THE BAGS CHAMPIONSHIP (MIDLAND DIVISION) AT HALL GREEN ON TOMORROWS BAGS CARD!!

 

THE EARLY PACED BLACK WAS IN GREAT FORM AT MONMORE PRIOR TO THIS COMPETITION BUT TWO RECENT TRIALS AROUND THE GRA VENUE SAYS HE NEEDS TO FIND A GREAT DEAL OF TIME TO COMPETE WITH LOCAL HERO SUPREME JOHNSON. HALL GREEN HAS RUN TERRIBLY SLOW OF LATE AND TENDED TO  FAVOUR INSIDE RUNNERS SO ALL THINGS ARE AGAINST HIM AND IN AN IDEAL WORLD WE WOULD HAVE KEPT THIS FELLA FOR THE MONMORE AND PERRY BARR LEGS. BUT A BIG TEAM IS NEEDED TO ACCOMODATE THE NEW FORMAT AND SO WE COULD AFFORD NO SUCH LUXURY.

 

SKY ALWAYS GIVE HIS BEST AND HAS BEEN A MODEL OF CONSISITANCY AT HOME SO WE'RE HOPEFUL HE CAN SCORE GOOD POINTS FOR THE TEAM. GOOD LUCK FELLA!!

 

 

BAGS CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST LEG

 

THE ANNUAL BAGS CHAMPIONSHIP STARTED THIS WEEK WHEN HOSTS SHEFFIELD POACHED AN EARLY IN THEIR GROUP ON TUESDAY. MONDAY SEE MONMORE AND PERRY BARR TRAVEL TO HALL GREEN FOR THE FIRST LEG OF THE MIDLANDS GROUP!

 

RIVALRY IS ALWAYS FIERCE AMONG THE TRACKS, AFTER ALL APART FROM THE ADDED PRIZE MONEY POT TO THE WINNERS THEIR PRIDE AT STAKE ASWELL. NO RIVALRY IS MORE FIERCE THAN THAT OF HALL GREEN AND MONMORE GREEN. LAST YEARS GROUP WAS VERY CLOSE AND MONMORE PREVAILED ON THE LAST LEG TO TAKE THE SPOILS. THIS YEAR HALL GREEN ARE BRIMMING WITH CONFIDENCE AND WITH PERRY BARR SEEMINGLY STRONGER THIS TIME ASWELL THERE IS ALL TO PLAY FOR!!

 

OUR KENNEL HAS JUST THE ONE REPRESENTATIVE IN A1 PERFORMER CHANGING SKY ALTHOUGH HE HAS STRUGGLED TO COME TO GRIPS WITH THE HALL GREEN CIRCUIT IN TRIALS AND THE VERY SLOW SURFACE HAS TAXED HIM TO THE FULL. HOPEFULLY HE'LL GIVE A BOLD ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF AND DO HIS PART FOR THE TEAM. VIVA MONMORE!!

 

 

 

HAPPY TO HAVE CHARLIE FOR SAM

 

WE WERE ONLY TO HAPPY TO RECIEVE A CALL FROM OUR GOOD FRIENDS COLIN CALLOW AND HIS DAUGHTER SAM (ABOVE) INFORMING US OF A CHANGE OF HEART REGARDING THE RETIREMENT OF THEIR GRAND OLD SERVANT LONGWOOD FANTASY. THEIR ORIGINAL THOUGHTS WERE FOR SAM TO TAKE 'THE APPLE OF HER EYE' HOME TO ENJOY THE SOFA AT HER HOME IN SHROPSHIRE BUT THE OLD BOY HAS BEEN RUNNING SO WELL OF LATE THAT BOTH SAM AND COLIN WERE KEEN FOR HIM TO REMAIN IN TRAINING AT LEAST UNTIL THE NEW YEAR.

 

WE ARE DELIGHTED THAT THEY HAVE ASKED TO OVERSEE THE FINAL PART OF WHATS BEEN A TERRIFIC CAREER SEEING HIM BE RUNNER UP IN THE LAURELS IN CONSECUTIVE YEARS AND MAKE MANY PRESTIGOUS FINALS ALONG THE WAY. 'CHARLIE' AS HE IS KNOWN TO THE CALLOWS WILL BE VERY HARD TO REPLACE AND HE HAS BEEN A STALWART OF THEIR KENNEL. IT IS HOPED TO RUN HIM IN THE ECLIPSE AT NOTTINGHAM AND IN THE LAURELS FOR A THIRD TIME BEFORE HE ENJOYS HIS WELL EARNED REST.

