ELECTRIC HARES
COURSING UP-TO-DATE NOVELTY AT MANCHESTER. Australian and N.Z Cable Association LONDON, July 16 Manchester stages a rival show to the fourth Test next Saturdaj’, in the first public display of greyhound racing after a dummy hare electrically controlled and capable of a speed of 60 miles an hour. Tho hare runs on a special track 500 feet in circumference, and the greyhounds, numbered and bearing colours, compete in batches of eight. The hare goes once round alone to allow tho dogs to be sighted behind the starting gate. It then leads them a lively pace till it finally disappears behind covers.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12503, 20 July 1926, Page 6
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103ELECTRIC HARES New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12503, 20 July 1926, Page 6
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