| This is the 1st news update in a long time, so
quite a bit to update on. We are in the
process of re-jigging this website as its very dated now and updates
were few and far between in the last year or so. This is partially due
to the closure of Walthamstow which was our home track.
However when Poppy Blue and Special Force, our
Pacific Mile x Matriarch - Nov 07 pups were due to begin racing we
discovered Henlow. John Coleman found himself back on the training scene
after a brief 'retirement'.
We have since increased our numbers once again
(having sold most of our graded runners mid 2008) and have a nice little
team of racers on the Henlow graded strength with John Coleman. Our
current racers consist of just a handful of home-bred's and some bought
in dogs too, makes a change as prior to the current batch I cant recall
the last greyhound we actually bought as we generally breed all our own!
On the open scene, Special Liberty has proved a
real little star. She won the Peter Bussey Memorial Final over 540m at
Crayford in February. She then went on to win the Caffreys National Oaks
at Nottingham in September, which she followed up with another win, a
one off Cat 3 Open Race over 540m at Crayford in Memory of John
Davidson and Colin Wilson. We are absolutely delighted with her
progress.
On the breeding front, we are very excited about
our next litter due to start soon, the Westmead Hawk x Matriarch have
just hit 12 months. They have been handslipped and all chase, they
should start schooling in the next 6 weeks or so. We only kept 1 from
the litter a blue bitch named Special Wispa, as at the time we had cut
right down in our involvement and were virtually giving up.
Our Honcho Classic x Persephone litter were born
in March 2009, and are shaping up really nicely. We are especially
excited about these as this is the 1st time we have used a complete
outcross sire on our Castlerea Delia damline.
More to come as and when time permits.
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