 

 

OWNERS DAY PHOTOS ARE READY

 

OWNERS THAT TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ACE PHOTOGRAPHER DAVE YANEZS PRESENCE AT OUR RECENT OWNERS DAY BARBECUE CAN PURCHASE THEIR PHOTOS DIRECTLY FROM DAEV VIA THE YAN PHOTOGRAPHY ICON ON THE RIGHT OF THIS OUR HOMEPAGE. DAVE HAS CATURED SOME STUNNING SHOTS OF YOU AND YOUR HOUNDS BASKING IN GLORIOUS SUNSHINE AND I KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU WILL BE KEEN TO BUY. DAVE CAN DO MANY WEIRD AND WONDERFUL THINGS WITH THE PHOTOS SO ANYONE WANTING A 'MONTAGE' OF TWO OR MORE PHOTOS ON THE ONE IMAGE CAN BE CATERED FOR. HE ASO DOES A NUMBER OF BESPOKE FRAMES THAT REALLY SETS THE PHTOOS OFF AND MAKES A WONDERFUL EMBELISHMENT FOR A ROOM IN THE HOME. CONTACT DAVE, HE'S A GREAT GUY AND IS VERY HELPFUL!

 

 BIG MIKE ON HIS WAY TO GAYDON

 

OWNERS JIM AND AND SANDRA O' SULLIVAN AND ALAN BRANDOM WHO HAVE TASTED SUCCESS WHEN OWNING TOGETHER IN THE PAST HAVE SNAPPED UP FINAL BIG MIKE FROM DES LOUGHREYS LIMAVADY RANGE. HOWEVER, THIS TIME THEY HAVE EXTENDED THEIR PARTNERSHIP TO INCLUDE BOB MCFARLANE AND HIS WIFE PAT WHO JOINED THEM IN THE PHOTO ABOVE AT OUR RECENT OWNERS DAY. BOB HAS BEEN A SUPPORTER OF THE KENNEL FOR MANY YEARS AND ALTHOUGH IT HAS BEEN A WHILE SINCE HE PUT HIS NAME TO A HOUND HE WAS KEEN TO GET INVOLVED IN THIS DOG AND WE ARE VERY HAPPY THAT HE IS BACK ON BOARD!!

A MARCH 2012 BLACK DOG BY TYRUR BIG MIKE AND FINAL OYSTER (WHO IS A LITTER SISTER TO FARLOE TANGO) MIKE HAS SHOWN EXCELLENT SPEED IN HIS TRIALS TO DATE. HE WILL JOIN US AT VILLAGE FARM EARLY NEXT WEEK AND WILL BE AIMED AT PUPPY OPENS UP TO 480 METRES.

 

WE WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL INVOLVED THE BEST OF LUCK IN THE FUTURE !!

 

 

TRANSITION IS THE KEY WORD

 

AFTER A VERY TOUGH SUMMER THE KENNEL HAS LOST A NUMBER OF ITS ESTABLISHED RUNNERS AND SO YOURS TRULY HAS BEEN BUSY ASSEMBLING A NEW LOOK KENNEL STRENGTH TO WORK WITH IN 2014. OVER THE PAST MONTHS AS WELL AS WORKING TO REHABILITATE OUR INJURED GREYHOUNDS WE HAVE ALSO SOURCED A NUMBER OF NICE YOUNG DOGS FOR THE COMING SEASON. EARLIER THIS YEAR I MADE A CALCULATED DECISION THAT I WOULD CONCENTRATE ON BRINGING NEW DOGS THROUGH IN WAVES AND SO WE HAVE PURCHASED AND BRED GREYHOUNDS TO GIVE US A CONTINUOUSLY CHANGING LINE-UP FOR 2014.

 

WE WILL ALSO BE AIMING TO MAKE A DEFINATE MARK ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE AND I AM VERY PLEASED WITH DOGS THAT HAVE WE ASSEMBLED SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT REASON TOO!

