zigzag dan 784 Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 The object of our desire, "OLD PUSS" DSC_0605.JPG Safe and sound and always a joy to see,natures finest athlete. They were born to run ...................sighthounds born to chase them ! 1 Quote Link to post
Leeview 791 Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 Thought so. Have you any more details Pollyana. I cant remember where I heard the tale but can mind his wife breaking antis arm! Good for her. Don't think cup went down to him though. Their weren"t many travellers with his kind of cash in them days. It was 10 year before I ever went and again my details may be wrong. Again I will be happy to be put right. William Lee bought the dog as a pup beaten in the previous years Waterloo Cup and placed it with Mary Birkbeck to train. the dog won the next Waterloo Cup and your right he did nt get to keep the cup as the committee had concerns of it being returned. His wife well she sparked the anti out with her shooting stick Y.I.S Leeview 3 Quote Link to post
Leeview 791 Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 Eye Henrietta took over 700 quid out of Seamus and His son Raymond me and my mate did . Them were the days Must of been someone else's mud bomb you lit It wasn't mine your honour. Henrietta was sold after 2 rounds on the Withens on condition when retired she went back to the seller as a brood bitch. for the sum of £1,000 she coursed the following season for her new owner(trained by Liz Hall) and failed to raise a flag Y.I.S Leeview 1 Quote Link to post
redquil 219 Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 Cheers Leeview,cant mind where I heard the tale now.Good to know men with good info on here. Wonder why they thought they wouldn't get cup back? lol. Anyway that's me put right many thanks. atb. Quote Link to post
gnipper 6,411 Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 I only ever went to the last one and it's practically on my doorstep. 1 Quote Link to post
Leeview 791 Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 Trying to think of one of Liz's dogs that IMO was blatantly robbed or a semi or maybe Final place ? Big predominantly white dog And I loved the Bamburgh Bridge bitch Son of Gus Hoo Doo Helped with and Handled these on occasion Great Days That would of been HES WELL kennel name Johnny an all white dog totally deaf and only kept to run up the gallops with their other dogs, they took him coursing as a bye dog and he excelled, so was entered in a stake won it and went to the Waterloo Cup as you say. Son of Gus what a dog he was, only dog to beat Sam the Man on a coursing field,although never entered in the Waterloo his credentials were winning the Ladies Invitation at Clonmel on the Sunday as the Derby+Oaks started on Monday, this consisted of a 16dog stake 2 of which were invited from England the rest Irish, from this win he was invited to the Champion Stakes at Newmarket which he won, he either broke his hock in the final or very soon after,the next season he came back and defended his title in the Champion Stakes and was beat in the final Y.I.S Leeview 1 Quote Link to post
Leeview 791 Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 It would of been the semi's 3rd morning back at the Withens Y.I.S Leeview ps it was Bamber Bridge named after the place where they met the dog transporter from Ireland HONESTLY 2 Quote Link to post
Pollyanna 1 Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 Stephen Littles fur coat was I believe his Mothers. It was so cold at Altcar that he took to wearing it each time he went and it soon became his trade mark. Quote Link to post
3 Turns 326 Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 THE YEARLY SHOUTING MATCH AT THE ANTIS.LOL. ON THE BANKING , TRYING NOT TO FALL INTO THE DITCH.LOL. GREAT DOGS , GREAT LADS .A VERY SORE LOSS TO US ALL. 1 Quote Link to post
Leeview 791 Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 few pictures of mine from the field and the pub 5th picture up from the bottom, the guy in the shades, he had a good dog ran at St Helens and in the Waterloo his name Ray? the dog was Shuttle Hill Y.I.S Leeview Quote Link to post
smiffie23 67 Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Only went to the last one . Never was into running dogs just had an interest . It's what made me get 1. Loved all 3 days of it and made me gutted I didn't go sooner. Fantastic memories of that event . 1 Quote Link to post
neil cooney 10,416 Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 I was talking to a well known coursing greyhound man this morning and he tell's me the sad news that they're now going to muzzle greyhounds in open coursing here in Eire. Well that's it now for me. I might never attend another coursing meeting. They've given in to pressure and when greyhounds are breaking their necks because of the muzzle and hares are being ran to a standstill because the dogs can't kill them the anti's will be there with their cameras getting more ammunition for their cause, when in reality it's the stupid muzzles that will be causing the harm. He told me that some of the big clubs will or already have pulled the plug. IMO it's the start of the end for open coursing, the true coursing to a die hard fan. Sad news. 1 Quote Link to post
thefensarefarbutistillgo 2,481 Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 I was talking to a well known coursing greyhound man this morning and he tell's me the sad news that they're now going to muzzle greyhounds in open coursing here in Eire. Well that's it now for me. I might never attend another coursing meeting. They've given in to pressure and when greyhounds are breaking their necks because of the muzzle and hares are being ran to a standstill because the dogs can't kill them the anti's will be there with their cameras getting more ammunition for their cause, when in reality it's the stupid muzzles that will be causing the harm. He told me that some of the big clubs will or already have pulled the plug. IMO it's the start of the end for open coursing, the true coursing to a die hard fan. Sad news. a greyhound is not going to run a hare to a standstill, more like the hare will run a greyhound to a standstill with a muzzle on so it being cruel on the dogs 1 Quote Link to post
nans pat 2,575 Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 I was talking to a well known coursing greyhound man this morning and he tell's me the sad news that they're now going to muzzle greyhounds in open coursing here in Eire. Well that's it now for me. I might never attend another coursing meeting. They've given in to pressure and when greyhounds are breaking their necks because of the muzzle and hares are being ran to a standstill because the dogs can't kill them the anti's will be there with their cameras getting more ammunition for their cause, when in reality it's the stupid muzzles that will be causing the harm. He told me that some of the big clubs will or already have pulled the plug. IMO it's the start of the end for open coursing, the true coursing to a die hard fan. Sad news. anything goes agin coursing clubs surely is a good news story for us lurchermen here in ireland, Quote Link to post
neil cooney 10,416 Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 You right and that's what I should have said, LOL. Quote Link to post
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