Westhoughton Wrc

Westhoughton reopened today and apart from a few teething problems at the start, trials got underway and everything went smoothly. The track had been stood since the previous management left and after a couple of spins round with the tractor looked great again. Some work is being done this week on the banking and more trialing is planned for Wednesday.

The whippet club will be back on, on Saturday 4th February for anyone who wishes to come for trials - all welcome!

As soon as we've had the start time confirmed tomorrow i will post.

What good news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!a great start to the new year hope it continues --- :luck: :luck: good luck to new owners --- :luck:

Steve

Trials / Racing confirmed for this Saturday 2pm start. An idea of the amount of dogs attending would be helpful.

IZZY and DUFFY please

Just to let everyone know, the club racing will go ahead as planned today, the track is fine :thumbsup:

just got back from wessy weather freezing but track was perfect, compliments to Kevin the new track owner (he has really put some work in there)and he even brewed up for us :thumbsup:

A good day trialing yesterday (i can say that now i've thawed out lol), i think all the whippets were glad to be back and burn off a bit of energy.

I think there were just short of 20 dogs which wasn't bad at all considering some people didn't risk travelling in the bad weather. The track had been heavily salted on Friday and was brilliant, put the licensed track i was at last night to shame.

Same time next week folks :thumbsup:

Will see you all next week as long as the weathers ok :thumbsup:

is wessy on today ?

steve

Yes Steve :thumbsup:

Just got a call to say that there are parts of the home straight near the inside rail that are frozen so we will have to cancel for today.

They will be putting more salt on again today and we will hopefully be able to race tomorrow after the greyhound trials.

Anyone wanting to run tomorrow please phone before setting off 07852 328020 or 07539 215674

Start time tomorrow 12.30, entries from 12.15 :thumbsup:

Cheers Vicky

Steve

A brilliant turnout of 40 dogs for todays meeting.

Beside the Point, Midnight Maid, What's Your Rush, Make it Four, Little Guess, Harry & a pedi all having handslips and chasing well - Harry coming on a treat in his training, extremely keen.

Petra & Connie the Ibizan Hound & Pharoah Hound both had a couple of runs, first run was over 6 bends and went well - Petra got her money's worth! lol

Trial times:

King Coal 15.60

Moonbound 15.75

Megapixel 15.87

Mighty Run 15.66

Twisted Sister 16.31

Push the Button 16.03

Whiskey Fudge 16.94

Magical Moany 16.38

Miles Away 15.66

Maid u Run 15.85

Short n Curly 16.42

Tall n Tiny 16.28

Mad Jack 16.00

Just Paddy 15.50

Hagler 15.94 / 16.22

She's a Flyer 16.56

Little Flyer 17.28

Mo Carlin 16.34

Mad Jack Sc

Twisted Sister 4 1/2 - 15.90

Magical Moany 5 1/2

A brilliant race between these three with Mad jack powering home to just get beat on the line by Twisted Sister.

Mo Carlin Sc

She's a Flyer 3

Whiskey Fudge 6 - 16.28

Another good race with Whiskey Fudge just hanging on from Mo Carlin

Mighty Run Sc

Miles Away Sc - 15.53

Miles out trapped Ollie and looked strong to lead all the way.

The pedi's sorted their own racing out and all managed to get a couple of runs in.

The track, although running slow due to being well salted and harrowed yesterday was looking great, a brilliant testament to the amount of work Kevin and his gang have put in. 57 greyhounds trialing this morning and no injuries.

Hopefully see a lot of people at our open next Sunday so that they can see for themselves what a good safe track this is.

Our next race meeting will take place on Saturday 25th at 2pm. All members welcome - old & new. This will be a trophy meeting with prizes for non peds, peds, lurchers and most improved newcomer. We'll also be holding a raffle.

Vicky said:

Our next race meeting will take place on Saturday 25th at 2pm. All members welcome - old & new. This will be a trophy meeting with prizes for non peds, peds, lurchers and most improved newcomer. We'll also be holding a raffle.

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what was raffle nos from sunday--- never heard them shouted , spent good money buying so would've been nice to hear if i'd won---rant over , lol

Raffle was drawn at the presentation and the prizes collected.

Saturday 25th February 2012

An excellent turnout for yesterday's meeting with loads of newcomers and pups spectating.