 

 

ACE PUPS CONTINUE TO PLEASE

 

OWNER CHRIS BIRKENEHEADS LITTER FROM HIS PARADISE DIGICOM TO CHRIS ALLSOPPS CHAMPION TRACKER BALLYMAC ACE ARE NOW 12 MONTHS AND THEY CONTINUE TO PLEASE REARER CATHY EDWARDS WHO HAS RECENTLY PULLED THEM UP BEHIND THE DRAG FOR THE FIRST TIME!

 

ALL FIVE (THERE WERE 7 IN TOTAL) OF THE PUPS CATHY IS REARING WENT VERY WELL AND SHE IS VERY HAPPY WITH THEIR PROGRESS. THE TWO DOGS AND THREE BITCHES WILL BE HANDSLIPPED IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO AND WHILE THE BITCHES WILL BE SCHOOLED FURTHER THE DOGS WILL GO ANOTHER COUPLE OF MONTHS BEFORE SCHOOLING REGULARLY DUE TO THEIR SIZE. FINGERS CROSSED FOR ALL INVOLVED.

 

 

DROOPYS BETSON RETIRES

 

MIXED EMOTIONS FOR ALL AT THE KENNEL THIS WEEK AS ONE OF OUR FAVOURITES DROOPYS BETSON (SERGE) LEFT US TO TAKE UP HOME IN STEVENAGE WITH PAUL AND SHARON THORNE. DESPITE VARIOUS ATTEMPTS OVER THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS HE WAS STRUGGLING TO RETURN FROM A RUPTURED FCU TENDON OWNER JON MILES AND I TOOK THE DECISION TO RETIRE HIM GRACEFULLY RATHER THAN RISK FURTHER INJURY.

 

BETSON CONTESTED AN ALL OPEN RACE CAREER BARRING HIS LAST RACE, AN A1 CONTEST AT MONMORE WHICH SAW HIM INJURED AND FINISH DOWN THE FIELD. THAT APART, HE HAS HAD A BRILLIANT CAREER RUNNING WINNING OPENS ON SIX DIFFERENT TRACKS! HE MADE THE SEMI-FINAL OF THE WIMBLEDON PUPPY DERBY (MISSING THE FINAL BY A SHD) HE MADE THE SEMI-FINAL OF THE PALL MALL, THE SEMI-FINAL OF THE STEEL CITY CUP, THE FINAL OF THE LADBROKES SUMMER FESTIVAL (ABOVE T3) AND WON OPENS AT ROMFORD, OXFORD, MONMORE, BRIGHTON, SHEFFIELD AND SWINDON ON SKY IN A SUPPORTING RACE ON LAURELS FINAL NIGHT.

 

HE HAS BEEN AN ABSOLUTE JOY TO WORK WITH AND GAVE THE KENNEL AND HIS OWNER SOME MEMORABLE NIGHTS. BIG THANKS TO SHARON AND PAUL FOR GIVING HIM THE RUN OF THEIR HOME AND TAKING HIM IN AS PART OF THEIR FAMILY. HAVE FUN BOY!! 

 

 

STUNNING PHOTOS BY MR YANEZ

 

SUPERB GREYHOUND PHOTOGRAPHER DAVE YANEZ SNAPPED SOME QUITE STUNING PHOTOS OF OUR HOUNDS WHEN HE ATTENDED SUNDAYS OWNERS DAY BARBECUE. THE ABOVE PHOTO OF FARLOE OAK IS PARTICULARLY BEAUTIFUL AND ONE MY FAVOURITES. DAVE HAS BEEN A HUGE HELP TO THE KENNEL, APART FROM PROVIDING VALUABLE CONTENT BY WAY OF HIS MAGNIFICENT PHOTOS HE ALSO DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED OUR WEBSITE WHICH HE STILL MANANGES FOR US. LIZ AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK HIM SINCERELY FOR ALL HIS EFFORTS. YOU CAN SEE ALL OF DAVES OWNERS DAY BARBECUE PHOTOS ON HIS YAN PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE VIA THE LINK ON OUR HOME PAGE.

 

 

OWNERS DAY BARBECUE A BIG HIT

 

SUNDAYS OWNERS DAY BARBECUE WAS A BIG HIT WITH AROUND 80 OWNERS AND FRIENDS PASSING THROUGH DURING THE AFTERNOON. LIZ AND I WERE DESPERATE TO SEE ALL OUR OWNERS IN THE ONE PLACE AS THIS HAS BEEN ALMOST UNACHIEVEABLE SINCE MOVING TO MONMORE. THANKFULLY WE HAD A QUITE SUPERB DAY FOR IT WITH EVERYONE ENJOYING THE OCTOBER SUNSHINE!!

