Winter - The Deerhound Club

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i OUR FIRST COURSING MEETING A wet and windy molning in January, this year, was the day we had chosen to try coursing, with our rain hating Deerhound, Beardswood Lara or Tiggy as she is known at home. Tiggy' s breeders, Dr. Sarah Helps and Mrs Heather Helps, had suggested we bring her along with the added incentive, that her brother and sister, Beardswood Lua and Lorna would be thele as well. On our arrival, it took all our persuasive powers to coax our reluctant Deerhound out of the warmth of the car and join growing numbers of Deerhounds straining at the leash and becoming more excitable by the rninute... Tig was not impressed!! Once all had gathered and the judge had mounted herhorse, (l hadn't really expected that!) we set ofTacross tlrc field of what looked like cabbages. It was truly a spectacular sight, (hounds rror cabbages ! ) As the wind knocked us sideways and the clay collected on our boots. nry progrcss was further slowed by T'iggy dragging behind nre. giving a look of total clisbelicl'arrd disdain-the look that only a Deerhound can nruster. I looked at my husband. who rvas being pulled ever onward by an enthusiastic Lua, obviously in anticipation ol'r,r,hat was to come; my husband looked at nry plight with our relLrctant hound and raisccl his eyebrows back at me: This could be a very long day... ... ... We soldiered on, wondering how on earth we would frnd a hare with all the dogs arrcl people around, when suddenly the shout "hare right" went up and a hale shot across the field from just in fi'ont of us, soon followed by two hounds-we watched specclrlcss as they tore uphill and out of sight. We glanced at each other, the look on our faces said it all, this was fantastic! Our once reluctant hound was now leaping and realirrr.l to get free of her lead; well, she always was a quick learner! The next pair rvere in tlrc slips and I was away now being dragged up the hill. A f-ew rnole pairs ran and the re was a shoft delay, whilst a kamikaze hare ran fi'orn behind and throLlgh the line, orrc of the hounds escaped and chased it in cilcles. Once caught it was'l-ig's tuln. Suddenly. very nervous we put her in slips, Tiggy ran in a white collar, the other in red-we hoped that we would l'ind a hare very quickly. After what seenred an age. rvitlr no sign of a hale, we nrovcd into the next fleld. My husband and l, scanning rrraclly forhares. tlrcn sudclerrly. I was ncarly deaf-ened as my husband shoLrted "hare lefi". Ir slrot ol'1. tlrc slippcr lct thc lrorrnds go and the other bitch was off like a bullet. 'ligg1'ltatl tlol sccn thc lrarc itrtd rtty heart was in my nouth tlrinking she wasn't goinu JZ I to go. tlren in an irrstant she saw the other hound arrd the hare and tore off after tlrem tloin the hill. We had a perfect view as they kept turning the hare downhill and carried run up the other side, the other bitch dropped back a little and the hare drew away. To oltr atnazentent, Tiggy changed gear and chased it up tlre other side and onto the brow ,f the hill stoppingrt the very top. Thrilled, we held our breath for the.iudge to signal the wirrner of the heat...let it be white... WHITE was signalled-hoorah!!! Bursting rvith pride I ran to recall our brave girl' Back at the vets-stitches-but thankfully no lasting darrtage and grcat rclicl'tlrat it wasrt't worse. She healed very quickly and as soon she was allowed to g
Season's Greetings from SWORDGROVE kennels! International, Finnish, Swedish and Estonian Champion CHARBONNEL BALLAD sire: Acier Silver smith At charbonnel dam: Kilbournq euartz To charbonnel "Glenda" f inished her rnternotionol chompion titre on 26.7.zoo3 in Ronsoter, sweden,judged by Mr Arne Foss , sweden. she wos BrS 2 in Tqmmsvik hound speciolity on 27.7.2O03, judged by Mrs Normo Sellers, kennel Vole Vue, USA. Glendo,s doughter SWORDGROVE SHANNON (by Monticorn's Gregori) hos gained severof Best Puppy in Breed owords os well os her litter brother SWORDOROVE STARDUST, who is proudly owned by Mrs pirjo Tuononen. Many thanks to sandy Platt for letting me have this wonderful bitch! Loved ond owned by, Ms Eijo Kcipoinen, Muuttolinnunreittj 14, 02660 Espoo, Finlond Tel. +358 - 50 3790 ggl e-mqi | : eijokoipoinen@ luukku.com CLANARDWOOD DEERHOUNDS AND PUGS WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRIST- MAS AND LOTS OF JOY WITH YOUR DOGS "h"y, that was my Christmas Turkey" -Paul and Gudrun Minton 35
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