It’s been a busy week of trailing with Thursday seeing a return to Fellside ahead of tonight’s rare action for a Friday at Cockhow.
There’s more to come with two shows on Saturday – the Benty Show and Lowick Show – and to finish off, the memorial trails for the late Dickie Smithson on Sunday.
The seniors started proceedings at Fellside with a good slip of eighteen hounds. Silver Dream was back out to see if she could move ahead of Huntsman’s Rebel after her win earlier in the week.
Rodney Raider, the 2023 puppy champion who has led the senior table for most of the season looks as though he won’t compete anymore this year and will be left until next season.
Competition for Silver Dream was likely to come from kennel mate Sarah Jane and Sportsman. Embrace was running, but this would only be his second run following a return from injury, but he had won the last time out at Shap at the weekend.
As they came onto the finish the leading hounds were altogether with any of them in with a chance to win. With passing difficult once on the trod it would be wh ever got in front first.
As they neared the line it was Embrace for Laura Steele, Andrew and Joel Bulman and Ian Rumney who pushed on in front of his sibling Sarah Jane and who just got the verdict from the judge, winning by a head.
The win for Embrace takes him to seven points now joint second place with Mel who notched up her seventh win the night before at Cold Fell.
Busy Again, for Alan Blacklock, stuck in and claimed third place with Silver Dream only managing fourth but with only a length or so between all four dogs they all had ran a good race.
Sportsman for Willie and Daphne Mark finished in fifth place with Border Reign for Annabell Connolly getting sixth ticket. The litter from Silver Dusk and Miterdale Copper still showing its pedigree with three out of the six coming from the litter, Embrace, Sarah Jane and Silver Dream.
The pups were next to slip with fourteen entered and with the two front runners in the championship having ran earlier in the week it left the race open for others.
Minnie Million was the favourite and as they showed back on the finish there were plenty of hounds in with a chance. But it was Minnie Million who showed her strong finish and she came away and won easily for Joy and Brian Lister, from the rest of the group. This was her seventh win of the season.
Finishing in second and third place was Millie’s Lass and Millie’s Lad for George McGimpsy and daughter and grand-daughter Gillian and Millie Telford.
Discover stuck in for the Lindsay sisters and finished in fourth place with Mister Mally for George Burgeon and Carol Logan in fifth place. David Clifford’s hound Eden Rosanna finished in sixth.
The last race of the night was the open maidens with a slip of fourteen again. It was an open field but it was Willie and Daphne Mark’s other hound Summer Spirit who crossed the line in first place from Colin Satterthwaite’s Thorn Heart.
The Lindsay sister, Anna and Kerry, bagged another ticket with their other hound Inspect who finished really well to claim third ticket.
George Burgeon and Carol Logan did well as they claimed fourth and fifth with Overwater Hunter and Tallulah with the last ticket of the night being awarded to Imagine for Joy and Brian Lister.
September 5 – Fellside
Hounds – 1. Embrace; 2. Sarah Jane; 3. Busy Again; 4. Silver Dream; 5. Sportsman; 6. Border Reign. 18 ran, time 28.10.
Pups – 1. Minnie Million; 2. Millie’s Lass; 3. Millie’s Lad; 4. Discover; 5. Mister Mally; 6. Eden Rosanna. 14 ran, time 21.38.
Open Maidens – 1. Summer Spirit; 2. Thorn Heart; 3. Inspect; 4. Overwater Hunter; 5. Tallulah; 6. Imagine. 14 ran, time 21.06.
