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You might try contacting Bob Crossland. He has a greyhound farm in Oak Grove and he can probably tell you what hauler goes to his farm from Florida. While I don't want to speak for Bob you might ask him how much he would charge to hold your dog if the hauler dropped the dog off at his farm. That way you could go to the farm at your convince, say on a Saturday. Of course if you are anti-racing you may just want to get name and number of the hauler and be done with it.
I don't have Bob's number, but I'm sure you can find it on the internet.
Dick
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People and animals are right-footed or left-footed. With a greyhound as the lid opens they push off on their dominant back foot and it doesn't matter the foot. What does matter is as the dog approaches the turn he will switch to his left lead if he is on the right. He has to in order to hold the turn. Think about the cadence on the left lead, left, right, right and left. the two right legs coming down one after the other helps the greyhound hold the turn. If the dog isn't on his left lead going around the turn he will "blow the turn" or keep going straight instead of turning as fast as he needs to.
As the dog heads down the backstretch he will switch to his right lead and as he approaches the far turn will switch back to the left lead and as he exits the turn and heads to the finish line he will switch back to the right.
The only race where it matters which lead the dog breaks on is the 660 yard race because the starting box is right where turn 3 is and the dog doesn't have time to switch from his right to his left lead.
Trainers, at least good trainers, know all their dogs and whether they are right or left-footed. I'm not a trainer, but what I was taught by Dennis, for those that don't know Dennis that is Dennis McKeon and he is one of the great minds when it comes to greyhounds and if you google his name along with greyhounds you will find a lot of the articles he wrote, is if your dog is breaking off his wrong lead there is something wrong with him.
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One great thing about slo-mo is it makes it easy to see what lead the greyhound is on. The cadence for a left-lead in double suspension gallop is left rear, right rear, right front, left front and the opposite for a right-lead.
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Have you looked into a product like this? There are probably other products like this out there.
https://www.wood-finishes-direct.com/blog/how-to-make-decking-non-slip/
I've never used it so i don't have an opinion about it, but you could look into it especially is your deck isn't stained yet.
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When you look at the muscle tone he was certainly a working dog.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rubens,_Aletheia_Talbot,_Countess_of_Arundel.jpg
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Picture is uploaded and added pet name.
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2 hours ago, greysmom said:
Thanks Dick! I wasn't that worried. I have submitted her Bertillon and pet transfer papers, but it hasn't come through the official channels yet (getting the previous owner signatures, etc). We're going to try some LGRA straight line racing, and need to have her registered, but not til next Spring. There is one brother on GD - Braska Petey - listed under their dam's offspring, though the rest of the litter hasn't made it yet (finishing training currently).
name: Braska Pandora
color: red fawn
sex: f
weight: 58 lbs
tattoos: 71914 - 28B
By: Soprano Drive
OO: Braska Maybeline
DOB: Feb 27, 2018
Owner: Bill or Jill Elliot
Let me know if you need anything else or have trouble. Her papers will come through eventually.
Thanks!
Chris
Done. If there is anything else let me know.
http://www.greyhound-data.com/db.php?i=2398689&time=1573360380
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1 hour ago, MarcR said:
Dick, thanks for doing this. I no longer have update capability. Could you update Nadia's record to:
Change 'Racing owner' to W. H. O'Donnell
Add 'Breeder' W. H. O'Donnell
Her pedigree: http://www.greyhound-data.com/d?i=337272
One nice touch is G-D has created a web site for every registered dog. You can post additional pictures, videos and more
Thanks again.
Marc,
Done. Yes, the owners of G-D have done a good job updating everything.
Dick
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Yes, it is distance. Most sprints are 550 yards and most routes are 660 yards, though some tracks vary a little.
Dick
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Chris,
So she has a registered name with the NGA of Braska Pandora so this will be easy. I thought she didn't have a racing name. If you give me her pet name I can enter that also.
As you know I can also enter pictures of her so if you have some now or in the future just post them on this thread and I'll put them on G-D.
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On 9/15/2019 at 9:27 PM, greysmom said:
Question:
We just adopted a 19 month old sister to our puppy we lost in June. They are full sibs and littermates. Our puppy, Atom was never registered, even though he was tattooed, since he came to us at 12 weeks old. His sister, Andi, did some preliminary training at her farm with the other siblings, but hurt herself and was held back when the rest went to finishing in Florida. The owners are getting out of the business now due to the Florida situation, and she was the last one on the farm, so they said we could adopt her.
