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| Support for Sheriff | | Print | |
| Written by Greg | |
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As the ageing semi-retired Sheriff manages to get himself up and ready for the slick Cannington types this Saturday night there has been movements in the dockerland camp campaigning to let him continue his week by week proposition career. It?s not save Ferris but rather save Sheriff. He is now over four and a half years old and in football terms he is the Michael Tuck of greyhound world. But he keeps plugging on. The Sheriff runs into a very tough field and a shocker of a box this Saturday night but, as he always does, will give his all and leave nothing in the kennel. Cannington Greyhounds Saturday Night 17th Feb Race 4 No.6 8.05pm Syndicate member Jonathon Campell echoes the thoughts and hopes of many a dockerland Syndicate member with the following words ? Plus all 50 syndicate members may want to get out to Cannington this Saturday night and take advantage of the Jonathon Campbell $8.00 quaddie offer! ?Surely talk of Sheriff's retirement is premature. I'm sick and tired of hearing 'he's on his last legs'; 'Who wants to adopt him'; 'He's so old he's growing man-boobs'. Where is this sledging coming from? I hope it's not internal. Sheriff has been running above his grade for longer than since it was cool to wear hypercolor. I know there'll be some long-winded paragraph in clause 39b-2ii in the Greyhounds Act stipulating about 37 unplaced races in FTA company to start dropping down but this is ridiculous! Back up to FFA at Cannington! See what he did at Mandurah... gets a good box.... drops slightly down in grade and had the race been 409m he would have won"!! "Let?s race the crap out of him. Keep plugging him along to get to the 37 unplaced races and let?s start dominating the grass roots level of Greyhounds Racing in W.A. again... I wanna see Sheriff put on some weight as he gets older and at the age of 7 scoring a hat-trick of Grade 5 Kanyana stakes! We all want to see it." "It's not like he's going to call a press-conferencing thanking his 'scriptwriters' that he got to go out on 'his terms' and being able to stop racing when he's on top of this game. Let's milk this dog and run him into the ground." "I don't care about the money, I want to see him appear with Michael Schultz on Channel 10 weather in his 'once a week' appearance at the RSPCA..where he showcases dogs who are on their deathbed looking for a good home because they've been over-raced." "Dogs love being tired.... they'll chase around anything fluffy or round or that's been hit by Roger Federer just to achieve that 'dog-gone' state of exhaustion." "Let?s stop the chit-chat from behind the stumps and roost the Sheriff out of his sledging induced slump and back to the upper echelons of chasing in W.A." "Hey, I'm just a member having my say... but I will shout everyone in the syndicate an $8 value Quaddie this Saturday if not more than half agree with my notions that this champ is just hitting his peak." Jonathan Campbell |
