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The Waterloo Cup meet was the biggest annual coursing event in the United Kingdom and was often referred to by its supporters as the blue riband event of the coursing year. A hare coursing event of identical name was held in Australia from 1868 to 1985, at which point it became a lure coursing event. [1] Run as a knock-out tournament between ...
Observers of hare coursing at the Waterloo Cup – the most important event in the UK coursing calendar until it was last held in 2005 – regularly reported a minority of people in the crowd cheering when hares were killed. [71] In 2005 in the US, points were still awarded for a "touch ... where the quarry is captured or killed". [38]
3.1 Hare coursing. 4 Births. 5 Deaths. 6 See also. 7 References. Toggle the table of contents. 1871 in Ireland. ... Waterloo Cup won by Master McGrath for the third ...
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.
Waterloo Cup: Master McGrath (1866–1873) was a famous Greyhound in the sport of hare coursing. [1] [2] Early days
2.1 Hare coursing. 2.2 Yachting. 3 Births. 4 Deaths. 5 See also. 6 References. Toggle the table of contents. 1869 in Ireland. ... Waterloo Cup won by Master McGrath ...
Hare coursing. Waterloo Cup won by Master McGrath. Births. 26 January – Beatrice Hill-Lowe, archer (died 1951). [4] 2 ...
2005 – The Waterloo Cup hare coursing competition held its final meeting at Great Altcar in Lancashire, closing after 169 years following passage of the Hunting Act. 2006 – A huntsman with the Exmoor Foxhounds was found guilty of illegally hunting foxes with dogs in a private prosecution brought by LACS, but the case was overturned on appeal.