Greyhounds and Greyhound Racing - A Comprehensive and Popular Survey of Britain's Latest Sport

Britain's newest mass sport, surveyed in 1934 by someone standing right in the middle of it.

Greyhound racing arrived in Britain in 1926 and within a decade was pulling crowds in the tens of millions. Greyhounds and Greyhound Racing - A Comprehensive and Popular Survey of Britain's Latest Sport, published by Methuen in 1934 with a foreword by Sir Frederick Hobday, the leading veterinary figure of the day, is a contemporary account of that boom rather than a retrospective one.

It covers the dog itself and the coursing tradition it came from, the history of the tracks and the leading ones, how the sport is controlled and how a track is actually run, the keeping and running of dogs, the common ailments, the rules, the notable greyhounds, the tricks of the trade, and the industry that grew up around it all.

This edition features:

• A contemporary survey of the sport at the height of its 1930s boom
• Running and controlling a track, the rules, and the business behind the sport
• Keeping, feeding and running dogs, with the common ailments and their treatment
• A foreword by Sir Frederick Hobday, the foremost veterinary figure of his day