Hello.
My name is Florent, i live near Strasbourg, in the north-east of France, border to Germany, in a mountain named Vosges. Ten to twenty years ago i had a bloodhound, i was a beater and a blood tracker. Now i do sometime beating. I'm a deerhound breeder too, kennel Lilac Wind.
Sorry my english is not very good.
Deerhound are wonderful, with a great behaviour and nature, but i am sorry to say they loose ability to hunt because fading physical performance. I do running (every day 10 to 25km) and mountain bike (every week 30 to 80km) with friends which own greyhounds, afghans and salukis,