Old Deerhound Coursing Photos

[krawnden 1,036]

Thats a shame they knowly let guns on the land days before your event...

 

A game estates a business but to do that your club is disgusting..

 

Any more pictures ??

 

Would love to see them ..

 

Giro, I do have lots more deerhound pics but the trouble is it would take me hours (if not days!) to find them. I've got a massive desk drawer absolutely stuffed with packets of old prints and negatives, but they're not in any order or 'system' so the only way to find them is to literally take out each packet and go through them. There are hundreds and hundreds of packets! One day when I've got nothing better to do I'll sort through them but it ain't gonna happen any time soon I'm afraid!

 

But here are some of the ones I sent the fella who asked for pics of my own deerhounds -

 

Me with my first bitch on a bitterly cold foggy day in East Anglia

 

The same bitch being led in the run up

 

My second bitch about to go into slips

 

The same bitch is nearest the camera in this pic of the line at a Madresfield (Worcestershire) meeting

[krawnden 1,036]

Looks like some memorable sport. Do you have any pics of your days out with the East of England whippet club? Have seen some cracking Ted Walsh pics from the WCC but none from the other clubs.

 

Sad to say I don't think I have any; I never got a chance to take pics as I was always asked to pick up whenever I went out with them. They were a club made up predominantly of oldish women, most of whom had several whippets with them at each meeting, so they were completely hopeless at dealing with any hares caught. I was a non-running member and in my twenties, so it was comparatively easy for me (mind you, I remember cursing my luck on plenty of occasions as I tried to run a few hundred yards across sticky arable to dispatch a screaming hare )

[krawnden 1,036]

Just found this as well. This is the second bitch in the photos above (who was quite young at that Madresfield meeting) aged around 9 or 10, together with my young poodle/greyhound lurcher

[thefensarefarbutistillgo 2,482]

Stayed up that way before the ban for a few years always meant to go to a meeting was friendly with a keeper at Cawdor estates use to tell when they were on must of been great days thanks for sharing atb

didn't they use to have coursing meet at Cawdor for lurchers called the Cawdor coursing challenge

[morton 5,368]

Some grand dogs K.

[nothernlite 18,089]

 

Stayed up that way before the ban for a few years always meant to go to a meeting was friendly with a keeper at Cawdor estates use to tell when they were on must of been great days thanks for sharing atb

didn't they use to have coursing meet at Cawdor for lurchers called the Cawdor coursing challenge

not that I know of dont think so use to go there regular mate was a keeper there think he would of mentioned it I had the lurchers up there with me couldn't even get a run with them on the estate

[lurchers 2,841]

Nice read mate and great pics its nice to read a bit memorabelia from an old club.you dont here much about the deerhounds or crosses now,shame as all we used to use was 1st crosses for all our stuff.

[Night Walker 591]

Got a book here by Kenneth cassells about working deerhounds well worth a read if you can get your hands on it

[thefensarefarbutistillgo 2,482]

 

 

Stayed up that way before the ban for a few years always meant to go to a meeting was friendly with a keeper at Cawdor estates use to tell when they were on must of been great days thanks for sharing atb

didn't they use to have coursing meet at Cawdor for lurchers called the Cawdor coursing challenge

not that I know of dont think so use to go there regular mate was a keeper there think he would of mentioned it I had the lurchers up there with me couldn't even get a run with them on the estate

I know a man who said his bitch won the Cawdor coursing challenge must of been about 12 year ago now, think Alan sankey was running in it aswell

[krawnden 1,036]

Got a book here by Kenneth cassells about working deerhounds well worth a read if you can get your hands on it

 

"A Most Perfect Creature of Heaven"? That's the only deerhound book I know of that he wrote. And yes, it's a good read. From memory I think he's got a chapter in there about running deerhounds at kangaroo in Oz. His daughter lives there so he used to visit regularly.

[nothernlite 18,089]

 

 

 

Stayed up that way before the ban for a few years always meant to go to a meeting was friendly with a keeper at Cawdor estates use to tell when they were on must of been great days thanks for sharing atb

didn't they use to have coursing meet at Cawdor for lurchers called the Cawdor coursing challenge

not that I know of dont think so use to go there regular mate was a keeper there think he would of mentioned it I had the lurchers up there with me couldn't even get a run with them on the estate

I know a man who said his bitch won the Cawdor coursing challenge must of been about 12 year ago now, think Alan sankey was running in it aswell

would of been some place for it if it was run on cawdor estate 60 , 000 acre of Moor land plenty hares on there he was on there at that time unless that was just the name of the club but wasn't ran on the estate

[thefensarefarbutistillgo 2,482]

 

 

 

 

Stayed up that way before the ban for a few years always meant to go to a meeting was friendly with a keeper at Cawdor estates use to tell when they were on must of been great days thanks for sharing atb

didn't they use to have coursing meet at Cawdor for lurchers called the Cawdor coursing challenge

not that I know of dont think so use to go there regular mate was a keeper there think he would of mentioned it I had the lurchers up there with me couldn't even get a run with them on the estate

I know a man who said his bitch won the Cawdor coursing challenge must of been about 12 year ago now, think Alan sankey was running in it aswell

would of been some place for it if it was run on cawdor estate 60 , 000 acre of Moor land plenty hares on there he was on there at that time unless that was just the name of the club but wasn't ran on the estate

where was the Anglo Scottish cup held, perhaps that was it, there a pic of jacko slipping at it in the book a passion for coursing 2, the man that won it is called Dennis burns from Elgin, ever herd of him ?

[nothernlite 18,089]

No that where

 

 

 

 

 

Stayed up that way before the ban for a few years always meant to go to a meeting was friendly with a keeper at Cawdor estates use to tell when they were on must of been great days thanks for sharing atb

didn't they use to have coursing meet at Cawdor for lurchers called the Cawdor coursing challenge

not that I know of dont think so use to go there regular mate was a keeper there think he would of mentioned it I had the lurchers up there with me couldn't even get a run with them on the estate

I know a man who said his bitch won the Cawdor coursing challenge must of been about 12 year ago now, think Alan sankey was running in it aswell

would of been some place for it if it was run on cawdor estate 60 , 000 acre of Moor land plenty hares on there he was on there at that time unless that was just the name of the club but wasn't ran on the estate

where was the Anglo Scottish cup held, perhaps that was it, there a pic of jacko slipping at it in the book a passion for coursing 2, the man that won it is called Dennis burns from Elgin, ever herd of him ?

no never heard of him stayed in Elgin for 4 years when I was up there not very friendly to the west coast people lol all estate up there good flat land for running dogs done a bit up there always at night but couldn't move during the day for keepers

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Stayed up that way before the ban for a few years always meant to go to a meeting was friendly with a keeper at Cawdor estates use to tell when they were on must of been great days thanks for sharing atb

ALRIGHT MATE.

MY MATE WAS A KEEPER AT CAWDOR.

HE LIVED AT DRIENICHAN NEXT TO THE FINDHORN.

[boyo 1,398]

Great post bud brings back alot of memories. Really enjoyed the Dava meetings and the borders meet at Gifford. Halcyon days bud. Atb Dunc