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"You can tell his age by his right ear tattoo" I guess I need better glasses, too faint for me to read. Try putting a flashlight behind his ear. You can also put some baby oil on the tattoo.

You can tell his age by his right ear tattoo. If he was born in May 2012 the right ear tattoo will be 52 and a letter. The first number if the month he was born and the last number is the last number of the year he was born.

Done. http://www.greyhound-data.com/d?d=P+Kay+Ruger&sex=&color=&birthyear=&birthland= Here is his Trackinfo page. http://www.trackinfo.com/dog-search.jsp?keyword=P+Kay+Ruger&x=9&y=8&by=dogname You can see he has over 10 pages of races. If you click "all" it will bring all of them up. What you need to know is seen in the bold numbers. Look at the second race down on page one where the comment says just missed. The first bold number is the box he is in. The next three numbers are where he was at certain points during the race, not that important to you as you will be watching him run. The next bold numbers 3 .5 tell you he finished 3rd and lost the race by by half a length or .5. So when you see a race where those last numbers are 1 followed by a number like 2 or 6.5 that means he won that race and won by 2 lengths or 6.5 lengths.

Done http://www.greyhound-data.com/db.php?i=2243027&time=1492728806

What you notice about the tracks in Oz is the longer sweeping turns as opposed to our sharper turns.

Kycera ran 44 races between Palm Beach and Sanford Orlando. She started out at PB which is a very good mid-level track and she didn't do well. PB is a track that requires early speed and she didn't display any early speed often times getting to the turn no better than 5th or 6th. So she was moved to Sanford Orlando a low end track. Here she did pretty good as she displayed early speed and at times getting to the turn on top. She needed to be on top to win as she would either lose ground in the stretch or just hold her position. Never closing. Kebo Tina Turner ran 71 races between Daytona, Wheeling and Sanford Orlando. She was a dog with a good break and a good rush to the turn. She needed that early speed as she wasn't a dog that was going to close from 4th or 5th to win. At times she would be 2nd and win, but I think that was more a product of the dog in front quitting as opposed to her closing to catch the front runner. Many early speed dogs are quitters in the stretch as they exert all their energy in the early part of the race, but Xena wasn't like that. If she was 2nd or 3rd to the turn she would usually end up 2nd or 3rd or move up or down one position so she was a hard trying dog. I have edited their G-D pages to show their pet names and the two of you as the adopted owners. http://www.greyhound-data.com/db.php?i=1680870&time=1492626441 http://www.greyhound-data.com/d?d=kebo+tina+turner&sex=&color=&birthyear=&birthland= Dick

P Kay Ruger ran 156 races between Daytona, Wheeling and Jacksonville. Most of those races were at Daytona. His break wasn't that good, but if he could rush the turn 4th or 5th he would usually be in the money or win because he could close a little. I found it a little strange they would send a dog with little early speed from Daytona, a low end track, to Wheeling, our second best track and a track that demands speed to the turn. As expected he didn't do well there and was moved to Jax which is a good mid-level track and a closer can do well there. As it turned out he didn't do well there either, but it was a better choice of tracks and after Jax it was back to Daytona. He was in the money 93 out of his 156 races which is a nice number. He was a hard trying dog that was usually moving forward. As I said above, and this is for anyone, if you want me to add his pet name and your name as the adoptive owner just post that information here. Dick

As you can imagine there isn't much to tell from a 9 race career. T's Randy Savage. he was named after the late professional wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage, ran his 9 races at Sarasota. As you noted he had one 2nd and the rest of the races he was out of the money. He did have a little early speed breaking and being to the turn 3rd or 4th, but from there he ran backwards finishing 6th, 7th or 8th seven times. I'm sure he is a better pet than a racer and he is right where be belongs, on your couch. I can put his pet name and your name as his owner on his G-D page if you want to post that information here. Dick

PJ Cognac ran 89 races between Tri-State and Southland. TS is a top 5 track and SL is the number 1 track in the country. Early in his career he ran sprints and didn't have much speed out of the box, but he could close. So if he broke 7th or 8th he usually finished poorly. If he could break 4th or 5th he usually ran well. I call this defending your lane. If you are going to rush the turn you need a clear lane to run. When you 7th or 8th other dogs come from the outside in or the inside out and block your lane. You haven't defended your lane. When you break decent other dogs don't drift in or out to block you. Most dogs aren't slashers either going in or out so just being next to most dogs prevents them from blocking you. That was probably more information that you needed to know. Once around the turn 3rd or 4th or 5th he would close and improve his position many times and even get up for a win. They moved him to SL since their sprint course is 583 yards instead of 550, but the competition was was to much for him and after 9 races at SL he was moved back to TS. They put him in routes, which at TS are 677 yds and not the typical 660 yds, and a couple of things happened. He could now break better since he was running with longer distance dogs. His non sprinter break was still better than a lot of true distance dogs break so he would consistently be 2nd, 3rd or 4th after the break. The flip side to this is closing sprinters don't always become closing routers, and he didn't. He could maintain his position or maybe improve a little, but he wasn't a closer. So he was in the money quite a bit, but only occasional won a race. He was in the money 46 out of his 89 races, but if you take his 9 races he ran at SL, where he only had one 3rd, he was 45 out of 80 races at TS. He was a nice A/B dog. If you want me to add his pet name or your full name as the owner just post it here. Dick

