Danica Driver (5) has been officially retired and is enroute back to the farm and will join the rest of the broods here. She was injured earlier in this year and her last race she came off the track limping. She had a bit of larceny but was as fast as she cared to be. She will be bred to Hometown Boy when she comes in season. A lot of the elements in that mating are what made Ozzie The Man. She was a nice 68 pound bitch, racing weight so she will throw some size.

Prelude's Group Rooster* pups turned 2 weeks today. They weigh in at a whopping 5 pounds! They are so big and fat!

We wish Randy Finegant he best of luck tonight with Irish Angel in the Ebro Derby. Angel is a Maryville Rumble* pup. Her sister, Cynthia Smoot will be an entry in the Derby Lane distance stakes that are forthcoming.

Word from our exporter is that he has Drumscraw Di ( Little Di) and Secret Whispers (Kiera) in hand and they will be exported from Ireland to Boston tomorrow. Laurie Krayick will foster them. My good friend, Ron, from Country Roads Kennel will retrieve them in WV off Blaske's hauler and bring them to the farm sometime next week. Their pedigrees are second to none and we expect great things from these girls! They are Hondo Black ex Mineola Di. I will post pics as soon as I have them in hand.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. My big shopping excursion was to go buy an iPod dock for the lab today.

Go IRISH ANGEL!!!!!!

Pictured is Jr's Prelude with her son owned by Dick Ciampa. These pups are as big and fat as they could possibly be. We want to welcome the Arno family to the farm as they have purchased the other male in this litter.

Maryville Rumble* pups are starting to run wild all over the country. There is hardly a track that doesn't have at least one Rumble running. They have hit all the major tracks in fine style. You can see by the lines from a few pups this week on our homepage that they are showing many come from behind dramatic finishes.

Dance of Dreams (littersister to FFK's new US import, Kinloch Brae) has gone off feed right on schedule and we will be expecting a litter of strapping young Swahili Eile* pups on or about 3 January. Oneco Mais Oui, bred to Maryville Rumble* is due to come off feed this week and looks to be showing already. These pups will be offered for sale. Wheelie Cool is due to Group Rooster* on 19 December.

Tommy Commander now has plenty of vials to ship. Owner Ly Do is offering free breedings on his champ. He will be featured on the inside back cover of the Greyhound Review January - April 2009. We can of course due a TCI with fresh semen on him here.

It was a bit of a sad week around here as two of my pet greyhounds passed away. Cassie passed away suddenly of renal failure/probable pancreatic cancer and Greys Wildbird (13 yrs) had osteo. My two little girls will be missed.

Pictured are the wee newborn Group Rooster* babies. We had 2 males and 2 females. Jr's Prelude is a good mom and all are doing great. The black male and white/black female are owned by Dick Ciampa and the white/black male and black female are not for sale. We were hoping for more pups but since this is Prelude's last litter we are retaining the last two pups.

We will have an entire litter for sale in January by Maryville Rumble* and Oneco Mais Oui (Gable Dodge ex Oneco Inquizitiv). They will be $500 until tattoo and $750 after. Mais Oui's sister, Oneco Faux Pas is a top AA/S bitch at Lincoln. She was a Lincoln Sprint finalist. She has the famous Burnpark Sally damline that is the foundation for most of the Begley's greyhounds.

With most of the implants behind me I am going to concentrate on collecting and freezing this week. We anticipate Fine Silver* will be in great demand in the coming months and I want to be prepared.

It was quite a racing weekend for our Mr. Rumble. He had winners literally all over the country with a 2nd in the puppy stake at Derby Lane by Fearless Fella who got picked off right at the wire. He had many pups that won by double digits and many wins in 3/8ths!

This has been a very busy week for us. We have done implants literally everyday as well as collecting and freezing semen. Jr's Prelude is in labor right now and we expect to be seeing our wee Group Rooster* pups this afternoon. Congrats to Dick Gerst and Dick Ciampa who have already purchased several of the pups in this most anticipated litter. With the word out on Prelude's first litter by Fine Silver* we feel these will also be exceptional babies.

We were visited this week by Norm and Janice Rinaldi of New South Wales in Australia. They arrived Tuesday AM and just left a bit ago. What incredible people. They are heading to Florida in the coming week and will be meeting up with the B&J Kennel in Jacksonville as well as being guests of the Palm Beach Kennel Club. They will continue on to Derby Lane and the D'Arcy Kennel. With a quick stop to meet Pat Begley and tour his farm. They will be in America for several more months and we are hoping they decide to attend Spring nationals in Abilene. I told them we will meet again if not here, in Australia! Whilst here they sat in on several TCI procedures, looked at progesterone data to understand how to properly time a breeding, watching the collection of semen and assisted with schooling a dozen pups on the whirlygig. We had great meals and many laughs and a good time. They will be missed! Thanks to Leon of the Seastrom Kennel for suggesting they visit!

I will update as soon as Prelude has completed her whelp.

Jr's Prelude is getting ready to whelp and the excitement around here is building as word is her first litter is smokin' fast.

Oneco Mais Oui was bred to Maryville Rumble* and she will be due early in January. Zam Turbo Blitz should be bred to Deco Deano this week as well.

We schooled the Hanks Cool Cat* litter on the gig. There are a few very special ones in there. "Kit Kat" is the standout so far. Their education will continue down in Jacksonville next month.

We now have done a collection and freeze on Tommy Commander and owner Ly Do is offering a free breeding to him with fresh semen here while he is being collected. He will be returning to the C&C Kennel at Wheeling in the beginning of January. Please contacted either Ly Do or me if you would like a breeding to Tommy!

Our wee Irish lassies will be shipping over soon. Breeder Paul McCusker has informed us that paperwork is well underway and the little ladies should ship the end of the month. They are brilliantly bred and should make good trackers but even better broods!

Pictured is "Blade" a Swahili Eile* pup taken today. He will be our first Eile pup in training in January. He is quite the looker.

We have some updated info from our finishing trainer, Joey Lingle on the Fine Silver* pups in training. He has said this is the best bunch of pups I have ever sent him and they are turning very impressive times for their stage in training. They have been boxed 3 times and are very competitive. These are out of Jr's Prelude. Her next litter is due to whelp next week by Group Rooster*. At this time I would say all pups in this litter are already spoken for.

Congrats to John Kelly as only minutes ago Kelsos Granola, a Maryville Rumble* pup smoked a grade A field up at Wheeling which included Starz Jenko. This is a very, very special pup and we wish John and the Raines Kennel the best of luck with her.

The broods are literally flying in for implants. We had two more delivered a few minutes ago with more coming tomorrow! Tommy Commander is due here any minute and Ly Do will be offering free breedings while he is here being collected!!! If you are interested contact either Ly or myself!

Martin Roper and myself were down at our "sister farm" in Live Oak this weekend and had a wonderful time with all of our friends at the Champions Farm and Bussmann and Balakas Kennels. The renovations of the farm were extremely impressive and we look forward to going back down again.

We also took in the Night of Stars at the Orange Park Kennel Club with the Balakas crew and were joined by Chris "Coach" Grieb for a nice dinner, great conversation and watching Paula Balakas pick winner after winner after winner!

Then it was a speedy trip home so I could breed Dance Of Dreams, littersister to 2008 Derby Lane Sprint champ, Kinloch Brae to Swahili Eile*. "Dancer" has a litter by Rumble in the runs and we felt that Eile was the logical choice for her as we are keeping the Aussie/Irish cross and with his strong damline we feel these will be serious major track pups and suited to strong galloping tracks.

It's going to be a busy week!