Podengo Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 (edited) Coursing is not really a big sport (basically non-existent) in the South Island, so me and a few other interested people have gotten together to try raise awareness about the sport and get a following for it. Today we had our first fun run coursing event, open to all breeds and to the public. We expected to have maybe 15-20 dogs show up, I think we had about 50! People from agility, breed showing, obedience and loads of pet people too - was a great day and very beneficial for the sport I think! We had a great mix of breeds, a few dobes, ridgebacks, wolfhounds, deerhounds, border collies, an italian greyhound, a saluki, a number of whippets, a lab, a weim, an am staff, an irish terrier, a mini poodle and a whole heap of mixed breed dogs too. Very fun day! Here is a video of my dad's Dobe running with my dog Elsie Lottie & Elsie coursing And some photos :) Edited January 19, 2014 by DiscoDobe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podengo Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 So if you're based in the South Island of NZ and have a dog that loves to run, get onto the Sighthound Field Coursing Club facebook page and keep an eye out for our next run! SFCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirislin Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 (edited) Well done!! How did you publicise it. Have you actually formed a club? Where'd you get the lure and was it a straight course or with turns? As you can see, I'm very interested. :D the first photo is gorgeous and really really cute. :laugh: Edited January 19, 2014 by Kirislin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podengo Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 Well done!! How did you publicise it. Have you actually formed a club? Where'd you get the lure and was it a straight course or with turns? As you can see, I'm very interested. :D the first photo is gorgeous and really really cute. :laugh: We publicised through facebook, putting flyers up at local dog parks and sending an email round the breed clubs. We have not formed our own club, as there is a national club the sighthound field coursing club, anything we run will come under them... But today's event was a bit of SFCC with support from my agility club (CCATS) and the south island whippet club. The lure belongs to a guy from the whippet club, I'm not actually sure where he purchased it from... But there are a few in CHCH, someone from the deerhound club owns one too. This was a course with turns, if you check out the video link I posted in my first post you can get a rough idea of it. We might might run a straight drag next time! It was VERY fun, and so cool to get so many breeds along! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwifeathers Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Ah wish I could of made it down with Breeze, but it really needs to be a run towards a title to persuade the long trip. Looks like a barrel of fun! Breeze would love it I'm sure, she has a great prey drive and loves to run. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podengo Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 Ah wish I could of made it down with Breeze, but it really needs to be a run towards a title to persuade the long trip. Looks like a barrel of fun! Breeze would love it I'm sure, she has a great prey drive and loves to run. :) Where are you based? I'll grab your email address for our database if you like, and will get in touch when we plan a sanctioned run? We're not sure if we have enough hounds that will chase for a sanctioned run just yet, so we're planning another couple of fun days, one to work on some of the dogs that didn't run at all today and get them going, then another to test how everyone is going and if we have enough support we would like to run a sanctioned event! :) Would be nice to do it some time this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottsmum Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Great photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwifeathers Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Ah wish I could of made it down with Breeze, but it really needs to be a run towards a title to persuade the long trip. Looks like a barrel of fun! Breeze would love it I'm sure, she has a great prey drive and loves to run. :) Where are you based? I'll grab your email address for our database if you like, and will get in touch when we plan a sanctioned run? We're not sure if we have enough hounds that will chase for a sanctioned run just yet, so we're planning another couple of fun days, one to work on some of the dogs that didn't run at all today and get them going, then another to test how everyone is going and if we have enough support we would like to run a sanctioned event! :) Would be nice to do it some time this year. Blenheim, so about 4 hours drive or so away from CHCH. :) I did get an email through the sighthound grapvine about the fun run and I follow the lure coursing facebook so would you still need the email address? I'd love for more runs to be done in the Sth, Blenheim probably has some great locations for them too... ;) Once I have my first Borzoi I really want to get into lure coursing properly, with Breeze my only concern is she has had a muscle injury in the past, I'd worry she might re-injure it hooning on a lure! What would be really great and would guarantee me going is planning it around the same time as a show in CHCH, I think you'd probably gather some more hounds that way too perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podengo Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Blenheim, so about 4 hours drive or so away from CHCH. :) I did get an email through the sighthound grapvine about