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If I remember Hiedi was a fawn bitch and was bred from Jodie to Black Arse's half brother....therefore Hiedi and Dancer were three quarters the same breeding. I had her sister Sky, a blue bitch I ran in the Forley the year Sniper won it.
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Sure is Optimus, don't hold back. Your pics are clearer than my memory!
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I know you did but a second after you took that pic Dancer struck, missed and took a tumble, letting the hare make some ground. She made no mistake next time a hundred yards on. Her opponent was tagging along half a fen behind.
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One of us is getting old Optimus, I would have bet money you took that shot of Dancer the week before when she won the doubles at Ripp. I was stood beside you.
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Well they weren't bred for Ireland, but for the fens. Colly told me she ran a hare 3 fields and killed it at 11 months old. Then she was lost for a week when a load of cattle charged her. Thats all I know about her.
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The Willow bitch I bred from a saluki bitch and Max, (Smokey x Dancer)
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Thats a bitch from the same litter, T O'R got it for his cousin just after I got mine. I think that one was lifted before the parvo struck.
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Let's never forget that these heroic men women and now a dog, have been sacrificed on the alter of one mans ego. B liar! Not fit to lick their boots.
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We used to stay with Flasher the night before the trials and he never let me go away without 'a bit o glass'. One of those yard long twisting chrystal walking sticks hung over my fireplace for years. Happy memories, r.i.p. Tony
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I owned and hunted with a Glen bitch over thirty years ago and saw one or two trialling many years ago. The only one I remember seeing that had much success was called Bosco, I think! My bitch had a powerful set of teeth and jaws on her.....for such a small dog..... but no more powerful than a Wheaten, from which the Glen originally sprang. Even in Ireland in those days the vast majority of terrier men used Wheatens or staffs in preference to Glens. Then the proper type bulldog became available and even these breeds took a back seat. As far as size goes the most successful dog I remember for
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Yes I remember when, in order to run dogs at the trials, each entrant was required to be a member of a club that was affiliated to the Working Terrier Federation of Ireland. Despite the rampant prejudice shown against some Northern clubs, we managed, by dint of a rather classy certificate designed by myself I might add, to get ourselves voted into the Fed and were able to run our dogs. Luckily Peter Gorman, like many of the ordinary working terrier men from the south, wasn't afflicted with the same bigotry and allowed us to buy pups and adults off him. I gave a pure wheaten of Peters breeding
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I'm not condemning the breed for the sins of a few, but some of the older members may remember an incident at a trial many years ago when Flasher Dunphy, R.I.P., walked over to a van beside which a wheaten dog was teathered, and leaning across to slap his hand on the roof of the van, found the dog latched onto his arm pit. Most of these dogs have been kept in pens or on chains and have not been socialised to the extent that they can be trusted among civilised folk. Kept in the home I'm sure would be a different matter however.
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I know for a fact that one of the very top wheaten men in the North had to p.t.s. a very game Wheaten that tried to eat his grandchild. Thank heavens for safe chains......
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No mate, I gave her to some one I regarded as a friend who promptly sold her to an English fellow who ran her in a doubled up comp in England, where she was beaten by the eventual winner of the comp, G. L.'s Seargent
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T O'H had a bitch in Belfast bred off J McK's old half bred saluki from the 70's that was known as the Afghan bitch. (There was no Afghan in her but she had a longish silky coat from the lurcher side of her breeding) T.O'H's bitch was given to P.K. when she was done and he bred her to the first of the saluki types he had off old Ginger F, a dog called Luke. That's what I was told at the time. Josies old Afghan bitch had the rep for being the best up here in the 70's, Ruby wasn't in her league but she gave me some sport.
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Ok, I was wrong to call you guys faggots, was aimed more at toby who you'll never convince me isn't a faggot. Look, I know the saluki is the best dog for you guys, you wouldn't have them otherwise. What gets up my goat(he tells me this often) is the way you lot think the fens is the be all end all. I'm not saying it isn't a perfect place to run a hare for money cos it is. If we could make a man made betting arena for hare coursing, you'd be hard pushed to build somewhere better. But I'm old fashioned mate. I like hunting hares and seeing a good course where the hare has as good a chance of esc
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Here's a shot of Ruby, a saluki cross bitch I was running twenty years ago. I only ever ran her in Ireland and she killed plenty.
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done you not over here pal S.K and P.H are out with my dad today No R, I packed in the game due to my gammy knee. Haven't even been over to Lincs in the last two years and the walkings a lot worse with a lot less hares over here. This email calls for the repeal of the act, not just the part that applies to foxhunting on horseback lads.
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Boy was her sire and Tonys old Sally bitch was her dam Optimus
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No Optimus, an old guy who let my sisters boyfriend graze horses on his land had just lost his old lab and I gave turk to him as a pet. She was never bred from again.
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I think doing something is better than doing nothing
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This mating Marco? Unfortunately they turned out only average. They took hares but none were as good as either parent alas.
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