Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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are sometimes won byGreyhounds that are not remarkable forgreat pace, but are clever workers, and haveplenty of stamina, the fastest dogs are thosethat get more often to the end of the stake.The points that are allowed for the runup may be one, two, or three, accordingto the, length of the lead, and the conditions upon which it is obtained. The run up which is followed by a turn or wrench may give a Greyhound five points to startwith. The go-bye is valued at two points,or three if it is on the outer side. The turn at one point is when the hare,being pressed by the leading dogs, turns ata right angle from the line that she isrunning. The wrench, valued at half apoint, is when the hare only bends from theline that is being taken. If, however, thehare alters its course without being pressednothing is allowed. The trip, for whichone point is allowed, is an unsuccessfuleffort to kill, the hare being thrown off itslegs or flecked by the Greyhound in theattempt. Then there is the kill, value
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PHILIPPE LE ROY. Photograph by ManseU, Oxford Street. Wallace Collection. ig: THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. two points, if the Greyhound accomplisheshis object without any assistance from hisopponent. If, however, the other dog causesthe hare to turn to the one that kills, orin any other way is instrumental ineffecting the kill, only one point may begiven. The advantage of great speed is furtherdemonstrated by the fact that if a dog aftergaining the first six points is still in pos-session of the hare he is allowed double goes off the line in pursuit of the hare, nopoints afterwards made by him are scored,and if the points that he has made up tothis time are the same as those of hisopponent, he shall lose the course ; but shouldone or both dogs stop with the hare in viewthrough being unable to get after her, thecourse shall be decided on the points gainedby each dog during the whole course.Should a dog refuse to fence when hisopponent has got over, any points subse- •f?>^-

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