Week ending 31st January 2010

Monday 25th
A couple of winners to start the week off with.
Mutter To Razor got a much deserved A5 win when leading close home to win in a personal best 29.71.
Ling added another A3 win to her collection when scoring in 29.75.
Stanton Ollie ran well but was just caught on the line in his A4. He recorded 29.49.
On a bad note though, Danielles Leah suffered a cracked hock and will face around 3 months off the track.
Tuesday 26th
A fairly busy trial session with 9 dogs going today. Ballinorig Maeve (29.20), Galley Crash(29.74) Stanton Torres (29.70), Strictly Baileys (29.52), Forest Crash (29.58), Twiglish Whitty (29.76) and Bers Rose (29.56) all returned to the racing strength. Ard Flight (17.19) and Realt Gael(17.00) went well enough in their comebacks.
Wednesday 27th
A good night with 2 winners and 3 seconds from our 7 runners.
Moving Merry took off in her A4 to win by nearly 7 lengths in a personal best 29.23.
Queue Pea Are made it a hat trick of wins when easily winning his A2 by nearly 8 lengths. He recorded a personal best 29.23.
Clomantagh Blue, Whateverittakes and Slaneyside Molly were our runners up.
Friday 29th
A couple of winners today. Rackethall Kenny got off the mark with a dead heat win in his A6. He recorded 29.99 and will continue to improve nicely.
Queen Merykara continued her fantastic form when making it back-to-back A1 wins. She again led all the way and won in 28.99.
Saturday 30th
Not much to report from a quiet night for the kennel. Sounds Classic ran a blinder but was just beaten in a photo in her A7. She recorded a personal best 30.14. It will take a good one to beat her in A7 next time out.

***** January Dog of the Month *****

There have been some terrific performers for us in January.

I Certainly May has marched up the grades and won 2 from 4 in Jan.

Queen Merykara has been in awesome form winning 3 of her 5 races during the month. She won A2 in 29.15 before winning two A1's in 28.86 and 28.99.

However, this month's award has to go to Queue Pea Are who won all 3 of his races and went from A5 to A2. He won his A5 in 29.61, moved up to A4 and won well in 29.38 before being shifted up 2 grades to A2. He won this by nearly 8 lengths in a personal best 29.23.

Week ending 24th January 2010

Monday 18th
A couple of seconds was the best we could manage from today's runners. Mutter To Razor finished runner up in her A5 posting 29.90. She looks a winner in the making when the ground improves. Danielles Leah was again the bridesmaid in her A2, clocking 29.31.
Tuesday 19th
6 were sent to trials today - all for sprints.
Ballinorig Maeve continues to make good progress in her return to racing, clocking 16.66. Forest Crash (16.72), Twiglish Whitty (17.05), Stanton Torres (16.64), Bers Rose (16.75) and Strictly Baileys (16.82) all went nicely and will be stepped up to 4 bends next Tuesday.
Wednesday 20th
Just the one winner tonight. Stanton Buddy who has quickly hit top form after returning from a rest, blasted the lids and won his A2 in good fashion. He posted a decent 29.06.
Thursday 21st
A busy day with a trip to the vets in the morning and the physio coming to the kennels in afternoon. Around 20 dogs were given the once over. It was mostly good news, with a few dogs given the all clear to return to full training.
Thankfully we were able to use the gallop for the first time in a while and we quickly made good use of it with around 15 dogs going through their paces.
Friday 22nd
A fantastic day for the kennel with 5 winners from our 11 runners.
Queue Pea Are got the day off to a great start with a near 6 length win in his A4. Buzz rode a bump around the first bend before quickly drawing clear to win in a personal best 29.38. He's been in cracking form of late.
Slaneyside Molly quickly hit the front in her A5 and never saw another dog as she went on to win by just over 6 lengths in 29.69.
Clomantagh Blue got a much deserved win over the 685m trip when firing from the boxes to lead all the way in her S3. She won in a personal best 42.91.
Queen Merykara continued her fantastic recent form by making all in the A1 to win by over four lengths in a personal best 28.86. Kara has now won 5 of her last 7 races and has come back better than ever from her severe shoulder injury.
Princess Ziggy rounded the day off with her first ever race win. Ziggy did remarkably well to win from the inside of the track and came from a fair way off the pace to do so. She won in 29.81.
Rackethall Kenny made his debut tonight and ran very well. He was crowded all the way up the run up but showed plenty of pace to get in to contention rounding the third bend. He finished 2nd in the end but looks a likely winner next time.
Saturday 23rd
I Certainly May made it 4 wins from 5 starts when leading all the way in her A4. She recorded a personal best 29.53.
Sullane Donie also recorded a personal best of 28.98 but it was still not good enough to win a decent A2. Donie made a lot of ground up of the second bend to chase the winner down to a length at the line.

