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won the great prize. Thus, a greyhound may weigh 

 anything between 361b. and 75lb. 



The points of the course are as follows : — 

 Speed: which shall be estimated as one, two, or 

 three points, according to the degree of superiority 

 shown. The go-by : Two points, or, if passed in 

 the outer circle, three points. The fii7^n : one 

 point. The w/^ench : half a point. The ki/l : two 

 points, or, in a descending scale, in proportion 

 to the degree of merit displayed in that kill, which 

 may be of no value. The trip, or unsuccessful 

 effort to kill, or where a greyhound fiecks the 

 hare and cannot hold her, one point. There are 

 also penalties for refusing to fence ; where a dog, 

 from his own defect, refuses to follow the hare 

 at which he is slipped ; and where he stands still. 



Of course, in dealing with a trial between two 

 greyhounds, very much rests with the judge, and 

 there is no doubt that the two judges of the 

 generation are Mr. G. Warwick, who officiated at 

 Waterloo for ihirteen consecutive years, and his 

 successor, Mr. James Hedley, who, since Mr. 

 Warwick's retirement, has done duty at the same 

 meeting for twenty-three years without a break. 

 Almost as much depends upon the slipper, and after 

 the celebrated Tom Raper, who died in 1893, ^^^ 

 who was par excellence in his line for a quarter of a 



