Mischief managed

Lasering can warm up any muscle or joint whether damaged or not. This is a good idea and I've done it while loading dogs for races as well

Say you choose to appeal.. and win. But weren't drawn into the final, Then what happens...

I wouldn't hesitate to do this again. She was good as gold day 2 post surgery. Doing events for GAP as my new event dog less than 2 weeks later

Nicey spicey broke front leg in two spots at 4 months old. I'm not saying it's impossible, but definitely more difficult with a dog thats already racing and isnt a young, pre-race dog

Although I agree and disagree with parts of this statement. A compound fracture to me is extremely painful, the break is clear and it's a fair call to make this decision. But other factors play into a decision when putting dogs down, will it be a pet, breeding etc. Are other factors at play? Suitability for rehoming? Cost of injury repair. I was in this situation recently, broken hock, plates and pins not suitable, only surgical option (through a specialist) was arthodesis. ( plating the whole hock to be fused together and never use again). Quoted price for surgery, 6k plus 12 weeks recovery and regular xrays to check healing speed. This was not feasible to anyone getting paid on only race earnings while covering a team of dogs. Your making it sound easy to return a dog with a genuine wrist break, it's not. Greyhounds carry 70% of their body weight in their front legs. That's a lot of, not only weight but force while running to carry through a wrist break. I've had many retire to less In the wrist/stopper than genuine break. In fact give me a hock or gracilis any day over a wrist injury. Featuring mingming my now 3 legged house pet

Training gets done from a training complex. Racing gets done from a racing complex. No where does it state the trainer must accompany the dogs to the races. From an invisible trainer who you would be lucky to see more than a couple times a year at a meeting.

The chunk of black is the cover off a blinker from the 6 dog

Nominations were done by licensed persons. Not sure who nominated who, nominees were not told. I don't think nominees feel they love their dogs more than others. That's also not the point of the awards. I was also nominated for the award. I'm not attached to a group winning training. Have no high strike rate but I'm happy with my success. I'm also not assisted by a millionaire. I also don't think (or hope)i was nominated because of looks, certainly the dogs don't care how I look.