Cunswick Fell Kendal Sun18th Oct
Seniors 1 Lady Bethan 2 Razzle Dazzle 3 Canny Girl 4 Ladybird 5 Capetown 6 Langdale Ranger. 8 Ran Time 26.18 Also Ran Jazz Singer -Cartier.
Maidens 1 Yogi Bear 2 Black Mist 3 Full House 4 Rickman 5 Sparrowmire Lily 6 My Way. 7 Ran Time 27.45. Also Ran Casanova
Pups 1 Billy Bowe 2 Venus 3 Daisy Dream 4 Paloma Faith 5 Lone Rebel 6 Lady Ann 11 Ran Time 15.46
. Also ran Jazz Band -Persian Bay -Chinook -Artist – Sparrowmire Angel.
OR 1 Carrick 2 Barton 3 Highness 4 Mr Dec 5 Jimmy Nik 6 Mrs McGregor 8 Ran Time 16.09
Also Ran Blackeyed Boy Howgill Blondie.
Veterans 1 Tiagress 2 Cinnabar 3 Thorn Girl 4 Valhalla 4 Ran Time 16.54.
Report. The consensus of opinion was if Persian Bay won at Kendal to-day then the race for the title was over. But as the drama unfolded and the runners headed uphill to the finish it was Billy Bowe just heading Persian and Daisy Dream in third.
Billy ‘flew the gate’ and gained a yard, the second hound kept tabs on the leader, ‘Daisy wasn’t responding well to the whistles whether they be coming from top of the hill or the bottom.
Over the final wall and onto ‘thistle finish’ and lo and behold Billy held the challenge of the second by two lengths. But what was second everybody to a man (except one) had Billy leading Persian and Daisy all the way up the finish even over the line, until it dawned on them’ its Venus’ not ‘Persian’ .
Only the last month of the season and ‘ who knows the difference’ as one regular remarked ‘ tell ’em a mile off, they can’t tell ’em under their noses’. Perhaps it was the angle it’s not often you have a birds eye view ?.
Canny Girl was reported to have led for most of the senior trail but she couldn’t hold off course winner lady Bethan who won by a few lengths from Razzle Dazzle with ‘Canny’ a similar distance back in third and improving into fourth was Ladybird.
Just seven for the maidens and Yogi Bear beat Black Mist by five lengths with Full House a similar distance back in third.
It’s not often a kennel has two runners in a race , one first and the other last!
The open restricted and a close run race with Carrick getting the better of Barton ( second again) and Highness who was a close third and Jimmy ,who sat down again but still got fifth enduring the annoyance of his owner ,just because Ireland got beat LOL and only four veterans in the last where Tiagress finished alone and Cinnabar’ got up’ on the line to finish second.
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