COURSING.
" Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe."
To the. Editor : Sir, — As an old coursfing man, I fancy the answer to " Courser," jiti your last issue, is incorrect, if I read the question — " The dogs are fairly slipped ; one leads by five or six lengths to the hare, where both are ' unsighted." The dog that leads to the hare decidedly wins, if it be only by half a length. Your Coursing Editor thinks differently. — Believe me, dear sir, truly yours, Charles H. J. Hovell. [Our correspondent surely knows * very little about the laws and rules of coursing, or he would never write the above. But, for his information, and of others, we give the National Coursing Club's rule on the point at issue. Definition of points, Section 3, says : " Under no circumstances is speed without subsequent work to be allowed to decide a course, except where great superiority is shown by one greyhound over another in long lead to cover."— Ed. Coursing Coltjain.]
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 333, 25 April 1885, Page 14
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165COURSING. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 333, 25 April 1885, Page 14
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