MONDAY THE 11TH OF SEPTEMBER
It’s been a wet day and the first job of the day was a trip to the vets to get passport work finished so that hounds that where sold can travel to the Uk like all Monday we had to be fed up early kennels done early as the main job of today was trialing in Shelbourne park the schools are back so the traffics a night mare coming come but when you trail special hound it’s all worth it
ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE IN THE UK WE HAD ONE WINNER LAST NIGHT AT HENLOW SWIFT TANIA TONIGHT WE HAVE TWO RUNNERS AT NOTTINGHAM RANCHES BANDIT AND AUSSIE MCCOY
TUESDAY THE 12TH OF SEPTEMBER
Where doing Tuesdays journal on Wednesday evening I’ve spent the whole day on Tuesday chasing my tail I went for meat early as I had to meet Micheal Flynn transporters who’s taking the hounds that I’ve sold to the Uk I got held up in traffic and I said I would need him at the way bridge at 6oclock I headed to the way bridge with loads of time to spare and there was an accident on the way then I got lost how that happened I don’t know probably age so I then said id drive to Rosslare I got there late and Micheal missed the boat thankfully he got the later sail and all hounds got delivered to the Uk a bit late and I was to blame. At the kennels we had john Nolan’s here earmarking pups and marking up hounds in their identification book. We did a bit of hedge cutting and tiding up.
WEDNESDAY THE 13TH OF SEPTEMBER
I had more meat to collect which is very scarce in southern Ireland but are suppliers are keeping us going. At the kennels we needed food for pups we did a swap around with dogs and pups in the rearing paddocks and we kenneled some hounds up that are 12 months old, and we also did work on the gallop as tomorrow we are preparing hounds for schooling.
ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE IN THE UK, WE HAD TWO RUNNERS TODAY AT YARMOUTH MERLINS MATE AND SWIFT UNKIND
THURSDAY THE 14TH OF SEPTEMBER
Where doing Thursdays journal on Friday afternoon I was at the vets getting the tonsils took out of a hound and we had problem with the van but thankfully it’s okay now. At the kennels we spent the whole day preparing hounds for schooling and we also got the last of the tidy up done and the last of the hedge cutting
ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE IN THE UK WE HAD 3 RUNNERS AT HOVE CLONA URIEL AT NEW CASTLE SWIFT JOHN AND AT SUFFOLK DOWNS BLUE TICK QUEEN
FRIDAY THE 15TH OF SEPTEMBER
We are doing Fridays journal at 2.30 on Friday afternoon we’ve had heavy rain all day, but it now looks like it’s going to stop we got up to problems today with the vans Padge blew a tyre off the 191 van and the 202 vans needed a sensor thankfully everything was fixed and back on the road by 8 am. We needed meat and food for pups’ sawdust and parts for the vans.
ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE IN THE UK, WE HAD 2 RUNNERS TODAY AT ROMFORD WRIGHTY AND SWIFT TEETOTALAR
SATURDAY THE 16TH OF SEPTEMBER
We are doing Saturdays journal on Sunday morning, we got all the hounds checked that are schooling, we galloped a few hounds, which took all day, I more or less took the day off did a bit of shopping and watched Newcastle United play last night we won but we were lucky.
ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE IN THE UK, WE HAVE 11 RUNNERS AT CRAYFORD WE HAVE SWIFT DAISEY, SWIFT ALIEN, SWIFT DANIEL, SWIFT MAGNITUDE AND SWIFT RALLY AT OXFORD WE HAVE SWIFT QUARINTINE, DROHOBYCH LEADER AND BRISK BOHO AND AT YARMOUTH SWIFT ICONIC, BROWN EYED BOY AND SUPA NOVA
SUNDAY 17TH OF SEPTEMBER
A wet morning and a typical Sunday where we do the paper work, tidy the website up and prepare for a busy week, cook, feed and clean, wash the vans and we also might gallop a few hounds.
ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE IN THE UK WE HAD ONE WINNER YESTERDAY AT CRAYFORD SWIFT DAISEY. AND WE HAD TWO QUALIFY FOR THE FINAL OF THE YARMOUTH DERBY SWIFT ICONIC AND SUPA NOVA. TONIGHT WE HAVE FIVE RUNNERS AT CENTRAL PARK SWIFT QUESTA AT HENLOW SLIDER MCCOY, CALICO BRIN , SWIFT TANIA AND SWIFT TAMANNA.