Where did we come from?

March 14, 2015 Comments Off

By Bruce Teague

A WATCHFUL reader – “RufusLelevrier” – suggests there are some doubts about long term purity of the greyhound breed, something I championed in a recent article.. Well, we may never know the precise answer to that, not over such a long and mostly undocumented period. Nevertheless, there is more evidence for the case than against it.

First, though, the Lord Orford caper, late in the 19th century in England, has been strongly disputed as no specific evidence exists. The alleged introduction of the bulldog genes would have been a mighty task anyway, given the relative sizes of the two breeds (there Read full article

Source:: http://www.australianracinggreyhound.com/australian-greyhound-racing/breeding/where-did-we-come-from/62427

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