He was bred by Delmos Monroe who owns a farm in WV. It looks to me the only time he was out of WV was when he raced at Southland which is in Arkansas. So I would say he was never in the southwest. As others have said 3 1/2 is pretty young for osteo. So hoping it is something else. Dick

Wheeling is one of the best tracks in the country so dogs that are good enough come from all over to race there. There are a number of farms in WV so he may have been bred, born and raised there, but there is also a chance he wasn't . What is his racing name? Dick

He ran 44 races between Raynham, Flagler and Naples, all good tracks. He was all over the place with his break. Sometimes he would be 1st or 2nd and then many times he was 6th or 7th or 8th. He had no consistency in that regard. He could close some coming from 3rd or 2nd to win and there is one race he broke last and won. He would be a very tough dog to bet because you never knew what he was going to do. LOL He was basically a C/D dog at those tracks. Can't help you with his kennel name. Good luck with him.

Do Bee is looking good and Happy Birthday to him.

P Kay Sweetmarry ran 148 races between Naples and Flagler both very good tracks. Both tracks are seasonal and when one closes the other opens which is why she bounced back and forth. She didn't have a lot of early speed or a very good rush to the turn, but she could close. She wasn't a dog that could come from 7th or 8th, but if she cleared the turn, without getting into trouble, 4th or 5th she was almost always in the money and could challenge for the win. She was in the money 92 of her 148 races which is very good. Like most closers they did try her in a couple of 660 yard races, but that distance wasn't to her liking and she was put back in the 550 yard sprints. Dick

Thanks.

There isn't much good to say about his racing career. He had no early speed, no rush to the turn and no closing speed. That is the perfect formula to getting to your couch and I'm sure he is a 10 as a pet. One interesting thing, which dogs do occasionally, is one schooling race he turned in the box. That is exactly what it sounds like. When the lid opened he was facing the wrong way. Dick

A number of tracks run Juvenile stake race. It is a puppy stake since there is an age limit and she made the finals. If you look near the bottom of her lines you will see five races that say Stake instead of having a letter for the grade she was in. You will see in those five races she ran 7th, 1st, 2nd,2nd and 8th in the final.

This should be you dog. http://www.greyhound-data.com/d?i=1694523

I just ran the tattoos and nothing came up. Here is the page to check a tattoo and you can see the phone number to call in Ireland. Don't know if that is the number you tried to call or not. http://www.greyhound-data.com/earmark.htm

Ollie ran at Southland and Wheeling two of our best tracks. The problem was he had very little early speed and didn't have much of a rush to the turn. They eventually moved him to the longer 660 yard course, but with the same results. Once in a while he would hit his break and would be on top early and those are the races he won. At times he would close a little, but not often enough. They moved him to the Naples/Ft Myers track and he fell in his first official schooling race. My guess is he did get hurt, but there were 8 dogs in the race and he finished the race 6th. Again this is nothing but a guess, I would say he wasn't hurt that bad, but because he wasn't a good racer they decided to retire him instead of sending him back to the farm to rest and recover and then start the process of morning schooling and then official schooling. Broken legs are seldom from falling. Could have been a shoulder. Dick

My guess is while that is a very good record it was done at Daytona a lower end track. I would guess they would have moved her to a better track right around the time she got hurt. Usually 25 or 30 races is a normal time frame to move a dog if you are going to do it. A number of owners break their dogs in a lower end tracks to get them some experience and if they do well move them. Just looking at her on Trackinfo and while the race doesn't show on G-D she was moved to Palm Beach and ran one schooling race which is probably when she got hurt. Dick

Looks like it is all set. The pet name is on top and maybe it was there all along as I was looking on the bottom.

RJ Have I Told U ran 10 races all at Birmingham. That isn't much to go on, but the one race she won she broke well and rushed the turn. Her other races she didn't break, didn't rush and didn't close. I would agree with you that she either got in a fight at the farm or at the track kennel.

Probably tore her whip muscle. I tried to enter her pet name, but it doesn't seem to be working as the name doesn't show. I will contact the people at G-D.

AMF Virginiaslim ran 156 races between Wheeling and Southland, both very good tracks. He ran both the sprint and route courses. At Wheeling the sprint course is 550 yards and at SL it is 583 yards. The longer course is 660 yards at both tracks. He was a dog that had to be in the top three at the turn to have a chance to win and when he made it to the top grade he really needed to be in the top two to the turn. He had good speed out of the box and as long as he hit his break he could be in the top two or three to the turn. Early in his career he ran mostly grade A or AA, but as he got older he was mostly a B dog. He couldn't always catch the dogs in front of him, but if he was in the top three to the turn he was usually in the top three at the wire. While pulled up doesn't always mean an injury I would say most times it does. Where he didn't come back and race I would say he sustained some type of injury. WW's Genesis ran 114 races between Derby Lane, Jacksonville, Palm Beach and Southland. He was a dog that early in his career didn't have much early speed or a rush to the turn. After a while, and with a change if track, he got a little better at breaking and rushing the turn. He was a really good closer so no matter where he was on the track at the turn he had a chance to close and at least be 3rd or 4th. In races he got to the turn 3rd or 4th he had a real chance to win the race. He was a dog that was always improving his position as there are very few races where he wasn't better at the finish line than he was at the turn.