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Harriet Heywood - BBC News, Cambridgeshire. January 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM. ... as well as hare coursing equipment. People were seen churning up the fields in their 4x4s [Mathew Latta]
Two men who were arrested on suspicion of hare coursing and violent disorder after dozens of 4x4s caused havoc in fields and villages across the Cambridgeshire Fens have been bailed.
Police say the suspects were held after reports of dangerous driving and 4x4s gathering in fields.
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 ...
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.
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.
Police investigating a series of hare coursing events and "abhorrent" violent disorder have made three more arrests. Cambridgeshire Police said dozens of 4x4s caused havoc in fields and villages ...
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.