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LATEST NEWS
25th February 2010 IRISH CUP The season comes to a close this weekend in Limerick with the always eagerly anticipated Irish Cup. All the talk is of whether the pups will have the upper hand over the all-ages after such a top-class Derby this year, and certainly last year’s Irish Cup will be a hard act to follow.
We wish the best of luck to the promoting club and to all the participants, but especially to Nine Beaches, who represents our club in the Champion Working Member Stake.
QUERCUS REPORT The latest report from Quercus has already received plenty of exposure on the forums but for those who wish to view the report in full, click here. Although it only serves to tell coursing people what they already knew, it is very positive for coursing to have an independent body vindicate our position.
BREEDING The proposed “Dog Breeding Establishments Bill” is also a matter that is getting a lot of coverage on the forums. This proposed bill, if passed, will have draconian consequences for greyhound owners, trainers, and especially breeders.
The Irish Coursing Club, the Irish Greyhound Board, and the Irish Greyhound Owners & Breeders Federation are campaigning for exemptions for greyhounds in recognition of the stringent controls already in place in the form of self-regulation, as well as attempting to have some sections of the proposed bill amended.
To read the proposed legislation click here.
15th February 2010 FANTASTIC NATIONAL MEETING A superb three days coursing was dished up in Powerstown with the Derby and Oaks both of a very high standard. The Derby winner, Adios Alonso, proved himself a worthy ante-post favourite while all present were agreed that runner-up Mafi Magic “would have won a lot of other years”. There was no final to the Oaks but winner Lisloose Accord and the withdrawn Needham Time had both shown tremendous class in each of their courses.
From a more parochial perspective, it brought great pride to our club to see Honeycomb View go to slips on the Wednesday afternoon in Powerstown, in the final of the Kitty Butler Stake. Unfortunately the fairytale ending wasn’t to be but it was a great few days for Johnny, Noel and Declan and brought great enjoyment to all associated with the club.
RISE CAMPAIGN RISE stands for Rural Ireland Says “ENOUGH”. They are a group hoping to become a single voice to lobby the powers that be on rural issues including country sports. To visit their website click here
26th January 2010 ROLL ON POWERSTOWN! Well the draw has been made and it’s all systems go for Monday.
In the Derby, our representative Caesar Music takes on Lisloose Eoin, while in the Oaks our Trial Stake winner Rushing will meet Cearc Ghoir. Tipperary Cup runner-up Party Cee Jay is paired with Gingerbread Lad in the Champion Stakes, and Doctor Morrissey who emerged victorious from our Seán Drohan Memorial all-age bitch stake faces the flying Kingsmill Bliss in the Champion Bitch Stake.
Special good luck wishes to Kyle Basil who carries the clubs colours in the Classic Clubs draw.
COME ON BASIL . . . . (WE NEED THE MONEY!!!)
Finally, best wishes to our nearest neighbours Clonmel & District, with their Ladies International meeting this coming Sunday.
25th January 2010 BACK ON TRACK Eight trial stakes decided this weekend saw the last qualifiers selected for this year’s National Meeting, after struggling through the later part of the season in spite of the adverse weather conditions. The all-important draw takes place in the Hotel Minella tonight and the countdown will begin in earnest after that.
We wish the best of luck to our own two qualifiers, to all runners at our meeting who went on to qualify, and especially to runners connected to working members of our club.
17th January 2010 RETURN TO ACTION Thankfully we had a resumption of coursing this week as Borrisoleigh, Clonakilty, Co.Cork, Sevenhouses and Templetouhy got to return their meetings are weather enforced delays. Cork also hosted the Macroom OTS as Macroom were unfortuneately unable to course.
Hopefully the good weather continues and the remaining fixtures can be concluded next week.
10th January 2010 MORE OF THE SAME Well a second weekend of the New Year bites the dust as we continue to experience the coldest winter we’ve had in many years. Several clubs have been forced to concede defeat and decide not to run at all this year, more have postponed (some for a second time), while a few are presently just in limbo . . . .
Forecasters have as yet been unable to predict an end to what is being referred to as “this cold snap we are experiencing” and the Irish Coursing Club Executive Committee are set to meet this coming Friday “to consider the implications and impact of the current period of severe weather conditions on the coursing calendar.”
GOOD ADVICE !! The following piece is taken from an article that appeared in last week’s Sunday Independent . . . .
“If you've never been to the national coursing meeting in Clonmel, go this year. Great sport, great atmosphere, great people, a genuine uniquely Irish experience which still draws huge crowds despite the pretence by most of the media that it doesn't exist. There's an extra reason to go this year, to show your disdain for the assault by John Gormley and his cohorts on country sports. The Green Party's decision to slash the wages of teachers and nurses and put the boot into people on social welfare makes you suspect they'd have no problem with hunting if it was unemployed building workers and struggling tradesmen the hounds pursued through the fields.”
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