We didn't realize what we had, in our boy, Blocker. Here in Goldendale, WA, we did some training and box practice with Blocker as a youngster and Blocker seemed to do ok. Then we entered him into his first oval race meet in Molalla, Ore. He blew us away with winning 5 ORC points. And later in the spring we entered him again at a WWWA race meet in Roy, WA. He won another 5 ORC points. We are stunned. Never, and we mean "never" has this happened to any of our other whippets. But our luck ran out on the third race meet at an unusal field design he pulled up lame, and a suspected crusiate legimate rupture was what we were told. After a lot of hydrotherapy, and second and third opinions we ended up at WSU Veterinary School in Pullman, WA were he was diognosed with a severe muscle pull. Our instructions were to keep him resting for the final months of 2006 and keep on with the hydrotherapy, and start conditioning in March of 2008 and when appropriate, let him go. GOOD LUCK BLOCKER!!!

Let him go we did and Blocker has performed beautifully. He has earned that ORC title and has taken a 3rd place in the Whippet Derby of out of close to 100 whippets, and ended up #14 in the NOTRA National Point Standings for the 2008 season. Congratulations to our beautiful boy for all his accomplishments!
Plans are in the works for Blocker to become a dad. Stay tuned.