PARADISE AND FANTASY IN DOUBLE
BARRY WARNER (ABOVE RIGHT) AND FORMER HANDLER COLIN CALLOW FINALLY RECIEVED SOME REWARD FOR THE PATIENCE THEY'VE SHOWN IN RECENT TIMES AS PARADISE PACIFIC AND LONGWOOD FANTASY PUT UP STIRLING PERFORMANCES TO CLAIM THE SPOILS AT MONMORE LAST NIGHT. BARRY (A LONG TIME SUPPORTER OF THE KENNEL) HAS HAD A TORRID TIME OF LATE WITH NEARLY ALL OF HIS SIZEABLE STRING OF GREYHOUNDS TAKING ENFORCED BREAKS THROUGH INJURY OR SEASON. LIZ AND I APPRECIATE THAT ITS NOT EASY GOING THROUGH THOSE TIMES AND BARRY HAS BEEN VERY GRACIOUS THROUGHOUT AND FOR THAT WE ARE TRULY THANKFUL. IT WAS GREAT TO SEE HIS PARADISE PACIFIC SHOW SOME OF HIS FORMER GLORY AFTER RETURNING RECENTLY FROM MONTHS ON THE SIDELINE AFTER SUFFERING A CAREER THREATENING INJURY. THE BLACKS TERRIFIC BURST OF BACK STRAIGHT HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE HE RACKED A TREMEMNDOUS FOUR-IN-A-ROW BACK IN AUGUST OF LAST YEAR.
COLIN CALLOW, A LONG TIME FRIEND OF THE KENNEL AND HIMSELF A VERY ACCOMPLISHED HANDLER, SENT LONGWOOD BOUND AND LONGWOOD FANTASY TO US LAST YEAR AFTER DECIDING TO TAKE A SABATICAL FROM TRAINING TO CONCENTRATE ON HIS BUSINESS INTERESTS. SINCE THEN BOUND HAS BEEN STRUGGLING WITH INJURY AND FANTASY, WHO IS FIVE NEXT MONTH, HAS RUN WELL AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL WITHOUT REAPING MUCH REWARD. IT WAS GREAT TOS SEE HIM BACK TO HIS OLD SELF LAST NIGHT. HE REALLY IS A CLASS ACT AND HAS BEEN A GREAT SERVANT FOR THE CALLOW FAMILY.
