Show greyhound racing A growing sport numerous kennels through gli out counter y provide Pr ovile stock for track use greyhound racing which in england and ireland lures more patrons than horse racing or any other sporting activity is fast coming to tho the front in this coun try as a major sports attraction according to the gaines dog research center new york ully city atthe at the present time there are 18 dog tracks in operation in the united states and over racing kennels whose dogs appear at these tracks owned by app roxi 2500 fanciers around greyhounds Grey hounds are in training at all times with an equal number of breeding animals and youngsters at home in the kennels breeding reeding 13 fine racing greyhounds Grey hounds has proven a profitable mccu occupation pation well bro bred pups ups bring high prices to 1500 an and ece exceptionally promis promising ng young stock has brought as much as N most of racing G greyhounds Grey hounds are raised in the west by farmers who breed a litter or two we a year as a hobby or sideline to td their regular farming activities recent years have seen the establishment lish ment of numerous elaborate kennels built for the express purpose rile ose of bf raising racing greyhounds Grey hounds while brooding breeding activities are aie centered in the middle west and west massachusetts has in the past 10 years cars come to the fore as a breeding ing state and now produces around 1000 racing dogs every year most greyhound track stars can trace their ancestry back to tile the k 1 NI w pa 11 g q I 1 qa 1 or 1 q f A greyhound race at taunton mass lass A dog doff track same forebears qs as they are almost all of the same general bloodlines blood lines the names of famous greyhounds Grey hounds of the past appear in the pedigrees pedigreed grees over and ove over again ragain making racing greyhounds Grey hounds practically all one large a r ge loosely knit family one of th the e best known racing dogs oatho past ast cob century tury whose name appears inmany inmany greyhound famlet family trees wis was Master McGrath an irish dog do his picture was stamped on irish iris coins and a memorial statue of him was erected in ireland A name which shows in the grees of ne nearly arly 65 per cent of modern coursing dogs is A that of mutton cutlet another irish dog and n q prolific sire of racing cham plon eions the outstanding american sire of today is never roll who stands at the top of the current list of sires of track winners greyhound track racing started in this country about 1908 1906 the invention of the electric rabbit by owen patrick smith gave the sport its first genuine impetus smith promoted racing meets throughout the west and at emeryville Emer california in in 1919 the first really successful meeting was hold held RV by 1928 1926 dog racing had achieved national prominence and its sponsors were reaping handsome financial rewards after Smith in 1927 greyhound jacl racing n fell into the controlling hands han of an unsavory group alic all but ruined the sport Althou although gli the dishonest element has long since been banished dog racing still effects of thia unfortunate period conducted state sanction and supervised bi state appointed regulatory bodies greyhound gr hound racing is actually on 0 of r t the he cleanest and fairest of 0 al american spot spoils ts the center states |