Any Whippet Owners on here

[polecat 1]

have had whippets most of my working life and i would,nt take an other laguna breed dog again got stung a couple years ago with one i seen catch and kill paid good money 4 the dog got him home let him settle and it turned out too b a bag of shite up here ,young chap rnd corner says like that whippet [bANNED TEXT] rest is history still have old whippet 10years old and it will have a go all the time best marking dog round these parts

[Snelly 0]

This is an interesting topic for me as I am keen on getting a whippet as my next dog. I often have heard of the "hardblood" whippets - can anyone expand on this term? I guess it's just a lable atached to proven workers????

 

It's a shame Phil Lloyd doesn't post on here - he is knowledgeable on working whippets I believe...

[Stabs 3]

Hardblood is a term used to describe a whippet with a good dose of greyhound blood Snelly. There's one that was winning a lot last year that I was trying to use on my black bitch and that was actually 7/8 greyhound but ran as a whippet as it could fit in the traps used for bends racing. Some of the whippet racing folk are dead against it, naturally, but others seem to like it. Basically, hardblood is an unregistered grew.

 

You're right about Phil, he was the one who nudged me in the direction of using that blood.

[breeze 1,297]

Bloody hell Stab's a whippet with 7/8 greyhound in it...

 

Did you see the dog ??? How tall heavy was it ???

[Stabs 3]

Yep, saw it. Went to it for stud twice. Dog was 24 1/2" and 55lbs racing fit.

 

 

The big ones are why they have the no limits racing.