Week Ending 13th November

Monday 7th
We were a touch unlucky today as we had 5 Silver medals and 1 Gold.
Moody Mare won her A3 in 29.81 after leading around the first turn.
Reagrove Dream qualified for the final of her Owners Bonus Series race when just failing to get up on line in her semi today.
Tuesday 8th
Lady Jaro (29.09), Stanton Bluebell (29.41) and Oneco Light (29.97) all returned to the racing strength after running well in their respective trials. Kilmalady Biffo moved well in his sprint trial recording 16.24. Bookies Girls returned from injury to record 16.62 in her trial.
Wednesday 9th
A couple of winners from tonight's meeting. Come Home Patch got a much deserved first win as he crossed the line in 30.37 to win his A8 nicely. Sunvalley Crash trapped well and ran a good first bend as he went on to record another A2 victory. He won in 29.36.
Dance Izzy suffered a nasty spike in her race and will need 3-4 weeks off. Izzy has been running well enough of late but is really in need of a downgrade as she has now gone 15 four bend races without tasting victory.
Friday 11th
First to Monmore where Swindon were taking part in the first leg of the National Intertrack competition. We were represented in the first and last heats by Active Lark and Ding Hero.
Larky continued her excellent form when springing a 10/1 surprise as she flew the lids and led all the way to win the Bitches event. She has now won 5 of her last 6 races.
Ding Hero made it a memorable double for the kennel as he also flew the lids. Ding followed the fast starting 6 dog around the opening bends and looked to have got it wrong as he moved on the outside of him but he quickly cut back to the rail and ran a terrific third bend to take the lead and went on to score comfortably in a good 28.70. He's now had 4 wins and two 2nds from his 6 races for the kennel and is turning in to a really nice little dog. Ding has been a good success story for us and he's more than repaying every one's hard work that's been put into him.
At Swindon we managed four winners and a couple of 2nds. Effernogue Load ran his best race for a long time as he won his A5 by nearly 5 lengths in 29.39. Noels Touch ran a superb race to pick up kennel mate Baby Bubba close home to win his A2 in 29.29. Glenbrack Mary ran on strongly to win her A5 in 29.94. Bramley Bella ran another game race to make it 2 wins from 2 starts as she led at the third turn to win in 29.74.
Motor Home and Malbay Kesha both ran very good races in defeat.
A terrific day was ruined though as Fancy Collar suffered a nasty wrist injury on his return to the track. I suspect he may have chipped a bone but we wont know for sure until we can get some xray's taken early next week. It's such a shame as Pingu is certainly one of the best dogs in the kennel and his owners really deserve a change of luck.
Saturday 12th
Another good night of results were ruined by the injuries sustained to another 3 of our dogs.
Mercurial Lady ran her normal 'interesting race' as she won her A2 by the smallest margin in 29.21. Gortkelly Hudini got his first win for the kennel as he won his A6 really well in a personal best 29.72. Harry has been off for around 3 weeks with a touch of the cough so should improve nicely for this run. Der Lone Razor got a much deserved win in his A7 as he won the 'Hell Razor Retirement Stakes' well in a personal best 29.89. Calling Beauty ran a game race as she led on the line to win her A3 in 29.77.
Stanton Bluebell was retired from racing tonight after suffering a recurrence of her gracilis injury. Bluebell will be difficult to replace as she has been a terrific bitch for the kennel. She won numerous A1's and a couple of opens and was very rarely led in her races. She will make a terrific pet for someone.
Nags Head sustained a jarred wrist and will be off the track for 3 or 4 weeks while our really good prospect Riverdale Spiros has a muscle injury and will be heading of to the vets for a check over as soon as possible.

In other News...
Sunvalley Crash and Active Lark look likely runners for us in the Oxford Leg of the Intertrack competition.
The list of injured dogs seems to be getting longer by the day but Mercurial Star, Flag Officer, Penskey Rain and Forest Ted are all doing well in their recoveries.
The kennel is looking forward to the arrival of a couple of very useful additions who should be with us on Wednesday.
Kilmalady Biffo, Tommy The Wheel and Shirty Gerty will be heading to Hove on Thursday for some open races.