Anyway - they haven't sent in her registration paperwork to NGA (and I can't - yet - find any of the rest of her litter). Is it possible to add her to GD even though she isn't officially registered?
(I may have asked a similar question about Atom last year!
But I'm thinking about doing some sporting events with her - straight line racing and maybe lure coursing depending on how she does - so I need some sort of ownership papers to get her signed up with the AKC for that.) I am in touch with her former owners/breeders as well, so I'm trying to figure out what to do!
Chris,
It looks like I never answered this as sometimes I don't look down the line far enough and posts like this I neglect to answer. While not that many years ago G-D frowned on entering unregistered dogs they have changed a little because they are now trying to show all the "dead" dogs that don't show up are really not dead.
If you give me all the information you have I'll see what I can do to enter the dog. I'll ask to make sure it's okay.
I never just ignore a post so if anyone asks a question if I didn't answer ask again as I've just missed the post.
Dick
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2 hours ago, DaveS said:
Dick, here's another request for track records. The dog's racing name was Killer Huxley. He's about five years old and we brought him home just this afternoon. Thanks in advance, Dave.
Killer Huxley ran 156 races between Dubuque, Derby Lane, Mardi Gras, Naples and Tri-State. He ran about half his races in sprints and half in routes and he was a better router than sprinter. He had no real early speed though there are some races where he got out of the box decent, but no one would consider him early speed. One of the reasons he was a better router was because he could close and the extra length of the routes he liked.
He was really a pretty nice racer being in the money 78 of his 156 starts. He would be considered a nice A/B dog.
Dick
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It will be interesting to see what comes of this.
https://pharmaust.com/mpl-and-vet-trials/
And this.
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29 minutes ago, Remolacha said:
I hope you meant 10 greyhounds
LOL
I was thinking the same thing.
Even with their rolling blackouts PG&E still caused one of the two big wildfires. You can't keep shutting the power off every time the weather conditions become dry and windy out there. there must be 5 or 6 times a year the conditions are like that and how do restaurants and businesses survive? How about all the spoiled food in people's homes if the outage goes for a few days.
Not being an electrician I don't know the answer to this. In your house if something shorts out you would blow a circuit breaker. I know there is a lot more power running through the lines so I assume there are no circuit breakers big enough to put on the lines so when a line goes down or a transformer gets hit that the circuit would blow. We have all seen the wires or transformer just sparking away.
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Good article, thanks for posting.
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5 hours ago, grahame said:
Hi,
did anyone have any luck finding a website to do a ear brand search. My grey's tat is NCEAA.
So far I know that means NSW, C=2013, EAA=???
thanks
Grahame.
Hi Grahame,
This is an old FB thread, but in the comments, near the bottom, is says the last three letters are just the number of the pup.
Australian stud book info if you don't already have it.
http://www.galtd.org.au/contact-us
Greyhound-Data has a tattoo search engine, but I didn't find a match for your dog.
http://www.greyhound-data.com/earmark.htm
Hope you get some answers.
Dick
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30 minutes ago, stevevt said:
Hi Dick, I just got Ww Machu Pichu a couple days ago and would love a style/performance summary.
Thanks!
-Steve
Steve,
WW Machu Pichu ran 73 races between Dubuque, Wheeling and Southland. He only ran one M race at Dubuque and that was his very first race. Dubuque is a seasonal track that usually closes in October so I think that is why he one had one race there. At Wheeling he ran 10 M races before he finally won. His racing style, of breaking slow and having a good finish isn't the style for Wheeling where you really need to be near the front at the turn to have a chance to win. Plus, Wheeling is our second best track so a lot of good dogs there.
The decision was made to move him to Southland our best track. However, Southland had the chance to be a better fit for his style of racing as their sprint distance is 583 yards as opposed to Wheeling's that is 548 yards.
At Southland he bounced back and forth between the sprint distance and their 660 yard 3/8ths course. He never excelled at either distance, but his closing ability when he fired was outstanding going from near the back of the pack to winning in the stretch. His problem was he didn't fire that often, but was a nice C/D dog.
