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“A Good Beginning Lays The Foundation For A Great Ending”
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DACENT KENNEL’S is one of Ireland’s top Greyhound breeding Kennels based in County Kerry in the South of Ireland.
The Barrett Family have hand picked a team of brood bitches from some of the greatest dam lines in Greyhound racing history in both Ireland and the UK. The aim is to then breed the bitches to the best sires in the World of Greyhound Racing today.
At DACENT KENNEL’S we whelp and rear puppies under a proven strict regime. This regime has served the Kennel well in over thirty years of Greyhound Racing, resulting in numerous group 1, feature and open class winners in Ireland, the UK and Europe.
DACENT KENNEL’S is fortunate to work out of our own very dry, well-elevated and safely maintained Dairy farm in the County of Kerry.
All puppies are whelped and reared and have access to fresh warm Cows milk 365 days a year. From ten to twelve months these pups are handled, kenneled and given free access to another 200-acre farm where they gallop and hunt on a daily basis .
Greyhounds in the Blood
It goes all the ways back over a hundred years to our grandfather Patrick o Sullivan of Athea Co Limerick A man that had great luck on the Coursing fields at the time before his untimely death.
The lure of greyhounds was too much to ignore for his daughter Peggy (our mother) and her husband Joe. In the early 1980’s they acquired a Ballyheigue Moon Bitch that led on to the Purchase of 2 pups (Over draught pet- Mi Na Ri) from D O’ Connell Abbeydorney. What was known about rearing at this time by ourselves was very little but one common factor between then and now was freedom, these pups were never actually locked up, the dog Fryers Well went on to win every round of the Tom Bambury Memorial Sweepstake in Tralee clocking 29.34 in his first race on the grass track and was sold before the final to Dick Smith in the south of England ,
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he was a powerful wide runner and won numerous open races for trainer George Curtis (who wrote fondly about Fryers well in his Autobiography), Fryers well went on to stud afterwards.
In 1987 we bought a Tico pup out of Moiras pet a full sister of Easy and Slow, he was without doubt the fastest pup we ever reared but temperment problems left him down.
Around this time we bought a pup out of Matthews World that went on to run in the final of the TV trophy in the UK.
1988 came and it was decided that we would enter into the world of breeding, so we purchased a few bitch pups, Fryers storm (Storm Villa- Little Carmaur) this Carmaur Line is still very much alive in our yard at present and we have Bryan and Kathleen Murphy of Barefoot Fame to thank for the Carmaur Line as this is where it originated from. We also purchased Fryers Minnie (Whisper Wishes- Minnie the Mooch) and her litter sister Friars Whisper, accompanying these at the time were 2 dog pups by Easy and Slow and Champagne lady owned by Jimmy Healy of Killarney, from these pups came Chief Canary who went on to win the Peterborough derby (Group 1) Final approach who clocked 29.28 in his first race Tralee (grass track), and he went on to win 2 rounds of the produce stakes.
Minnie went open class UK and Whisper won the Kerry Petroleum Sweepstake Tralee.
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The before mentioned Fryers Storm was kept for breeding after winning her only race in Tralee, She had 39 offspring, most raced in UK among them were good open dogs, we ourselves won the Clark cup 550 in Tralee with Fryers Flash ,who won every round clocking 30.44 in the final sold to UK afterward to join his comrades.
In 1991 Little Champagne (Manorville Major- Champagne Lady) was acquired as part of the previous deal of Final Approach, Lucy as she became affectionately known was a big brindle bitch, ran her first race at 16 months and won all rounds of the Hospital sweep Tralee losing out to Clune Park in the Final, she went on to clock 29.20 (Grass track) in Tralee and retired to the breeding paddock.
She was then bred to Manx Treasure and produced a pup called Rathronan who won his first race in the old Limerick in a magnificent 29.50.Lucy went on to produce 8 litters of which 3 feature, a group 1 and 20 open class runner came from. Among them were Black Buster Pall Mall Winner and Monavaha Flash European Derby Winner 96. She died at the age of 12…………………. still remembered never forgotten.
College, work and travel came in the way of greyhounds in the noughties and when we regrouped in the middle of this decade we went about tracking down Tina’s Glory (Larkhill jo – Tina’s Beauty), after acquiring her we went to a new arrival on these shores, it raised a few eyebrows at the time, an Australian by the name of Crash.
What transpired was a dog called Tip and Tin (G-data rating 126) winner of the National Puppy stake at Shel Pk and Easter cup finalist, also Compass Miko (G-data rating 124).
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Lately there have been many winners from recent litters whom we have reared, please feel free to catch up with these in our news section.
Our story is really only beginning and we as a family are delighted to have formed so many great friendship and acquaintances over the years, we look back with thanks at all the great memories we have had and look forward with excitement and anticipation at what the next chapter will bring us.
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