COURSING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 313, 23 July 1896, Page 8

COURSING.

[by

SLIP.]

Mr A. T. Danvers, the well-known secretary and handicapper of the Napier Park Racing Club, officiated as judge at the Hawke’s Bay Plumpton Coursing Club’s fixture on Wednesday. Victoria can boast of a coursing enthusiast in the person of a Chinaman named Sam Ah Dore. At the last Echuca meeting he ran two dogs named Chang - Sha - Foo and Shanghai. Oh! Cabbages.

This week we give a picture of those two remarkably consistent greyhounds Faster and Faster and Deceit. I daresay it will be many a long day before we find two greyhounds, the property of one owner, dividing the principal stake at two important meetings, such as these two dogs have done. In the Forbury Cup, in June (at Dunedin), they divided, and at the recent Waterloo Cup Meeting, at Dunedin, they divided for the coursing man’s ideal prize, the Waterloo Cup. It is certainly a singular coincidence, and

more remarkable still that they are brother and sister. Mr Lethaby is to be congratulated upon being the owner of two such fine greyhounds. Counting the no-courses and undecideds, there were seventy-six courses run for at the Auckland Coursing Club’s July Meeting, and, remarkable as it may appear, only three hares were killed — two on the first day and one on the concluding day. This, I think, is nearly a record for Plumpton coursing. The hares at Avondale are so well trained to their work that it takes a pair of good greyhounds to stop them before they get to the escapes.