October trails Shap Saturday 3rd Oct.
Seniors and Senior Maidens cancelled .
Juniors 1 Lone Rebel 2 Daisy Dream 3 Persian Sky 4 Venus 5 Billy Bowe 6 Bracelet 13 ran Time 19.58 .
Also Ran. Paloma Faith -Jenny’s Delight -Chinook -Artist -Remember me -Marlou
Pup Maidens 1 Jazz Band 2 Persian Prince 3 Cracking On 4 Meadow Josie 5 Eden Rossi 6 Bluebond 18 Ran .Time 18.35.
Also Ran Kaiser Sosa -Foxparke Yankee Doodle -Tootie Fruity-Lovebug -Peggy Sue -Chaos -The Script -Sparrowmire Angel -Vesta -Lady Anne -Dairy Thunder -Stroll On –
O N W 1 DH Superstition / Hunter’s Dale 3 Miterdale Force 4 Cracking Gold 5Eden Rocco 6 Silverbelle. 15 Ran Time 21.33.
Also Ran Foxparke So Be It Miterdale Princess Black Eyed Boy -Bonny -Silver Lining -Borderman -Hutton Toyah =Hutton Molly -Oban Express.
OR 1 Two Tone 2 Chavenel 3Cartier 4 Carrick 5 Rooster 6 Quiet Linnet 33 Ran .Time 20.04.
Also Ran -Freya Mrs McGregor -Mr Dec -Cancellara -Bedazzled -Sugar Ray -Starlight -Tinkerbell -Tommy’s Legacy -Rickman -Cool Return =Casanova -Yogi Bear – Barton -Black Mist -Sundance- Eden Rouge -Maybe -Overwater Bessie -Miterdale Prim Highness -My Way -Cracking Mover -Explore -Blueboy -Colleen -Dark Mist.
Report.
The senior starting end trailer found himself in a predicament that is all to familiar to laying a trail in misty conditions and I can speak from experience . You basically know where you are but you cannot be certain how you got there and you are not sure which exact direction to carry on . So!, you wait for visibility to improve, it does , but only marginally but enough to find a way back. Now, the trail has been laid but you are 50 mins late ,you know you have been ‘wrong’ but is it enough to cancel the trail. Decision time and taking in all relative factors the Carlisle and Penrith Committee decided to cancel both senior trails.
In the interest of safety this was the correct decision whether you agree or not!
The visibility slightly improved for the shorter trails, although only to about 200 yards and this limited the viewing of the hounds to the start and half the finish.
Who did it help ? well! Jazz Band would have been happy with nil visibility but it didn’t matter as he came well clear and to a round of applause sauntered over the line and into his bait. Persian Prince led the remainder just in front of Cracking On. That was the pup maidens and it was a similar story in the junior trail where the favourite and course specialist Lone Rebel won by a similar margin from Daisy Dream with the other ticketing hounds close up,
The third trail concerning the puppy fraternity was the non-winners and this result was a triumph for patience as Hunter’s Dale on only his third completion of a trail, and having spent most of his trailing either ‘coming back’ or getting lost! ,dead heated with the fast finisher Superstition, a Green and Laidler partnership made in heaven!.Hard On their Heels was Miterdale Force who incidentally finished in 14th place as well?
The final event ,on a day that was proving to be ‘A Lang un, was again won convincingly by ‘Two Tone ‘ . Chavenel led the race for second just in front of Carrick and Cartier.