Dick
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32 minutes ago, palmettobug said:
Hi Dick, what can you tell me about my new girl, BGR Fuzzy Navel? She is a sweetheart, but needs to leave the squirrels alone! Thanks!
BGR Fuzzy Navel ran 144 races between Dubuque, Naples and Jax. She ran about 75 percent of her races in sprints and the rest in routes. While she never won more than a C race she was very consistent being in the money over 50 percent of the time. While I said she never won a race higher than C that isn't exactly true because near the end of her career there was a stake race at Jax and she won one of the qualifying rounds going box to wire. I would think she was in the stake races as a filler dog and surprised everyone by winning one of the qualifying races.
In her route races she had a lot of early speed and would have to hold on to win and she did this a few times. In her sprint races she had some early speed, but would rely on a late kick to win or be second. Because she has a little early early speed in sprints if she made it around the turn without getting in trouble and was 5th or 6th she had a good chance of being in the money.
My guess is the squirrels need to be smart enough to be near your fence or a tree if they are to live long. LOL
Dick
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As many of you know Dennis' screen name is Rockingship. Dennis' mentor had Rocking Ship* in his kennel and he was one of the best dogs to ever step foot on a track. He was so good that he almost beat Downing out for "Dog of the Decade".
Rocking Ship* had one strange quirk and that was he would lay down waiting for post time.
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You may find this article that Dennis McKeon wrote interesting.
http://www.greyhoundinfo.org/?page_id=930
You may not know Dennis, but many on here do. He was a trainer many years ago, but his real passion was studying and learning what makes greyhounds tick.
Dick
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1 hour ago, MerseyGrey said:
http://www.greyhound-data.com/d?d=Sucker+punch+&sex=&color=&birthyear=&birthland=AU
I was looking at this dog, originally from Australia that has been rescued in China, who has Pilot as a sire and a dam called Fleece. However her birth date is given as 1860 something while Pilot is 1820. So I’m not sure how accurate this is - someone mentioned artificial insemination in an earlier post. While it’s highly likely that this could have been used, it’s surely less likely that it would have been possible to preserve the sperm over that duration of time.
It isn't that Pilot and Fleece were mated. The sire line of Sucker Punch, meaning from Where's Pedro back traces back to Pilot and the dam line from Osti's Delight traces back to Fleece.
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8 minutes ago, Remolacha said:
I think closers are the most exciting racers to watch. When the afterburners kick in, it is just amazing!
I agree and they are what make you stand up and cheer. To me they are also highly intelligent because whatever line they would prefer to run they can't. There are always dogs in front of them and they have to decide on the fly whether to go inside, outside or between other dogs.
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I saw all of Downing's races at Wonderland and there were always stories that many times Downing has dirt and grease on his left-side from rubbing the rail in the turns. One day I asked Dennis if this was true. Dennis told me that the stories were true and that Downing never chased the lure He chases the wheel on the rail not the pole or the lure.
There was a hot shot dog at Black Hills SD named GP's Sara. She was queen of that track winning all kind of stake races there. Black Hills wasn't a very good track, but for some reason the owner of Sara decided to challenge Downing to a match race. Challenge accepted and Downing was off to a track he had never put a paw on. Downing destroyed Sara winning by 11 lengths, setting the track record and leaving.
Since BH's only ran a few more years and no one ever beat Downing's TR, Downing will hold the TR forever.
Malka was the best closer I ever saw live. She was the little girl that could.
She had no early speed and often times she was a few lengths behind the 7th place dog at they hit the wire the first time. If she was going to fire it was always on the backstretch somewhere around the tote. If you didn't bet her the words you didn't want to hear was "there goes Malka." If you did bet her you was watching her at the back of the pack and might have been the person that said "there goes Malka." Once she fired it was one furious run from the tote to the wire and beyond. She was like a runaway train except she was going inside and outside of dogs and if there was a hole between two dogs she would split them. She was fearless. The only thing in question once she fired was whether she would catch the leaders before or after the wire.
There have been a lot of great closers over the years, but Malka could and would do it on the grandest stages of all. She could do it in stake races and who was in front of her didn't matter.
