Longest Running Whippet Racers

[rocky]

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These are the dates I have found. I am sure most of them could be wrong so please if you are among this list, or not on this list at all and still running a whippet, let us know the real date you started racing

1968 Don and Ruth Syston with Viv's Pet

1969 Ron Hardy with Orlando

1970 George and Pat Blower with Woodmouse

1971 Gill Williams with Taramina

1972 Pete Baker with Comedy Star

Paul Jennings with Groundhog

1973 John Noble with Elbon Rebel

Lesley and Mick Hinson with Sooty

1974 Mick Buckingham with Sharky

Marchants with Who Cares

Linda and Les Windle with Blue Venim

1975 Tony Cooper with Fawn Wyn

1976 Joyce and Vern Hutchings with Devon Highwayman

1977 Joyce and Charlie Slater with Gunners Gold

 

[sadieandco]

Mum and Dad (Pat & George Blower) started racing in June 1962 their first dog being a little 16lber Flashpast (11 months later i went to my first meeting at 3 weeks old or so i'm told) Not sure that would count as starting racing tho as a few years later before i 'raced' a dog

Karen

 

[john m]

And still the apple of your mum and dads eye Karen :huggles: :cheers:

 

[ricky]

i started in 1972-73 season first racing dog Tindoor he weighed 44lb suprise suprise no limit scratch dog

 

[Vicky]

My grandad and his brother had Little Mary, she was bred in 1964 by my grandads Scarback so must have been racing earlier. Also Keith Woodward who has This Way / Mebs Rosie would have been racing about the same time with Robbo.

 

[Paws123]

I started in 1977 with grease lighting

 

[JOHNG]

i started in april 1973 my first ever dog was called royal echo but he was'nt open class so just handicap raced :cheers:

 

[mutley]

i started in 1972-73 season first racing dog Tindoor he weighed 44lb suprise suprise no limit scratch dog

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is that how long it is rick you were only 40 when u first started :lol: my time flies im a novice started when i met Dee 1989 (w00t)

 

[ricky]

i started in 1972-73 season first racing dog Tindoor he weighed 44lb suprise suprise no limit scratch dog

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is that how long it is rick you were only 40 when u first started :lol: my time flies im a novice started when i met Dee 1989 (w00t)

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yes gary a long time ago but you no how it ages you, your only supposed to be 40 now ? at least when i was running then there were 60-70 dogs running in the handicap

 

[sherry]

not that long since 1995 1st dog handicap dog called marleys magic bred form pigeon x a field dog called teal.

 

[mutley]

i started in 1972-73 season first racing dog Tindoor he weighed 44lb suprise suprise no limit scratch dog

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is that how long it is rick you were only 40 when u first started :lol: my time flies im a novice started when i met Dee 1989 (w00t)

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yes gary a long time ago but you no how it ages you, your only supposed to be 40 now ? at least when i was running then there were 60-70 dogs running in the handicap

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true true found a pic of u mate 1973 my arsse

 

[decca]

I STARTED 1993 MY FIRST DOG WAS THUNDERBIRD. HE WAS A NO LIMIT DOG THAT WON THE HIGHLAND DERBY NO LIMIT FINAL AT DINGWALL IN 1994 GOODTIMES & MORE TO COME I HOPE :thumbsup:

 

[mutley]

that was a hell of a derby decca it was a great week man :thumbsup:

 

[syko]

I started in 1962 when we formed ilkeston i came out of greyhounds to run whippets. I raced against Vickeys grandad who was either ( Brian or keith cooper) i also raced against their dad in the earley 60's.I was also one of the people at the Golden Lion pub in the mid 60's to form the B.W.R.A. I mated Viv's Pet to Roobo who was litter brother to Little Mary & Cleo.I was also the breeder of Ron Hardy's Orlando who i bred in the late 60's. This now makes 2006 my 44th year racing whippets and in all that time i have kept the same bloodline,I can trace this back to 1948, here's to the next 44yr's.?

Don Syson

 

[Vicky]

I started in 1962 when we formed ilkeston i came out of greyhounds to run whippets. I raced against Vickeys grandad who  was either ( Brian or keith cooper) i also raced against their dad in the earley 60's.I was also one of the people at the Golden Lion pub in the mid 60's to form the B.W.R.A. I mated Viv's Pet to Roobo who was litter brother to Little Mary & Cleo.I was also the breeder of Ron Hardy's Orlando who i bred in the late 60's. This now makes 2006 my 44th year racing whippets and in all that time i have kept the same bloodline,I can trace this back to 1948, here's to the next 44yr's.?                                                                              Don Syson

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Lovely that you've kept the same line all this time Don, my grandad (Graham btw lol) did the same, kept one back from every generation - the last one (a dog) was run over last year. A bitch pup went up to Scotland though to a mate of his who's a gamekeeper so he could possibly get a pup back that way.

Not many people stick with one line these day, swapping and changing from one line to another.

 

[Susan]

(w00t) Ive not been in the sport as long as most ,,,I started around 1983 /1984 with Fancy Whiskey , a little 18lb bitch who I got for nothing from Trapper at Polbeth . She was a good wee bitch and open class

 

[aw006m7593]

We started racing in 1975 our first non pedigree whippet was Rch Apache Gold (Good as Good x Natring) who won the 20lb class in 1978, their were four heats in the 20lb class at that time. The South had quite a few champions that year. Apache Gold went on to win his semi-final and just got pipped on the line for Supreme dog by Bubbsie Cox's great 26lb Sup.Rch Set Fair. Bubbsie Cox came from Hastings like Gary Farmer and in those days Hastings had a very strong contingent of racers.

We were so green behind the ears when we first started racing that we did tend to over-run little Apache Gold, we would race him at a straight open on Saturday and then travel up on Sunday and run him on the bends at either Doncaster or Askern when they had meetings on, we must have been totally bonkers.

We made friends with some great racers who used to race at Doncaster and Askern in those days, so it is easy to understand why we did what we did. One who comes to mind and are still racing today is June Steele along with her late brother Terry. We were fortunate enough to have seen the great achievements of Mo Evil owned by Frank and Vera Draper.

Going to our local club Braeswood was no different to going to an open with anything up to eighty dogs on the race sheet, so racers had plenty of opposition to test out how good your dog was.

I hope their is a turn around in dog numbers soon so that racers can enjoy what we once had.

Sheila Webb

 

[storm1]

gunners gold was not charlies fist dog

it was march folly 1974

 

[sadieandco]

Ok this one for you Vicky if it works lol

Mr Cooper with Little Mary

 

[sadieandco]

This next one Sedgebrook WRC champion dogs

Front cover of Whippet News issue No. 7 Price 6d (how much??????)

Left to right Mr G Blower (Flash Past) (thats my daddy lol)

Mrs M Allsop (Magics Girl) and Mr Allsop (Black Magic)

I guess i was somewhere around at that meetin in my pram 3 months old then lol