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Coursing Board maintains its authority and keeps 

 up an elaborate studbook for registration, but 

 there seems to be a slender prospect for coursing 

 to attain among us anything like the importance 

 it possesses in Great Britain, or even to maintain 

 the prestige it has won at times in the past. 



Whippet racing is not much known in America, 

 though it has a few votaries and has been occa- 

 sionally introduced as a novelty. Even in Eng- 

 land this sport is not held in esteem. It is 

 followed chiefly among the miners and colliers 

 of certain English districts. The whippet is a 

 small greyhound, with a terrier cross to give 

 quickness in the getaway. The racing is in en- 

 closures and for short distances, the whippets 

 being trained to race at a red cloth or other 

 object. English sportsmen tell me that it has 

 more crookedness and trickery than any other 

 amusement with dogs. 



