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OOOPs!!! Meant to hit preview first. Hard day on the dog poo machine's got to me. Was going to add that the WCRA like any other sporting association is self appointed. It has no god given right to control Ped whippet racing neither has it any state backing. There are dozens of ped whippets...

Some generalizations in your last post Terry, particularly with your tongue in cheek reference to the British belief that we have the best horses. The UK imports more foriegn bloodlines than any other nation in the world, so one would hope we wouldn't import crap! Exactly the point I was...

Sire was "Orwell" who I think was a top ten dog at the time. His breeders reckoned he was one of the fastest of two fast litters. He did miss out with bad toes though. May be wrong it was around the time we bowed out/ were kicked out of ped racing. Terry Smith

I thought I always had John, only Joe has anything like race breeding in him & thats pretty diluted. In fact as you may know the last time I inquired about the service's of a "race bred" stud I got fobbed off with lame excuses. I merely meant it would be a worthwhile discussion & worth getting...

I'm sure there has been at least one stake for whippets run over Altcar on the Friday after the Waterloo. I seem to remember it being announced over the "blower" on the last day. I was about 11 or 12 then so we are talking well over 40 years ago so maybe my memory is playing tricks on me. I've...

It's supposed to be in a horse magazine & loot. There must be some reason that many of them are together in one place. Saw some more this w/e on Atherleigh way think they were heading up to Gin Pit. Terry Smith

I've heard there's a horse fair being advertised in Astley village this bank hol. is this true? Terry Smith

John had a long struggle with leukemia and sadly died about 10-11 years ago. It was very sad he had what seemed to be a complete recovery and had taken some pups on. When he relapsed he went very quickly. His wife and kids felt they couldn't go on with the dogs and sent them all back to their...

Every season one or more opens come "unstuck" often with serious injury to the dogs. I'm no friend of the "Northern" but from what has been written on this site it seems there were no serious injuries just some serious inconveniences. Once again it exposes the falsehood of WCRA racing being...