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I've never boostered after the initial pup jabs.
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That's a very valid point Iceman, a lot of people don't realise how hard it is to have a dog in the right condition, going from here to the fens, if they're only used to running small fields....no matter how many hares you have to run at, they're only short runs. I would never knock a dog that runs it's tank dry. Next one to do it could be mine!
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Excellent clips Riohog, sometimes we forget that there's a whole world of people and hounds out there beyond our shores. It helps keep our feet on the ground when we see stuff like this.
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Pure class Roberto and really well reared too
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get the tape up and it will settle it for once and for all and the dog did not stop on his next hare when the first race was over the dog was not on his feet so if thats jacking i would thake one of those dogs every time from the time he was sliped until he hit the ground 6mins40 seconds bolio B.T. from lurgan was the man with the stop watch did you hear the conversion i mentioned Was it B.K. from Lurgan? I didn't hear the conversation but as I said I saw it on the tape with the timer displayed so I know the actual length of the course wasn't being over stated. I also never knocked the do
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When I was hunting in the company of P.K. and others down there I always detected a reluctance to give credit to saluki blood. They always seemed to want to play up the fraction of a dogs breeding which wasn't saluki. Although I haven't seen P in 5 or 6 years I still regard him as a friend so I'll accept his version of the breeding but it hardly matters to me as I've never owned any Irish Lady dogs. However in my own head I always say If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...........
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That I can't be sure of as I watched the tape more times than I witnessed the actual event so the tape is what I remember most. On the tape, the camera is on the dog the whole time and the hare is out of shot as I said for over a minute. It wouldn't surprise me if someone watching behind where the dog was coming from said that the hare was gone from view but I was on the lane watching through bins so was only getting a narrow view of the dog itself.
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By the way lads.......
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I'm sure it was R, I think the timer on the tape is displayed which is why I remember that the dog was straightlined for that long. I have no clue as to how to put it from tape onto the comp. I must have between 30 and 40 tapes of Dogs and a load of hawks as well.
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The dog had been straight lined for at least the last minute of the run with the hare drawing away from him. I don't think there was anything left in the tank. Also I'm not taking sides, just saying what I remember seeing.
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I grew up along the banks of the lagan. In the 60's we used to fish at a big weir pool and the grown ups walking by with their dogs would stop to tell us we were wasting our time as the river was too dirty to hold fish. There were flounder, mullet, eels in their hundreds and seatrout in the brackish water downstream of the weir and salmon as long as our youngsters arms would launch themselves at the weir. I never caught one of those right enough. Just a month ago I saw my first otter swimming in the river right in the centre of town early in the morning so there must still be plenty of fish in
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I have to say Speedie I was one of the men on the lane that day and the account you've just given is pretty much the way I remember it too. I also have the tape here somewhere. Below is a pic I took of the pair just before the start of the day.
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It was early feb when we were on R, the hares were hard as iron, lol
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I think he's had an allergic reaction to that many salukis.....someone bring the antihistamine!
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agreed mate but jim and tony had never seen rippingale fen until i took them their one day, next thing they'd got permission on there........................ When I was on Rippengale it was by invite from Oggy and Gary L. Jimmy and Tony had the invite too, as did Ginger and P. N. but my old red dog won dog of the day with 3 out of 3 singles....
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Well lads it's worth exactly what someone's prepared to pay for it...market forces etc. When the book came out people were complaining that £33 was too expensive. Why worry now that others are charging far, far more. If £33 was too expensive then, well I guess you got on the wrong train.
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possibly the worst looking staff/pitbull ive evrt seen
BOLIO1 replied to yoggerman's topic in General Talk
As a member of our local breed club from the time when most of us worked our dogs and showed in the off season for a bit of crack, I have to say that at a well known local pub where the mainland visitors gathered the night before the annual champ shows, a crowd of us were informed which dog and which bitch would be winning the cc's the next day by a renowned handler. His prediction proved entirely correct. This was about 20 years ago and coloured my view on the show scene ever since....corrupt as f**k! -
Alas if lads that had permission on the hardest of going would have donated THEIR land to run the british champ do's like Tony and Jim did with South Kyme, then we wouldn't be having this debate. Many other men would have kept land like that to themselves and hunted f**k out of it while keeping it a secret. Full respect to the lads who opened up their permission and ended up having the land poached out from under them. Jim and Tony,two other Forley legends!
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Lucky (the dark destroyer) won the forley in 2001 joint winner with fettle, he then produced Tina who won it in 2004, also snowy won forley legends in 2002 and a daughter to her won it a few years later Thanks Desert hunter, but the comp split with the Forley Cup being continued as a club comp on other land as a series of matches and run by the Association, while the comp that the lads ran on South Kyme was renamed Forley legends and carried on with the big day out for all on the one day. I didn't go to any of the cup comps after the split but went to the Legends, so my reference to F
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You're right about one thing Gonzales, Foxy, Dancer, Sniper, Fettle, Lucky, Roxy et al weren't bred from Forley legends....they became Forley legends because of how they performed. Blondie was the only Forley legend to be bred from a forley legend, and she was bred by a forley legend!!
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Erm,...... perhaps you would like to make a few enquiries about the Forley cup competitions before you go straight into attack mode next time you tell me I'm talking bollocks! The Forley was single handed, but more than that the dogs were slipped not by their owners, but by designated slippers who's job it was to give long starts to the hares in order to weed out the less talented dogs and get through the card before dark. The land I was on at Boston was seed, not plough and I have enough video footage of Dancer and others running the same seeded land prior to operation leveret to keep me ent
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The Boston area held good hares until operation leveret kicked in and even the lads with permission had to stop going. I know Dancer was ran a lot down there before she won the Forley. I've been as far south as Wisbech coursing, but as I've said before, if the South Kyme hares were so easy and the competition won by duffers, why did none of it's critics ever enter and win it themselves. It's easy to try to belittle the men and their dogs who did have success now, but before the ban the simple way to prove a point was to compete and win. I seem to remember less crabbing when that was the case.
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And here's where I get to bask in a little bit of reflected glory. I suggested Charlie as a stud for Blondie due to the high number of good coursing animals he was producing......of course Alan didn't need me to tell him that....he can work things out for himself....but all the same I was real chuffed when the mating worked.
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The Blondie x Charlie litter???
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Over that distance and in that heat there surely can be no faster dog on earth....Thanks for sharing Rio
