ABOUT SIYAN GREYHOUNDS

Our aim at Siyan (pronounced see – yarn) is to gather together a world class group of elite brood bitches  who  will be bred to the best possible sires, in an endeavour to produce fast, sound, good minded dogs with  NATURAL, hard chase and courage. – city class dogs with early place who can run at least 500 metres strongly.

We maintain a small team of race dogs (07 saw a winning strike rate of just under thirty per cent, 2008 winning strike rate was 45 percent!). 2009 saw us concentrate on the breeding side but 2012 will see a new group of Siyan bred and owned pups hit the track.
 
Many of our homebred pups have gone on to happy new owners who are enjoying great success with them! On average there are four or five Siyan bred dogs winning each week, and we have bred and produced multi city and group winners.

No expense is ever spared in guaranteeing the resulting pups have the best nutrition, environment and handling to ensure they can reach their full potential. The mothers to be have the best of care and feeding to have optimum opportunities to produce healthy good sized litters and the pups are under our watchful eye from the minute they are born.When old enough they have access to large, safe square galloping paddocks in which they can learn to gallop, handle the rough and tumble of running with other dogs, and grow and strengthen muscle, tendon and bones.

We have a strict criteria when choosing bitches to breed from  and each bitch must fill most, if not all,of them. We want out bitches to come from a  consistently successful damline, be from a  successful litter or proven cross,  be of good type and size,  have excellent  out going temperaments,  have serious consistent chase instincts, and they need  to have proven to us, even if only in trials, that they have definite ability and chase. We do not believe that a bitch MUST be a city winner or better to breed from. Time and time again, you see group winning bitches that fail to produce (of course many are fantastic producers) but a city winning dam does not guarantee a winning litter.There are so many variables that may stop a bitch from reaching her full potential on the track – ordinary rearing, bad breaking in, injuries, a trainer that does not give her the right opportunities, sheer bad luck………. The same applies to broods – we understand that an exceptional bitch will produce good pups to most dogs, but just because a bitch does not produce a successful litter to one or two dogs, it doesn’t mean she won’t produce. Its all about finding the right click for her…..

We are fortunate to be in a position where we do not have to use a bitch that does not meet most of the above criteria. Any of our girls that are not up to scratch in these departments, are adopted out.

We have searched the world over to  gather the most successful and influential lines available. We recently imported , from England and Ireland, the first Mega Delight, Farloe Oyster and Free To Air daughters to ever come  to Australia. These girls have added a whole new dimension to the Siyan breeding program.

We believe that the Australian bred greyhound is one of the best in the world. Australia is renowned for the overall quality and success of its home  grown dogs but we believe the Irish/English dogs have their own areas of brilliance and the American dogs assuredly provide strength and  toughness. We also believe in judicial line breeding to outstanding individuals but the first thing we look at, when planning a litter, is to form an unbiased opinion of the attributes and weaker points of the bitch and we then set out to match her with a dog who can further strengthen her good points and help counteract her weaker areas.

We now have daughters of ;
Cathy's Kitten (Ire), Elusive Rebel, Farloe Oyster (Ire), Floodfawn, Free To Air (Ire), Gray's Lemon Ice (US), Lark Song (Ire),  Late Show Lady (Ire), Leprechaun Yap, Mega Delight (Ire), Rumble Ciarrai (Ire), Rumble Spirit, Spiritual Rumble, Star Witch, Steffi Grace, Stunning Style, etc.

We are also proud to make available our super quick and group winner producer PREMIER STYLE (Premier Fantasy x Stunning Style) to breeders.

Siyan Greyhounds began in 2006, when Donna Sadler and her mother, Lois, purchased their very first greyhound – Integrity Lass. Donna now solely manages the property and dogs but her mother takes a very keen interest in what going on and loves to go to the races to cheer on her favorites. The name SIYAN  (pronounced see – yarn) is a combination of Donna’s two sons Sam (RIP) and Nicky.

Donna has had a long and successful association with horses and dogs – as one of the country’s most successful trainers, breeders and importers of show and performance horses – Arabians, Warmbloods and Quarter Horses (reiners and cutters)  - for over thirty years. She has also been heavily involved with obedience, showing and breeding Rottweilers, Dobermans, and Weimaraners. For a number of years she also raced and bred sled dogs – Siberian Huskies and Alaskan Malamutes and exported some of her home bred stock overseas.

SOME MILESTONES IN OUR JOURNEY SO FAR…………..

May 2006 - The purchase of Siyan’s first greyhound Integrity Lass, the Sadler Syndicate and Siyan prefix is registered and Siyan Kennels is born!

September 2006 – The first winner trained by Donna – Forrester Inc.

October 2006 – The first Siyan trained and owned city winner – Hot Bekelee over 600 at the Meadows.

December 2006 - The first Siyan bred litter is born – Big Daddy Cool x Miss Forrester.

October 2008 -  The first Siyan bred city winner – Grande Siyan at Sandown.

December 2008 – Strike rate of winners – 45per cent – one of the highest in the country.

November 2009 -  The first Siyan bred group winner – Grande Siyan wins the Gawler Cup.

November 2009 -  The very first export of Australian greyhounds to Russia – Siyan sends four home bred pups to Russia, selected by top breeders over there to re vitalize the bloodlines.

January 2010 -  The first import of Mega Delight and Farloe Oyster daughters to Australia – Siyan brings over FOUR of these elite bitches and creates a new era in Australian greyhound breeding.

June 2010 - Saw the arrival of the first two Free To Air pups to arrive in Australia. Litter sisters by Kiowa Sweet Trey these youngsters are full sisters to the Irish Greyhound of the Year and multi group winner Lenson Joker and the awesome multi group winner Boherna On Ar. They are maternal sisters to the freakish Thurlesburg  Joker, aknowlwdged by many as the best race dog in ireland last year. Free To Air is by Smooth Rumble and out of group producer Always On Air, who is out of group producer Live Commentary who is out of Spiral Nikita's dam Minnie's Nikita - exciting breeding! Together with the two Mega Delight daughters and the two Farloe Oyster daughters, these impeccably bred bitches will hopefully make a mark for themselves in Australian pedigrees in the years to come, providing outcrosses to some of the best damlines in the world.

December 2011 - Donna's mum Lois sadly passes away. The end of an era in Donna's life.

2012 - One of Lois' last wishes was for Siyan to go on to bigger and better things and for Donna to continue to try and consistently produce the type of dog Lois loved - fast, strong, honest and hard chasing...... and beautiful! (Lois always had a soft spot the the pretty ones, be it horses or dogs)
So, Siyan will continue to do its best to breed elite race and breeding greyhounds. We think Lois will be keeping an eye on things from above!

 

With some exciting pups waiting in the wings, for both Siyan and Siyan clients – the future is looking very bright……………………

"Love the dogs, love the people, love the game!" - Donna Sadler.