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!!