Week ending 6th September 2009

Monday 31st
A good start to the week with 2 winners from our 5 runners. Stanton Jerry won his A2 in a decent 29.07. Having missed the break, he showed terrific early and back straight pace to take the lead at the halfway point and stuck on gamely. Well Lilly returned to a bit of form after her season to win her A3 in 29.59. She will get better and better from now on.
Tuesday 1st
A fairly busy trial day with 8 dogs going. Youngsters, Trade Paco and Dance Izzy qualified for racing while Lively Lotte, Clonark Brett, Lepus and Clomantagh Blue went well in their comeback trials. Un raced pup, Chavy Granny went well to record a 30.00 off a sectional of 2.97 !
Wednesday 2nd
1 winner tonight from our 4 runners. Stanton Torres continued his good recent form with an all the way win in A3. He recorded 29.51. Princess Ziggy also ran well to finish 2nd in her A5.
Thursday 3rd
Finally the M25 was kind to us and we got to Hove without incident. Redstone Turk, although beaten for the first time at Hove tonight, probably ran his best race there. He finished 2nd beaten just over 2 lengths. Turk was very poorly drawn in trap 3 in race which had 4 wide runners in. He was hampered straight out the boxes by trap 2 but stuck to his line bravely and ran a straight line to the bend. He was slightly crowded around the first and turned out of the second level with Seamus Cahills decent Open dog, Corrig Count and about 5 lengths behind the leader, Sussex Cup runner up Farney King. We ran away from Corrig Count along the back and did well to chase the leader down to 2 lengths at the finish. This was a high class field which also included Sussex Cup winner Raithby Sarah and having not run for 2 weeks our fella did us proud and proved he can produce the goods against top quality dogs. He'll be running at Swindon on Wednesday before heading to Nottingham on Monday for a small competition.
Friday 4th
A terrific day with 4 winners and a couple of seconds. The dogs really ran well and all came home safe. Hell Razor got the ball rolling when winning his A5 by nearly 5 lengths in a personal best 29.67. He's a terrific little dog to train and does everything right and gives his all every time he goes to the track.
Strictly Baileys ran the race of his life to win his A3 by nearly 7 lengths in a decent 29.08. The race was over as a contest as 'Simba' trapped well and led going in to the first bend. He went further clear as the race went on and has done really well since returning from injury. He's now won 6 from his 15 races.
Cheeseboard continued her excellent form to win another A2. She again led all the way and recorded a personal best 29.28. She has now won 4 from her last 5.
Stanton Tom won a scrappy A2 in 29.55. He took a whack around the first but stuck to his guns well to hold on at the line. Lisnakil Xpress ran well to finish 2nd in his A6. Parnell Lee is one to look out for next time. Having his first run for 2 weeks he was desperately unlucky in his A2 and would have won well with a clear run. He's a nice dog.
Saturday 5th
Although we didn't have a winner tonight the dogs ran really well again and there were a couple of terrific performances from our pups.
Dance Izzy is only a March 08 pup and had her first ever race tonight in A5. She fell out the boxes in a 2.75 sectional but showed lovely pace and great track craft to make a real race of it. She finished 4th in the end but would have won easily with a run off the last bend. She is mad for the game and led a mile to pick up.
Trade Paco also had his first ever race tonight and ran a blinder. As pups tend to do first time out, Paco fell from the boxes about 4 lengths behind everything else but showed lovely early pace before losing his way around the first two bends. When he managed to sort himself out he showed a classy turn of pace down the back and was as brave as a lion running through dogs on the third bend. He drifted out wide off the last bend and finished third. Considering how hard it is for pups going straight in to A3 class, this was a great run by him and he looks a really exciting prospect. He certainly went in a few peoples note book after tonight!
Realt Gael again ran well to finish 2nd in A3, Oaks best also ran OK to finish 3rd in his A8 and Forest Best did plenty of running to finish 3rd in a decent A1.
Before Racing tonight, Clonark Brett, Puerto Bound, Lively Lotte and Superstar Lilly all had 480 trials. Superstar Lilly confirmed my thoughts that she is destined for big things when winning only her second ever four bend trial in good style. She trialled against two of our decent dogs in Lively Lotte and Puerto Bound and in all honesty she made them look pace less! She won her trial after two sets of trouble in 29.56 and would have easily done 29.20 with a run. She really could be anything this girl.
On a sad note though we lost our battle to keep Odds on Foxy alive. She had been very poorly for a fair while now and took a further turn for the worse over the last couple of days and I made the decision it was kinder to put her to sleep. Everyone at the kennels loved Foxy to bits and she will be really missed. She had a lovely personality and fought her illness with everything she had. She was only just over two years of age. I must say though that her owners were top class to train for and Foxy's well being was their only ever concern.