Novices & Bends

[~elizabeth~]

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Its a shame as bend racings good fun..........We'll be doing the curve and some bends at Cotswolds club racing just to get our club dogs ready ........as I hate seeing the inexperienced dogs causing problems at the first bend .......

To answer your question, I think quite a few people are preparing using greyhound tracks - we meet quite a few peddie racing people from all over at Bicester. Some dogs needed quite a lot of 'help' to get them to follow the lure round the bend though.

do you have much trouble with their feet, as i read somewhere greyhounds have trouble with their nail beds.

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We give ours a run every so often on the greyhound track. Haven't had any problems with feet at all, and we've been going there for over a year now, and it's been nice to have somewhere to start running again with a healing toe where you know there are no stones, cracks, uneven patches etc. The only thing I don't like is that if you run several dogs together, they will inhale some sand which can irritate the throat quite badly; I think there must be some salt in it too, as when this happened to ours he drank very copiously after.

 

[CHRIS DOYLE]

Also Maidstone has a Club bend meeting  which is a 240yd  bend on the 10th sept, before there open which is on 24th sept.

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Can anyone please tell me who I might contact for an entry form? Thanks

 

[IanGerman]

See June at Harvel on Sunday Chris. As secretary she gets forms for all the opens. Or are you going to Cornwall with the rest of us? :cheers:

 

[CHRIS DOYLE]

See June at Harvel on Sunday Chris. As secretary she gets forms for all the opens. Or are you going to Cornwall with the rest of us?  :cheers:

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Thanks for that Ian. No Cornwall I'm afraid, couldn't arrange kenneling for my spaniels. Good luck to you and all who are going. :thumbsup: