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If you follow the link lads, the text of the email has already been drafted and all you need to do is fill in you're details and it will be sent to your own M.P. Minimum effort required even for those who don't know who their M.P. is!!
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JY WAS FROM BALLYMORE. There's that many "Bally's" all around Ireland, lol. For those who were looking for mysterious messages in the name Forley, it was a simple union of part of the surnames of the two men who ran it and who donated their permission so we could all enjoy the event.
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There was a club called Yeates country coursing club. J.Y. from Ballymahon was a member. We hunted with him for a few years. Happy memories.
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Which one is you....ha ha! Hunted with your granda and your da, nice to see old Roy again. Some of the younger members of this forum might not be aware of the fact that at your granda's funeral, attended by many of his Shankill road friends, some of the nationalist lurcher men from North Belfast who may have felt unwelcome among so many protestant mourners while the country was still in turmoil, chose to line up on the hills above the house with their dogs to pay their respects. That's how much the game unites sporting men.
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"I asked Sheik Hamed if he prefered Feathered or Smooth; he looked at me and said coat and colour mean nothing..it's how they perform that decides if they are good enough to breed" That quote right there would answer half the questions on any forum concerning working animals.
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Raymond is there a bit of Rotty in the red bitch?
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Nice avitar Rab. If your granda was alive today he'd have some stories to tell on this forum. He was running Ardee before many of todays Belfast lurchermen were born!
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Surprised you haven't seen this dog Iceman, Buster Lennon. He's about five now and just moved back to England a few months ago to stand at stud with Smokey Murray.
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It's unfair to compare dogs when they're running different quarry. Whether or not there are a lot of turns in a course depends upon the evasion tactics of the prey, not the dog. It would seem that gazelle are speed and endurance specialists an don't have the hare's manoeverability at close quarters. I wouldn't be so daft as to call these salukis plodders since I haven't seen any other types run behind a gazelle for comparison. I think a lot of the other lurcher crosses would find that the gazelle was running away from them before long especially with those long slips, and then they'd pull up.
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It's G.D.'s Red Iceman, one of the Millenium six in the greatest of all Forley Cups. If you get a chance to watch the video he killed all his hares more quickly than any other runner in the comp and made it look easy. He'll be an old dog now but well worth the effort. Fair play to his owner for keeping him healthy into his twilight years.
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Tell you something Optimus, if you do get the service of that dog Red over Estel it will be a step back in time. Skipping about three generations back closer to the Merlin and Eve stuff. Both are sharp with a great mouth and would be ideal in the smaller land. My fingers are tightly crossed for you!
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To be fair I think you've chronicled everyones life in the British Isles who ever ran a lurcher D, there must be a book in there somewhere.......!!
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He gets excited in the presence of greatness Al. That must have been nearly 20 years ago Optimus....never trust a kid with a camera....
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Excellent bitch, good enough to win a Forley, but that year there were some exceptional animals in it ,and they could not all win. HERES ANOTHER ONE OF THE MILLENIUM 6. ANYBODY RECOGNISE HER? Jim Fords Elsa, she ended her days with me. Sister to Tommy Murrays Smokey and winner of the Monahdlieth trophy in the Highlands in the deep snow.
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Here's a couple of pix I found on the web to illustrate the similarity of the show type Wheaten and Kerry Blue. The first two are Kerry's, the second a Wheaten
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Do you remember the names of the glenns that you saw trialed by any chance, i know it was a long time ago. I remember the name of the owner of one of them which I'm obviously not going to repeat on here. The older lads will remember him because he used to carry the Glen in the boot of his motor while the dog trailer was full of liquid refreshments. If I can find some old programs the dog will be named on them but I'm sure it was just his call name, not a k.c. name that would be of any use to trace in a modern pedigree.
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IT CERTAINLY IS D, THE WAY I SEE IT THE BEST WAY TO FORM AN OPINION ON A SUBJECT IS TO EXPERIENCE IT. COUNTRYFILE 2NITE HAS A REPORT ON IRISH HARES & A GOLDEN HARE WITH BLUE EYES NATIVE TO YOUR AREA????. EVERYDAYS A SCHOOLDAY BOLIO MY FRIEND The first hares I've seen were Irish hares on Divis mountain over Belfast in the late fifties with my old man Optimus. I never saw one of those blue eyed buggers in all that time, but I'm sure I wasn't in a silver corsa yesterday on the A77, ha ha!!
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I'm not going to knock either of these great bitches, nor either owner as I respect both of them, but Foxy's record at match running will probably never be beaten. However Dancer beat her in the Forley Cup a week after winning the doubled up British Championships and her daughter Blondie won the millenium Forley which was undoubtedly the hardest contested and best of all lurcher comps. Alan had the foresight to mate Dancer to Foxy's brother Nipper, (he told me he saw the dog run 5 hares off the one slip and never quit), so he can never be accused of kennel blindness. What a pair......I mean th
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http://www.godchecker.com/ To which god do you refer...?
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I know of no books that will tell us anything about the real history of the Glen of Imaal. My source of info was the late great Peter Gorman who told me that in his opinion the Glen, Wheaten and Kerry Blue started off as variations of the same dog, (much like the Saluki, Sloughi, Tazy and Afghan hound before western show orientated breeders got hold of them and "branded" them as seperate breeds instead of regional variations of the same breed). Peter had a blue dog that came in a litter of pure wheatens and I know there have been wheaten coloured pups in Kerry Blue litters. Over 30 years ago I
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He's a gem D'Arcy. Glad you could hook up. You won't have heard any shite talk from him.
