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La Riche Chevrolet proudly presents
The National Dachshund Races "2009"
334 E. Main Cross - Findlay, Ohio ~ Sept. 26th and 27th 2009!

 

LaRiche Chevrolet Cadillac welcomes you and are proud to present the "2009 National Dachshund Races!"

Remember to ~ "Switch to LaRiche!" There simply is not a finer local event to sponsor!

 

LaRiche Chevrolet Cadillac IS your Findlay Chevrolet and Findlay Cadillac Dealer. Our Dealership has built a reputation on providing courteous, honest service. Our customers appreciate the way we do business, and we know you will too. "Switch to LaRiche" – with a large inventory of new and used Chevy's and Cadillac’s in our Findlay location you’re sure to find what you want. And our Findlay parts and GM Goodwrench service feature genuine GM parts and accessories. Order parts and schedule service online.

 

At LaRiche Chevrolet Cadillac in Findlay we offer towing and rental when you need it and our body shop features "TLC paintless dent repair" – another reason to "Switch to LaRiche." LaRiche Chevrolet Cadillac is located at 215 E. Main Cross – hours of operation and get a map and directions to our location. Contact us either by e-mail or phone at (877) 887-2773 if you have any questions or would like to speak with our staff about your immediate needs.

 

Search online for that new Chevrolet or Cadillac – and if it’s a used car you’re after, search online for them as well. We feature GM Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles. LaRiche sold the most pre-owned vehicles in Hancock County in 2007. We don’t just sell Cadillac’s and Chevrolet’s; we service and repair them too. Let us be your Findlay Cadillac dealer.

That is right! We are back with more information. Little by little we ask that you keep coming back as in the next week or so, we will have MOST of the information in and the ability to register your companions both online and through the mail in place. As you can see we now have both our location set as well as the dates. These WILL NOT CHANGE! It also appears that the Marriot Hotel in Findlay (who was a previous years sponsor), is working on a deal with Toni to do it again this year offering a discount for you and your companions stay at their lovely hotel. More on this soon.

The National Dachshund Race will be held on 2-days! Saturday Sept. 26, 2009 will be Race Day! Multiple events will be held on Sunday Sept. 27, 2009. There will be 14 events in all and the Champion of Champion Races for each group will be on Sunday! We will also be having cart races. We are offering a special discount/set price for Dachshunds entering 3 events (it will be a fixed price if made by a to be determined) date at $20.00 and ALL single or over 3-events will be at $8.00 each! MORE SOON so please hold your tails and check back again!

WELCOME TO THE NATIONAL DACHSHUND RACES
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A SPONSOR?

The National Dachshund Races would not be possible without the support of our sponsors, volunteers and friends. This year, The National Dachshund Races is looking for a MAIN sponsor and/or additional sponsors to support our Dachshund Races!

 

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BECOME A SPONSOR, YOU WILL HAVE A DIRECT IMAGE LINK ON OUR WEBSITE WITH A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR COMPANY AND HAVE ADDITIONAL LINKS THROUGHOUT THIS WEBSITE! WE ARE A VERY HIGH HIT COUNT WEBSITE AND ALSO HAVE A VERY HIGH NUMBER OF RACERS AND VISITORS EACH YEAR!

 

YOUR LOGO WILL STAY ON FOR A FULL YEAR PROVIDING ADDED EXPOSURE FOR YOU! FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE USE OUR CONTACT US LINK!

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ADMISSION CHARGE - $2.00 Per Adult and Children under 10 free
NATURALLY visiting DACHSHUNDS ARE FREE!

THE NEW NATIONAL DACHSHUND RACE BULLETIN BOARD - NDR BULLETIN BOARD!

Welcome to the NEW National Dachshund Race Bulletin Board!

 

We are VERY PLEASED to announce the addition of a Bulletin Board to our Website. We obviously wish for this board to be Dachshund Related in all topics, however as we wish this to be an outlet for our guests to learn about Dachshunds and any other breed, you are welcome to join us regardless of your companions breed. We are well aware that there are many FINE Blogs dedicated to Dachshunds and by no means do we wish to take away from them so we also invite other Bloggers on these existing Blog Sites to register and cross-post with any information (or just fun things) that you feel could enhance this community and link back to your own!

 

The only topics and posts that we will STRICTLY PROHIBIT and REMOVE are posts soliciting breeders as we do not wish The National Dachshund Race to perhaps be seen as being associated with (as we cannot ensure it is a quality breeder) or seen as we endorse them in anyway!

 

ALL RESCUE GROUPS ARE WELCOME AND ALL BREEDS ARE ALLOWED!

 

Topics we would love to see are: Nutrition, Alternative Health Care, Diseases prone to Dachshunds - IVDD etc., Training and Behavior, Good and Bad Dachshund Races you are aware of. Feel free to post your upcoming event(s) and any others topics you feel are appropriate. We will try to start this off with a few topics and hopefully as we know you are out there, you, the web and blogging public will join in and get this off to a fast start! We WANT you to contribute and be heavily involved so help get us off to a good start and Post, Post and Post! - Please spread the word!

