MONDAY THE 18TH OF NOVEMBER
I delivered hounds myself on Monday and i was away for the day . At the kennels the whole day was took up preparing hounds for schooling
ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE IN THE UK WE HAD ONE RUNNER AT NOTTINGHAM SWIFT SERENA
TUESDAY THE 19TH OF NOVEMBER
I was at the vets at Cashel for our weekly trip and i also had hounds to deliver and all the waste had to go to the dump . At the kennels John Nolans was here ear marking pups which took all day and to make hard work of it all we had rain.
WEDNESDAY THE 20TH OF NOVEMBER
We needed fish and a load of bits and pieces . At the kennels we changed every bed in all the kennels , all the sheds and all the rearing houses , we wormed and trimmed their nails of every pup and hound on the place plus we did a major swap around with young pups in to runs , saplings out the rearing paddocks into the garden paddocks and the saplings that were in the garden paddocks are now in kennels
THURSDAY THE 21TH OF NOVEMBER
We finished off the swap around with pups and saplings , collected food for pups plus a load of bits and pieces . We fed up early as the main job today was trialing in Kilkenny and the last job was dropping the van to the garage to get serviced and doing the website completely up to date.
FRIDAY THE 22ND OF NOVEMBER
The first job on Friday was to get two tires put on the van before I was killed . We needed meat so that had to be collected and my right hand man Pagie was at the hospital but he is a 100% again . We had the start of the storm so there was nothin we can do outside so we gave freezers , garages and kennels all a good tidy.
ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE IN THE UK WE HAVE ONE RUNNER AT ROMFORD SWIFT INDIGO . WE HAD ONE OPEN RACE RUNNER IN IRELAND SWIFT JAGRATI AT CORK.
SATURDAY THE 23RD OF NOVEMBER
We had rain overnight like never before plus there was heavy wind and swift vicki who lives in the house with me wouldn’t go out this morning to clean herself the weather was that bad so i had to put her in a undercover run . We needed more meat , the rain was on and off all day so again we couldn’t do any work outside , we got all our waste away and made the lists for the coming week .
ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE IN THE UK WE HAD ONE WINNER LAST NIGHT IN ROMFORD SWIFT INDIGO AND ALSO ONE WINNER LAST NIGHT IN IRELAND AT CORK SWIFT JAGRATI, WE HAVE TWO RUNNERS IN THE UK AT OXFORD PHOENIX POSH AND WRONG NOT WRIGHT AND ONE RUNNER IN IRELAND AT SHELBOURNE PARK PHOENIX MEMPHIS.
SUNDAY THE 24 TH OF NOVEMBER
Another storm is forecast , Pagie my head lad has a day off so it will be a typical Sunday were we cook , feed , clean kennels , do a bit of a tidy up and do the paper work and tidy the website up .
ON THE OPEN RACE SCENE IN THE UK WE HAVE EIGHT RUNNERS AT CRAYFORD SWIFT DEPOT , SWIFT DELTA , SWIFT QUINCEY AND WRIGHTY , AT TOWCESTER SWIFT NISSAN , MERLINS MATE , YOU TWO AND SWIFT GIDDY