Helton Sun 10th Sept.

Seniors 1 Persian Bay 2 Buble 3 Washington 4 Willow Bay 5 Explore 6 Accolade. 11 Ran Time 32.03. Also Ran.  Galemire Grace-Miterdale Steel -Queen – Eclipse- Canny Mover ( returned and re- entered in the restricted trail)

Senior Maiden 1 Summer Rose 2 Howgill Annabella 3 Yogi Bear 4 Sparrowmire Lily 5 Layla 6 Frankel  17 Ran Time 31.54. Also Ran My Way- Wild Gypsy – Levitate –  Sparrowmire Angel – Black Eyed Boy – Capetown – Chavenel – Aspire – Lone Rebel – keystone – Casanova.

Pups 1 Huntsman’s Major 2 Hi Mac 3 Huntsman’s Magician 4 Cuchulainn 5 Nikita 6 jenny’s Breeze.  9 ran Time 17.37. Also Ran.Steel End – Artemis – Raven Crag.

Open Restricted 1 Canny Mover 2 Razzle Dazzle 3 Paloma Faith 4 Sweet Harmony 5 Persian Prince 6 Cracking Gold. 16 Ran Time 17.49.Also Ran . Kerrymore – Artisan – Black Eyed Pea – Two Tone – Thorn Dollar – Starlight – Eden Rocco – Eden Rossi -Carttier- Mr Ant.

Report. Not a pleasant day but it could have been worse.

The senior trail and without demeaning the hounds if you look at the times recorded the maidens ran the dead rag a few seconds faster than their counterparts this suggests that all wasn’t well with  the senior trail and with the favourite Galemire Grace and three others returning to the start and the winner won by a country mile.

The senior maidens and the first seven had pulled clear and Summer Rose beat Howgill Annabella and Yogi, not sure of the distance as Baden Powell had called me up for duty.

Huntsman’s Major won by 50 metres in the juniors, the funny thing here was, that seven pups crossed the road and having time to watch them running up the trod to the finish  I counted eight.

And for the final trail I sat in the car counted 16  and went home.