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Same bitch, Willow aged 14 months, before she ever saw a hare.
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I posted this a few years ago but worth repeating here. This is the bitch I bred from Max, ( Dancer x Smokey ) to my saluki bitch and she was 'dog of the day' with 11 from 11 at the whiteys in a do for first season saplings where Chalkie, Tommy M. et al were present. Only white hares fair enough but the bitch had taken numerous Irish, whites and browns on fen and field by the end of her first season. J. Darcy witnessed her stealing one in an accidental slip off Delboy and another single handed after the comp was over with a long slip, at a time when she had only seen single figures of hares in
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Glad that Alan at last has joined this forum and can refute the shite that has been posted in the past. I saw Dancer win the Temple Brewer after a five week lay off due to injury, on stoney ground and Alan slipped her on her fifth hare which took her from the horizon on the left to the horizon on the right and back again on a hare she was never going to catch, and the camera was kept on her till out of sight. If that bitch had quit in her under normal circumstances, she had the perfect chance to show it that day and she didn't. I have the tape and so do lots of coursing men. I think Alan will
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http://www.oism.org/pproject/pproject.htm
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http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/commentaries/copenhagen_climate_concerns.pdf
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117539#
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http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/Calen/SolarWind.html
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/09/hockey-stick-observed-in-noaa-ice-core-data/#more-13939
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It's heartening to see that I'm not alone in my views on this board. Unfortunately so many people believe all they're told by the media and don't do their own research.
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http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/
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where would the average man in the street go to report such things if there was no rspca? The POLICE!
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This was 2001 but it proves that some of the fat controllers wanted to include rabbits on the banned list. Thank heavens for flat caps and ferrets, eh?
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Where does the time go? I first saw Blondie as a 6 week old pup running among her litter mates. Then in no time at all she was killing hares like an expert, a great bitch in and around cover. She could stay for the long runs or overpower a short hare quickly. That 2000 Forley was the ultimate as far as standard of competition goes. She produced a good litter to Charlie, which included Delboy, the winner of the Moochers trophy ( organised by Flynn a few months before the ban) aged only about 14 months. My pal Colly has a dog sired by Delboy which is an excellent retriever of game. So the story
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I saw her run on video and in the flesh. I saw Dancer beat her in the Forley cup in the flesh and on video Dancer impressed me more. Both were great bitches and while Foxy has the unbeaten record in matches, ( Dancer drew twice with her in matches ) it was Dancer who won the Forley cup (with the long slips ) and also produced a Forley cup winner so she is the best in my mind that I ever saw. Two great bitches!!
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Me and a pal were walking the dogs like we do every weekend in a local forest park and last sunday week we noticed a helicopter circling overhead whilst we were sat enjoying the sun and chatting to the other dog walkers who we meet every weekend in the spring and summer months. After a while it was time to head back to the motor as we both had other plans for the afternoon. We met two police constables on our way out and greeted them cordially, as we would with any unfortunate soul who has to work on a sunday. The lady constable produced a notebook and declared that they had had a report of su
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Gazza is credited with 11 brown hares in one day in winter, which is the best I've ever heard of. Jimmy Fords Rudy had taken 34 or 35 in a row without a miss over a series of trips out in winter until he had a toe off due to injury some years back. This would have been over several months. Delboy was a very good dog but wouldn't have had the running of the other two due to his owners other committments. His breeding is second to none.
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Here we go again eh? In my experience the Irish hare is much nearer the brown in ability than the other type of mountain hare on the mainland. When I first went to the fens to course the brown hare I took dogs that were quite capable of taking Irish hares on pasture week after week but they struggled against the browns. It would be interesting to see how Irish hares would fare on big land but both hares seem to have what it takes to survive on their respective habitat. The mainland mountain hares that I have been in amongst were of more value as confidence builders for young saplings. Over
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I was in the fire service in the 70's. The challenges make the job interesting but at that time we had a lot of streets full of derelict housing in Belfast and the kids made a game of setting them alight in the area where I was stationed so it was hell at times in summer, when you would sometimes be sent from one call out to the next without getting back to the station for hours. The down side is that you're always eating smoke. B.A. sets were only deployed in a minority of instances but smoke was there where ever there was fire. The money etc. has improved a lot since then though, but wereas
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“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.†Does this statement strike a chord with any of the more politically minded in view of current events? Considering the number of "ex" communists and their left wing cronies in this labour government it seems like
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"I for one have never seen any evidence that he was ever beaten in competition," Tony H. beat him with his old Turk bitch, Joe T.'s Sniper beat him and the rest of the field to win the '97 Forley cup and he was also defeated, along with many others in one of the doubled up competitions I was at in the late '90's, but that's beside the point. He doesn't deserve this treatment at the hands of scum who have obviously achieved nothing with their lives if they have to resort to robbing pensioners. Get well soon Don!
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Well done Snoopdog, Razor's coming along nicely and is a credit to you. It shouldn't come as a surprise though. I saw three of his four grandparents run in the flesh and they were of the highest quality. The one I didn't see running was Charlie, but he has taken his place at the front end of the list of great producing sires of the modern era. So if Razor only inherited the average talent of his lineage he was going to produce the goods in the right hands. If anyone seriously thinks that other crosses could compete successfully with saluki crosses on big land with long slips in winter, why w
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They were actually show bred dogs that ended up in the hands of working terrier men. The short and dumpy shape is what the show orientated breeders were looking for and it wasn't much of a handicap for the trialling game. Some of todays fanciers seem to be mixing up the term "working" staff as related to trialling, with another form of work which was a much more accurate test of a game dog. A lot of these trials dogs were no use at other forms of work.
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McNab was about 16" to the shoulder, not particularly talented but tried 100% to carry out any task asked of him.
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There was a brother called Bruce owned by D H, p***y. The Northford tag was added years after the dog was dead as it was to other dogs. Here's a picture of a son of Bruce that I owned many years ago, McNab
