South Coast Bend Championships

[Doreen Hopkins]

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Just got back from Portsmouth Greyhound Stadium ( only live 5 mins away from track sheer bliss ). Great days racing, a number of racers had travelled down from the North of England so it was great to see them come and support an open in the South, The terrier racing was a huge success although only a few entered.

The track is in superb condition and one of the rules to be able to race there was that no kick boards were allowed, and it didn't make any difference to the races

the dogs still trapped well. The big difference it made was to the amount of time

it took between races, what a difference it made, no messing about or waiting for owners to find their own trap boards.

the terrier racing was won by Biscuit

Under 23" lurcher race winner was Minsters Rocket

Over 23" lurcher race was won by Meisha

N/L winner Magical Dreams

40lb scratch Fatimas Quest, 2nd Bagheera

36lb scratch One's Cushti's Bok

24lb Yearling Bess Come On

24lb vets Stepney

32lb vets Trevors Chaser

16lb bitch J20

18lb bitchRapid Stagg

20lb bitch Spirit Of The Stagg

24lb bitch Billie The Kid

26lb bitch Free Spirit

30lb bitch Silver Lady

32lb bitch Rapid Jazz

LIGHT WEIGHT BITCH RUN OFF winner Billie The Kid

HEAVY WEIGHT BITCH RUN OFF winner Free Spirit

16lb dog One's So Fine

18lb dog Tinkerman

20lb dog 2 Four One

24lb dog One's Cushti's Star

26lb dog O.B. 2

28lb dog Nike's gem

32lb dog Ludacris

LIGHT WEIGHT DOG RUN OFF winner One's Cushti's Star

HEAVY WEIGHT DOG RUN OFF winner Ludacris & O.B. 2 dead heat

OVERALL FINAL RESULT

1st Free Spirit

2nd Ludacris

3rd Billie The Kid

4th One's Cushti's Star

5th O.B. 2

Godd days racing , perfect weather, pleasant atmosphere

well done to all the workers for making it a great days racing, and thanks to the Staff of Portsmouth Greyhound Stadium for all their hard work too, lots of hot food on offer, tea , coffee, and the bar, what more could anyone want.

regards Doreen

 

[Karen-Coral]

Well done everyone :cheers:

Would have made that extra effort to get there if we'd got a terrier....lol :clown:

Karen

 

[sharon whincop]

Anyone got the full results.

 

[milly]

Any times?

 

[gary farmer]

YES GEOFF ITS 850PM

AND IM IN DOORS FOR ONCE

WHERES GRAHAM LOL :b

GARY

 

[kate lynch]

well done everyone :thumbsup:

 

[rodders]

Well done all winners :thumbsup:

Well done Geoff and Fatimas Quest :thumbsup: PS Sonia while he's lost slip that chain off girl and i'll see you at North Notts next week Karen

 

[gary farmer]

sorry but tattoo won the 40lb scratch

fancy that dooreen making a mistake

well theres a first lol :clown:

gary

 

[Fleesh]

Now now Gary I'm sure Doreen had a very stressful drive home :sweating:

A good weekend was had by all here. We drove down on the Saturday, stopped in Southampton on Saturday night and nipped nown to Portsmouth in the morning.

No winners for us although Jessica was a r-up. It was great seeing them run in their first adult bend race a real learning curve (pardon the pun).

Lovely too see Talli going round cleanly after breaking the bone in her foot earlier in the year (though I think I'll leave off with the strapping next time :b ).

Bookie was enjoying having his pockets well and truly emptied :lol: What a brave man.

See you all around :teehee:

 

[DavidH]

well done all the winners, hope all came home safe and sound :luck: :thumbsup:

 

[Vicky]

Well done everyone - any pic's?

 

[aw006m7593]

Went to visit the track at Portsmouth on Saturday what a pleasant surprise it was as the track was first class. We went to watch the greyhound racing on Saturday evening was most enjoyable and thought at the time how lucky we were to have a track as good as this to run our whippets on, definately has the edge on Hall Green and if they are happy with us, which hopefully they were we will certainly hold another event there.

