Festival Of Hound Trailing Potter’s Park Kirkland

Puppy Maidens 1 Boston 2 Speed On 3 Kenmore 4 Sultan 5 Sweet Harmony 6 Foxparke Rosie Lee. 15 Ran Time 23.33

. Also ran  Buble- Cool Enough – Adventure – Popeye – Foxparke Fandango – Foxparke Mamma Mary – Foxparke Honky Tonk- Foxparke Homeward Dude. Step Up.

ONW 1 Kinniside Joe 2 Summer Rose 3 Tempress 4 Silverbelle  18 Ran  Time 29,55

. Also Ran. Cool Miracle – Accolade – Spring Rose – Stand By – Bobby Dazzler – Jazz lyric – Jade’s Jem – Foxparke Peggy Sue – Billy Whizz – Dan’s lad – Manna- KInniside Nell – Kinniside Bess – Hunter’s Sparkle.

Veterans Void . Runners Da Look – Artisan — Freebie – What Look – Tagget =Tinkerbelle – Kerrymore – Langdale jack – Cinnabar – Jimmy Choo – Silver Spangle – Pip’s Lad- Cancellara – Quiet Siskin – Simply Rascal – OLivia – Miss Ellie.

Seniors 1 Jenny’s Choice 2 Jenny’s Delight 3 Huntsman’s Jewel 4 Langdale Ranger 5 Quiet Linnet 6 Night Vision . 16 Ran Time 33.10.

Also Ran. Ladybird – Thorn Dancer – Debra – Washington – Huntsman’s Jenny –  Dawn – Galemire Grace  – Celtic Malone = Daisy Dream – Endure.

Maidens 1 Sambuca 2 Jazz band 3 Sugar Ray 4 Blueboy 5 Foxparke Hallelujah 6 Foxparke So be It . 28 Ran Time 35.32.

Also Ran. Foxparke Turbo – Foxparke Hurry On – Foxparke Yabbadabado – Yogi bear – My Way – Eshdale Matilda – Come Home Alfie – Rickman – Maybe – Billy Whizz – Bobby Dazzler – lady Anne – Sunset ridge – Skiddadle – Layla – Sental – Westgate Belle – Westgate Rose – Trooper Thorn – Aspire – Capetown – Full House.

Pups 1 General James 2 Just Mick 3 Jenny’s Aura 4 Huntsman’s Loyal 5 Quiet Otter 6 Overwater Roger  14 Ran Time 19.24

.Also Ran .Queen – Phoenix – Canny mover – Manna – Kinniside Nell – Kinniside Bess –  Silver dawn – Liz.

Open Restricted 1 Bedazzled 2 Dairy Lightning 3 Razzle Dazzle 4 Levitate 5 Santino 6 Littman . 33  Ran Time 20.17.

Also Ran. Paloma Faith – Mrs McGregor – Cool Return – Black Eyed Boy – Foxparke Invisible – Foxparke Artist –  Casanova- – Cartier = Hunter’s Dale = Menorah – Canny Girl – Black Mist – Jenny’s Rascal – Bewitched – Celtic Ty – Issabella –  Songbird – JLS – Eden Rossi- Eden Rocco= Overwater Hally – Carrick – Remember Me – Kaiser Sosa – Try Time – Great Gable = Cool Miracle .

Report.  On behalf of the festival committee I would like to thank all farmers and landowners for their support and .on what was a diabolical day, the trailers, gatekeepers , scouts  who deserve a medal and not forgetting all of you who supported the trails as the saying goes ‘ We must be crackers!’. We can report that all was safely gathered in and a special thanks to those who spent time looking for Songbird.

The trails and starting in running order ,first on the seven trail programme was the puppy maidens and was one of the trails where visibility was at its best. The hounds were well bunched throughout and on the downhill part of the uphill finish, Speed On had a couple of lengths lead over Boston ,who put his best foot forward and provided connections with a consolation win after missing out on the International.

The Non- Winners , and after a scale on the fell soon after the start 13 of the 18 runners returned to the start ( hence the double entries) that left five and unfortunately Hunter’s Sparkle was disqualified for interference , hence only four were recorded as finished, these were led home by Kinniside Joe in front of Hunter’s and Summer Rose these three were well clear of the other two. You might note that three of the five were seniors.

The day was now worsening and visibility was down to 100 yards , the next trail was the veterans and for all  their experience ,perhaps that was the trouble, they scaled badly in the’ leaps’ trail field and the result was that some ran the proper trail , the others joined the trail at the halfway point and some went on the starting end and some on the finishing end. Now if you’ve worked that out , well done and consequently the trail was declared void,. Simply Rascal who went AWOL for a while was reunited with her owner via the dog warden.

The weather was getting worse , a number of hounds were withdrawn and in the Senior trail on arriving at the three quarter stage  I encountered as many followers on the road that were on the field. Leading at this stage was Daisy Dream, Quiet Linnet with course winner Jenny’s Choice a close up fourth and out of the gloom , over the line it was the Patterdale three – Jenny’s Choice, Jenny’s Delight and Huntman’s Jewel, making it a memorable day for Denise and the absent Jenny ,who was sidelined with tonsillitis.

.The senior maidens and at the three quarter stage it was Jazz Band , Sugar Ray, Sambuca  and Blueboy, as you can see from the result that the order hardly changed . Neil Brown’s Sambuca winning by a length from Jazz Band and the rest of the ticketing hounds close behind.

Now, with hindsight, the start of the last two trails was altered and the hounds were transported to the ‘ Leaps trail field for the start this move had the desired effect and the last two trails seemed to run a lot smoother. reports from the pup trail were that General James, Jenny’s Aura and Just Mick were clear. And appearing out of the gloom came the ‘General’ just in front of ‘Mick’ and Jenny’s and another Huntsmans’back in fourth.

The final trail of what had been an extremely trying day and the washed out supporters saw Bedazzled with her winter coat finally removed, appear like a ghostly apparition, out of the gloom followed by most of the runners in single file, Dairy Lightning, Razzle Dazzle, Uncle Tom Cobbley and all.

At the time of writing this report the bright red waterproofs were making their way to the washing machine and the next HTA meeting , the premier trail, what price mist and rain.