 

ACE PHOTOGRAPHER  (AND LILYPAD RACINGS WEBSITE MANAGER) DAVID YANEZ WAS ON HAND AND TOOK SOME BRILLIANT PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE GREYHOUNDS AND OTHER SUBJECTS TO RECORD THE EVENT. THE CHILDREN TOOK FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE BOUNCY CASTLE WE HIRED AND THE FOOD AND DRINK FLOWED FREELY IN A VERY WARM AND RELAXING ATMOSPHERE.

 

GARY THOMPSON WAS PRESENTED WITH HIS PRIZE (A ONE-OFF DESIGN LILYPAD RACING HOODIE) FOR WINNING THE RECENT THURSDAY NIGHT TIPPING COMPETITION RUN ON OUR OWNERS FORUM AND OWNERS BARRY, LYNETTE AND JAMIE WARNER PROVIDIED AND COOKED ALL THE BARBECUE FOOD FOR US SO A HUGE THANKS TO THEM AND STAFF FROM BARRYS (BUTCHERS) OF CARTERTON FOR ALL THEIR HELP. THANKS ALSO TO TRACEY AND DAVE BUSTIN FOR ALL THEIR HELP AND SUPPORT AND TO OUR STAFF WHO WERE A CREDIT TO THE COMPANY NAME.

 

LAST THANKS GOES TO MY WIFE LIZ, WHO, APART FROM ALSO PROVIDING FOOD FOR THE BUFFET, HAD TO PUT WITH MY WHINGEING AND WORRYING RIGHT UP TO THE START OF THE EVENT. 

 

 

FANTASY PUPS ARE REAL BEAUTYS

 

OUR LITTER BY PREMIER FANTASY AND ROEVIEW BEAUTY WILL BE THREE WEEKS THIS WEEKEND AND THEY ARE REALLY GOING GREAT GUNS! ALL EIGHT OF THE PUPS ARE HEALTHY AND GROWING WELL AND TO SAY THE PUPS ARE UNIFORM IN SIZE WOULD BE SOMEWHAT OF AN UNDERSTATEMENT. I POSTED THE PHOTO (ABOVE) OF ONE OF THE BLACK BITCHES ONTO OUR FACEBOOK PAGE AND GOT AN INCREDIBLE RESPONSE ......... WELL SHE IS A CUTIE!! (LOL) THERE WERE THREE DOGS AND FIVE BITCHES AND THEY ARE BLACK AND BLACK & WHITE IN COLOUR. YOURS TRULY WILL NO DOUBT MOAN AND GROAN ABOUT THEIR PROGRESS UP UNTIL THEY LEAVE US BUT THEN THAT WOULDN'T BE ANYTHING  NEW, I'M RENOWN AROUND THE KENNELS FOR FRETTING OVER OUR LITTERS! (LOL)

 

 

LONGWOOD BOUND SETTLES IN WELL

 

COLIN CALLOWS LONGWOOD BOUND HAS SETTLED IN WELL THUS FAR SINCE JOINING US  LAST WEEK. BOUND HAS PLYED HIS TRADE IN TOP COMPANY SINCE JOINING COLINS LONGWOOD RANGE LAST YEAR. COLIN HAS STEERED HIM TO MAJOR FINALS INCLUDING THE ARC AT SWINDON AND THE SUSSEX CUP AT HOVE. COLIN HAS DECIDED TO SCALE DOWN AND CONCENTRATE ON HIS BUSINESS COMMITMENTS OVER THE WINTER AND SO WE WERE DELIGHTED WHEN HE ENTRUSTED US TO LOOK AFTER THE DOG, KNOWN AS 'AJ' AROUND THE KENNEL. WE HAVE NO IMMEDIATE PLANS AT PRESENT BUT COLIN (A GOOD PAL OF MINE) AND I HAVE DISCUSSED POSSIBLE COMPETITION ENTRIES FOR THE DOG DURING WINTER.

