THE GREYHOUND IN TRAINING 



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These are exceptional cases demanding exceptional treatment 

 from practised hands ; for ourselves, we repeat, we shall pre- 

 sume that we start with our team in good health, and more 

 than half-prepared by summer exercise. We are greatly in 

 favour of a very gradual preparation, a belief that has been 

 engendered by our experience of foxhounds, whose work calls 

 for training such as will produce the physical state so desirable 



On the grass 



in the greyhound — for to account for his fox the hound must 

 be possessed of pace, dash, and stamina relatively as great as 

 may enable the greyhound to win an important stake. It has, 

 therefore, struck us that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for 

 the gander ; and since we have possessed a pack of foxhounds 

 that could travel fifteen miles to the meet, hunt from ii a.m. 

 to 4 P.M., return to kennel with sterns up, and could repeat this 

 performance with variations five days a fortnight throughout 

 the season, we fail to see why a similar r'egime applied to grey- 



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