May Day Mon May 1st Helton Fell.

Helton Fell May DAY Mon 1st May

Seniors 1 Marli 2 Overwater Arnie 3 Endure 4  Arizona 5 Queen 6 Liz . 10 Ran Time 32.08.

Also Ran Canny Girl – Buble – Try Time – Washington.

Senior Maidens 1 Accolade 2 Another Bay 3 Blueboy 4 Persian Sky 5 Sunset Ridge 6 My Way . 18 Ran Time 33.46.

Also Ran. Cracking Gold — Grange Music – Layla – Hunter’s Dale -, Foxparke Artist – Foxparke Peggy Sue – Foxparke Rosie Lee – Foxparke Yabadabbadoo – foxparke Babushka – Irish Pride – Casanova – Yogi Bear.

Pups 1 Crazy 2 Rio 3 Huntsman’s Major 4 Red Will 5 Overwater Stanley 6 Huntsman’s Magician 13 Ran Time 17.57.

.Also Ran. Atlas – Nikita – .- Broncho – Foxparke Golden Balls –  Thorn Diamond – Ravens Crag – Del Boy.

Pup Maidens 1 Artemis 2 Escape 3 Jenny’s Breeze 4 Black Legend 5 Huntsman’s Mist 6 Provincial. Time 18.04 26 Ran .

Also Ran Cracking Star – Rodney Rascal – Blue Solo – Foxparke Juicy Fruity – Foxparke Homeward Pride – Foxparke Homeward Again – Foxparke Diamond – Foxparke Katy Lee – Foxparke Lucy Lou – Mystery Bound –  Steel End – Impulse – Foxparke Billy Elliot – Hawkswood – Cuchulainn- Say It As It Is.-Captain America- Hi Mac – Mac’s Choice – Nixon.

Open Restricted 1 Little Messy 2 Thorn Fire 3 Cotto 4 Persian Bay 5 Mr Ant 6 Cool Enough . 36 Ran Time 16.53.

Also Ran Razzle Dazzle – Cracking On – Misha – Canny Mover -Cartier – Tommy’s Legacy – Dawn – West Tip – Foxparke Invisible – Foxparke Homeward Dude – Foxparke Fandando – Deepdale Frank – Quiet Linnet – Westgate Belle – Bedazzled – Bewitched – Cherish – Huntsman’s Hope – Jenny’s Choice – Remember Me – Carrick –

Prudence – Keystone – Chavenel – Summer dancer = Eden Rossi – Skidaddle – Fireman Sam – Howgill Blondie – Howgill Annabella .

Report. Well done and thanks to the Carlisle and Penrith Area Committee for hosting the HTA May day trails.

Thanks to the trailers,gatekeeper. raffle sellers. the sponsors

Alisdair McVitie- Roy Laidler – Paul Airey – GIlbertson and Page – Criffel Pet Supplies – Carlisle and Penrith area. A likely profit of £750 is a good start to the season.

The senior trail and only ten faced the starter and it was a first win of the season for Ivor and Wendy Martin with Marli, the first of three winners from the Westmorland Area , Marli the second favourite held on from the fast finishing Overwater Arnie who came from fifth to second place with the favourite Endure in third.

The senior maidens and the second Westmorland winner in the shape of Reg Smith’s Kendal hound Accolade , she finished strongly to beat course winner Another Bay with Blueboy in third.

Crazy confirmed her status as leader of the pack when she stormed home to win number six at the expense of Rio and Huntsman’s Major,. the favourite NIkita went AWOL and ended up finishing second in the puppy maiden trail causing slight confusion amongst the catchers. This trail was won by Artemis ,Nikita’s kennelmate, and provided Joe and Vanessa with Westmorland’s third winner, and just denying the Moore’s a double.

The largest field of the day was the restricted trail with 36 runners and was the fastest of the four short trails and was won in convincing style by the lightly raced Little Messy, Thorn Fire was second in front of last week’s non- winners winner Cotto.

At the time of writing Canny Girl was still missing.

And- who let Graham Reid’s ” Greyhound ” out of the traps and consequently ran across to the pup start , nearly giving him a 28 day ban as it wasn’t entered.!