Galgos vs our stock

[sandymere 8,263]

2 minutes ago, Gilbey said:

it was the Portuguese Galgo club. He also ran with some Andalusian galgos that were better, the sals were better on the rough etc and the galgos better on the flat

Need a podenco on rough ground

[sandymere 8,263]

20 hours ago, thefensarefarbutistillgo said:

The saluki coursing club in this country got an invitation from the Portuguese galgo club to run against them in an experimental trail, 6 salukis went over there and one of them was a veteran. Think it was around 16 years ago a couple of years before the ban in this country.  I read about it in a book by Sir Terrance Clark called the Salukis in my life. The pure Salukis were also faster out of the slips than the galagos 

Run my bitch with a pure and a heavy blooded dog and she was quicker than either. If you didn't know her true ancestry you'd think she was an up and at em type of saluki lurcher in style and having a little extra in the tank if things drag on a bit.

As I say read a lot in books but believe with a pinch of salt. They have salukis in Spain too

Edited October 12, 2018 by sandymere

[mushroom 12,921]

I've seen them run in the comps here, I've seen them run in the mountains and I've seen them run in the park. Like I said imo I'd put a straight sal or grey above them. Not knocking them, just not my cup of tea and I believe there's better out there. This is why most here won't run their galgos against other breeds.

As for hare videos being mostly galgos. That's because not only is it legal here, but aired on national telly, as a national sport

Tbh it's a shame that the bad dogmen here, give them all a bad name in the public eye. If this keeps up I fear it won't be long before Spain is facing a similar question to what we had, about banning it!

[sandymere 8,263]

3 minutes ago, mushroom said:

I've seen them run in the comps here, I've seen them run in the mountains and I've seen them run in the park. Like I said imo I'd put a straight sal or grey above them. Not knocking them, just not my cup of tea and I believe there's better out there. This is why most here won't run their galgos against other breeds.

As for hare videos being mostly galgos. That's because not only is it legal here, but aired on national telly, as a national sport

Tbh it's a shame that the bad dogmen here, give them all a bad name in the public eye. If this keeps up I fear it won't be long before Spain is facing a similar question to what we had, about banning it!

A pure greyhound?, I've owned and run a few and none would have managed what this bitch has done Mush.  I'd not claim my galgo is better than a good coursing type but a pure greyhound is a spectacular accidents waiting to happen.

Ps Have you run your dog against them yet.

[Black neck 15,947]

A up might be a birra summat here

[mushroom 12,921]

4 minutes ago, sandymere said:

A pure greyhound?, I've owned and run a few and none would have managed what this bitch has done Mush.  I'd not claim my galgo is better than a good coursing type but a pure greyhound is a spectacular accidents waiting to happen.

Ps Have you run your dog against them yet.

Nope mate. No one will take me up  If you know anyone over here, bob over and we can make a holiday out of it

Really closed here. Although I'm bobbing over to see Alectoris soon, he'll get run but I doubt it'll be against a galgo, more than likely solo 

I agree with the grey being an accident waiting to happen, I'm referring to speed over a galgo. There was a video of someone over here running a sal against a galgo on YouTube at one point, can't find it now.

[Bearfoot 1,477]

The reason coursing was banned is down to egos and gambling   nothing else nothing wrong with killing for the pot     pure poison 

[mushroom 12,921]

5 minutes ago, Bearfoot said:

The reason coursing was banned is down to egos and gambling   nothing else nothing wrong with killing for the pot     pure poison 

Over here, a ban will because of the few treating their dogs like shit mate. I see so many rescue galgos everyday, it's ridiculous. All have some sob story told by their new fur mummy about how the dog was beaten etc. How much of it is true, is difficult to gauge.

You see most limping about though, so they could be injury prone as a breed or maybe there is a lot of shit out there. Who knows what is true

[thefensarefarbutistillgo 2,482]

Sandycrack, how old is your galgslow ? Ive got a 15 month old pure saluki pup here, wouldn’t mind a day out to compare them against each other in a few months if your up for it, I honestly can’t work out off them videos if the hares over there are flying machines or that the dogs arnt that fast, even thow the dogs do look fast and have the same running action of a greyhound 

[Westyorkshire_lad 402]

If I could roam the big land like that on horse back I would be slipping big like that too , most of the land here is no where big as that only thing I would say about the galgo from what I have seen only on internet is that when they do make ground and get close they have no control of the hare few over kill on turns and the hares gone , a good dog sits behind a hare on big land watching it breaks the hare down slows it down and moves in on the kill (smaller land you want it to take it out fast ) the galgo seem to run very much like the greyhounds fast over killing the turns not tactical just raw speed . 

Edited October 12, 2018 by Westyorkshire_lad

[CRAZYHORSE 2,647]

If you want to watch two dogs getting dragged around hells Creation then get a pair of Galgos.

[fireman 10,900]

Slipping a dog to catch a hare isn't coursing,it's catching a hare with a dog.Coursing is a duel between two running dogs on a points basis,so to see which one is better at coursing you need to slip them and score them.You lot seem to be telling each other which ones are the better hare catchers/killers...

[two crows 3,342]

the definition of coursing, is the sport of hunting hares with dogs such as greyhounds, using sight not scent, says nothing about points, just hunting, the point of hunting is to catch what you hunt I believe

[THE STIFFMEISTER 15,895]

Here we go , 

cause some one has one , it’s the next secret squirrel best type 

like malamutes, gsps, mallnois , gsds, nudge nudge wink wink 

if galgos were any good , people would have them. 

I can name twenty coursing dogs that would stick every galgo in the world up it’s arse ten days a week 

 

[green lurchers 16,637]

"On Hunting Hares" in 124 AD. He tells his readers that the purpose of coursing is not to catch the hare, but to enjoy the chase itself: "The true sportsman does not take out his dogs to destroy the hares, but for the sake of the course and the contest between the dogs and the hares, and is glad if the hares escape." Concerned about proper sportsmanship, he adds, "Whoever courses with greyhounds should neither slip them near the hare, nor more than a brace (2) at a time." In between wars and butchery I think the Greeks n Romans had seen enough killing when they decided on the rules  of coursing  which lasted  many yrs , now  we have killing  of the hare  which ain’t coursing

Edited October 14, 2018 by green lurchers