0 a type of dog that has a thin body and long, thin legs and can run fast, especially in races --
1 a type of dog that has a thin body and long legs, and that can run very fast --
It is setting greyhounds to run after tin hares and permitting unlimited facilities for gambling.
The hare's greater knowledge of the terrain is of great help to it, for greyhounds pursue their quarry by sight alone and not by scent.
This incentive to off-course betting is partially responsible for the fall in attendances at both greyhound and horse-race meetings.
The fees which the horse and greyhound racing promoters charge the bookmakers are not heavy having regard to the scale of the enterprises involved.
We understand that negotiations between the off-course bookmakers and the greyhound racing industry to devise suitable voluntary arrangements are continuing.
She is extremely cunning, extremely fast and, over a distance, faster than the normal greyhound dog.
You have only to look at the stud books to see that racing greyhounds have quadrupled themselves in two years.
Notwithstanding the above, these are features specific to the greyhound that may protect this animal from the extensive rupture of the blood-gas barrier observed in the horse.
