A Warm Welcome To Juno

Meet Juno, our latest recruit to Booming Greyhound.

Dish By One (Crash x Sister Sioux) arrived from Ireland last month where she has been racing at Drumbo Park.
The little black bitch will be three in June but has only ran in eight races.
Though still a maiden she ran her grading trials and had no trouble getting on the card at Poole.

She's a lovely, happy go lucky girl and is enjoying life in her new home.

With 2011 ending with all three of our dogs retiring from racing we are looking forward to her racing at Poole.
Hopefully she will make her debut in the near future.

Welcome and good luck Juno. We look forward to hopefully some good times ahead.  

Sophie Retires And Comes Home

Sophie has retired from racing.

Blue Malibu (Droopys Kewell x Malibu Nikita) ran her last race in October 2011.
Running at Poole in the graded A7 race, she finished a very good second after being picked up at the run in by the eventual winner Ballynanty Fairy.The following day Sophie was walking around with a slight limp and was found to have a small hairline crack in her wrist.
She was given a two month rest from racing for her injury to heal.

In December the injury had healed and Sophie was given a 250 metre sprint trial.
Sophie finished in her fastest two bend trial time ever recorded but came of lame.
The following day it was discovered that she had injured her leg as well as aggravating the earlier wrist injury.

We decided to retire her from racing and to give her a nice home.

Sophie ran in thirty eight races and won five of them.
She started out running in A8 graded races climbing at one point to an A4 grade.

This was quite an achievement for the little blue bitch as she did not really get the 450 metre trip and was suited to a much shorter one.
It was her guts and determination that was always on show when she raced and just when we thought she could not do any more she always surprised us.

Sophie is now in her new home and as you can see is enjoying life. 
Even though she has retired, the good news is that we get to see her every day at home as our spoilt family pet.

Ring In The New Year!

Hope you are having a great 2012 so far.
As you can see we have made some major changes to Booming Greyhounds.

We have changed the colour and layout to the site.

As you can see there are tabs added with different categories (Broods, Breeding, For Sale etc) so you can link to different pages on that subject.
The Labels and Archives for all the posts can still be found on the right side of the site, so you can still easily find the posts on a particular subject.
The Recommended Sites have been moved to the new Links Page. Just click the Links tab for a list of our favourite sites.
All the latest news and articles can be found on the Home page so you can easily view all the new updates.  
Please feel free to have a good look around and let us know what you think of the new and (hopefully) improved blog.

We are now a DOT COM !

You can now access us on our new domain www.boominggreyhounds.com. Though you can still use the old boominggreyhounds.blogspot.com address as we thought it would be easier for everyone.

There is still work in progress.
So please keep coming back for all the latest news and updates!

Have A Very Booming Merry Christmas

We would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas.

Bessie and Dolly will both be eating their Christmas dinners together for the first time.
As will Archie who has settled down to his new life very well.

Have a great time over the festive season.
We hope that you get everything you wish.

A Merry Christmas from all at Booming Greyhounds.

Bessie Is Back

Mother and Daughter happy together.
Dolly (left) with her mum Bessie (right).

Matt And Me is back home in England.

Bessie has been living in the breeding establishment of Larry Byrne at County Wexford since November 2007.
In that time she had whelped two litters of pups.
The first a litter of two dogs and four bitches were born in April 2008 and included Hawks Jewel (Dolly).
The second litter of one dog, Best Day Ever (Archie) and one bitch Black Jool (Dotty) were born in March 2009.

It was decided by ourselves and Larry that due to the current economic climate and that she was nearly eight years old, it was best to retire Bessie from the breeding paddocks.  

We purchased the November 2003 black bitch back in January 2004.
She made her racing debut at Poole in an A8 graded race on May 2005, going all the way up the grades to run in A1.
Her final race was at Reading in October 2007 in an A5 graded race.
She ran in seventy six races and won fourteen of them.

Bessie arrived from Ireland in August and is now living at home with her daughter Dolly (Hawks Jewel).
She has settled in t o her new home and is a very happy lively middle aged girl.
Her and Dolly are getting on really well together.
It is great to see Bessie enjoying her new life.

Thank you for all the good times you gave us and the good times ahead.

Archie - Injured And Calling It A Day

Best Day Ever has retired from racing.

He ran his last race on the 2nd July at Poole in an A7 graded race.
Running from trap three he was slow out of the box .
At the second bend something went amiss as he stopped at the run in and came of the track lame.

The following day he was checked by the vet and was found to have a badly torn muscle in his hind leg.
The vet advised us that the injury was bad and to race him again would be a great risk to him.
Archie's welfare is the most important thing as with all our dogs and we immediately decided to retire him and to find him a home as soon as he was fully recovered.

He made his racing debut on the 8th October 2010 in an A9 grade at Poole when he ran into second place.
His first win was to come in his third race when he won the A9 grade from start to finish.
He was only to win another three times in his short twenty five race career.

It was a shame that the big brindle dog was not given the chance to show his true potential as he was lucky to race more than twice a month.
Archie was just over two years and three months old when he ran his last race.

This handsome brindle dog is a lovely dog with a lovable nature.

There is an happy ending for Archie as he is now a family pet living in a very nice home.
He took no time to settle in and is living the lovely retirement he rightly deserves.

Have a great retirement Archie.
We miss you.
Have a happy retirement. 

Updates Coming Soon !

Our apologies for not posting on here for a while.

Due to work and other commitments it has been difficult to find the time to post updates.
But with all that out of the way, hopefully there will be more regular news posted.

Also in the near future news about some changes to this site.
Hopefully a new and improved Booming Greyhounds coming soon.

Please keep coming back for more information on this and more...