Ward Hall nr Gilcrux Tues June13th.

Seniors 1 Endure 2 Thorn Fire 3 Sambuca 4 Persian Bay 5 Washington  6 General James . 21 Ran Time 28.23.

Also Ran.- Quiet Linnet – Quiet Otter – Another Bay – Blue Boy – Kinniside joe – Step Up – Cracking Gold – Cracking On – Meadow Dixie – Liz – Try Time Arizona – Overwater Roger – Accolade – Kaiser Sosa .

Pups 1 Red Will 2 Kinniside meg 3 Mystery Bound 4 Black Legend 5 Kinniside mell 6 Impulse. 28 Ran Time 19.38.

Also Ran Kinniside Molly – Sergeant James – Crazy – Escape – Rio – Rodney Rascal – Overwater Stanley – Atlas – Provincial –  Bronco – foxparke Diamond — Foxparke katy Lou – Foxparke Lucy Lou – Foxparke Juicy Fruity – Foxparke Golden balls – Foxparke Homeward Bound – Foxparke Homeward Pride – Foxparke Billy Elliot – Nikita – Artemis – Nixon – Del Boy.

Open Maidens 1 Artisan 2 Sunset Ridge 3 Wild Gypsy 4 Cool Return 5 Foxparke Artiste 6 Wanted. 28 Ran Time 17.18.

Also Ran. Blue Solo – Kinniside Beauty – Barncroft Gold –  Westgate Luther – Chavenel – Black Mist – Foxparke So Be It – Foxparke Yabadabadoo-Foxparke Rosie Lee – Foxparke Peggy Sue – Foxparke Homeward Dude – Foxparke Fandando – Flash Dance-Venus – McCoy – Night Vision – My Way – Breeze – Irish Pride – Persian Sky – Wansfell – Hutton Molly .

Report. Right ! I’ve been in detention , wrote 100 lines I will in future get all reports exactly  as everybody wants them and by the way if I get everything accurate and all the hounds right . I will not be writing about them instead I will be backing them. ’nuff Said’

Ward Hall , trails organised by the Cockermouth Area , officiated by the Aspatria and Wigton area  Its about time we woke up to the fact that the HTA is one area and not seven , what ! with only 4 bookmakers in action , hounds travelling all over , the same people attending  whether the trails are at Corney or Oulton, I ‘ll set the ball rolling but there are a lot of goalkeepers.!

Back to last night and Endure showed he is back to top form when he held Thorn Fire at bay up the long ,strength strapping finish, a length and a half was the winning margin, the improving Sambuca was third and Persian Bay a close fourth.

The puppy trail and after running consistently since Christmas- Red Will finally got his way – in an extremely close finish with Kinniside Meg, Mystery Bound ,and  Black Legend, Kinniside Mel – Impulse,it will be worth noting that five out of the six were maidens! The International is just around the corner!

Onto the final event and apparently the lure of a previous run around Bridekirk proved the undoing of some and it was up to a veteran to show them the way home, holding off the challenge of Sunset Ridge was veteran champion Artisan.

Now a tale of £2.50. Mike and Dot Wilding  have been staunch supporters of trailing for a number of years and after a bout in the wilderness they are now in their  twilight years and having a great deal of success with their new acquisition ‘ Wild Gypsy’. But at Kirkstone after she had finished fifth her owner ‘ lost the prize money’ Ok! it is only £2.50p but it is of sentimental value.

So this afternoon on passing the trailfield I decided to have a look, ‘needle in a haystack’ No! there it was lying on the finish.

Happy Ending? No ! Finders keepers losers weepers !