chartpolski
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From what I understand Mauritius and the Chagos Islands were part of the UK’s British Indian Ocean Territories. They were separate countries but administered by the same Foreign Office department. Mauritius gained independence from the UK during our “retreat from east of Suez” in 1968, but we kept the Chagos islands. Mauritius NEVER owned them or had a claim to them but in recent years decided to ask the International Court of Justice to rule on who owned them The court gave a NON - BINDING judgement that the Uk should negotiate with Mauritius about handing them over. The Tory’
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How’s it bred Scotty ? And I’m assuming it’s just the picture and it does have a tail Just zoomed in and it certainly does have a tail Cheers.
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C’mon Blackie !!! He’s encroaching on your territory here Cheers.
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With due respect mate, your dogs are NOT “double muscled” They are well muscled and conditioned and a credit to you, but , “double muscled” is a genetic abnormality found in whippets. There are technical and scientific names for it. It’s got nothing to do with exercise or work or training. As I said, I had a whippet that had true “double muscle” and it was very evident just looking at it. It cramped up badly after just one 150 yard run and I had it put down. Cheers.
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That’s enough from you Fletcher Cheers.
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I just smile indulgently at the japes of the youngsters . I look upon them as prodigal sons, wayward waifs, truculent youth. I live in hope that a mere morsel of my patient attempts to educate them helps them on their journey through life . Cheers.
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I once put a post up on here called “are pures really pure” ; where I traced the ancestry of a deer/grey I owned all the way back. On the deerhound side it had Anastasia Nobles greyhound outcross, and on the greyhound side it had Orfords Bulldog outcross and even further back it had “rough haired Scottish greyhound”. So I guess pures arent REALLY pure if you go back far enough Cheers.
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Alas, fleetingly, we moved in opposite strata’s of society Cheers.
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The “Lord Orford” legacy ? Cheers.
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It’s got a front end like a Charolais bull and a back end like a Kardashian Cheers.
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Is that the only thing you noticed Cheers.
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I don’t think we are talking about the same type of double muscle. The type I’m talking about is peculiar to whippets and appears if both parents carry the gene. Like this ; My dog wasn’t quite as bad , but not far off Cheers.
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You mentioned “double muscle” on a post the other day. I had a non-ped that was “doubled muscled”, called The Baron, it was sired by one of the greatest scratch dogs ever, Red Baron, and the dam was non-ped whippet x collie/ greyhound, so could reasonably be called a lurcher. It had the strangest running style ; it almost seemed to be running sideways, as if its back legs were trying to overtake its front legs ! It won a few match races for me, but cramped up badly afterwards. I never bred from it. This was back in 1972; Great times Cheers.
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You’ve got me reminiscing about my old dogs now and I could talk about them all day My brother and I had a bitch, Flossy, she was bred Rch. Yorkie Boy x greyhound. She levelled out at 19 1/2” and 32 lb, tremendously fast but she was second best in her weight class to a bitch called Devils Angel, also by Rch Yorkie boy x a different greyhound . They ruled the 32lb class but I could never beat it ! We mated her with a non-ped but the pups were culls even though they were 1/4 greyhound. We then mated her with a non- ped x greyhound, making the pups 1/2 greyhound but again culls.
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The same tracks as the 60’s Definately lack the “hardiness” of the old type non-peds. Id put that down to we used the dogs for dual purpose; coursing, ferreting, lamping through the week and racing at the week ends. Now they wouldn’t dream of using their dogs for hunting , they are single minded at getting the fastest dog possible over a 150 yards straight track and winning a Racing Champion title. They get, in my opinion, more injuries, toes, wrists , gracillis, etc than dogs that are worked regularly, but I also put that down to some owners not warming the dogs up properl
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The dogs, it’s the same tracks Cheers.
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Non-peds run on straight grass tracks, still do unless it was a bends championship then they run on whatever greyhound track was/is available. Cheers.
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It’s a bitch. No, the times are far faster now. This bitch; Daisy (Bilko x Greyhound), was the fasted non-ped in the country, by far, unbeatable in the early 70’s but would be at least 10 yards slower than the best scratch dogs today Cheers.
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Marretta; a non/ped racing whippet from the 60’s; Freakishly fast and threw very fast pups. A pal of mine had one , Barretta, also extremely fast , we tried to mate it with one of my dogs but the bitch was barren. I wondered if such extreme conditioning was responsible for it being barren ? Cheers.
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I got sent ten videos, 8 of the dogs running , one of the lads talking in the field and one of them in the pub. The running appears to me mostly on seed and bits when the hare went onto plough. Im not going to get into arguments about it, I wasn’t there and can only comment on what I see in the videos. In my personal opinion it’s a top class bitch whatever it was running on Cheers.
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I’ve just looked at all the vids again and it looks like it’s mainly running on seed ? Cheers.
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Funny enough, Max had just said to me “all five hares couldn’t have been bad hares”. To be honest, that bitch looks that good it would make a good hare look average ! I wouldn’t know if the hare were good or bad, but I’d say the bitch is VERY good Cheers.
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Tipple Cheers.
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There’s any amount of illegal paki immigrants with second hand tyre shops to do that for me Cheers.
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I’ve never had a pure deerhound, mate. My pal used to breed them but due to ill health he doesn’t now Ive had a few deerhound crosses but I’m certainly not “the deerhound man” Cheers.
