DREAMCATCHER DOGS IN HARNESS


Click on the photographs
above to see short videos of our team participating in the 15 mile AMWA
Salisbury Trek on 3rd January 2010 (left) and our team running in the snow on
12th January 2010 (right)
From 1994, we raced our dogs regularly, but a combination of Terry's illness
and a growing disillusionment with the UK's obsession with short-distance
sprint-racing led us to gradually drop our involvement.

Mick at Aviemore in about
1997

Now that I am a gentleman of leisure , having taken early retirement back in July 2007, we
decided to get
back into working our dogs much more regularly for fun and exercise.
Our views on sprint-racing are well known, so we will not be getting
obsessive about it - just having fun and exercising the dogs, maybe doing a few
rallies.

In February 2009, for the first time
in London since 1962, we had enough snow to sled on. We took immediate advantage
and had a glorious day out in our local park:

Although we are not particularly into the sprint racing culture,
an opportunity to brag is an opportunity not to be missed and we would like to
congratulate our friend Stuart Parker for finishing 3rd overall in the BSHRA Two
dog championship series with two young Dreamcatcher-related bitches running in
their first racing season. Issi (Dreamcatcher The Attorney) and Amber (Matoskah's
Ute/Chrystelle mating) did brilliantly for Stuart all season.

Stuart
also came first in the 1 dog scooter class with his rescue boy Digger and his
partner Gemma came 3rd in the same class. Well done guys!!!
At
the end of the 2008/9 season, our 16yr old son Jayson started his racing career at
Buttersteep:

He
beat my 4 dog time with his 2 dogs, so this year, HE will be doing the
racing and I'll be doing the training!!

For
the 2009/2010 season, you can catch up with us (and probably overtake us) at the
following rallies:
October
11th 09- AMWA Rally at Buttersteep, Berkshire
November
8th 09 - ABSA Rally, Losely, Surrey
November
15th 09 - ABSA Rally, Thruxton, Hampshire
November
22nd 09 - ABSA Rally, New Forest
January
2nd/3rd 2010 - AMWA 15 mile Trek, Salisbury Plain
February
21st 2010 - ABSA Rally, Yately, Hampshire
Yately
- Feb 21st
