D Lloyd 2,790 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 what sorts of speed do top greyhounds do over 300/400 yards?? lurcher lads what sorts of speed do you lurchers do over the same distence?? be good if some one as tride thayer lurcher on the track not jest gess work?? coursing lads what would a well bred coursing dog do over that distence?? meny thanks david Quote Link to post
socks 32,253 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Dave my greyhounds would on average be 10 lengths faster than a lurcher over 525 yds ......... 3 Quote Link to post
TOMO 27,435 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Have a word with maxhardcore,,,he raced Venus's grandmother a few times on the track,,,she had a second place if my memory is correct ,,,, Her breeding was ,,, her sire was pure grey,,,, and her dam was half saluki 1/4 deer 1/4 grey Quote Link to post
baw 4,360 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 You got a fast lurcher loyd your wanting to trial? Quote Link to post
Tiercel 6,986 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Dave my greyhounds would on average be 10 lengths faster than a lurcher over 525 yds ......... Skewen? TC Quote Link to post
socks 32,253 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Dave my greyhounds would on average be 10 lengths faster than a lurcher over 525 yds ......... Skewen? TC Swansea mate .......... 1 Quote Link to post
Tiercel 6,986 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Skewen? TC Swansea mate .......... Did not know there was one in swansea. Fforestfach and Skewen I thought were the only ones. TC Quote Link to post
socks 32,253 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Skewen? TC Swansea mate .......... Did not know there was one in swansea. Fforestfach and Skewen I thought were the only ones. TC Forest fach is classed as Swansea mate ... Skewen track closed over 30 years ago ......... Quote Link to post
baw 4,360 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Aye but your an auld c**t socks Quote Link to post
socks 32,253 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Aye but your an auld c**t socks I was but a mere child when Skewen closed down ........ Quote Link to post
baw 4,360 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Not many tracks left mate 1 Quote Link to post
socks 32,253 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Only one out of four left in Wales now .......... Quote Link to post
baw 4,360 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 I never knew you had greyhounds socks Quote Link to post
sandymere 8,263 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 A lurcher that is mainly sight hound and throws largely after the greyhound side would have a fair turn of speed but pure greys are wickedly fast and the lurcher would need to really, really take after the greyhound side to compete over 400mts. Thinking of this takes me back to the good old days. Going back into the vague and distant times many years ago their was a flapping track at Huntingdon. On a Sunday morn they help trails and I took along a little bitch that we called whippet as she was so small and slight. If I remember right they were planning some 680 0r 730m or some such and she was a good stayer that would be at the back out of trouble for the first few bends then move through the pack as the other tired so went to trial her in. Off we set early one Sunday morn but alas the roadwork’s down the A14 were shocking and we arrived late. But although the trails had finished the local Afghan/saluki club hired the tack after trialing for racing their dogs. There were allsorts, mainly Afghans and the like but also a smattering of lurchers, whippets and even non sight hounds. I thought oh well I’ll give her a stretch and put her name down for a race, to my eye she looked like a bred down grew. Now if my memory serves me right in her heat there were two Afghans, a Saluki, a Whippet/lurcher type and a Labrador. Well never again! The others were hand slipped and the owners edged forward and across just before the off so when the traps opened she had run between two owners, almost leap the lab then weave through the remaining dogs like they were standing still. By the first bend there were two races and by the second the rest had given up unsighted and heading back. As she completed the circuit it was to meet all the others milling around the straight. They stopped the hare short right in front of her and she hit the bar flipped over injuring her shoulder. She never really got over it and although winning her last couple of races was never right so I retired her a few months later as a pet still only just 4 yrs old. There was much grumbling by me with the hare stopping so short but in truth I knew it was my fault, she was a racer and as such a different class on the track, they were playing, she was racing. There was also much mumbling about my dog and I think if she was fit to run again she would have been refused entry into the next round lol. The moral greyhounds are special specialist! Quote Link to post
baw 4,360 Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 I know it was a sad story mate but even my alarm bells were ringing when I read Labrador lol. 1 Quote Link to post
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