Its official, our pup pictured below has now been named and I recieved the paperwork today from the Greyhound Stud confiming that our March 2009 Westmead Hawk x Jazz Hurricane dog pup will be known on the racetrack as STORMING HAWK!



As you can see he is a great looker that is really well put together and is thriving up at Questhouse Kennels all thanks to Dave and his dad who really do give the dogs the best of everything.

Advantage Johnny will be back on the racetrack in the next week, whist Topstar Honcho is still probably a couple of weeks away from making another racecourse appearance, both however seem to be doing very well in their work at Iceman kennels and we look forward to seeing them both racing again very soon.

Big Chief has nearly finished his schooling in Ireland and has improved each week at the schooling track, he seems as though he is a dog that may need a little time before we see him on a racetrack and we will just take each week as it comes with him once he arrives in the UK as he is still only 15 months old.

Pictured above is Big Chief our July 08 pup who is currently being schooled in Ireland by Marie Baker.

Big Chief has schooled very well according to Marie and she is very pleased with him, he will be completing his schooling this weekend all being well and if Marie is happy that he is ready to move on after that then we could see him on a transporter and arriving over here in the UK at some point next week.

Keeping on the puppy front, our Westmead Hawk x Jazz Hurricane pup is thriving up at Questhouse along with his litter comrades and will soon have a name once the paperwork arrives back from the Greyhound Stud. Once your paperwork goes in its luck of the draw when you name a pup so we will see what we get allocated but I am hopeful that our first choice of Storming Hawk will be accepted.

Jazz's first litter to Droopys Kewell are doing very well on the racetrack and look as though they have the makings of what will be a very good litter.

Advantage Johnny and Topstar Honcho are making good progress in their bid to return to the track and are booked in to visit Simon Gower at Swindon next Tuesday, hopefully they will both get the all clear to resume racing after their visit with Simon. Advantage Martti runs again this evening at Coventry after his win last week and we are hopeful of another good show particularly if last weeks win has boosted his confidence.

Tonight at Coventry Advantage Martti registered his first win for us here at Category 1 Greyhounds and we would like to say a very big thank you to Lance, Pam and all the team at the Iceman Kennels for all the hard work they have done with Martti.

Its been a bit of a journey with this stunning looking little dog and we are very pleased for his syndicate members. Martti has always looked as though he would'nt stay that well and we thought that the 480M trip at Coventry would not suit him, but what do we know?

He has shown us tonight that he is more than happy over the 480M trip at Coventry and hopefully his confidence will have been boosted by his superb victory tonight, myself and Lance have both joked about the possibilty of him being a marathon dog such was the tenacity of his running to the knock off!!!

Anyway, we are back on the winners podium thanks to team Iceman and Martti, and its another winner for our members here at Category 1 Greyhounds.