CANINE RACE TRACK

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 122, 16 February 1935, Page 18

CANINE RACE TRACK

A woman sat at a charity dinner in London. A puppy, sired by the famous Mick the Miller, was put up for auction.

It was a gawky little thing, the woman thought, yet charming in its ungainlincss. She bid. She went ” n bidding up to sixty guineas. The puppy was hers. She decided to have it trained. Then she entered it in a race at West Ham Stadium. The dog won. Nobody was more surprised than its owner.

She bought another dog and trained it. It won its first race. So she bought another . . and another.. .. . and another. ...

Now. not quite three years after that dinner, she has- the largest greyhound training and breeding kennels owned by a woman. Her dogs have brought her thousands of-.pounds in’/.prize money and scores of valuable trophies. Her name is Miss Hilda Pdtben It

•is known wherever greyhounds are raced. “I have 160 greyhounds at my farm at Frimley, near Ascot,” she said to a “Sunday Express” representative. “I train them all myself on a miniature course, and every dog knows me, and— I hope—loves me as I love them.” Miss Potter’s most famous dog is The Long Fellow. Already this season be has netted her more than £9OO, and a beautiful silver trophy. He holds four world’s records for the fiat and hurdles and has won dozens of cups in his two years of racing. Miss Potter attends all the most important dog auctions and sometimes bids as much as £l2OO for one puppyHer new dogs and all the puppies she is now breeding and training have as their “first-names" one evolved from Miss Potter’s' own. initials—Hymer. The second name always begins with a. P.