http://www.racingpost.com/news/live.sd?event_id=22220724&category=0 Sad news, hopefully they will manage to recover Clares Rocket safe and well unlike with poor Shergs
Does anyone sense that things might not be as they seem? I hope the dog is OK and being well looked after
I posted this in the daily thread and no one commented on it very sad tho! Hope he is safe but with a £1m value the owner/trainer must have really pissed someone off! Altho was it a coincidence the trainer was on holiday!!
Sorry Wooly didn't look today mate. I do love a conspiracy theory Ron but what is the gain? I must admit i don't know much about greyhound racing so could it be shipped off abroad? Inside job maybe someone that works at the kennels and knew the trainer was away, doubt the trainer would have anything to do with it as he's already rich as he's one of the top greyhound trainers. Maybe not as good as last year and want the insurance money? I honestly don't know, it's just very weird especially in this day and age, maybe it just got out & ran off? Doesn't say if it was a burglary too or just solely the dog. Strange, interesting to see the developments and get more info
I suppose he'll probably be used for stud purposes. He'll much easier to handle than Shergar so hopefully he'll be ok. But because he'll be so "hot," he may be used on a series of quality bitches then destroyed. It'd be a pretty stupid thing to do, but the world is full of idiots.
Yep, Good news! http://www.racingpost.com/news/hors...ll/2206824/top/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews TippFMNews @TippFmNews 42m42 minutes ago Clares Rocket has been recovered safe and well, four men arrested and being held at Clonmel and Tipp Town Garda Stations. #news #tipp
Doesn’t greyhound racing exist, in this Isle, solely as a means for the ‘criminal fraternity’ (of which I hope none are present on this forum) to ‘launder’ their ill-gotten gains???
Fair point, well made. I remember a few years back, at the Cheltenham Festival, there was a rumour that there was more counterfeit currency in bookmakers satchels than notes that legally held a Saxe-Coburg head!
.... was the one I had in mind Chelsea, given the background. But glad he has been found so soon. Not very good thieves, thankfully
A couple of bitches in season, a couple of quickies, then return the dog explaining they just took it for a walk
An Irish gangster is being held in custody over the kidnapping of a champion greyhound worth an estimated €1m. The dog, Clares Rocket, was stolen on Monday from kennels belonging to the Tipperary-based trainer Graham Holland. It was recovered by armed officers from a car on a road between Waterford and Limerick on Tuesday evening, police said. Christie Keane was one of four men arrested by police on Tuesday night over the incident, which has been likened to the IRA’s kidnapping of the record-breaking racehorse Shergar in 1983. A police spokesman said the detained men were being questioned at stations in Clonmel and Tipperary. “The dog has been recovered safe and well,” he added. Holland said on Wednesday that a ransom had been demanded but none had been paid for the greyhound, which is tipped as a favourite for the £150,000 English Derby in 2017. Holland compared the kidnapping to the Shergar case, telling the Sean O’Rourke radio show on RTE: “People thought they could hold him for ransom. It is a bit like Shergar: if they haven’t got his identity book, they can’t do a lot with him. He is only worth money to the people who own them and what he can win for them. Obviously we were delighted to see him. I didn’t think the dog would be coming home. “He has come back in good condition. He is not dehydrated and he hasn’t lost weight – they obviously fed him. He’s a little bit distressed but happy to be home, so hopefully he’ll be OK. On his day, he probably is the fastest dog in Ireland. There are always younger dogs and other dogs producing good runs, but he has been a fantastic dog for us.” The Holland family later released a statement on their website. “The whole thing has been a nightmare for the team, and his [the dog’s] owners,” it said. “We were away in Belfast visiting our son Christopher and we assume the dog was taken in the early hours of Monday morning. Our other son Timmy found the dog missing and contacted us immediately. “We picked Rocket up at about midnight and it was very emotional. He was very glad to be home and we were delighted to see him again. At one stage, naturally, we all feared the worst. Thank you to all our family, friends and followers who supported us during this time.” Last year Keane was shot several times on his way to a gym in the University of Limerick Sports Arena, but survived. In 2000 he narrowly escaped another attempt on this life when one of his former associates tried to shoot him at point-blank range with a weapon that jammed. The attempted shooting sparked a bloody 10-year gangland feud that saw dozens of people killed, including Keane’s younger brother.
