Doxhope

[low plains drifter 10,489]

As lurchers said. He now keep gun dogs & doing full time pest control. He used to have an exceptional Deerhound bitch called "Cloud" she ran with local lurchers & did very well. Really nice bloke with a wealth of hunting knowledge. Atb. Krawnden the "Dava" meet was always my favorite ..Happy days!!

There is a photo of a deerhound named Cloud in one of Frank Sheardowns books. She was cracking stamp of a bitch, is that the one that belonged to Alan do you know ?

[grompz 703]

 

As lurchers said. He now keep gun dogs & doing full time pest control. He used to have an exceptional Deerhound bitch called "Cloud" she ran with local lurchers & did very well. Really nice bloke with a wealth of hunting knowledge. Atb. Krawnden the "Dava" meet was always my favorite ..Happy days!!

the deerhoundThere is a photo of a deerhound named Cloud in one of Frank Sheardowns books. She was cracking stamp of a bitch, is that the one that belonged to Alan do you

the deerhound cloud that alan had, was out of kenneth cassells breeding,there was a good write up on alan and cloud in the 1991 running dog year book,it was called a man for all seasons, dont know if youve seen it,but a nice little write up,not sure if bitch in sheardowns book is the same cloud.

[low plains drifter 10,489]

No never read that book grompz, who was the author mate ?, Sheardowns book was published mid 90's so maybe same bitch, he mentioned her as being a very good worker

[darbo 4,774]

 

 

As lurchers said. He now keep gun dogs & doing full time pest control. He used to have an exceptional Deerhound bitch called "Cloud" she ran with local lurchers & did very well. Really nice bloke with a wealth of hunting knowledge. Atb. Krawnden the "Dava" meet was always my favorite ..Happy days!!

the deerhoundThere is a photo of a deerhound named Cloud in one of Frank Sheardowns books. She was cracking stamp of a bitch, is that the one that belonged to Alan do you

the deerhound cloud that alan had, was out of kenneth cassells breeding,there was a good write up on alan and cloud in the 1991 running dog year book,it was called a man for all seasons, dont know if youve seen it,but a nice little write up,not sure if bitch in sheardowns book is the same cloud.

 

It is a good write up

[Bosun11 537]

Can mind reading articles and hearing of Tom Rilley up Scotland sure he ran Deerhound xs.?

I'm sure his dogs had very diluted deerhound blood, 7/8ths greyhound and the like.

[darbo 4,774]

 

Can mind reading articles and hearing of Tom Rilley up Scotland sure he ran Deerhound xs.?

I'm sure his dogs had very diluted deerhound blood, 7/8ths greyhound and the like.

 

Used to have a bit of correspondence with tom many years ago still got a few letters about. He kindly offered me a pup free of charge around 1995 but i was unable to take him up on his kind offer the breeding was the same as you quoted.

[low plains drifter 10,489]

I remember Tom Riley writing about being about as popular as a pork chop at a jewish wedding with the landowners, and keepers because of his exploits up in Caithness lol

[darbo 4,774]

 

Word has it that Miss Noble did Redquil

Yes, it was her. She used a greyhound over one of her deerhound bitches. At the time some people thought she'd done it to get more speed but it wasn't. She did it as she was worried the gene pool was too small and wanted an outcross. Although she continued to cross back to deerhounds nobody else in the breed would use any of those outcrosses in their own breeding programme, which really annoyed her.

 

A old article i found.

was reminded the other day of

Isambard of Ardkinglas. Many years

ago, Anastasia Noble became rather

worried about the frequency of

uterine inertia in the breed and

decided to bring in some fresh

blood. Many people would have

thought of a Wolfhound for this but

Tasia was not keen on Wolfhounds -

she felt that such an outcross would

bring in clumsiness and other

characteristics which she

considered undesirable. She

decided on a National Coursing Club

registered greyhound because she

was looking for overall health and

coursing Greyhounds were tested in

the field.

Now, of course, out-crossing, with

another breed is contrary to Kennel

Club rules, but in the days when

Tasia was thinking about doing so it

was perfectly legal. The rule was

that both dogs were registered with

the Kennel Club or an officially

recognised organisation such as the

National Coursing Club. The

resulting offspring had then to be

bred back, to the original breed, for

three generations and the fourth

generation was accepted into the

breed. Isambard of Ardkinglas was

that fourth generation. Tasia was

disappointed that most established

breeders did not use him. She

certainly used him and I used one of

his sons, Marquis of Ardkinglas.

Unfortunately, my records are

incomplete, I have only been able to

trace this line as far as Sorisdale

MacEchan. I don’t know how often

Tasia used Isambard or if the line

survives in this country. I hear from

Barbara Heidenreich, across the

Atlantic, that the line survives over

there.

KENNETH CASSELS

[grompz 703]

No never read that book grompz, who was the author mate ?, Sheardowns book was published mid 90's so maybe same bitch, he mentioned her as being a very good worker

The book i mention waspublished by argent publications,as regards alans write up there is no mention of the author who wrote it,there is a crackingpicture of alan with 2 pure coursing deerhounds,one of which is cloud,her kennel name being sorisdale macdill,probablybe hard to get a copy these days,but worth a try.atb

[Omanyra 2,518]

Alan slipping

 

 

Alan the slipper, the judge Roger Upton

 

[Omanyra 2,518]

Someone asked to see some Doxhope deerhounds...

 

[hounddog3 744]

Someone asked to see some Doxhope deerhounds...

 

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are they full deerhound r greyhoun cross. Class looking pups.

[lurchers 2,772]

Alan slipping

 

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Alan the slipper, the judge Roger Upton

 

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That's a real long time ago,I remember see that pic in a book years ago but can't remember which one.and you wouldn't recognise Alan now to then.

[krawnden 1,036]

Alan slipping

 

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Alan the slipper, the judge Roger Upton

 

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Brings back some memories....thanks for sharing

[Omanyra 2,518]

They are full deerhound pups,,as are these;

 

Even at this age, where you can look at their feet, AHHHH I still dream about Doxhope deerhounds feet.

 

These are first crossers, between 1990 and 2006 there were only 5 litters of first crossers actually bred at Doxhope kennels,

 

 

 

Alan is a great guy, great slipper knew his dogs he had a good running deerhound bitch Corrie
There was another good lad Chris Gilcrest from Cumbria who used to go to the deerhound coursing, and fox mad with his deerhound crosses

Edited June 10, 2016 by Omanyra