We can get a minus 8 here but I am sure that our daytime temperatures are warmer than yours allowing the frost to lift and things to thaw out. We rarely get snow except on the surrounding hills. A minus 8 here is going to be associated with a very heavy frost and almost inevitably a sunny day with a perfectly blue sky. The point is that the racing surface here is never going to be frozen, at least from 12 noon to 12 midnight.

Some nice work fellas, appreciate the input.

Your welcome Bobby.

coops

best bet is to line breed to Osti Lee eg. Greyhound Testmating
or Greyhound Testmating
Just depends if your breeding to sell or breeding to produce the best possible pups based on breeding????

Line breeding to Osti Lee has produced Hallucinate, Where's Pedro, Meticulous, Bucks Double etc

looking at the two just put up

the first one is to close for me i know ye do that but we dont also he ran longer distances than her your mixing mussel twich fibres rarely works

breed like for like so an early paced sire who ran 500-550 yards at most

as for the second i never like a dog with little runs or an injury prone one they can pass it on

Intresting theory Noel and it makes sense. What about the bitches. How do you like them to be?

coops

for a brood her speed is not important
dosent matter if she was open class or not
but........... her siblings must have been and her dam must have thrown open class again not important if the dam was or not but was able to throw them

as for the bitch her self size not important as long as not to big also not from an injury prone line

well made good conformation in her and healthy all her life

i prefre early paced bitches for breeding and then breed to early paced sire out and gone types and i mean real early most of my dams are split record holders before i breed them a good split here is 3.20 open class do 3.10 both bitches i breed end of last year were 2.96/98 splits

Noel, I am not famililar with mussle twitch fibres, any chance of explaining what you mean????

early paced dogs ie sprinters and short distance ones do not take in the any where near the air they need for the first half the race

where as longer distance ones start off (genearlly) slower than the sprinters building up the air as they travel

so the sprinter tpyes dont have the reserve to go longer disatance

its down to the mussel make up while built the same the mussel acts slightly differant in each type

if you take two dogs one sprinter one longer distance type and run them over the sprint the sprinter will win and the other wont even be pantting

now take the same dogs push it to 525 yards the sprinter will be stressed and again the stayer will be fine but if you push the distance out to say 600 yards or more the sprinter will fall back and back while the stayer will get stronger and stronger

hope you see where i am coming from ill try to find an online paper on it tonight for you

thats why we say breed like for like

if you breed early to early you should get early and enough to see out the standard distance

but if you breed early to staying you will 99% of the time get a bad grader with neither