DOG RACE TRAGEDY
GREYHOUNDS' COLLISION WITH HARE ENDS FATALLY’ Two greyhounds met their death in extraordinary fashion in a race at Perry Barr track, Birmingham, last month. Falling at the first hurdle, they struggled up and commenced running the reverse way of the course. This naturally brought the dog* face to face with the hare in a fe* seconds. Although the Hare was travelling at a speed of, roughly » 45 miles an hour, the dogs attacked it at once—head bn. The force of the impact was terrific, and the legs of both Munro Jim and Galbally Lass, were badly fractured. Both anima were at once destroyed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 447, 31 August 1928, Page 10
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