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Whippets can take the odd roe, but they can't be considered "deer dogs"; Cheers.
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Indian Joe; PedigreePoint Online Database WHIPPET-DATA.CO.UK Cheers.
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I'm guessing it will be "soft tip" darts, very popular there . Cheers.
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Glad to see you're a equal opportunities racist, Wilfy ; Africans AND Asians ! LOL !
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Did you go in the dartsbar ? Cheers.
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You’ve got to love this place …insane banter and sensible talk about coursing dogs in the same thread ! LOL ! Cheers.
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If I want to get well out of the way, I’ve got two big allotments just two fields away, one for growing and one for the birds. Ive got laying hens, ducks, quail and a couple of fighting birds. I can spend hours there just messing about . Might even get a run with the dogs walking there and back. Not a bad old life . Cheers.
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Get yourself a man cave, Bangers, or as I call mine “the cave of manliness” or my “fortress of Solitude “ ! PMSL ! Cheers.
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Nah, Stiffy will be pestering me to buy my samurai sword collection ! LOL ! Cheers.
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Whoops ! Looking back you may be right. My apologies, Bangers mate Cheers.
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I give to charities, I meant why should I give my collectibles to charity. Everything in my man cave has memories and talking points. Cheers.
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Why ? Cheers.
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I agree, never found any real hatred and I’ve travelled a bit and spent time in very diverse countries. But then again, I’m a happy go lucky guy with a lovable smile ! LOL ! Cheers.
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I’ve got the three day cards from the last Waterloo Cup, in mint condition, framed on my man cave wall. Also got the booklet to go with them, The Fullerton Story and the lapel badge. Cheers.
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But we didn’t invade the Falklands ; the Argentines invaded sovereign british territory. We ejected the illegal foreign invaders. It was no different to if a foreign power invaded the Isle of Wight or Anglesey, we have every right to protect the sovereignty of our land. Whatever the reason for Putin invading the Ukraine, Russia were the foreigner invading a sovereign country. He may or may not have had good reasons but the anology between the Falklands and the Ukraine doesn’t stand up. Cheers.
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Estonia and Latvia were part of the USSR , until the break up of the Soviet Union. Cheers.
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Back then there was only local dogs and we used the best in the neighbourhood. This was the 60’s, no internet, limited phones, not everyone had cars or could travel. There was a lot of lurcher in our dogs, and the only rules were a dog hat to be “smooth coated, under 21” and of whippet like appearance “ to run as a whippet. Then the lads down your way, Masham, Thirsk, Dewsbery etc stared using the very best pedigree whippets, Bilko, Blue Peter, etc over small greyhounds and breeding the best to the best. They we’re running Yards for Pounds down there so the bigger dogs and bitche
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Many years ago I had a whippet called Blue Prince; his sire was the famous Blue Boy. Every year there was the Blue Boy Trophy and one year I aimed to win it and I did ! I tried to win it the next year and thought I had the dog ready and the mark,(yards), to do it, but the dog peaked the week before and won the handicap, got beat the week of the Trophy, and won the handicap again the week after ! So I’ve never been the “dog man” I think I may have been ! LOL ! Forgive the quality of the picture, this was decades before digital cameras were heard of ! Cheers.
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All dogs are timed. The fastest dog goes of scratch and every 6/100ths of a second a dog is slower than the scratchdog it gets a yard start. So say the fastest dog does 8 seconds for 150 yards and your dog does 8.6 seconds your dog gets 10 yards start. If your dog does 9 seconds, it gets 16 yards start. A good handicapper aims to get a dead heat in every race but it never works out that way. The handicap is run over heats, semi finals and final. If you get beat in the heat, you get an extra yard start the next week, if your dog wins the final it gets pulled back 3 yards the next w
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Depends which handicap you mean Club racing goes on time handicapping and is very fair giving everyone a chance. Open Racing is usually “Yards for Pounds” where a dog gets a yard start for every pound lighter it is. This sort of favours the lightweight and middleweight dogs over the heavyweights over the 150 yards. Scratch racing is the fairest as all dogs start of a level break and the fastest wins, simple as that . Cheers.
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If you “know someone” it can be good. Many years back a pal of mine who was an owner/trainer marked my card and I had seven out of eight winners ! But just trying to pick a winner on form is really a “gamble” ! If there’s a few of you, throwing a couple of quid in and picking a colour out of the hat can be fun . But f**k giving the bookies my hard earned when I know the skullduggery that goes on “at the dogs” ! LOL ! Cheers.
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No idea, mate, I was never into the pedigree racing. Cheers.
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I honestly don’t know, mate, but looking at the pedigree of Sooty Sam there isn’t any bull, but pedigrees don’t always tell the truth. Some pedigree racing whippets were rumoured to have greyhound in them and the WRCA started dna testing when doubt arose. To me, SS didn’t look like he had bull in him, but I remember my brother and I breeding a litter of non-ped whippets and the one I kept looked like a show winning pedigree whippet and the one my brother kept looked like a staffy ! You still get bully type throw backs in the non-peds quite regularly, but not so common, if at all, in
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Certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons ! Basically saying “ f**k Zelensky, f**k the EU, f**k the UK; I’m putting America’s interests first ! “ Can’t fault him, I just wish Starmer would put the UK first ! Cheers.
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One of the offers; Cheers.