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No one writes about greyhounds better than Dennis McKeon and this was his eloquent article about the great Downing. Downing is in the pedigree of many of your dogs.
"Don Cuddy always said that Downing was the fastest 550 yard dog he ever saw, and he saw a lot of them. There were a select group of greyhounds of whom he always spoke reverentially....Downing was one of them. Downing was called "Handyman" because he was always by Jim Frey's side as a youngster--always "handy".
As a racer, he was intolerant of other greyhounds, except for Chito, who, for some reason, he liked. Chito himself was a good grade A at Revere at the time. And he was Downing's turnout partner during the time Downing campaigned in New England.
I remember one day after the morning's festivities were nearly over, there was a telephone call to the kennel. I could hear Don's voice faintly from the kitchen....."....oh Jay-sus.....when did it happen?"....I heard some homilies and some condolences, he said goodbye and hung up.".......well, he's gone". I could see in his eyes that Don himself was now somewhere else, in his own mind.....watching a long red brindle blur accelerate into the first turn as if he alone were not subject to the burdens of gravity, and unfazed by the shackles of his own flesh...Downing's only real competition, if the truth be known, was his own mortality.
These are my personal recollections of Downing's Amercian Derby win.....
And guys...I remember Downing's American Derby .....he was a prohibitive favorite....after making the switch to the other side, he had literally run away and hid from the best dogs that the country's elite kennels might offer up as competition---or as sacrifice----it hadn't really mattered..........
He was a sharp breaker, and an astonishing turn runner-----and though nearly 80 lbs, and as long as the Kansas horizon is wide----he could literally run "under the rails"....and accelerate into, through and off the turns----and if, by some stroke of serendipity, you found yourself ahead of him, on the rail and in his way----he would put you over the rail to take his line.
So the ONLY way he could lose, was if he broke down, or if he missed his break.....and you know what?...... he missed his break----missed it by a mile....and he came out with his nose in the dirt, stumbling---nearly falling----and the entire field easily out-trapped the fast-trapper.
There was a collective gasp from the incredulous crowd. Luckily, the 2 lane had not quite closed up on him.Gifted athlete that he was---in the blink of an eye---he somehow, miraculously, managed to right himself----and exploded through the hole which had remained open to him.
He had seized the lead before they even hit the turn, and drew off to a commanding advantage as he poured it on---like a soundwave.... through the stretch, around the curtain turn, and past the toteboard-----his speed was enthralling, unlike anything I had ever witnessed----it thumped right through your chest, and took your breath away... like the music of a runaway locmotive......yet due to his early miscalculations and exertions, he was pretty much spent at the top of the lane....all alone.......and all done.....
He had lost his action, and his stride was shortening with each diminutive leap forward...and at precisely that most desperate of moments----that sobering, split-second before the shattering of every illusion---- the great stayer---Malka---had begun to uncork her prodigious run.....which was as deep as the Pacific...and at once, as powerful and unfathomable.
The insurmountable lead was shrinking fast now, to about 6 lengths entering the final straight---- and Malka appeared to have caught the jetstream itself, as she zeroed in on him----with Downing laboring mightily, just to keep a straight line----the deafening roar of the 12,000 or so spectators, who had come to see a legend ...in his own and their own time... lent an air of unreality to the whole, desperate spectacle...
And time itself had become glacial, as it passed...as they played out that age-old struggle.....and... with the one, impossible, outrageous, colossal surge ---Downing lunged for the wire....the ghosts of Real Huntsman, Oklahoman and On the Line were awakened from their eternal reveries by the sheer genius of it.....to rightly bear witness to this galvanizing moment, for once and for all time ... as Malka, a burgeoning, bursting tidal wave now ----bore down on him, cresting, from mid-track to his flank.... closer and closer she rolled.....That he managed, somehow, to hold on---by a dissipating 3/4 of a length or so---was the true measure of his faultless courage and his supernatural greatness....Malka was past him a couple of jumps after the wire, and clear by 3 as they ran up to the curtain.
It was the only moment in his life---the very instant when he had actually grasped his immortality----- that he had ever appeared to be mortal ."
Do you have a Festival of Stakes Winner? There is a t-shirt for that.
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You mean a muzzle? LOL
You mean a muzzle? LOL