Noel let me say at the outset that I believe your introduction is "spot on", including that the inbreeding in your part of the world is not to the same extent as here and furthermore, my assessment (a generalisation) is that you and your Irish mates are doing more about it. This is obvious from the amount of Australian and US bred stock you have on the Greyhound-data sires list. I was a bit out of the greyhound "loop" when it happened but I would love to know the story as to how Top Honcho finished up in or near your part of the world and even more importantly how he succeeded. To be honest, I would have thought that your industry in general would have been very reluctant to accept that a poor old Aussie greyhound would have much to offer to Irish and UK greyhound racing. By the way, if anyone knows where I can read material on that story I would really like to know. Based on very limited advice from people here (in fact, only one person) and his form on the GRV site, he was not even that good a dog in Aus. Sorry I digressed a bit, the number of words in this post is growing maybe beyond the limit. There is so much I could say (and it would certainly not contradict what you have said at all) but not enough room here. People like the Wheelers (Bale) of course take a longer-term strategic approach but for people like me and my friend, it is only "every blue moon" that we breed with a bitch and therefore the longer-term approach is not as relevant, we need as much as possible success now, this is when it matters, there may not be another time. Just as an honest observation of myself and I suspect many others, when you are looking at what has been successful on the track, it is so hard to get away from the blood that has really triumphed for the last decade or more. Noel do you know what I find interesting, that Australia seriously started in the early 1960s to import dogs from Ireland and the UK long before vice-versa. Which Chariot is the one of which I was aware. He raced here successfully and is probably why he got a chance. The flow continued and increased BUT we find ourselves again in the situation of having so many inbred greyhounds and so many bred on the same lines, more so that in your part of the world. People pursue what is successful I suppose.