 

 

MONTY IN A HURRY IN BAGS DOUBLE

 

LONGWOOD MONTY SHOWED GLIMPSES OF HIS OLD SELF AT FRIDAYS BAGS MEETING WHEN BOLTING UP IN THE S2 WITH A SMART TIME OF 38.35. THE POWERFUL BLACK, VERY MUCH A KENNEL FAVORITE BROKE WELL FROM HIS TRAP FIVE BERTH TO LEAD AT THE TURN BEFORE ACCELARATING AWAY TO WIN BY SIX AND THREE QUARTER LENGTHS.

 

ELSEWHERE ON THE DAY, FROM OUR 6 RUNNERS, PRIMO LANCE WAS (3RD), PARADISE RIO (2ND), TIMBER YARD (2ND) FARLEY GENE (2ND) AND MONAGEA LEE SCORED HIS FIRST VICTORY SINCE BEING PURCHASED BY ANN CROFT AND BEN HUGHES. THIS SHOWS THE CONSISTANT FORM THAT THE KENNEL IS IN AT PRESENT WITH ALL OUR DOGS PERFORMING WELL UNDER TENNABLE CONDITIONS.

 

 

 

PACIFIC IS AUGUSTS TOP DOG

 

BARRY (AND JAMIE) WARNERS PARADISE PACIFIC WAS MONMORE GREEN OWNERS CLUBS DOG OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST. PACIFIC, KNOWN TO US ALL AS PEPE, WAS IN A REAL PURLE PATCH BEFORE PICKING UP A SLIGHT INJURY. HE KNOCKED OFF FOUR ON THE BOUNCE AN A2, AND A1, AN S1 AND AN OPEN 630 AND THREE OF THOSE VICTORIES CAME IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

 

HIS SWASH-BUCKLING BACK RUNNING STYLE HAS MADE HIM A FAVOURITE WITH THE MONMORE CROWD AND WE ARE DELIGHTED TO TRAIN SUCH A GENUINE DOG AS THIS FELLA. HUGE CONGATULATIONS TO BARRY (PICTUED RIGHT ABOVE) AND THE WARNERS AND HUGE THANKS FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT!

 

 

BABY ACE TOO YOUNG TO RACE!

 

AT THE TENDER AGE OF 14 MONTHS FARLEY ACE, A JULY 12 WHELP, IS STILL TOO YOUNG RACE UNDER GbGB RULES. A STUNNING INDIVIDUAL (BY ACE HI RUMBLE OUT OF DROOPYS FLOSS) ACE HAS A LOVELY TEMPERMENT AND DISPLAYS ALL THE ATTRIBUTES OF A PUP WITH ABILITY. IN HIS FIRST EVER TRIAL OVER 500YDS AT DERRY HE RECORDED A SUPERB 29.30. HE ONLY ARRIVED HERE AT VILLAGE FARM AROUND 10 DAYS AGO BUT HAS SETTLED IN SUPERBLY.

 

WE WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY GIVE ACE AND THE OTHER THREE FARLOE PUPS THAT HAVE PROCEEDED HIM ON THIS BLOG OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS ONE OR TWO SCHOOLING TRIALS BEFORE MARKING THEIR CARDS OFFICIALLY. THIS WILL NOT ONLY BOOST THEIR CONFIDENCE BUT IT WILL GIVE US A BETTER CHANCE TO ASSESS THEIR QUALITIES AND RUNNING STYLES AND A FIRMER INDICATION OF THE GREYHOUNDS THEY SHOULD MAKE UP IN TO.

 

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN OWNING ACE, EITHER IN FULL OR IN PART GIVE PAT A CALL ON 07795097574 FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND A NO OBLIGATION CHAT ON WHAT THIS PUP HAS TO OFFER.

 

 

JAXX FARLEY OUZES ABILITY

 

JUNE 12' WHELP FARLEY JAXX IS A REALLY POWERFUL LOOKING INDIVIDUAL THAT SIMPLY OUZES CLASS AND ABILITY. HE IS A 35 KILO BLACK DOG BY ACE TRACKER JA MANN AND AGINCOURT FANCY. HE WILL SOON BE FOR SALE AND THE FIRST INTERESTED PARTY TO SEE HIM WILL BUY HIM OF THAT I HAVE NO DOUBT!

