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just been having a discussion with joyce irving (thurston) and we couldnt recall who owned toe white and where he raced any info would be appreciated..thank you !

thats great news i have many good memories of racing at both clubs! i still see foggo doing his window cleaning round the toon!

i first started in about 1970 ish my first dog was a pure white dog from an old bloke i knew! when i look back on it he was built like a bull terrier! to be honest he ran like one too! we used to walk from newcastle to seaton burn every sunday and wondered why he never won owt duhrrrrr!!!! still...

maybe? we should be playing at the stadium of SHITE then! 8)

nigel did have chinaman! he raced mainly against greyhounds though! they also got fleetwood from mark and dawn ancell (second litter) who beat us in the championships (straight) mark and dawn raced fleetwood in the 40lb and nigel and maysell decided to go for no limit racing which paid off for them!

i wasnt having a "dig" at anyone breeding with greyhounds as my own no limit woodman was bred by mr benn - glorious redwood (greyhound) we intentionally looked for this sort of cross as we were looking for an open class no limit at the time! and well! mr benn you couldnt really go far wrong!

As i raced some years ago! during the 60s up untill the early 90s i always found a mixture of reactions to "scratch racing" you had the "purist" point of view that anything over 30lb was deemed to be getting to be more like a greyhound or a lurcher! on the other hand there was always a great...

thanks for that im just glad hes doing ok! he was always a great help in all the years i knew him.

thanks for that if anyone sees him say chris alias(woodman) says hello and glad to hear he is still doing the business!

just wondered if anyone has any idea if ernie mitchelson is still around? its been years since i raced and ernie was always a great help in those days i think his sons were eddy and ian and he raced all over the country but his local tracks were coxlodge and wallsend(both tracks). cant recall...

just joined the forum after coming across this site by accident! was glad to see that whippet racing is still booming. i last raced dogs in about 1990-92 ish my last dog was nsch woodman (mr benn-glorious redwood) bred by mark and dawn ancell from middlesbrough way! glad to see the no limit...