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Thanks for all your comments; everything I have written about is true. My name is Billy Bruce, I am nearly 67 and I have had coursing dogs all of my life. Most have been good sporting dogs, not match dogs and they have run hares all over the country some of the names I have been coursing with are Andrew Young from Stonyburn near Bathgate in Scotland, Sonny Welsh from Darlington, Alfie and Wally Welsh when we stopped together near Dunstable, John Davis from Sandy in Beds, Billy and David West from Cambridge, Billy; Archie and Tommy Brown from Enfield, Mike and Orrie Gaskin, Bob Gaskin, Joe

Thanks for all your comments; everything I have written about is true. My name is Billy Bruce, I am nearly 67 and I have had coursing dogs all of my life. Most have been good sporting dogs, not match dogs and they have run hares all over the country some of the names I have been coursing with are Andrew Young from Stonyburn near Bathgate in Scotland, Sonny Welsh from Darlington, Alfie and Wally Welsh when we stopped together near Dunstable, John Davis from Sandy in Beds, Billy and David West from Cambridge, Billy; Archie and Tommy Brown from Enfield, Mike and Orrie Gaskin, Bob Gaskin, Joe

I would like to tell you a story about my son John’s bitch. It all started when I was stopping outside of Hartlepool, when I mated my dog Lou with my cousin’s (Tommy Loveridge) fawn broken coated dog that I had seen him kill 7 hares single handed over the course of 3 weeks. On the 13/8/76 the pups were born. My John picked Fly; my other son Bill picked a brindle bitch the same colour as the mother. As the pups were growing up Bill & John couldn’t wait to get home from school and take the pups and their mum across the road where we lived to the Abbey Ruins and let them run up and down t

many thanks, chaps ill pass on your comments, there is a picture i do believe, and an oil painting i will update with pic tomorrow or staurday

hi all my father in law has asked to post this story he wrote on his behalf, Its about his match winning bitch he had in the mid 70's, a few may or may not recognise some of the names inside either way chaps tell me what you think please My Lou - By Billy Bruce Saluki x Greyhound x Bedlington I am about to tell you a story about a little coursing bitch called Lou. It all started one day back in April 1974, my cousin Phoebe's husband, Johnny Coates, came round to where I lived near Abbeywood and asked if I was interested in two pups. He knew someone who