Number 1 Girlie (Photo by Paul Duffett) She was at Crayford but broke a hock when returning to racing after her season came in and shes been operated on and is being rehomed to a nice family in a week after fully recovering.
Number 2 Henry (DONT!! i dont name the names they have in kennel!) Hes trialling on at Crayford in 2 weeks and was at wimbledon Where he had a better than 30% win rate and got to A2 before breaking his foot!! hes back and has won since
Number 3 Misty - Shes only a baby 16 months old and is in Sheffield where she will trial on in a week or so. She came over from ireland last week.
More to come and ll these are owned in partnerships as the fees are so high these days £250 a month EACH plus vets bills etc etc.
-- Edited by JgFc at 22:35, 2008-07-29
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Number 4 Questy - Hes bred really well and is bred from English Derby Winner Droopys Scholes and is an October 2006 but is huge and was a bit backwards, late developer.
Pictures taken by ME! woo woo
first one was today
second one was last week and i had to make it arty as i had the iso stupid high. hes in orange in both.
Number 5 is coming over in 2 weeks from ireland
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i have better that the first one today where the rail is intruding in the shot but they are all in raw and not processed yet. Click any of the pics for a bigger view.
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And for any photo buffs here is the exif of the shot today
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Forgot to mention - great pics fella. Photography has come a long way since I first bought my Pentax ME Super back in the good old days ( ? ) Sad old sod still has it, but not used. Still got the different lenses, filters etc. Used to love taking pics back then, especially portraits in black and white. Noticed that Paddy the Greek is winning lots at Crayford - one of yours JgFc ?
Got one running Saturday Night, And was gonna make my return at Bath ...
Got one trialling on Wednesday and another Bitch coming over on the ferry from Ireland in a few days. Just had the Sheffied Bitch trial for the first time yesterday.
Plus Rehomed the bitch that broke her hock a few months ago to a nice family.
The Camera is nice, got some nice shots of races but still learning with it.
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Girlie and Peyton pictured above. Girlie now retired due to broken hock, shes fine and rehomed and acting like a lunatic. Peyton now trialling at crayford.
Have 4 at crayford and 2 up north at the moment.
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Heres the latest one in a video winning at Cork earlier this year. She came into season shortly after and we are hopeful she will race on the tv this year.
My old man has owned greyhounds all his life. Used to go with him to Catford as a kid i literally grew up there. There was so many characters down there. Was a great stadium too, full of proper people working class people. Great times.
Was at Walthamstow the other week when it closed and the crowd was out of this world shame those kind of numbers don't turn up every week all over the country, otherwise the sport wouldn't be dying.
Crying shame it, and Catford have closed, not many left now in London for the next generation to discover the sport.
henry retired, tore his gracillis muscle last race when i would have won over 5k if he won :( pey is in season and back in a few weeks quest won last week easily and is running well last 3 or 4 runs at last and the girls at sheffield ran at hull saturday in open class and both came second, it was bloody freezing and the stadium is hull kr's old ground and dont mention the bloody trains 5 hours!! when should have took 2 1/2 and a lovely 3 hour tour of lincolnshire in the middle parked up at several stations!. had some good news when logged in saturday night ans saw the boys beat eastleigh :)
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whats funny is jt and daisy own a dog called quest at crayford and so do i. But thats the only connection, they arent related, theirs is named after a questing/day out web site and mine after the person who reared him.
-- Edited by JgFc at 09:43, 2008-11-10
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