Week Ending 27th November

Monday 21st
A quiet start to the week at Swindon with 1 winner from today's runners.
Scobys Flash led around the 1st bend to win her A5 in 29.64.
Donna and I made the long journey East to Yarmouth for the third leg of the National Intertrack. The kennel had half of Swindon's team and we did quite well. Active Lark scored a solid 5 points (she's now got 25 points in the comp) when finishing 3rd in her sprint race.
Mercurial Lady ran very well to finish 3rd in her bitches division. She flew the lids but didn't handle the 2nd bend very well and lost a bit of ground.
Ding Hero ran another superb race as he made it four wins on the trot as he ran away with the Dogs division. Ding ran the track brilliantly well on his first look and hugged the rail and missed all the trouble on his outside as 3 dogs took nasty falls. We turned 2nd heading into the back straight and soon asserted going into the third. He stayed really strongly and powered home for a 6 3/4 length victory in a very good 28.17.
Tuesday 22nd
A quiet trial session with only 3 dogs having solo sprints.
Flag Officer delighted us with his 16.38 workout and will return next week for another sprint. Glendine Girl 16.93 and new arrival, Boynepark Joe, 16.71 both went well enough.
Wednesday 23rd
A great night as we won all 3 of the races that we competed in.
Fishersmans Leah beat kennel mate Gortkelly Hudini by 2 lengths to win her A5 in 29.62.
Butchers Bounty won his A2 by a length in 29.25.
Veteran, Lady Jaro, produced a sparkling run as she demolished her A2 field to win by 5 3/4 lengths in a good 28.88.
Friday 25th
The home leg of the National Intertrack competition was the highlight of this afternoons BAGS card. We were represented by Mercurial Lady after it was decided it was best to rest Active Lark for the next leg at Hall Green and Ding Hero wasn't ready after taking a spike to his wrist at Yarmouth. She did us all proud though as she won her heat by 1/2 length in 29.17. It's fair to say she kept plenty in hand and relished the switch of track she had earlier in the week.
Other winners on a very good day included Glenbrack Mary who won her A5 by the 3 lengths in 29.69. Springlawn Goofy won his A3 in a good 29.26. Tictac Butterfly ran a blinder to just get up on the line to win in 29.51. Bramley Bella made it 3 wins from 5 starts as she led at the first bend to win her A5 in 29.81. Malbay Kesha completed the day as she won her first race for the kennel. Kesha moved well to go 3 or 4 lengths clear down the back but was spooked by the crowd as she turned for home and put her head in the air, luckily she just held on for the win. She's getting braver and more confident every time she goes to the track but she's still got a way to go.
Blackie Chan remains out of luck though and he's now gone 17 races without a win.
Saturday 26th
Scobys Flash got tonight's winner as she led all the way to win her A5 nicely in a personal best 29.46.
Kilmaladay Biffo ran a terrific race to finish a very close up 3rd in a hot 416m Open at Monmore. He got touched off at the 2nd bend but stayed on gamely at the finish. Hopefully he's done enough to get excepted in the Festival 416m competition a week on Monday.

In Other News...
3 of Swift Jades pups returned to Bicester for their 2nd handslip and they all delighted us with their efforts.
Active Lark, Mercurial Lady and Butchers Bounty all head to Hall Green for the next Intertrack leg on Wednesday.I think this will be a tough leg for Swindon, it's a very hard track to run first time.
Every effort is being made to get Ding Hero ready for the final leg of the Intertrack at Perry Barr although he certainly won't be running for the sake of it. There is an awful lot to look forward to with this lad and he won't be rushed.
Tuesday will be an interesting trial day as the new intakes Portavoe Lass and Crinkill Jewell both have solo 480m spins. Forest Ted returns from injury for a four bend trial, he has been working well on the gallop so we are keeping everything crossed he returns sound.