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GAP Manawatu walk today!

By Fatima |

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Cynthia, greyhound foster carer extraordinaire, organized a GAP walk today in Asshurst Domain today. Rachel and me could not be there this time :(
Sue, Beryl's Mum was there though, and she took some lovely pictures - thanks a million Sue!

Beautiful Cara (Thrilling Paris) in full flight
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Gorgeous Stevie (No Spoken Word)
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Beryl (Winsome Deluxe) and Monty :)
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Stanley (Chile Will He) and again, Monty!
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Afterwards, a drink at the Ashhurst Inn :)
On the picture, Cara (Thrilling Paris) and Horse (Awesome Hidalgo) with their Dads :)

Princess Beryl wearing her GAP martingale collar :)

Update from Stevie (No Spoken Word)

By Fatima | Posted in GAP ,| No Spoken Word | 0 comments

We just got an update from Monique, whose family adopted Stevie (No Spoken Word) 2 months ago. Monique wrote:

Stevie is doing great here in our house :) She sleeps all the time (loves her bed), loves her walkies and loves her dinner.

Stevie is a dream on the lead, has learnt how to wait before her food, jump into the boot etc - she had her routine down pat by day three :)
She is really good friend with our other dog Shadow (border collie x shih tzu) and they often play together.Stevie has a buzzy bee toy what has a sting the she can now pull herself and make it buzz!

Fab evening at Wanganui Greyhound Track

By Fatima |

Friday, August 20, 2010

Posted in GAP ,| New Thing Now ,| No Spoken Word | 0 comments

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We just came back from Hatrick (Wanganui) greyhound track and we had a great time as tonight was a special night:

- 'Swift Fantasy' was racing
- GAP kennel managers' Irene's and Sonja's young greyhounds Shawn (New Thing Now) and Stevie (No Spoken Word) were trialing there tonight -we were VERY excited about this! (to say the least :-)
Trials are done before greyhounds start their racing careers - dogs learn about the track and the way they should chase the lure. They also have to post a good time on trials in order to become racing dogs.

Pretty Shawn (New Thing Now)

Stevie and Shawn did great -we were all so proud of them! They are two gorgeous girls, which Sonja and Irene got as little pups and brought up, and have them trained for racing. Stevie, a blue girl, is also a show greyhound, and she recently got the 'Best Of Breed' in Wellington Dog Show. The brindle girl, Shawn, seems to be a true racer - she did fantastic tonight, she was so fast!
Here are some pictures (they are not the best as my camera does not have the best flash; I also could not get any pictures of girls running as all pictures turned out to be just one big blur :)

Irene and Shawn watching the lure

Irene and Shawn again

Greyhound trainer extraordinaire Ellie with Stevie

And at the official races, 'Swift Fantasy' won -again :-) Amazing race -she was at the very back again, and then towards the end, simply charged forward and won! :-)

The race has been on CloseUp, here is the video (warning: it is truly AMAZING):
http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/greyhound-winning-streak-1-24-video-3732644?

Swift Fantasy (and check out Ellie on the left :-)))

And the real winner is ...Ellie!!!

Ashhurst GAP walk , July 2010

By Fatima |

Sunday, July 25, 2010

We had over 20 greyhounds at the walk at Ashhurst Domain today, and they had loads of fun! :-)
Check out the pictures (thanks Sue, Anthony and Sonja!)

Tyson (Canya See Me) and Leo (Our Cheetah):

Tyson again, with Leo's sister Jazz (Homebush Squirt) :

Rozzo (Maximum):

Handsome Leo (Our Cheetah):

Sam (Fortold) and friend:

Irene and Stevie (No Spoken Word), practising for their upcoming Dog Show :)

Raz(Rezende) with his foster Mum Cynthia:

Eliza and George, with their humans :-)

My beautiful Louie (Charlston State) - he thought he saw a rabbit! Alas, it turned out to be just a bird :)

Babe (Sexy Babe):

Nugget (Pepper Law) and her new friend:

Cute Chase:

Labour Day 2009 - Scott's Ferry beach walk and races at the Manuwatu racecourse

By Fatima |

Monday, October 26, 2009

Labour day - 26 October 2009 - was quite busy :-)
First, we took the hounds for a walk at Scotts Ferry beach. Fantastic weather, great turnout but lots of random people, fishermen, fishing lines, cars and other dogs on the beach so not much chance to free run the hounds... we still had fun, as you can see from the pictures below...(i took some of them, and stole some from Sonja's Facebook page!)