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meetings was to have a small covert at 

 either end of a large grass enclosure about 

 half a mile distant from each other, and 

 wired round with only one outlet ; the hares, 

 which had been pre\"iously turned down in 

 these coverts, were driven into one of them 

 the day before the coursing event was to 

 take place, and when the stake was run 



Like horses, Greyhounds nm in all forms, 

 and there is no doubt that a reall\' good big 

 one will alwaj'-s have an advantage over the 

 little ones ; but it is so difficult to find the 

 former, and most of the chief winners of the 

 Waterloo Cup have been comparatively 

 small. Coomassie w^as the smallest Grey- 

 hound that ever won the blue ribbon of 



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they were driven one at a time tlirough 

 the aperture, the dogs being in the shps 

 outside. A fairly fast hare would generally 

 manage to reach the opposite goals ; some- 

 times, without being turned or wxenched. 

 The only time that I was ever present at 

 one of these meetings was at Kempton Park, 

 and then the company sat in the Grand 

 Stand to watch the proceedings. This w-as 

 a tame style of sport compared with some 

 of the big open meetings where wild hares 

 that know the country are coursed. 



Various opinions have been advanced as 

 to 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 Cup 

 on tW'O occasions. Bab at the Bowster, 

 who is considered by many good judges to 

 have been the best bitch that ever ran, was 

 2 lbs. more ; she won the Cup once, and 

 many other stakes, as she was run all over 

 the country and w-as not kept for the big 

 event, blaster ^IcGrath was a small dog, 

 and only weighed 53 lbs., but he won the 

 Waterloo Cup three times. Fuller ton, who 

 was a much bigger dog, and was four times 

 declared the winner of the Cup, was 56 

 lbs. in weight. 



