Reata Whippet Racing Group

Your hound's eyesight is very precious!  Thanks to Liz Campbell, she tipped us that CERF testing is available in Salt Lake City, UT at the Eye Care for Animals at 1021 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84106.  Their telephone number is (801) 942-3937.  There are two avenues to CERF testing - a call for a specified appointment for your dog and the fee is $52.  The other option is to attend their once a month clinic - you can call to find out the when and to see if you get...

Congratulations to two new IWRO Sprint Champions.  The new Independent Sprint Champions (ISC) earned their ISC's at the Southern Oregon Racing & Coursing Association's September 24, 2011, Meet.  They are our 3rd and 4th ISC achievers!

They are:  "Ruger" , Ruger, proudy owned by Michele & Tiven Tegner and "Missy" , FC Windyglen's Petal's of Rose,SC,FCh, proudly owned by Ann Billups.   

We are also proud to note that "Missy", just happens ...

Effective May 10, 2011, the Whippet Running Activities Group(WRAG) based out of the Shadow Run Whippets Performance Park, home of Jo and Glen Sowards, in Goldendale, Washington has become an IWRO Member Club.  WRAG has hosted NOTRA meets since 2008 and just completed a sprint track and awaiting approval to host their first NAWRA meet on September 10, 2011.  IWRO will play the role of backup sanction should entry size requirements for NAWRA/NOTRA scheduled events not materialize....

Another beautiful day to enjoy the hounds doing what they love most-running!  By the last program though it was getting warm as the temps pushed 90, and this October 2?!  We had 5 IWRO entries, two of who were first time entered(FTE): BJ & Matt Dodge's Tiger, and Liz Campbell's Draco.  Rounding out the IWRO entry were the Dalby's Ahni and Xena, and Liz's Willow.  There was extremely close racing between the FTE's and the winner Draco, literally won by a nose!  Fiv...

A beautiful day for racing this September 18, 2010 and the Dalby's Ahni and Xena impressed in IWRO racing with Ahni winning the day.  NASR participation grew to 7 participants and new owner/handlers.  Carrie Nanney's Sam and Loki and Ann Tylutki's Sneek were joined by Jodie Levitt's Sheba and Cindy Lund's three Jack Russell Terriers, one a Parsons(Tinker) and two Irish, JJ & Bandit.  Therese Pitakis joined us to practice Tykie and Seven.  It was a day of fun racing and...

Hi Folks,

Our IWRO/NASR Meet for Saturday is a go.  No LGRA entries thus far, but still a possibility.  We have two whippet entries for the oval, not enough to justify the cost & time to set up an oval, but more entries may change that.  Stay tuned.  A final report on the weekend status will be delivered here on Friday evening at 6pm (September 17).

Jack

A wonderful oval practice this morning (August 29).  Though the overnight winds tried to bat down our oval track streamers they only got about 25% of them, so all was up in a jiffy for this morning's runs.  We started on time and swiftly moved through the runs completing before 10:30.  Melissa and Liz's boys look more than ready for the upcoming Lure Trials.  BJ and Matt's Tiger looks like he is ready to impress some folks at our upcoming IWRO Sprint and Oval weekend. ...

Hi Folks,

By request we will have another oval practice at 9AM this coming Sunday, August 29.  We have a spanking new battery for the occasion and the continuous loop set up will be used.  See you there!

Thank you to all who came to experience our first oval set up in over a year, today, August 15.  We thought our batteries could be a problem, but the real culprit was our new line.  It just wasn't "seasoned" enough to handle drag lure duty and in turn caused our batteries to go down.  Then we at least switched back to a "continuous" set up and quickly got through the day even with the help of our '62 Dodge Polara 500 battery, go figure.  We had a lot of sweet running hound...

August 7 saw a day considerably cooler than the hot monsoon days of the past two weeks and the hounds that joined us for racing and practice runs enjoyed it immensely!  On the racing front, the Nieminski Family celebrated the debut of their gorgeous Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Kenya and Reggie, in LGRA racing.  Both ran extremely well, true and straight, and focused on that lure with Kenya edging out Reggie each of the three runs.  NASR Competition saw Sam and Loki move closer to the...