Bunny schooled again on Thursday.She didn’t exactly burn up the track on her first schooling race, so I anxiously and excitedly pulled up the schooling results on Friday morning. I found her race and read words that no racing greyhound owner wants to read: Fell First Turn, DNF. The DNF stands for “did not finish.” EEK! My excitement quickly drained away and my anxiety shot up quite a few notches.

Since it was still early, I dashed off a quick email to Heather at Team Greyhound to see how Bunny was doing. I knew the reason she didn’t finish couldn’t have been catastrophic (like a broken leg), or I would have heard from them immediately. Heather called me later that morning after she’d spoken with JT. It turns out, Bunny had rushed pretty well out of the box, and ended up in the first turn with the other dogs. She ended up getting banged up pretty good and knocked down. When she got up, she seemed a little disoriented, so the quickly pulled her from the track.

Physically, she’s doing fine. At this point, my worry is that she may be afraid to go into that first turn on her next time out…especially since her personality seems to be more reserved to begin with.  Heather did confirm that can happen, though she didn’t seem overly concerned about it. The racing kennel isn’t schooling any dogs on Monday, so Bunny will have a good bit of time to get over her tumble on the track. I have faith that her trainer will school her back when she’s ready.

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