A Brief History

Our first greyhound joined the Ardencote Kennel of ESSs in 1981 and immediately won our hearts 'Boo's' breeder, Anne Fowles-Smith, had decided not to continue showing and so had three seven month old puppies looking for new homes. What a lucky day it was for me when I asked Eve Young if she new where I may get a nice puppy and she pointed me in the direction of Anne and Harestreak Arrow.

Boo only had one litter, sired by champion Shaunvalley Candour; from this litter a dog went to live in South Africa where he became a champion and we kept a white and blue brindle bitch that we called Ardencote Angel's Jive (Blue). The first male greyhound to join us was Shaunvalley Cornelian (Tor) who came from the last litter bred by Frank Brown. When we tragically lost Tor Elaine & Bob Newsham very kindly let me a dog puppy from the next litter that they bred; Windspiel Northern Spectre (Barney) was a lovely character and sire of the last greyhound to still be with us, the red dog Ardencote Red Admiral.