 

JAXX HAS HAD JUST A COUPLE OF TRIALS AND IS BARELY OLD ENOUGH TO RACE IN ENGLAND. IN HIS FIRST EVER TRIAL HE RECORDED 29.28 FOR THE 500 YDS IN DERRY AND HE IS BARELY SCHOOLED. WHAT MIGHT THIS FELLA HAVE DONE ROUND THERE IN TWO MONTHS TIME WHEN HE WOULD STILL HAVE ONLY BEEN 17 MONTHS OLD. WE WERE LUCKY TO GET HIM AND LOOK FORWARD TO HANDLING HIS RACING CAREER.

 

IF YOUR INTERESTED IN BEING INVOLVED WITH JAXX, EITHER BY OWNING OUTRIGHT OR IN PART GIVE PAT A RING ON 07795097574.

COUTURE IS A VERY STYLISH

 

FAWN BITCH FARLOE COUTURE IS A REALLY BEAUTIFUL GREYHOUND THAT HAS TURNED MANY HEADS SINCE ARRIVING WITH US JUST OVER A WEEK AGO. SHE IS SOON TO BEGIN TRIALLING AND WILL BE OFFERED FOR SALE VERY SHORTLY.

 

BY SHELBOURNE WIN MACHINE TYRUR BIG MIKE AND THE FARLOE BRED TYRUR BERNIE THIS LADY HAS THE BREEDING TO GO WITH HER LOOKS AND WE ARE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO HANDLING HER RACING CAREER. SHE HAS DONE VERY LITTLE ON THE TRACK TO DATE AND IS REALLY ONLY PART SCHOOLED BUT ALREADY SHE HAS SHOWN ENOUGH SPEED TO SUGGEST WINS OF A DECENT STANDARD MAY WELL BE FORTHCOMING.

 

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN OWNING THIS BEAUTIFUL 29 KILO BITCH EITHER IN FULL OR PART SHARE PLEASE RING PAT ON 07795097574 FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR TO REGISTER YOU RINTEREST.

 

FARLOE RIGGLER FOR SALE SOON

 

FARLOE RIGGLER, AN APRIL 12' WHELP BY HONDO BLACK AND WONTBELONG IS SETTLING IN WELL AT VILLAGE FARM AND WILL SOON BE OFFERED FOR SALE.

 

A 33 KILO BLUE DOG RIGGLER HAILS FROM A PROVEN OPEN RACE LINE THAT INCLUDES FARLOE WARHAWK WINNER OF THE WIMBLEDON PUPPY DERBY AND THE LAURELS (RATED 139 ON GREYHOUND DATA) AND WINTER FAVOURITE FOR THIS YEARS DERBY, MANY ARE CALLED (121), FARLOE TORNADO (115), FARLOE PXIE (121) AND FARLOE TROJAN (111) FROM DAM WONTBELONGS FIRST TWO LITTERS AND HE IS LITTER BROTHER TO MANY OPEN RACE PROSPECTS. HIS COMRADE FARLOE NUTTER, ALTHOUGH UNRACED AS YET,  POSTED 28.86 SHELBOURNE PARK IN TRIAL A WEEK AGO.

 

RIGGLER HAS HAD PLENTY OF BAD LUCK IN HIS THREE RACES TO DATE BEING KO'D ON TWO OCCASSIONS AND WINNING THE OTHER. WE WILL TAKE OUR TIME WITH HIM AND REBUILD HIS CONFIDENCE SO ANY INTERESTED PARTIES MUST NOT BE IN A HURRY AS WE WILL NOT RUSH HIM AT ANY PRICE. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN FULL/PART OWNERSHIP OF RIGGLER GIVE PAT A CALL ON 07795097574 FOR FURHTER DETAILS AND TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST.

 

 

OWNERS DAY & BARBECUE

 

THERE WILL BE A BARBECUE FOR OWNERS & GUESTS AT VILLAGE FARM ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 6TH. OWNERS (OLD, NEW & POTENTIAL!) AND THEIR GUESTS ARE WELCOME FROM 10.45 TO SEE THE DOGS, MEET THE TEAM  AND ENJOY DELICIOUS BARBECUED FAYRE. INVITATIONS WILL BE DISPATCHED OVER THE NEXT GFEW DAYS AND PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE WITH PAT OR LIZ ASAP SO THAT WE HAVE A ROUGH IDEA OF NUMBERS ETC.

 

LIZ AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE AS MANY OF OUR OWNERS AND THEIR FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE SO DO YOUR BEST TO COME HAVE SOME FUN WITH THE GANG !!!

TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER WRITTEN

 

THERE HAVE NOT BEEN MANY WORDS AS ACCURATE AS THOSE ABOVE. SOME MONTHS PAST  I  FOUND THIS PHRASE WRITTEN BY EPICTETUS (AN AGE AGO) ON THE INTERNET AND FELT IT WAS VERY RELEVENT TO OUR SITUATION AT THE TIME.  I PRINTED THE ABOVE IMAGE OFF AND STUCK IT TO THE PINBOARD IN THE OFFICE. EVERY TIME SOMETHING WENT AGAINST US OR A DECISION MADE WAS THE WRONG ONE I LOOKED AT THIS IMAGE.

 

WE ARE CURRENTLY INCREASING OUR RACING STRENGTH SLOWLY BUT SURELY AND WE HAVE NEW ARRIVALS MOST WEEKS. AT THE TURN OF THE YEAR WE WILL HAVE PUPS READY TO RACE AND STOCK BOUGHT AT PUPPY AGE THIS YEAR WILL HAVE MATURED AND BE READY TO WORK FOR US. ALL OF US AT LILYPAD RACING HAVE REMAINED FOCUSED AND RESOLUTE DESPITE KNOCK AFTER KNOCK SINCE MAY AND WE ARE NOW TURNING THINGS ROUND. AS ALWAYS WE HAVE ACTED IN THE APPROPIATE MANNER ENSURING THAT OUR DOGS REMAIN FIT AND WELL AND THAT ARE OWNERS ARE HAPPY WITH THE SERVICE WE PROVIDE. IN DOING SO WE UPHOLD THE STANDARDS OUR EMPLOYERS DEMAND AND MONMORE GREENS REPUTATION AS A TOP VENUE FOR GREYHOUND RACING WILL REMAIN FIRMLY  INTACT. THIS IS OUR WAY AND OUR COMMITMENT IS UNQUESTIONABLE.

ROEVIEW BEAUTYS PUPPIES ARE HERE

THE LONG AWAITED LITTER FROM ROEVIEW BEAUTY BY PREMIER FANTASY ARRIVED YESTERDAY AND MOTHER AND PUPS ARE DOING WELL! THE EIGHT PUPPIES (3 DOGS AND 5 BITCHES) ARE A MIXTURE OF BLACK AND BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOUR AND ARE VERY UNIFORM IN SIZE.

BEAUTY HAILS FROM THE HONDO BLACK X FARLOE CHARITY AND IS A SISTER OF KENNEL FAVOURITES FARLOE KRAVEN AND FARLOE MYSTERIO. SHE IS ALSO A GRANDAUGHTER OF FARLOE DINGLE AND THE PREMIER FANTASY CROSS TO HER PROGENY IS WELL PROVEN AND ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COMBINATIONS OF RECENT YEARS. IT HAS PRODUCED THE LIKES OF FARLOE ICEMAN, FARLOE IRONMAN, WHITTLE MURTAGH, GOLDEN WONDER, YOUNG GOLDEN AND THE ULTRA SPEEDY FEAR ZAFONIC ........ SO FINGERS CROSSED!!

 

 

 

ANN & BEN COME IN FOR LEE

 

ANN CROFT AND BEN HUGHES HAVE STEEPPED IN TO PURCHASE MONAGEA LEE. LEE HAS BEEN ADVERYISED ON THIS SITE FOR A GOOD FEW WEEKS NOW AND YOURS TRULY COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT HE HADN'T SOLD AT THE PRICE, HE HAS SCOPE FOR REAL IMPROVEMENT AND IS ONLY AN OCTOBER 11' WHELP. WHEN HE TIDYS UP HIS TRAPPING HIS EARLY PACE WILL SEE HIM LEAD MANY RACES AND THERE IS NO BETTER PLACE TO BE THAN INFRONT IN ANY RACE! ANN HAS WORKED WITH US FOR MANY YEARS NOW AND IS A POPULAR FIGURE WITH THE OTHER OWNERS AS WELL AS BEING A VALUABLE MEMBER OF OUR TEAM. SHE HAS ENJOYED MIXED SUCCESS AS AN OWNER BUT HAS ALWAYS REMAINED POSITIVE.  FOR BEN HUGHES THIS IS HIS FIRST SORTEE IN TO OWNERSHIP, HE HAS BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE KENNELS THROUGH HIS ASSOCIATION WITH ANN AND WE ARE GRATEFUL THAT HE HAS ENTRUSTED US TO TRAIN HIS FIRST GREYHOUND. LIZ AND I WISH BOTH PARTIES ALL THE BEST AND LOTS OF FUTURE SUCCESS.

