Norahmac Racing Club & Kennels

Cals Patron for the Power of Seven {Alan Spriggs, Mick and Debbie Williams, Ross Banner, Martin and Michael Mckinley and myself}was a real good dog who went through the grades at Wimbledon and was also good at Hove! Ran 107 times and won 18 finally retired through injury.

Droopys Genesis was bought for a large sum with Trevor Cooper and family. She did not start brilliantly but after a ‘season’ she started to improve and ended up top grade at Wimbledon. The distances at Hove were no good to her so she was transferred to Gemma Davidson at Crayford where she is still plying her trade!

When ‘Genesis’ made a slow start to her career the Dunphys kindly sent Droopys Bounce (Cocoa) as a replacement. Cocoa started brilliantly winning A2 at Wimbledon and we thought of winning the Oaks with her! But things went disastrously wrong when she was coming out of season. She was seriously ill for many weeks as something was wrong with her immune system. She went down to 16kg from 26kg but thanks once again to the love and care of Norah and the rest of the kennel staff she pulled through and is now the darling of the kennels.

Coolavanny Keira and Coolavanny Kayla were bought as pups with the Rally Town owners! We bought these two as they were by Rally Towns mother – Coolavanny Town. Both were good servants who have won their fair share of races. Kayla (19 wins) has recently been retired but Keira (19 wins) is still running at Hove.

 2011  –   Druids Gaffney was bought with Ross Banner and Alan Spriggs and was aimed at the 2012 Springbok but things did not work out in that. Still managed to win Open race hurdles but alas shattered his leg in a fall at Coventry and was retired.

Kaiyas Shakira was bought at the Newcastle sales {a long drive for Alan Spriggs} We had originally bought a Droopys bitch but when we collected her from the kennels she was as lame as anything. We then said to each other we had come such a long way so we had to go home with something and we bought “Shaky” for £500. She was not 100% but great fun to have. Alan and Carol have recently taken her home as her last injury was one too many.

Ballymac Benefit was owned by the ‘power of seven’ syndicate. ‘Bennie’ was really good at Wimbledon not so at Hove where injuries have played their part. She is still running in A4-A5 grade and long may she continue.

2012  –   Abidal was a complete and utter disaster! The video of him in Ireland was very encouraging but he never showed anything in England and was retired after having been given all the time that was needed.

Ballycarroll Boy i owned with friends at Hove {trained by Ken Tester}was a very fast dog in sprints and over 515 metres. Sadly ‘Basil’ developed a heart problem and has had to be retired.

Memories Fashion was syndicate owned and was highly promising but she was injury prone and had to be retired after just 14  races.

Druids About Time (Lofty) another hurdler owned by Ross,  Gary, Paul and myself {Ross did like his hurdlers}was once again bought with the Springbok in mind. He was fast enough but was disappointing in races and retired early.

Cellini was purchased at Henlow sales with Ross, Trevor, Martin, Gary, Dave Reynolds and myself. Turned out to be a good buy winning many races in good grade at Hove.

Couture was bought for decent money and was just coming to her peak when she broke her hock in a solo trial at Peterborough. Still at the kennels as Norah has kept her to have a litter from as she is so well bred.

Droopys Brody is another sales dog bought with Ross, Gary, Paul and myself. Highly promising start winning some good races including a 642 metre Open at Sittingbourne which left him badly dehydrated and he took quite a time to recover. Despite winning a Bags Championship race at Swindon he has as yet has not reached his previous

form.

Chaussini cost a small fortune which was shared by eight of us so imagine the disappointment when he was disqualified at Hove in a trial. We were promised a replacement and after a lot of haggling by Norah and Brian we were sent Kizi who has turned out to be a high class sprinter! Winning the Silver Salver at Sittingbourne among many other Opens. He is now back after 4 months off and has won three out of his last four. Chaussini incidently turned up in Chile where he is champion sprinter!

2013  –   Droopys Design was my biggest solo purchase and i soon realised he was not half as good as he was supposed to be. Norah once again got me a replacement and ‘Dessie’ was bought to run for the Racing Club. Now retired and lives with Club members Lisa and Lee Beauchamp in Bermuda!

Droopys Como was ‘Dessies’ replacement and looked highly promising in trials but alas he broke his leg in his first race! Thankfully he survived the operation to repair it!