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A ghost, a spirit. It’s where the word “genie” as in “genie of the lamp”, etc, comes from. Cheers.
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Presumption of innocence is a fallacy. If it were true, there would be no remand, no locked up over night in a police station. They should just tell it as it is and say “ hey, we think you are guilty, so we are taking you to court to prove it, and it’s up to you and your lawyers to prove your innocence “. Same with the saying that’s bandied about more and more these days; “ policing by consent” . Who gives them this consent ? Nobody has ever asked me if I consent. Cheers.
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That’s a bit of a comedown mate ! Working the door at Aldi …. Cheers.
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Reminds me of when I was in Saudi; one of the Saudi engineers asked for the day off because “ a jinn was following his sister around Mecca” , and he had to go and protect her ! I gave him the day off, not because I believed him, but because that was the best excuse I was ever likely to hear in my life ! Cheers.
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Fiji doing well against the Aussies. Still plenty of time though. Cheers.
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He’s completely f****d now that they are linking him with Saville, however tenuous. Cheers.
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It may or may not be a conspiracy to discredit him, who knows ? I've never had any respect for him, then when he and Johnathan Ross pulled that particularly nasty stunt on old "Manuel", it confirmed what sort of man he was. Cheers.
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Kiwi's running riot against Namibia first half ! Cheers.
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The consensus among the “talking heads” on TV this morning is ALL dogs should be muzzled, dog licenses, and compulsory insurance. I can’t see it going that far, but who knows ? Anything is possible with these MP’s ! Cheers.
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Correct . In fact the WCRA, the body for pedigree whippet racing, started DNA testing some years ago , as some unscrupulous owners were adding non-ped whippet and greyhound to their pedigree racers to gain an unfair advantage. I don’t know how prevalent it is now, but it’s very frowned upon in the pedigree whippet scene. Cheers.
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I’ve only glanced through it, but very interesting! Im reading it as the “big heart gene” is only passed through a mare which carries it, but only results in the enlarged heart in a foal if the sire also carries the gene, which is much rarer in a stallion than a mare. Secretariat is thought to have got his huge heart through such a mating. As you say, not definitive, just a theory, but very thought provoking! Cheers.
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I’ll try to answer your questions as best I can, but remember, these are just MY opinions, I’m whippet enthusiast, not an expert. Id probably prefer a ped for all round work; they’re not as fast but probably a bit more robust and not so injury prone, but if it was just for hares, I’d go for a non-ped. In the “no limit” scratch racing of the BWRA there are dogs that are bigger and heavier than some greyhounds I’ve seen run in the Waterloo Cup ! There’s one running now, extremely fast, but runs at around 59lb and about 25” ! Hardly what I class as a whippet, but their races, their rule
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Is there any definitive proof of this ? I’m not disagreeing with you, but it seems in thoroughbred horse breeding the stud seems to influence the breeding more than the mare. Also with greyhounds, it appears that the stud has more influence than the brood bitch. I honestly don’t know, I simply try to get a pup from the best available breeding, dog and bitch, as possible. Cheers.
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It’s all part of the decline and fall of the West. Just this morning, two people have been dropped from the list of prospective Tory candidates to stand as MP’s when MI5 informed the government that they may be spying for China. This is not the same two who are out on bail suspected of spying for China whilst employed as “researchers” in the House of Commons. Why aren’t they all in Belmarsh ! If this had been Russia, China, Iran they would disappear and never be seen again! Im not advocating we do the same as authoritarian countries, but we are definitely seen as a soft
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The most stolen library books of his era evidently. Cheers.
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I’m not missing anything ! Ive always said whippets have been bred for sprinting, racing in a straight line over relatively short distances. For the last, possibly , 100 years the best have been bred to the best to achieve the fastest dogs on earth, in my mind, over 150 yards. Of course I’m talking about non-peds here; pedigree whippets for many years fell into three categories; show, race and course, whereas the non-ped was bread almost exclusively to race. I’ve used both ped and non-ped for working and would do so again if it wasn’t for the fact my main enjoyment is running q
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It would probably be too fat to run…. Cheers.
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As I’ve said before, I raced a money match with a non-ped whippet against a greyhound over 150 yards straight at a whippet track, the whippet won by a couple of yards. We then had a return match over 270 yards at a greyhound track. The whippet led to the bend then was overtaken by the greyhound that won by a couple of yards . Over 200 yards straight it would be close, but experience tells me I would favour the greyhound. Now I know you’re going to come back with “ the non-ped would have greyhound in it” and you would be correct, but this was a 21” 35lb non-ped whippet, against a
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I haven’t a clue, I don’t know what times an average sprinter does. Im just giving an example of ped v non-ped times. It’s indisputable that non- peds are considerably faster than peds. In fact, there’s only ever been one pedigree whippet, Rch Our Pepe, that won a BWRA championship against non-pedigree whippets. That was back in 1968. I like both peds and non-peds and both have their places in racing and working. Cheers.
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I’ve handicapped both ped and non-ped whippets and the best non-ped whippets are around 1:5 seconds faster than the peds over 150 yards , that equates to the ped needing around 24 yards start over the non-ped for them to cross the finish line together. Most clubs racing time handicaps have a 21 yard limit, that’s why both my local clubs run the peds separately from the non-peds. Cheers.
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I haven’t disagreed with a single thing you have said ! If you own one of these dogs and know it’s manny, and you take it to a park full of dogs and kids and let it loose and it does some damage do you really think it’s the dogs fault ? Or the owners ? Its a rhetorical question, I really don’t want to be sucked into an argument, you have your opinion and I have mine. Let’s leave it at that. Cheers.
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As I’ve said, of course there’s bad dogs and no amount of training or socialising will change them, but we humans are top of the evolutionary tree, we produce these animals and should be responsible for them. If I have the fastest greyhound , the best hare dog or the gamest bulldog in the world but it’s manny and a liability I have choices, do everything I can to avoid “situations “ or cull it. The decision is mine. If I make the wrong decision and someone is hurt by the dog, then I would blame myself, not the dog. That doesn’t mean it’s not a bad dog or I’m a bad owner? It’s just me taki
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So if a dog gets out and runs amok because the owner hasn’t secured it in a secure pen or kennel it’s the dogs fault ? If a dog slips it’s lead and runs amok because the owner hasn’t got it on a decent collar and lead, it’s the dogs fault ? To take your argument to “reducto absudum”, if a lion escapes from a zoo and kills someone, is it the lions fault ? Or the keepers ? Im not saying and have never said “there’s no bad dogs” as that’s absurd , what I’m saying is if people insist in keeping dogs that may be deemed dangerous, then it’s their responsibility to keep it under contro
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I mean that I see a lot of dogs without any basic training or socialising. I draw a distinction between working dogs and pets. Of course there’s bad dogs, and some of the top coursing dogs I’ve seen could be described as “manny”, but weren’t walked around the streets by the owners kids ! So let’s not get working dogs, owned, in general, by experienced people, confused or equated with this months “fad” dogs, whose owners see them only as a status symbol and put no effort into them whatsoever. Cheers.