Trials for:

Hagler 15.45

Joe

Wallis 17.62 (ped)

Anagram 15.79

Harry

What's Your Rush 14.88

Daisy 14.50 (ghd)

Balla (ped)

1 ped

1 lurcher

Handslips for:

Bobby (Lurcher)

Booker (Lurcher)

Little Big Man

Sally (ped)

Kara (ped)

Whippet (ped)

Tia (ped)

Fergie (ped)

Eva (ped)

Sophie (ped)

Scratch

R. Mighty Run 3rd

B. King Coal 2nd

W. Miles Away 4th

Bk. Maid u Run 1st 15.38 (Midnight Run x Taylor Maid)

Pedigrees Ht 1

R. Sid Sc - 2nd

B. Twinkles Daughter 1 - 3rd

W. Little Cracker 6 - 1st n/t

Ht 2

R. Gladys Sc - 3rd

B. Crackerjack 2 - 1st 16.62

W. Maizy 8 - 2nd

Ht 3

R. Betsy Sc - 3rd

B. Fatal Attraction 3 - 1st 16.25

W. Ethal 4 - 2nd

Non Peds Ht 1

R. Push The Button Sc - 1st 15.38 (North 2 South x Little Doll)

B. Whiskey Fudge Sc - 2nd

W. Little Guess 8 - 3rd

Ht 2

R. Moonbound Sc - 1st 15.69 (Hellbound x Moonpie)

B. Mo Carlin 1 - 2nd

W. Midnight Maid 8 - 3rd

Ht 3

R. She's a Flyer Sc - 2nd

B. Beside The Point Sc -1st 15.91 (Just Friend x Paloma)

Second Round

R. Maid u Run 2nd

B. Miles Away 1st - 15.22

W. King Coal 3rd

Bk. Mighty Run 4th

Pedigree Final

R. Crackerjack Sc - 2nd

B. Fatal Attraction Sc - 1st

W. Little Cracker 2 - 3rd

Pedigree Cons

R. Sid Sc - 3rd

B. Ethal 5 - 1st 16.50

W. Maizy 10 - 2nd

Ped Cons

R. Twinkles Daughter Sc

B. Betsy Sc

W. Gladys 1 - 1st 17.00

Non Ped Final

R. Moonbound Sc - 2nd

B. Push The Button 1 - 1st 15.34

W. Beside The Point w/d

Cons.

R. Whiskey Fudge Sc

B. Mo Carlin Sc

W. She's a Flyer 8 - 1st 15.75

Cons.

R. Midnight Maid Sc - 1st 16.57

B. Little Guess 1

Trophy Winners

Scratch Winner - Maid u Run

Pedigree Winner - Fatal Attraction

Non Ped Winner - Push The Button

Most Improved Newcomer - Sally

Everyone gathered in the cafe for warm drinks and a chat before racing commenced and we were presented with an immaculately prepared track once again by Kevin and his team, Kev is doing everything he can to promote our club and some of his friends came down to spectate with their whippets and seemed to really enjoy the day, taking a keen interest in all the dogs and the times they were clocking.

Special thanks to those that donated raffle there were 8 prizes up for grabs and it proved popular so we'll do this again next week, also thanks to Keith, Craig, John, Mick, Tony, George & Mark who all helped out on the traps, trip and handslipping and everyone else who helped out in one way or other. It's nice to see the club getting so much support and lots of mad keen newcomers who seem to have been bitten by the racing bug - hope you all enjoyed your day.

There will be a Greyhound & Whippet Shop opening in the next few weeks at the track and i'm sure Kev will do a roaring trade with us lot :sweating:

Thankyou Vicky ,Jackie and all the crew for such a good day :thumbsup:

The Heat 1 for the Peddys was 1st Little cracker and 3rd Twinkles Daughter )

Well done to all the winners and well done to all that ran :thumbsup:

We had a good day, the track was A1 and lots of new whippets wanting to have a go. :thumbsup: Thankyou to all the workers, without them we couldn't train, nice to see the new dogs being slipped and finding their way. Some good races, well done to all the winners and all who took part.

Lynn and Mick

Yet another great days racing at Wessy. Lots of keen newcomers with equally keen dogs.

See you all next week!

Photos can be seen here> Westhoughton Club Racing 27-02-2012