Big CONGRATS to Henry Howe on his newborn Halloween litter out of Cool Cat* (Smooth Rumble x Minnies Miracle) and by Dodgem By Design. She has NINE big, healthy pups. These pups came over IU. I never would have guessed she had that many pups! Congrats on your new little champs Henry!

The Night of Stars XX is this coming Saturday! Post time of 7:10pm EST for the first race. Our own Bouncing Bucky and Hondo Dingle* are official sponsers of the NOS. They will have video ads played throughout the evening! So watch for our boys!

Congrats to Dick Bullard on his new litter of Fine Silver* pups. He described them to me as "little piggys". Big, hefty, typical Silver babies! The fine brood Molly has also been bred to Fine Silver*! We wish the Pffannenstiels and Cindy Unrein the best of luck with their impending litter.

DC Brenda Lee has gone off her feed right on schedule and we will be expecting little Rumble's in early December out of this fantastic female for the Curry's and I. Her best friend, To Shy To Say has also gone off feed. The will be the first American born litter by Swahili Eile*.

Please check out our new chat feature on the bottom of the news page! Hope to see you in there!

Pictured is Danica Driver (Fortress Blue x Miz Zona). She runs for the B&J Kennel under the watchful eye of Bill Lambert. Chris "Coach" Grieber is responsible for the gorgeous photo of her. Bill spent many months getting her ready for the track and it shows! Danica will be coming home for mommy duties when her track career is over. Fortress Blue is getting old and gray but he has produced some very nice racers in his limited breedings. I have about 50 vials left on him.

I collected and froze semen on Swahili Eile* on Monday and will be collecting him again tomorrow. I will be shipping to EZ Greyhound Farm next week.

Hanks Cool Cat* formerly Cool Cat* is due to whelp next Tuesday. My friend Dr. Sarah Mitchell did the implant for us in Ireland. We are very much looking forward to her pups as she is a Smooth Rumble daughter. Good luck to Henry Howe on his upcoming litter.

We petted out "Jayski" to the McLeod Family this past weekend. They are repeat adopters so congrats to them on their new addition! Judy's sister also adopted Jayski and Junior's littersister Cherokee! So it is all about family! Junior will be going to Greyhound Crossroads as soon as they have fostering room.

We have received news that Hondo Dingle* will be arriving in the coming weeks. I will do everything to expedite his paperwork as quickly as possible and get semen out there and available at all approved facilities. Due to demand, the first vials will be sent to Dr. Law in Abilene, KS and EZ Greyhound Farm in Terrell, TX. After that we will send to Dr. Holden in Spiro, OK and Dr. Moses in Ocala, FL. Please call your inseminator and reserve your vial now as demand is extremely high for Dingle.

I am freezing Swahili Eile* for the first time in America on Monday and that semen will be shipped along with semen on Bouncing Bucky to EZ Greyhound Farm as clients there are waiting for both. Please call me if you have a brood in season and are wanting semen on Swahili Eile* and I will do everything I can to accomodate you.

We have handed out 35 of our New Blood DVD's and are currently out of stock. We will be re-stocking this next week. Chris Stivers put months of work into the making of these videos and it shows. They are by far the best sire videos I have ever seen from anyone!

Kudos to the B&J Kennel at Jacksonville for the awesome job they are doing with our racers. "Cueball" and "Danica" have really hit their stride and are feeling good! Thanks to Bill and Cathie Lambert, Coach, Eric and the entire crew at B& J for the awesome job!

Thanks to everyone for inquiries about our dogs.

Bouncing Bucky is picking up steam as Flying Kroger was just bred to him last week for Allen Ertl. Judy Jones of EZ Greyhound farm has put in for a hefty order of semen on him for her clients as she is getting requests. This dog is the best Brett Lee son at stud in the States and deserves the attention he is now getting.

It was wonder seeing friends new and old out at the Meet this week. Chris and Jaime Stivers accompanied me to Abilene where we met up with Denny and Wanda Curry, Linda Russi and the DeSalvos. The Currys, the Stivers and myself had a blast bowling. I think we laughed as much as we bowled!

Linda, the Stivers and I toured the Greyhound Hall of Fame and met up with Donna and Francie...our new North Carolina neighbors at the Hall with their champion Talentedmrripley. Then off to Bernie and Andi Collette's house to see their wonderful dogs and share stories. Congrats to Bernie and Andi on their awesome Meet. They sold the two highest sellers! And it couldn't have happened to nicer people!

It was nice to see Pat Dalton again and visit with his son John and girlfriend, Cat. I wish I had gotten one of the Dalton females up for auction but I got outbid on all of them. Maybe next year!

Tomorrow will be Swahili Eile*'s very first American breeding. And it will be my own. To Shy To Say will be bred to him. I now have his sire number from the NGA. I will freeze him later on this week and ship to EZ Greyhound farm first as Judy Jones has clients waiting to breed to him. He is a bargain at $500 and Pat Dalton had very nice words to say about the dog. He is nothing less than class. I am starting him at $500 to give everyone a chance to get him at this fee. Just like we did with Maryville Rumble*. This is one of Roanokee's absolute best offspring and I cannot say enough good things about this dog. He is class from nose to tail.

Hondo Dingle* will be here soon! They want 50 vials available in Ireland prior to exportation and that should be accomplished any day. He is an official sponser of the Night Of Stars.

Thank you to everyone who I talked with this weekend and all of their kind words about our stud dogs. We are very grateful for all of our patrons and fans of our dogs. I met a kind man this weekend who was a big Hondo Dingle fan and it is absolutely awesome to talk to people about the dogs. Thanks to everyone who asked about Ozzie. He is great but missed "Mom" a bunch. He will always be the peoples greyhound. He brought joy to so many people throughout his incredible career. And look out...I hear there are some pretty special Red Thunder pups that will be gracing the NGA oval in April 2008! Uncle Ozzie will be with them every step of the way!!!

Hondo Dingle* will be a sponser of the upcoming Night Of Stars. Chris Stivers has prepared an awesome 30 second video spot to highlight Dingle. We expect Dingle to arrive here in the States after I return from the Nationals.

To Shy To Say is in season and Doug Allen and I will be breeding her to Swahili Eile*. Eile has settled in nicely, we now have his identity card in hand and I will breed her as soon as I return from the Nationals. Cool Cat* also appears to be in whelp as does Greys Tarmac. We are breeding DC Brenda Lee to Maryville Rumble* on Monday. Greys Eaglewings is in season also and will be bred. Her litter of Fuzzys Cannons are looking good according to the B&J Kennel. I would be looking for them to grace the Jacksonville oval by the end of the year!

Doug Allen's Fortress Blue pups have arrived safely in Palm Beach and will be running for the B&B Kennel. Trainer, AJ Crawford is tops and always keeps us posted as to the pups progress.

All of the Maryville Rumble* pups by To Shy To Say and PA's Shawnee Gal have left for training. We expect great things from these youngsters.

I will be out at the Meet along with Chris and Jaime Stivers from Wed. - Sat. We will be at the Woodlands on Saturday evening. We will have "The New Blood" DVD available to breeders. If you have any questions about any of our stud dogs please feel free to ask any of us.