Week ending 17th January 2010

Monday 11th
2 winners to start the week off with.
Stanton Polly led all the way in her A3 to win in 29.34.
Puerto Bound ran a blinder and a got a much deserved A2 win. She hit the front approaching the last bend and stayed on strongly to win by nearly 4 lengths in 29.27.
Ah Sure Cool and Clomantagh Blue both ran well to finish 2nd in their races.
Wednesday 13th
Another meeting lost due to the snow.
Friday 15th
Not much to report on today as Whateverittakes provided us with our only winner. He won his A6 in 30.04.
Decent youngster, Galley Crash, suffered a bad fall after being brought down around the 4th bend. Fortunately she has returned none the worse for it but it's never a good thing to happen to a pup in only her 3rd race.
Saturday 16th
A good night with all of the dogs running really well.
Stanton Buddy bounced back to form when leading all the way in his A2. He won in a decent 29.08 and this would have done his confidence the world of good after suffering a bad fall in his last race about a month ago.
I certainly May and Blue Turmoil both ran well to finish 2nd in their races. Blue Turmoil would surely have won his S1 if the ground had been better.

Week ending 10th January 2010

Monday 4th
A great start to the week with 4 winners and 2 seconds from our 11 runners.
July 08 pup, I Certainly May, made it 3 wins from 3 starts as she made little fuss of a 2 grade hike. May won her A5 in 29.66 and has improved nicely in all her runs. She's already proven terrific value for money.
Queen Merykara made it four wins on the spin when leading all the way in a good quality A2. Kara has done really well since returning from a lengthy lay-off and won today in 29.15.
Stanton Jerry made it 6 wins from his last 8 races when leading off the second bend to win his A1 by a length in 29.30. He really has been running out of his skin of late.
Queue Pea Are got a much deserved win in his A5. He led at the half way point and scored by just over two lengths in 29.61.
Danielles Leah recorded a personal best 29.18 but still found one too good in her A2. She's a decent, consistent sort who's not really got the breaks she deserves yet. She is desperate to be given the red coat.
Stanton Ollie also ran well to finish runner up in his A4.
Tuesday 5th
7 dogs were sent to trials today.
Stanton Buddy was given around 5 weeks off after suffering a terrible fall in his last race, he returned in good fashion to record 29.16.
Twiglish Chav was given a workout after being layed low with a bout of kennel cough and also went well. He recorded 29.12 and should be making his debut for us soon.
Burnpark Amy returned from lameness to record 29.97. Princess Ziggy (29.96) and Sounds Classic (30.43) also qualified.
Wednesday 6th
Meeting Cancelled due to snow.
Friday 8th
Only the afternoon card was completed over the weekend due to the snow. We were out of luck with the winners. Stanton Leroy returned our best result when beaten just a neck in his A2.
Sullane Donie and Reagrove Dream ran well enough to finish third in their races.
I hope you all enjoyed the 2009 review and the 2010 dogs to follow, both appear a couple of posts down.