Sporting Whippet Club Northern Ireland

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Linda and I arranged to try and start a wee club were we in Ireland can come and race our full breed whippets promote the whippet breed and enjoy a day with friends but it has not turned out the way we planned we have dogs with no proven pedigree racing proven peds this is doing nothing promoting the line of the full bred The season has not started as of yet I have already had a complaints from two fellow committee members complaining about me being willing to start training for novice dogs to which I received an unpleasant pm from the chairperson which caused me and my wife Linda annoyance in event of what I have said and the situation above remains I wish to stand down form the post of sectary I will print this off and send a copy to all members I am willing to full fill my duties a sectary until there is a new sectary elected via extordanary club meeting

Regards Sammy Bowers CC

I have met some great people here on K9 and all the best to you but unfortunatly like all walks of live there is some spiteful people that just back stab and bad mouth so until I decide to come back on again to all my friends know how to contact me GOOD BYE

 

[Macha]

very sorry to read this message and wish the dispute or misunderstanding could have been settled within the committee

thanks, Sammy and Linda, for all the work you put in to the club last year

will there still be whippet shows and races at Antrim in the coming year?

I'm too far away to be involved in committee but I'd like to see racing as frequent as possible from Apr-Sept and just have have a show each season, including months when racing is off and show can be indoors. You don't have to have trophies at all race meets!)

there are no pedigree and non-pedigree whippet racing clubs in Ireland so probably the club has to accommodate all. Some attempt has already been made to grade dogs and to race them with dogs of similar speed. Time trialling would be good but I suppose traps (starting boxes) would be needed to do proper timings. There could be some races restricted to dogs with kc papers, I suppose, and I think there ought to be some overall height and/or weight limit but probably most people involved would want it to be a bit higher than the ped whippet racing association limit of 21 in and 32 lb.