Racing

Racing

Links to Whippet racing:

Straight Track or Weight Graded straight track

Oval Track

Other sighthound straight and oval racing

My old Greyhound, Kitty, in one of her only race meets before
being retired due to age. Kitty is on the left wearing #3

I started racing as a way to get some good solid exercise for my
dogs on weekends when we weren't lure coursing. I still don't
have dogs fast enough to win race meets, but then they don't
care. It does require a bit of training to get them used to the
starting box, and wearing a muzzle.

The first time I put a muzzle on my first Whippet, Parker, he
pawed at it first with his right foot and then with his left foot, and
then both front feet at the same time, and he ended up nose
down in the dirt. Funniest thing I'd ever seen a dog do. Parker
ran in his last official WRA race meet at the grand old age of
14-1/2, in March of 2006 and he wasn't last by all that much.