Greyhounds...Theories and Facts...

i've noticed as a general rule hotbloods aren't as tough, durable, smart, good nosed, or fight as hard as stags. but, i have to say, the hardest, toughest, fastest sighthound i have owned was a hotblood off the track. very narrow built, looked like both front legs come out the same hole, "east-west" front feet (though not terrible), and an ultra narrow finely made head and muzzle. this dog was a game dog to his very core. he was a one dog show, run to catch, catch to kill. i used that dog and another hotblood on about every form of game you can use a dog on. it wasn't anything for that pair to catch three blackbuck antelope or three axis deer back to back to back. i'd dump them and they'd catch, id get there and tie it down, and they'd relay straight off the catch. had to get there real quick after them or they'd kill it, but if your country was open enough it wasn't a problem. i never could get pups off that male, but he was one of those "once in a lifetime" dogs, it just so happened he was a hotblood greyhound.