Norah has retained Droopys Design (Dessie) for the club and to keep in the kennel, following a change of ownership. Dessie is a very well bred September ’11 dog and is just beginning to learn his trade.

The pup has only had one run, an A7 at Hove last week. He showed further improvement on his early trials, leading for much of the contest.

Norah believes there’s plenty of potential and he has bags of improvement. She has secured the purchase of the pup from the Dunphys at the Droopys stud at a very reasonable cost, considering the original asking price. This partly connected with the arrangement some while ago to give the club a decent replacement for Droopys Ellen – who didn’t make the grade for us.

The paperwork is proceeding and Dessie will have his first run for the club this Sunday in the A7 at 11.57am. He’s a lovely blue brindle who will give us plenty of fun and could go on to be pretty decent if he even goes close to the reports originally sent out from Ireland.