Dearham Sun Sept 3rd.

Seniors 1 Washington 2 Sambuca 3 Silver Dusk 4 Dawn 5 Cool Enough 6 General James. 11 Ran Time 31.20 Also Ran -Eclipse – Quiet Otter – J L S – Fireman Sam – Ben 10.

Pups 1 Rio 2 Black Legend 3 Mystery Bound 4 Rodney Rascal 5 Foxparke Golden Balls 6 Red Will. 7 Ran Time 17.30 Also Ran. Del Boy

Pup Maidens 1 Thorn Diamond 2 Escape 3 Bronco 4 Blue Solo 5 Sergeant James 6 Foxparke homeward Again . 11 Ran Time 17.23 Also Ran  Say It As It Is- Foxparke Juicy Fruity – Foxparke Homeward Pride – Foxparke lucy Loo- Nixon.

Open Maidens 1 Foxparke Peggy Sue 2 Sugar Ray 3 Foxparke Rosie Lee 4 Foxparke Yabadabadoo – 5 Foxparke So be It 6 Tagget. 18 Ran Time 17 44.

Also Ran – Keystone- Blue Boy –  Meadow Josie – Cool Return – My Way – Jimmy Choo – Barncroft Gold – Captain jack -Dark Mist – Carrick – foxparke Artiste – Wansfell.

Report.For Loweswater Show read Dearham, a substitute yes, but has a traditional show meeting been lost or not? Loweswater or Lorton is not everybody’s cup of tea but it is steeped in trailing’s history and I for one will miss it.

Back to reality and once more the gutter in the last field had a say in who won . Sambuca led into it in the seniors and Denzil led out, hesitated,but challenged firstly by Silver Dusk and then by Sambuca, he held on for victory, which to Heide’s delight was filmed albeit a shade bright.

The pup trail and with 24 second places between them ,who was going to win ? Rio by a length , a philosophical owner and trainer shrugged  his shoulders- another second whilst his part owner is sunning himself abroad probably enthusing the locals about nowt! The unlucky pup was Mystery Bound who “missed ” two jumps and still managed third place.

Thorn Diamond won the pup maidens from Escape and “Billy “Bronco and the last race was commandeered by the ” yellow  bus” red bus gang in the shape of Foxparke’s who narrowly beat Sugar Ray and as owner of one of the umpteen in the kennel and also the  owner of the second ,held an enquiry into the outcome and blamed it on the person who started shouting them home soon after leaving Tallentire , Peaked to early and couldn’t match ” Peggy Sue” in the final stages.  The quicker she gets married the better! That’s the hound not the owner!