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 Milescross Dreamy Dusky Wing, SC, PR, TRP, BCAT -  "Portia"

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​Milescross Dreamy Dusky Wing, SC, PR, TRP, BCAT
"Portia"
(Am GCh & Can Ch.  Snow Hill Mindbender x Grand Prix's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)


DOB: 7/2/15
Breeder: Guin & Heather Borstel

Portia's Health Page @ ofa.org

​Our "keeper" from the Lepidoptera Litter is Portia.  She is a pistol!

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Pistol is the understatement of the year, in this case! Portia the true inheritor of her multi-great grandmother Julia's mantle of "wild child" & while I hoped that by the time she entered her veteran years she would have slowed down enough to comport herself with some decorum in the ring - she is still Wild At Heart at the age of nine!

​ We guided her wildness into a field career, as she is very keen and quite fast in her prime. She was  a creative lure courser, to say the least, as the course in her head is often more exciting (and with way more turns) than the real one in front of her. Portia will probably not ever finish her FC, but we live in hope for a MC for her some day.. In racing, she has her TRP & PR, but is a terrible "side runner", so most of the time drawing boxes 4 through 6 has kept her as a C/D competitor when we let her run a full race meet [which is not often these days]. Portia has taken over her mother's mantle as an A + trainer for young racers, as she never retaliates if bumped and always maintains her laser focus on the task at hand - getting the bunny!

.Portia's human friends have nicknamed her "Crazy Eyes", and that ought to tell you a lot about her! Win or lose, she is the best-tempered whippet we've ever had,  She has won friends wherever she went & has turned many into diehard whippet lovers.

The end of 2019 brought about a big change for Portia when she gave birth to nine puppies [6 boys & 3 girls] on 12/6.  She was a great mother! Portia is at her happiest at any running event. She may not be among the fastest, but she is steady and focused & is a wonderful trainer for our up and coming racers & coursers.