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It was around 1980 and Fermoy and Grange Coursing Club held their coursing meeting as usual.

It was around 1980 and Fermoy and Grange Coursing Club held their coursing meeting as usual. After the first round, those present were talking about a brindled, well-bred, fast bitch owned by Andy Shinnick from Rahard, Ballyhooly. Andy had acquired the bitch from his brother-in-law, a Mr Fox from Glanworth and Andy named the bitch ‘Wounded Knee.’

This same Wounded Knee made donkeys of her rivals in the Oaks Trial Stake. I remember the final well. I was alone in the field, halfway between the bookmakers and the slipper's box. I observed Andy walking ‘Wounded Knee’ down from the car park towards the slipper's box. The bookmaker Jo Jo Donnelly from Cork City, a wit, observed Andy too.

Now, Andy had a pain in his knee and was very noticeably lame. Andy and I heard Jo Jo shout: “Is it the dog or the man that has the wounded knee”? to which Andy retorted: “Go 'way, Donnelly.” How did Wounded Knee fare in the National Oaks at Powerstown Park? Did she breed a winner? Did she break 30 seconds on the track?

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