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Cambridgeshire Police said an 18-year-old man from Spalding and a 26-year-old man from Grantham remained in custody in Peterborough, on suspicion of violent disorder and attending a hare coursing ...
Coursing at Hatfield, an engraving by John Francis Sartorius, depicts Emily Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury riding side-saddle.. The competitive version of hare coursing was given definitive form [5] when the first complete set of English rules, known as the Laws of the Leash, was drawn up in the reign of Elizabeth I reputedly by Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, [6] providing for a pursuit ...
Two arrests after hare coursing gang hits villages. Farmer fears hare coursing gang could strike again 'Lives put at risk' by hare coursing 4x4 convoy. Drone footage shows suspected hare coursing ...
Sir Mark Prescott and the cups, February 2005. The Waterloo Cup was a hare coursing event organised by the National Coursing Club.The three-day event was run annually at Great Altcar in Lancashire, England, from 1836 to 2005 and it used to attract tens of thousands of spectators to watch and gamble on the coursing matches.
Hare coursing organisations (2 P) Pages in category "Hare hunting" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
The association holds two national meets, the National Meeting at the Clonmel Greyhound Stadium in County Tipperary in February, being the most important event in the coursing calendar, attracting 10,000 spectators, [5] and claimed by its organisers to be worth up to €16 million for the local economy, [6] and the Irish Cup at the County Limerick Coursing Club a few weeks afterwards.
Coursing by humans is the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs—chiefly greyhounds and other sighthounds—catching their prey by speed, running by sight, but not by scent. Coursing was a common hunting technique, practised by the nobility, the landed and wealthy, as well as by commoners with sighthounds and lurchers .
The first public coursing in Britain is reputed to have started at Swaffham in 1776, with the first major event the Waterloo Cup at Altcar in Liverpool being inaugurated in 1836. The NCC was founded in 1858. [2] In 1882 the NCC created the Greyhound Stud Book, which it has administered ever since.