Avenue Guide will be having his last run for us today at Monmore. Its always sad when a dog moves on but hopefully he will give his new connections plenty of fun. As part of the deal the new owners have agreed to rehome the dog when he retires.
Buying a pup is for me very high risk. We have really had a mixture of success and failures over the years. I don’t think anything is better than watching you young pup grow up. The added bonus these days is digital cameras / blogs can help keen everyone in touch. Many things effect you decision in selecting your pup ?
Sire – Is he proven, has that cross been done before, % success, size and attitude of offspring.
Dam – Must be from a proven line, not to many races on her card, where her comrades quick or high class ?
Price – You need to set you budget and stick to it. There are stacks of pups in
Breeder – Reputation and how the dogs were reared in the first 12 weeks is highly important.
Rearer – The last piece of the jigsaw, without this the other parts are worthless. They need to be well fed, have plenty of freedom, well hunted and handled regularly.
You can’t afford to cut corners anywhere along the line. You need to give the pup every chance to succeed. If you do all the above right then hopefully you will have a nice dog with a good attitude that can run like the clappers. In the real world they still might not be a flying machine.
What can go wrong ?
Some pups don’t chase, fight, breaks leg whilst hunting, become ill. You need to be prepared for the worse. That’s life with pups.
Given the cost of rearing a pup and buying him are you not just buying a ready made racer. ??? A ready made racer will only ever be the grade you buy. Whilst that young pup will give you 15 months of dreaming and promise !! You can’t beat it!!! The syndicate are the look out for a pup that fits the above criteria.
I spent an hour over with Lance and Pam at Iceman Kennels this morning. The repeat mating of Express Hancho x Icemaid Nikki had arrived. Four are being reared by Lance whilst four will be staying in Ireland. The first Nikki litter includes Icemaid Lilley and Iceman Arnie who are both Open Class pups.
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The winners of Droopys Maldini's offspring continue to flow. Last night Droopys Torres won the €47,000 Mike Cronin Readymix Juvenile Classic at Tralee in 28.78. The runner up was Droopys Teabag was also a Maldini. Whilst only hitting 5% on top offspring at the moment, what will it be an the end of the summer? Just click here to view his top 10. They should be contesting all the summers classics.
Must admit I was very disappointed with Avenue this afternon. I could have led that field up, he had a great chance to lead to win. He gave his chance away by only trapping 5th........Rubbish.........
Sadly all things have no being going that well for Wookie out in Lincoln so he won't be joining the our current team of racers. The syndicate members were informed this morning. Whilst disappointed that he won't be the dog we hoped for hopefully he will fit somebody else's criteria.
My good friend Ray forwarded another classic Kerry doggie story over the weekend about a serious incident in Paddys on Saturday………………
He left the kitchen for 5 minutes at approximately 12 noon to go to the bedroom to do something while some 12 dogs guarded the kitchen.
It is now believed that he received a call from friend at 12.02 however the phone was on silent vibrate and he didn’t hear it on the kitchen table…………..
A coursing bitch believed to be a brindle daughter of Gold Madam took it upon herself to take the call so reaching onto the table she took the phone in her mouth and went outside to get a better reception…………….not to be left out the other 11 dogs followed her out each insisting that it was their turn to answer the phone so between them they did manage to answer but the caller could only hear the sounds of dogs in the background and believed that dogs had each gotten themselves the mobile.
Paddy returned to find the phone missing and went in search…………..he located the remains of the phone minus the keypad which was still missing at midnight last night when searches were scaled down for the evening
The phone now has no screen no battery cover but alarmingly can still make and receive calls albeit you not being able to see the number on the screen
If ever there was an advert for the resilience of a Nokia phone then surely this is it!