the fun run and I follow the lure coursing facebook so would you still need the email address? I'd love for more runs to be done in the Sth, Blenheim probably has some great locations for them too... ;) Once I have my first Borzoi I really want to get into lure coursing properly, with Breeze my only concern is she has had a muscle injury in the past, I'd worry she might re-injure it hooning on a lure! What would be really great and would guarantee me going is planning it around the same time as a show in CHCH, I think you'd probably gather some more hounds that way too perhaps? There was a breed show on this weekend, and unfortunately a lot of people were attending that and unable to attend our fun run... Do you think if we gave plenty of notice people might consider entering one day of the breed show (e.g. Saturday) then attending a fun run on the Sunday? If/when we do run a sanctioned event for titles, I assume it will be a 2-day event like agility and breed shows so hopefully worth the trip down :) Very keen to meet your iggy - I see one from the same kennels that yours is from is a coursing champion! My partner is pretty smitten with the breed, I need to meet a lot more of them to decide if we can have one!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwifeathers Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) Blenheim, so about 4 hours drive or so away from CHCH. :) I did get an email through the sighthound grapvine about the fun run and I follow the lure coursing facebook so would you still need the email address? I'd love for more runs to be done in the Sth, Blenheim probably has some great locations for them too... ;) Once I have my first Borzoi I really want to get into lure coursing properly, with Breeze my only concern is she has had a muscle injury in the past, I'd worry she might re-injure it hooning on a lure! What would be really great and would guarantee me going is planning it around the same time as a show in CHCH, I think you'd probably gather some more hounds that way too perhaps? There was a breed show on this weekend, and unfortunately a lot of people were attending that and unable to attend our fun run... Do you think if we gave plenty of notice people might consider entering one day of the breed show (e.g. Saturday) then attending a fun run on the Sunday? If/when we do run a sanctioned event for titles, I assume it will be a 2-day event like agility and breed shows so hopefully worth the trip down :) Very keen to meet your iggy - I see one from the same kennels that yours is from is a coursing champion! My partner is pretty smitten with the breed, I need to meet a lot more of them to decide if we can have one!! Ahh yeah I see. Maybe doing that would help yeah, I know I'd do that one day conformation one day lure coursing personally, there are some shows where they have two in one day as well, then one the next day, so if you planned it for that day with only one I think it may work. It's tricky planning around a show, unless you had a long weekend or something to work with. Well I'll probably be down for a CHCH show or two this year. If you ever come up my way for Obedience/Agility I usually go watch that too. Breeze has her first of the year this coming weekend in Nelson, looking forward to getting back to it! Yes I saw one of the Moonstruck IG's got their title, doesn't surprise me looking at miss Breeze! I'm pretty sure some of hers have done agility in the past as well, which I'm guessing you'd want yours to do? Edited January 20, 2014 by kiwifeathers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podengo Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Ahh yeah I see. Maybe doing that would help yeah, I know I'd do that one day conformation one day lure coursing personally, there are some shows where they have two in one day as well, then one the next day, so if you planned it for that day with only one I think it may work. It's tricky planning around a show, unless you had a long weekend or something to work with. Well I'll probably be down for a CHCH show or two this year. If you ever come up my way for Obedience/Agility I usually go watch that too. Breeze has her first of the year this coming weekend in Nelson, looking forward to getting back to it! Yes I saw one of the Moonstruck IG's got their title, doesn't surprise me looking at miss Breeze! I'm pretty sure some of hers have done agility in the past as well, which I'm guessing you'd want yours to do? Hmm unfortunately every long weekend is taken up by agility! Far too many dog shows! :) I'm going to be in Nelson for agility/obedience in June (Queen's birthday) and probably in July & November for Working Trials! Possibly Blenheim for an agility show too, in May. Let me know when you're in Christchurch - I have a few friends that show, so I might be able to be convinced to come out for the day! Do you have facebook? Next dog will have similar goals to Elsie, so agility, obedience, tracking & working trials if possible! I now have the breed breakdown for the coursing this weekend - what a collection! 1. Afgan Hounds x2 2. American Staffordshire Bull Terrier 3. Beardie/Ridgeback cross 4. Border Collie/Retriever cross 5. Border Collie/Staffy cross 6. Border Collie /Samoyed cross 7. Border Collie x 3 8. Deerhound x5 9. Doberman x3 10. Greyhound x3 11. Greyhound cross x2 12. Heeler/Huntaway cross 13. Huntaway/Doberman Pincher cross 14. Irish Terriers x2 15. Irish Wolfhound 16. Italian Greyhound 17. Jack Russell cross x3 18. Lab cross 19. Lab x poodle 20. Labrador 21. Lurcher 22. Poodle (miniature) 23. Rhodesian Ridgeback x4 24. Rhodesian Ridgeback cross 25. Saluki 26. Spaniel/Beagle cross 27. Staffy/Jack Russell cross 28. Weimaraner 29. Whippet x3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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