 



 

 

FARLEY OBVIOUS THAT SKYS AHEAD

 

CHANGING SKY (8/1) AND FARLEY GENE (5/2) PROVIDED THE KENNEL WITH A DOUBLE FROM JUST THREE RUNNERS LAST NIGHT AT MONMORE GREEN. STEVE WARNERS GENE (PICTURED IN THE PRESENTATION ABOVE) MADE USE OF HIS FAVOURED RED VEST DRAW AND MADE EVERY POST A WINNING ONE TO HOLD OFF CLEANAWAY LUCY IN A THRILLING FINISH POSTING A TIDY 29.06 IN THE PROCESS.

 

CHANGING SKYS VICTORY IN THE LADBROKES 480 MAIDEN OPEN WAS EVEN MORE CLINICAL WHEN FLASHING OUT OF HIS FAVOURED TRAP 6 BERTH HE RAN HIS RIVALS RAGGED EARLY ON AND CAME HOME TWO AND A QUARTER LENGTHS CLEAR IN A TERRIFIC 28.45. THIS WAS SKYS FOURTH VICTORY FROM FOURTEEN STARTS ALL OF WHICH HAVE BEEN  INEITHER A2, A1 OR OPEN RACE COMPANY. HE'S A REALLY NICE DOG AND A PLEASURE TO TRAIN. HE COULD BE YOURS TODAY ............... JUST VIST THE FOR SALE SECTION OF THIS WEBSITE!!

 

 

 

NEW ARRIVALS AT GAYDON

 

NEXT WEEKEND WILL SEE THE ARRIVAL OF FOUR NEW PUPPIES TO VILLAGE FARM, ALL READY TO RACE, AND ALL HAILING FROM THE BEST BREEDER IN THE UK. AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE THE GREYHOUNDS WILL ALL BE SENSIBLY PRICED AND SHOULD GO ON TO BE VERY GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY! THE TEAM AT LILYPAD RACING IS WORKING AS WELL AS EVER AND WITH THE COMING WEEKS SEEING A RETURN TO WORK FOR MANY OF THE KENNELS BIGGER NAMES YOURS TRULY IS LOOKING FORWARD TO FINISHING THE YEAR STRONGLY.

 

 IF YOU WANT TO ADD TO YOUR NUMBERS FOR THE COMNG YEAR OR IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING BECOMING AN OWNER FOR THE FIRST TIME WHY NOT GIVE ME A CALL ON 07795097574 FOR A NO OBLIGATION CHAT AS TO WHAT WE HAVE ON OFFER TO SUIT YOUR CRITERIA.

 

 

THE CALM AFTER THE STORM

 

THE ANNUAL WEEKLY COVERAGE OF MONMORES THURSDAY NIGHT MEETING BY RPGTV ENDED LAST WEEK WITH PRESENTER JULIE COLLIER HOSTING LIVE INTERVIEWS FROM THE TRACK. THE MEETINGS, THE TRAINERS AND THE THE STADIUM HAVE COME ACROSS VERY WELL IN THE MAIN AND THE CALIBRE OF RACING HAS SHONE THROUGH ON MANY OCCASSIONS. ITS BACK TO NORMAL NOW HOWEVER AND THOSE THAT CANNOT ATTEND THE TRACK WILL BE ABLE TO VIEW THE RACING VIA THEIR LOCAL LADBROKES SHOPS.

 

MONMORE GREEN GOES LIVE TO THE BOOKMAKER OUTLETS FOUR TIMES A WEEK, THAT, COUPLED WITH THE TERRIFIC PRIZE MONEY AND THE STADIUMS  FACILITIES MAKES OWNING A GREYHOUND THERE BOTH ENJOYABLE AND PARTICULARLY VIABLE. WHETHER YOU ARE ABLE TO ATTEND THE RACE MEETINGS ON A REGULAR BASIS OR YOU JUST NOW AND AGAIN MONMORE IS A GREAT OPTION AS YOU CAN ALWAYS NIP TO YOUR LOCAL BOOKIES IF YOU CAN'T TRAVEL DOWN TO SEE YOUR DOG RUN!