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03 Jul 10
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Hi lads,
Can anybody tell me how much it would cost to get involved in the game with a dog. I am totally green and i know if i contacted a trainer i would probably get sold a jack russell. Any advice how to get involved and not be taken for a ride? Also whats the fees like?
Can anybody tell me how much it would cost to get involved in the game with a dog. I am totally green and i know if i contacted a trainer i would probably get sold a jack russell. Any advice how to get involved and not be taken for a ride? Also whats the fees like?
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firstly go to the track on a regular basis , get to know the trainers , be carefull lots of guys willing to tell you what you want to hear . if you find after awhile your still interested , i recommened you go juring the winter months so you get a real feel for it . approach one of said trainers and ask if they have a dog that suits your pocket .they charged around 60/75 a week the last time i had a dog with one thats about 3yrs ago .hope that helps.
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pf will do it for beer money
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das, pf has all his dogs in training with me
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60/75 is still around the norm..........I'd go the pup route ....buy one under 6 months old and send it to a good rearer eg. Martin Tucker loads of others.......at 15 months it will be lightly schooled and ready to go into training costs rearing 25 a week / schooling 45/50 pw...........serious value out there at the moment if someone wants to get into the game.......dropped 2 bitches to be mated to crash and hometown boy the other day and they were flat out.
Some good trainers out there......it depends on you, if you want to visit regularly choose one near you. Only speaking from experience avoid the bar rogue trainers and those who are heavy punters. Be careful buying a racedog for handy money. Pups for sale in sporting press, greyhound data and from breeders direct. only my opinion |
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pup route to expensive imo .as a breeder i found it harder and harder to make ends meet and finally gave up . to bring up a pup and get it to the track is imo a very risky proposition and very very expensive , you could have spent thousends on a pup get it to the schooling track only to find it wont even chase . sapling might be the answer .
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I agree with you there........had a few that didn't follow.........we handslip ours at 13 months so know early enough if they at least chase...........even the sapling route is risky, I was at a well known schooling track recently and saw these 2 little black dogs chasing like mad on the track.......I got chatting to the 2 men in the car park who had the dogs... they were 2 elderly men who drove down from Dublin and they told me the 2 blacks were only gone 10 months......the 2 boys had a flask so over a cup of tea they told me they do this all the time...slip them at 10 months and if they chase put them away for 3 months.
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13 months about right imo gantoo , cant belive those old boys 10 months ? do more damage than good , some people just cant wait to see what they have.
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Have to say they knew their stuff and without naming them they have a fair few winners.
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if its who i think it is , then thats the proof of the pudding . just for me pups of that age have very brittle bones and most of these schooling tracks are shall we say , are not well kept .
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you hit the nail on the head.
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we'll have to watch it gantoo thats twice we've agreed
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that's true.
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If you're a newbie, I'd definitely suggest buying a graded dog whose had a few runs. As already stated it's a huge help if you know a few ppl in the game to ensure you don't get completely shafted. You won't pay much for a average grader, and you'll learn a lot about the sport from owning it and watching it run.
I did the same when I got into dogs, bought a b!tch for €500, she won 6 for us (€200 per month for training) and it was a smashing introduction. |
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Am involved with a syndicate, Sparrows Banner..Won tonight at Galway..6/4[;)]
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well done lloyron , hope you had loads on
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Arent rocketfingers and workrider both the same person,so this thread is started by the same person replying to his own question.
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jimeen , you' re really not very bright , now are you .touch of the child within showing eh
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One day i wish to be as bright as yourself and rocketfingers,that deadly dyslexic duo who fill the threads with great pearls of wisdom.
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Workrider and rocketfingers are the same person,anyone with half a brain could see that. I think that anyone misrepresenting themselves under a different username just shouldn't be entertained.
"Rocketfingers" hadn't even the good manners to thank himself for his reply to his initial question. |
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you know lads i'm starting to worry about you two .rocketfingers is obviously the better speller for a start , ah why bother ,sure belive what you want you two fools . if you notice rocket knows a little about the gaa ,i on the other hand know sfa .but dont let that put you off the scent lads
.you two would make laurel and hardy seem dull you both should start up your own detective agency and call it ,crimes never solved |
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may well get a sapling next year workrider i will give you a shout for some advice when i get a greyhound ta.
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santa , lots of more knowledgeable greyhound fella's around than me , with my advice you'd end up with a whippet
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Rocket,
Go to igb.ie they have contact details for synds. |
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Cheers Kerryman, that sounds the best idea i heard to get started.
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Rocket,
have owned greyhounds for a number of years. Won a final in HX & also open class stake in Longford with a handiful of dogs . always bought pups & got them reared. never bought a sapling as have always had the impression that most of them had a good few hand-slips I would recommend getting a decent trainer,depends what part of the country your in. If you want more info let me know. |
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Ffs jungleboogie,workfingers or rocketrider or whatever he is called,is hardly in the market for a greyhound.Its a pisss take and as per usual a pretty ordinary effort(one wouldnt expect anything else from somebody with such a low iq).What i like about rocketrider is the pathetic attempts to garner sympathy by passing on personal information to people that he doesnt even know from adam,and secondly the attempts at turning a thread into a so called fishing thread,after 20 other posters have accused him of being an illiterate imbecile.
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gosh , jimeen nearly as bright as daradasi , his 2nd in command
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gantoo 7 , i see you posted you have 5 pups about to start off , why dont you offer rocketfingers a deal on one of them , that should benifit you both . what do you say lads ,it must be worth try ?
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Sorry none for sale...........out of our own open class bitch.........2 sold to a local man and 3 will be kept for racing.......first litter threw nearly all open class.
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whats the breeding Gant?
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All I will divulge is they are by crash out of a bitch that did 28.64.
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no problem, best of luck with them, hopefully win a few big comps with them
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hard enough to get them to the track.....but we will give it a rattle.
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yeah gantoo , good luck with them , i know what you mean when you say its hard to get them to the track never mind win compos
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Check out www.pennyskennels.com an interesting innovation during the present time of hardship of breeders.......
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Its a great idea.........well bred pups reared on at a top place.......fair play to Eugene.
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gantoo , who rears your pups for you ,or do you rear them yourself ?
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