DOGS FOR KING ALFONSO

Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 11

DOGS FOR KING ALFONSO

RAGING IN SPAIN A WHITE CITY INSPIRATOR. LONDON, August 20. ... The King of Spain has become one of the patrons of greyhound racing. He saw the final of the Greyhound Racing Derby at the White City, and was so impressed by the immense enthusiasm which greeted 'the result and-the clean rivalry of the sport itself that he' has commissioned a'prominent English judge of greyhounds to buy him upwaids of forty dogs vHip may bo capable of making track history! , ' Added to this is the fact that,' at King : Alfonso’s- own, suggestion,- two ,new greyhound tracks are to bo established at Seville and Barcelona, and a number of English trainers and racing officials havd been asked to take charge of the sport in Spain. King Alfonso’s lead has been followed by most of the notable figures in bpanisli Court circles, headed by the'Duke of Alba, the ‘Marquis of Villabragima, and the Duke of Penaranda. , , MADRID TRACK, A track exists'already in Madrid, but its success has; been hanging, in the balance silica its establishment two years 'This new effort will establish greyhound racing in Spain on as sound a; basis as that which exists ,in. England and AJimrica. . . .. • It should do far more in affording the English breeder a hitherto undeveloped market for his dogs v and in ensuring an international rivalry so far as records, stud fees, and the purchase price of dogs are concerned. • Spain to-day relies on a local-bred type of greyhound known as a galgero, ' Which stays perhaps better than the English dog, bub is infinitely slower in speed. - . The development of the sport m Spam will doubtless mean a demand for English greyhounds which will require years to supply. .