The Deerhound was bred to hunt red deer by “ coursing ”, and also “ deer-stalking ” until the end of the 19th century.

The effect of the Act is to outlaw hunting with dogs ( particularly fox hunting, but also the hunting of deer, hares and mink and organised hare coursing ) in England and Wales from 18 February 2005.

( A buckhound is smaller than a staghound and used for coursing the smaller breeds of deer, especially fallow deer.

They were fighting in a ford, and Ferdiad had the upper hand ; Cúchulainn's charioteer, Láeg, floated the Gáe Bulg down the stream to his master, who cast it into Ferdiad's body, piercing the warrior's armor and " coursing through the highways and byways of his body so that every single joint filled with barbs.

Clubs affiliated to the Association of Lurcher Clubs organised informal coursing with the landowner's permission, sometimes using a single lurcher rather than a pair to chase a hare.

The Scottish Deerhound, or simply the Deerhound, is a breed of hound ( a sighthound ), once bred to hunt the Red Deer by coursing.

The word ' hockey ' itself was recorded in 1363 when Edward III of England issued the proclamation: " oreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

If any one of the sides makes the bung reach that end of the churchyard it is victorious .” The actual word hockey was mentioned centuries before, in 1363, when King Edward III of England issued a declaration banning a list of games: " moreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

In 1926 it was introduced to Britain by an American, Charles Munn, in association with Major Lyne-Dixon, a key figure in coursing, and a Canadian, Brigadier-General Critchley.

He had been elected by the faction of cardinals sympathetic to the political liberalization coursing across Europe, and his initial governance of the Papal States gives evidence of his own liberal sympathies: Under his direction various sorts of political prisoners in the Papal States were released and the city of Rome was granted a constitutional framework under guidance of his friend, philosopher-prince Antonio Rosmini-Serbati.

Master McGrath won the Waterloo Cup hare coursing competition three times in 1868, 1870 and 1871 at a time when this was a high profile sport.

In American Kennel Club ( AKC ) coursing, a new rule was passed in early 2010, making the certification process similar to the ASFA certification process.

Topsy was fed carrots laced with 460 grams of potassium cyanide before the deadly current from a 6, 600-volt AC source was sent coursing through her body, partly as a demonstration of how " unsafe " his competitor's ( Nikola Tesla ) alternating current design was.

* 1923 – The League began in Morden, ( now a suburb of London ) after Henry Amos raised a protest against rabbit coursing ; he was successful in motivating support and managed to achieve a ban.

The power coursing through his body was so immense and so unstable that it would frequently discharge in a massive energy explosion.

The first dog show for lurchers was held at Lambourn in 1971, which included dog racing and coursing.

He wrote comic, mock-tragic poetry such as " The Last Dying Words of Bonny Heck "-a once-champion hare coursing greyhound in the East Neuk of Fife who was about to be hanged, for growing too slow.

Hare coursing was already a well established sport in the country and greyhounds were bred for racing in Ireland from the very start.

He was fond of outdoor sports, especially coursing and shooting, and was a keen patron of the fine arts.

In a private prosecution under the Act brought by the International Fund for Animal Welfare ( IFAW ) who had observed two hare coursing events in villages near Malton, North Yorkshire in March 2007 organised by the Yorkshire Greyhound Field Trialling Club, the District Judge in Scarborough magistrates court clarified that the club was mistaken in believing that because the dogs they had been using were muzzled, the practice was legal.

Originally expected to be used for hare coursing, a deal was discussed with dog owner Moses Rebenschied to take Mick to America to compete in the Greyhound racing circuit, however before the deal could go through a tornado struck St. Louis, Missouri, killing 27 of Rebenschied's Greyhounds when the roof was blown off their kennel, and a further four dogs died when a van driven by his son was overturned by the storm.

It was mentioned in an Italian context in 1645, by John Evelyn at the cloister of Trinità dei Monti in Rome and used by him in an English context in 1654, when, in the company of the fifth Earl of Pembroke, Evelyn watched the coursing of hares from a " pergola " built on the downs near Salisbury for that purpose.

In 1836, he founded the Waterloo Cup for coursing at Altcar, an event which was very popular in its heyday and attracted large crowds.

The private prosecution brought against the organisers of the March 2007 North Yorkshire event organised by a Field Trialling Club clarified in September 2009 that hare coursing is still an illegal activity under the Hunting Act 2004 even if the dogs used are muzzled.

At international lure coursing trials, the CACIL ( Certificat d ' Aptitude au Championnat International des Courses de Lévriers ) is given to the first placed sighthound of each breed and sex, provided that it has achieved at least two thirds of the possible total points.

The hares are then transported in boxes to the coursing venue where they are kept for up to eight weeks and trained to be coursed.

The practice of hare coursing has only recently, in historical terms, been debated in Parliament, although Parliament created an exemption in 1921 from the cruelty legislation, the Protection of Animals Act 1911, for animals released for coursing.

Sight hounds, such as greyhounds, may be used to run down hare in coursing, with scent hounds such as beagles.

The theory's detractors contend that success in lure coursing trials does not in and of itself make a dog a true sighthound, and further bolster their contention by pointing out that Ridgebacks are very poor performers when allowed to run in unofficial open field courses where they typically cannot keep up with the true sighthounds.

In Europe competing dogs need a coursing licence or racing licence for official national and international lure coursing trials, obtained through a racing or coursing club, and are principally run in braces only of the same breed, or run solo.

Judges can excuse a hound from competition for failing to run, being unfit, coursing another hound instead of the lure, hound or handler interference or excessive course delay.

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.

The competitive version of hare coursing was given definitive form in the UK when the first complete set of English rules was drawn up in the reign of Elizabeth I by Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, providing for a pursuit of no more than two hounds, a headstart termed " Law " to be given to the hare for a fair run, and for the manner of awarding points on " Speed ", " Go-bye ", " Turn ", " Wrench ", " Kill " & " Trip ", to judge the dogs ' performance.

Open coursing is either run as walked-up coursing, where a line of people walk through the countryside to flush out a hare, or as driven coursing ( such as the Waterloo Cup ), where hares are driven by beaters towards the coursing field.

Whereas the British form of coursing is run with dogs winning points for their running and turning of the hare, the Irish form is run on the basis that the first dog to turn the hare wins.

Hare coursing in Portugal is run in both forms: open ( Prova de Galgos a Campo ), and closed ( park ) coursing where it is known as lebre a corricão.

Coursing supporters deny that hare coursing is cruel and say that hares that are injured, pregnant or ill are not allowed to run.

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Even so, no one can argue that Ridgebacks have not been successful at lure coursing events.

Dogs must be at least one year old to compete ; the hard fast turns are tough on a dog's developing joints and lure coursing before the age of one can cause joint problems later in life.

Once a dog has received 15 AKC lure coursing points, which must include two majors ( 3 to 5 point at one trial ), it will have earned a Field Champion ( FC ) prefix title.

This tower has a texture of varicoloured flints, black, white, brown, glassy, dull, orange, not usually chipped or knapped, set in a buff-coloured mortar, and it rises with a slight taper from ground level and without obvious signs of coursing, as if built in one campaign.

The National Coursing Club and the organisers of the Waterloo Cup – the most important event in the UK coursing calendar – each said that, on average, one in seven or eight hares coursed were killed.

The Acqua Felice also feeds the fountain by Giovanni Battista Soria ( c. 1630 ) at the entrance to the Angelicum's walled garden as well as the fountain under the double stairway below the University's Portineria or porter's lodge before coursing across the Quirinal hill to its terminus at the Fountain of Moses also known as the Fontana dell ' Acqua Felice on one side of the Via del Quirinale.