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 !!