THE GREYHOUND IN TRAINING 



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Those who have closely followed ' Stonehenge's ' directions 

 for galloping greyhounds, and now turn to these pages, will be 

 struck by the fact that the great sporting writer advocates up- 

 hill galloping and Ions work. In fact, he goes so far as to say 



Exercise in the paddock 



that the trainer 

 should mount his 

 horse and gallop his 

 charges for four miles 

 at top speed. This, we 

 confess, is positively 

 astounding. Perhaps 

 the greyhounds of the 

 day are a degenerate lot : but we fancy that there are very few 

 whose constitution would stand such an ordeal. And what 

 about the horse ? The days of Beacon courses and rides to 

 Ghent, not to mention York, are over, and if greyhounds are 

 not what they were, the same applies to horses yea. even to 

 trained racers. 



No, we opine that stamina should be induced by road-work, 

 and speed by short gallops, six furlongs being quite the limit if 



1 Stonehenge had some good grounds for advising uphill work, and a 

 notable case was that of the greyhounds owned by the late Mr. T. T. Lister. 

 This gentleman, who possessed a very strong kennel some thirty years ago 

 (he won the Waterloo Cup with Chloe), in the days of the great matches 

 at Ashdown and Amesbury, had his greyhounds trained in the Valley 

 of the Wharfe, and they were regularly galloped from the level, of the 

 river to an elevation several hundred feet above. The distance was nearly 

 a mile, the going good, but for most of the distance on a terribly steep 

 ascent. ED. 



