Whippet
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The Whippet is a British breed of sighthound. It closely resembles the Greyhound and the smaller Italian Greyhound, and is intermediate between them in size. In the nineteenth century, it was sometime
A brindle Whippet
Misse and Turlu, Two small Greyhounds Belonging to Louis XV, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Portrait of the Earl of Northampton by Pompeo Batoni, 1758, featuring a dog that appears to be an early form of Whippet.
Brindle and white Whippet puppy
Hare coursing
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Hare coursing is the pursuit of hares with greyhounds and other sighthounds, which chase the hare by sight, not by scent.
Sloughi coursing a hare
Coursing the hare, Francis Barlow, 1686
Coursing at Hatfield, an engraving by John Francis Sartorius, depicts Emily Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury riding side-saddle.
A hare caught by two greyhounds