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Hare coursing is the pursuit of hares with greyhounds and other sighthounds, which chase the hare by sight, not by scent. In some countries, it is a legal...

animals such as foxes, deer, goats, rabbits, and pigs. Hare coursing Greyhound racing Lure coursing Cheetah and Caracal – two feline species also historically...

traditionally been hunted by beagling and hare coursing, but these field sports are now illegal. The hare has been a traditional symbol of fertility...

local Hare Coursing Club has been in existence since the 1920s but the sport was popular in the area long before the formation of the club. With hare coursing...

The Waterloo Cup was a hare coursing event organised by the National Coursing Club. The three-day event was run annually at Great Altcar in Lancashire...

hare hunting, 1603-1831. Diss. University of Bristol, 2021.[8] Reid, Neil. Survival, movements, home range size and dispersal of hares after coursing...

Europe, was in the coursing of deer for meat and sport; later, specifically in Britain, they specialized in competition hare coursing. Some Greyhounds are...

Master McGrath (1866–1873) was a famous Greyhound in the sport of hare coursing. Master McGrath was born in County Waterford, Ireland. A small, weak pup...

adapted to become private accommodation. The Ardrossan Hare Coursing Club used to pursue hares on Ardrossan Hill in the 1840s and would then return to...

hunting, where the quarry would be actively chased, as in fox hunting or hare coursing. Before firearms, a hunter using arrows or a spear might also wound...

persists, although this argument can be countered with the fact that hare coursing, a more "working-class" sport, was outlawed at the same time as fox...

was to hunt hare and rabbit; it is capable of bursts of speed up to 60 km/h (37 mph). Although assigned to the sighthound or hare-coursing groups by the...

Prescott is unmarried. His interests include field sports such as hare coursing, fox hunting and bullfighting,he also developed a deep passion for the...

racehorse trainer Sir Mark Prescott, Dickson Wright was charged with hare coursing with dogs in North Yorkshire in March 2007 under a private prosecution...

into force – making fox, hare and deer hunting and coursing illegal across England and Wales. 2005 – The Waterloo Cup hare coursing competition held its final...

favour of David Steel's bill to legalise abortion, as well as a ban on hare coursing. She supported the retention of capital punishment and voted against...

of hare coursing. Whippets began to be bred to race in the mid-nineteenth century. The first form of the sport was a rudimentary form of coursing known...

1969 and in 1975, the House of Commons voted in favour of bills to ban hare coursing, but neither bill became law. Three further private member's bills were...

Events from the year 1868 in Ireland. January – American transport entrepreneur George Francis Train is arrested in Cork for debt and spends much of the...

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