International Trail 2008

Mike Dineen with his senior International winner 'Bluebell'

Congratulations to Mike on winning a well deserved race at the 2008 International Draghunt trail at Crossbarry, Bandon, Cork.

Betting: Bluebell started at 6-4 and went everywhere from even money to no more money and eventually finished up at 4-6.........

Timed at 44mins, and about 20degrees, this bitch showed her true colours when she held on to take 1st place. Hot on her tail was the very consistent 'Newtown Raven' of Griffin United, trained and owned by John Buckley to finish a mighty 2nd and 'Blue Rocket' of ICDA took the 3rd ticket. Well done to all.


Pictured on the left is Tristan (Stan) O Herlihy with his Senior Maiden Winner 'Quiet Lady' and his daughter Olivia O Herlihy sitting in the winners cup !!!

Tristan, who is acting as vice-chairman of the Cork City Association this season, secretary of Fairhill club and is highly regarded amongst his comrades for his tremendous involvement and hard work within the association. Congratulations !!!

Betting started at 10-1 for this honest and consistent 'Quiet Lady', and never changed, Pat the bookie made a few pound on this drag I'd say !!!!! 'Quiet Lady' once again put all her strength & passion into her finishing gears as she sprinted to the call up a very steep hill (blind dip to us spectators !!!) across the finishing line with a good few lengths on her follower 'Harold Scott' of Northern United who took second place, followed closely by 'Lincoln' taking the third ticket for Mayfield club.

Left; Owner / trainer Norma O Mahony with 'Ruby' , International winner of the Senior Puppy Draghunt at Crossbarry, Bandon.

Original time for puppy slip was 3pm, but unfortunately due to 'human error', this was put back 20 minutes and eventually put back by 3 hours. A new course was picked instead of the originally planned course in this time.


So as the exhausted, probably fair to say getting a bit dehydrated as well because of the heat on the day, pups were eventually slipped they managed to complete the course in 15mins 40 secs. Even though the pups were exhausted, they set a good pace for the entire course and as they came on the finish Norma O Mahonys (Wife of our great chairman Pat O Mahony) 'Ruby' of Northern United, showed 4th. But as they call went up 'Ruby' managed to get the strength to go from 4th, to 3rd to cross the finishing line a nail biting 1st, leaving less than half a length between herself and clubmate 'Tallyman', trained by Frankie Allen who took the 2nd ticket. Then finishing a close 3rd came the Gary O Callaghan trained 'Midday Lass' of Douglas. Well done and congratulations to all...............