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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andHaydock Park, near Liverpool. These werepopular for a short time, but they had notthe ring of the true metal, and nearly allof them have disappeared. The chief stakeat the Kempton Park Meeting was worth athousand pounds, and big prize money wasoffered at all the principal meetings. The mode adopted at these enclosed THE GREYHOUND. 193 meetings was to have a small covert ateither end of a large grass enclosure abouthalf a mile distant from each other, andwired round with only one outlet; the hares,which had been previously turned down inthese coverts, were driven into one of themthe day before the coursing event was totake place, and when the stake was run Like horses, Greyhounds run in all forms,and there is no doubt that a really good bigone will always have an advantage over thelittle ones ; but it is so difficult to find theformer, and most of the chief winners of theWaterloo Cup have been comparativelysmall. Coomassie was the smallest Grey-hound that ever won the blue ribbon of
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COL. norths SIMONIAN and FULLERTON. FROM an Engraving by R. WALLACE HESTER, after the Painting by HARRINGTON BIRD. By permission of the Trustees 0/ the lute F. C. McQueen, owners 0/ the Copyright. they were driven one at a time throughthe aperture, the dogs being in the slipsoutside. A fairly fast hare would generallymanage to reach the opposite goals ; some-times, without being turned or wrenched.The only time that I was ever present atone of these meetings was at Kempton Park,and then the company sat in the GrandStand to watch the proceedings. This wasa tame style of sport compared with someof the big open meetings where wild haresthat know the country are coursed. Various opinions have been advanced asto the best size and weight for a Greyhound. the leash ; she drew the scale at 42 lbs.,and was credited with the win of the Cupon two occasions. Bab at the Bowster,who is considered by many good judges tohave been the best bitch that ever ran, was2 lbs. more ; she won the Cup once, an

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