Goodonya Coops. Ronnie Bowen, legendary greyhound vet, once located near the Crossroads which I am sure you will know well, reckoned that the Ultrasonics only tickled. Ronnie was a "needle them" man. However, the Irwins for example, certainly made or at least recommended making plenty of use of the ultrasonic. However, that is now ancient history and the ultrasonic has been well used for many decades and I am sure you will also put it to good use. Re Jimmy, yes I think you are right, I am a bit worried about him. I haven't phoned Greg Jose the trainer of Mantra Lad as yet and I am wondering whether there is still time for me to pull-out of this deal. By the way has Sinka the Drinka's injury prompted the purchase of the ultrasonic. How is he going and what is the latest prognosis.

Like the Thyme, I have to admit to a couple of weeks ago or whatever, seeing the other side of the story of including Regal Thyme in the "final 3", that is, after initially thinking "how the hell is he in and Mantra is out". Nevertheless, although I can relate to what you are saying about the Topgun situation, the facts as they presently stand, are that Regal Thyme ran 2nd in the Topgun even thought it could change in the near future. I still feel that Mantra is terribly unlucky not to have been there with a Group One National Distance Championship, the Victorian Final of the National Distance Championship, a Shootout victory in an elite field of 4 and not insignificantly, equalling the 725 track record at The Meadows. I have no personal connection with Mantra, I just like him as a dog. I do have a personal connection with one of the other nominees but that greyhound, although a wonderful racer, was balloted out early on.

Mantra Lad put one of his bad ones in last night did not seem to try real hard after sqeezed out with about 200+ to go

like his good mate vintage octane, was a great night to lay both matra lad and vintage octane.....i love them both i think 1 on 1 there 2 of the fastest dogs in the land...but last night the 3 was always going to lead vintage octane as he done at the meadows 6-8 weeks ago, crossed from the 8 vintage octane had the 5 and sat on his ass all the way and couldnt run him down, saying that sirroco hero isnt a super strong 700m as we seen last night..

mantra lad from box 5 should of been $3 was never going to get the favors last night and really from box 5 he needed every little thing to go his own way. lay lay lay all the way and i cleaned up...pity perth is so far behind, not alot of betfair action laying him...

pure octane, token prince??? im seeing a little conection

pure octane will throw super fast dogs, but plenty will have pea hearts

I see your thinking with Mantra Lad Nickg. He won some good races from box 5 last year but from memory all of those were in staying races. In all of his recent wins in Perth where he did run great times he was slow out on both occasions he needed to be real lucky to get a clear run up on the fence last Saturday night. I also thought he was worth laying at those very short odds. He appeared to give it away when he avoided being squeezed into the rail and show nothing in the straight. Assuming no injury, surely he had the petrol to pass a dog or two but no he did nothin. BUT if connections want to get rid of him he can have my bed I will sleep on the floor. The little woman can please herself. I dont know much about Vintage Octane except that he has won a bit of money and is owned by one or more well known people.

Hey Noel are ya there mate. Haven't eard from ya in a while.

Hey mate, do you ave racing goats at you joint and if ya do, how much training do ya give em?

coops

Yeah mate, I got for to fix his injuries.
I took him for a blood count on tuesday and got the results back this morning. Blood count was good, but he has a very bad thyroid problem. He's got hypothyroidism, mild normocytic normochromic aneama and hyperchlesterolemia, whatever that all means. He's on medication for all that and with a few sore spots thats gotta be fixed,and if he's not pregnant should be ready to hit the tracks in about 6 weeks.

coops

Yeh Coops, I have to admit to also thinking "whatever all of that means" but I did Google "hypothyroidism". Whilst looking at the human symptoms I was initially wondering whether Sinka had any of those symptoms and was hoping that resolving the problem might help him find a length or two. However, my thinking soon changed to "hold on some of this sounds like me": dry course scaling skin, tendancy to feel depressed, muscle weakness, slow speech and thinking, dull facial expression, reduced libido, droopy eyelids, etc. However, tendancy for constipation definitely does not apply to me, we all need to be good at something.

Coops, as a matter of interest only, I suppose he is on some sort of hormone treatment for the hypothyroidism and if so did the vet say anything about how long it might stay in the system and therefore show up in a swab. I suppose it is not impossible that to treat such a condition properly he might have to stay on the medication. As I said, I am just interested.

Yutha, the vet put him on OROXINE 200mg one tablet in the morning and one in the evening and he will be on them for the rest of his days. As far as swabing is concernd is quite safe to use and has no illegal substances.
The reason I took him for the blood count is because of skin being scaley, his coat dullness and clumps of hair falling out, his on going muscle soreness and he was not empting out properly IE: constipation. He also lost his happy excitable nature. So something was wrong and I had to find out what it was. I just hope I can fix him.

coops