 

If you are one of the fine NDR racers, please feel free to share your photos and stories so others can learn from your vast experiences and knowledge and post photos, photos, and more photos as we have plenty of server space available and this way, you can be assured that your fantastic personal photo(s) of your companion can be seen on The National Dachshund Race Bulletin Board! If you were not aware, you can already submit photos online on our "Contact Us" page as it has a file upload button. If you send in a photo, please provide a description and we will be more than happy to post it on the weinerrace.com website in the NDR Photo Gallery for "2008"!

 

Race on – KGW Design Studio

 

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue" - Author Anonymous

Welcome to the Premier Issue of a wonderful new magazine (coming soon) called "Doxie Digest"!

We wish to spread the word about a NEW Wonderful Magazine called "Doxie Digest"!

 

We all know that there are other Dachshund Magazines out there. We will say however, that after looking at the online edition and speaking with Dianna McKinsey, the Publisher of Doxie Digest, that this is one publication that has pulled out all the stops and wishes to very quickly become the #1 Dachshund Magazine out there!

 

Now you may ask yourself how did the National Dachshund Race get involved with a new magazine? Well we all know in the Dachshund Racing Circuit, Toni Gossard is probably one of the most knowledgeable and well respected person not only about the races side, but on Dachshunds on the whole. She has made a name for herself over the years with many organizations including the AKC and is asked by many far and wide her views when another organization wishes to hold a Dachshund event. This did not go unnoticed by Doxie Digest.

 

I quote the Publisher "You are an inspiration to us all and the Dachshunds too. You have so many connections to the Doxie World, we really, really appreciate your knowledge and help. We would love to have an article from you about the wiener races, since we are doing a lot of coverage on wiener race season in our Premier issue of the Doxie Digest".

 

So the inside story for the Premier Issue will in fact be "The National Dachshund Race and Toni Gossard"!

 

We strongly encourage you to go to their website and take the plunge if you like what you see and order a subscription so you do not miss out on not only the Premier Issue, but an issue about our very own National Dachshund Race (as well as others across the nation) and Toni Gossard.

 

Have a tail waggin day
Dianna McKinsey
Publisher - Doxie Digest

 

A Message from Toni Gossard ~ founder of
THE NATIONAL DACHSHUND RACES

Hello Weiner Lovers: We will be entering our 9th season and again, many hard choices will be made. We have already started looking and preparing for next years (2009) race. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support of The National Dachshund Races and all that we stand for. We are the ONLY Dachshund Race sanctioned in the United States and are grateful and proud of this! This event has raised a good amount of money for charity though it is expensive to hold in both time and money. Other than actual expenses and funds that reach their respective charities, funds from this event are never for personal use of any kind and I never plan on changing this policy. This is to be as it always has been, a day of family fun and money being raised for worthy causes.

 

The National Dachshund Races will be taking another LONG HARD LOOK at our "2008" event along with the feedback we received from our website at www.weinerrace.com, and make some more hard decisions.

We may in fact, be returning to Findlay where we know we were missed by many. I will have our webmaster update this information as it becomes finalized and allow PLENTY of time for all of you to make your plans!

 

Many of you may not know that I also have been operating the Dachshund Races at the Berea Oktoberfest each year with the final winner of that multi-day event racing the finalist from Findlay at the "Official" National Dachshund Race Event to reach a "Champion of Champions". This we are rethinking and may just stand on our own and make it so to be the TRUE KING/QUEEN of the Dachshund Racing Circuit, any competitors from other races around the country will have to come to us as we know we already have the best there is! Here they truly can be called and named the TRUE "Champion of Champions" and make this the truly recognized National Dachshund Races Nationwide as it is!

 

We prefer and WILL stay with our many high standards as we see Dachshund Racing cropping up in many states and as there is no set standard, many have their Dachshunds run WAY too far and in conditions that if you reversed roles, you would not wish to run. Your Dachshund should be your companion first and racer second. A dachshund is simply NOT built to run long distances safely. They were breed to be badger dogs where they chase their prey into a hole and catch it or chase it out for the hunter. Their backs and overall build make them to prone to spinal injury, hip injuries and the dreaded Intervertebral Disk Disease - IVDD which is a devastating inherited disease of the spine that can leave your Dachshund paralyzed or even worse after very expensive surgery, the need to be euthanized. I get a lot of flack from those that say 35 feet is way to short. When I inform them of the inherent dangers associated with this, I hear time and time again, well they run for hundreds of yards in my backyard so what's the problem? Well the problem is simply that in your yard, the dog can run "AS HE/SHE SO CHOOSES" not forced to run 50 - 100 yards in many instances multiple times in a row or in high heat or I heard one race in Florida held it on the paved street where it was 102 degrees outside, very humid and the pavement was over 120. How would your bare feet feel running 50 - 100 yards on that surface?

 

I realize that this may raise many questions from you, our guests and racers so feel free to Contact Toni Gossard at the Weiner Races or as we are redesigning our website to properly reflect ALL the changes coming as well as keeping a fun view with photographs and video of our events, please keep coming back for a look as it will be updated and pages added as quickly as possible.

 

Sincerely,

 

Toni Gossard - Founder
729 Woodworth Dr.
Findlay, Ohio 45840

Phone: (567) 525-4564

weinerrace@yahoo.com