Racers who made the journey down from the Midlands said it took them 3 hours which lis less time than it takes us to travel to Highgate or Askern, so Karen you can forget saving up for that aeroplane for you and Steve now.

Regards

Sheila

 

[debbie]

a big welldone to FREE SPIRIT , i new she had it in her for the bends, just like her litter sisters ACCA and HUNTERS TWEED, good look kim for the forth coming bend champs

debbie :cheers:

 

[Karen-Coral]

Went to visit the track at Portsmouth on Saturday what a pleasant surprise it was as the track was first class. We went to watch the greyhound racing on Saturday evening was most enjoyable and thought at the time how lucky we were to have a track as good as this to run our whippets on, definately has the edge on Hall Green and if they are happy with us, which hopefully they were we will certainly hold another event there.
Racers who made the journey down from the Midlands said it took them 3 hours which lis less time than it takes us to travel to Highgate or Askern, so Karen you can forget saving up for that aeroplane for you and Steve now.

Regards

Sheila

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Remember we're up near Morecambe..

It would be at least a 5 hour run for us-

I've got the old lad Stevie to think of...he'd need a week in bed to recover-aint getting any younger u know...lol

Bert did kindly offer his caravan to us...but that would have meant sharing with Linda.

Past all that I'm afraid (w00t) lol

Anyway glad it all went well.... :thumbsup:

All darn Sarth together...with thi Paps.

 

[weathergirls]

great track good days racing pity more didn't bother to support it must thank Bert and Jane for putting me up. Well done LUDACRIS what a cracking final ( lost a tenner on you) well done Free Spirit

the good thing about no kickboards was you didn't have to keep striding over them round the traps the bad thing it certainly DID make a difference to a lot of the dogs trapping

well done all the winners thanks to the organisers for a great day

 

[whiskey1]

Went to visit the track at Portsmouth on Saturday what a pleasant surprise it was as the track was first class. We went to watch the greyhound racing on Saturday evening was most enjoyable and thought at the time how lucky we were to have a track as good as this to run our whippets on, definately has the edge on Hall Green and if they are happy with us, which hopefully they were we will certainly hold another event there.
Racers who made the journey down from the Midlands said it took them 3 hours which lis less time than it takes us to travel to Highgate or Askern, so Karen you can forget saving up for that aeroplane for you and Steve now.

Regards

Sheila

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why not have the bwra bend champs there :lol: :lol: :thumbsup:

 

[Fleesh]

Racers who made the journey down from the Midlands said it took them 3 hours which lis less time than it takes us to travel to Highgate or Askern, so Karen you can forget saving up for that aeroplane for you and Steve now

And we're only 20mins from Askern and Highgate Karen, these southerners must save up and buy something better than a reliant robin :lol: .

National Speed Limit 70 not 40

:teehee:

 

[hellbound]

we would have love to come down and run, but i would not run my dogs with no kickboard, :b why could you not use them ?? anyone know, think it would be to far for the bend champs, we have to take into account that member in scotland would need a day just to get there,

 

[aw006m7593]

Please don't go down that road nobody has even suggested that Portsmouth should be used for the BWRA Bend Championships, it seems certain people on this site takes things out of context and they can't wait to stir up trouble when there isn't any.

We booked Portsmouth for our open because Warwick is unavailable and no other tracks were suitable or available either, when we ran Warwick it took us three hours to get there to run a meeting and it also took two and a half hours for us to get to Portsmouth but the event was a great success and well worthwhile making the journey although our dog was too poorly to run. Hopefully we will be able to hold another meeting there if the Management was happy with the event. As already mentioned it's a track you feel happy about putting your dogs round and by not being able to use floor boards the time saved was very noticable.

 

[hellbound]

it looks a very nice track, and would have been there but for the kickboard, was this just something that you put in place for the south coast champs, or will it be all opens on at this track, just a personal thing that i would not run my dogs without one,