Homewood is also served by Amtrak Train 390 / 391, the Saluki, daily in the morning, and Amtrak Train 392 / 393, the Illini, daily in the afternoon / evening.

Within Illinois the City of New Orleans shares a route also served by a daily morning train, the Saluki, and a daily afternoon train, the Illini.

* Susan Sarandon as Ivy-A Saluki and former dog agent Lou meets when he trains to be an agent, and is also Butch's love interest.

The group includes the Afghan Hound, Azawakh, Basenji, Borzoi, Canaan Dog, Carolina Dog, Chart Polski ( Polish Greyhound ), Cirneco dell ' Etna, Greyhound, Hungarian Greyhound, Ibizan Hound, Irish Wolfhound, New Guinea Singing Dog, Pharaoh Hound, Portuguese Podengo, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Saluki, Scottish Deerhound, Sinhala Hound, Silken Windhound, Sloughi, Spanish Greyhound, Thai Ridgeback, Whippet, and Xoloitzcuintli.

While the Greyhound is credited as being the fastest dog breed up to distances of around, both the Saluki and Whippet breeds are thought to be faster over longer distances.

The Saluki is a sighthound and historically travelled throughout the Middle East with nomadic desert tribes over an area stretching from the Sahara to the Caspian Sea.

The overall appearance of the Saluki is one of grace and symmetry.

It is not to be confused with the smooth Saluki of the Arabian peninsula and the Middle East, which is a variety of the Saluki breed.

He is a member of the Saluki Baseball Hall of Fame.

In one Bedouin method of hunting hares, the hunter rides close to the quarry on a camel while holding the Saluki, which he throws towards the prey while at speed, giving the dog a running start.

Any one of some related breeds of dog, including the Afghan Hound, Saluki and Khalag Tazi.

These ancient breeds then migrated South ( founding the Tazi / Saluki branch ) and West ( founding the Stepnaya, Krimskaya and Hortaya branches ) to develop into breeds adapted to those regions.

Some dog breeds ( such as Saluki or New Guinea Singing Dogs ) have been bred for thousands of years.

Sensitive and intelligent, the Saluki should never be trained using force or hard-handed methods, and typically does not enjoy rough games or typical dog games such as chasing sticks.

The 1996 edition of the Guinness Book of Records lists a Saluki as being the fastest dog, reaching a speed of per hour.

Saluki dog.

* Rita, a Saluki dog in the 1988 Disney film Oliver & Company

Many hound dog varieties like the Saluki and the Afghan Hound were brought by the Pathans, Arabs, Persians and Afghans when they came to India through the Khyber Pass.

It was long thought that Saluki type sighthounds were originally brought to Russia from Byzantium in the South about the 9th and 10th centuries and again later by the Mongol invaders from the East.

A champion of breed purity, she struggled alone for nearly three decades, and real Saluki popularity did not take hold until the early 1920s, when officers returning from the war in the Middle East and the Arab Revolt brought their pet Salukis home with them.

In 1923, the Saluki or Gazelle Hound Club was formed, and the Kennel Club granted official recognition to the breed.

Popularity of Salukis dramatically increased, and the Saluki Club of America was founded in 1927, with recognition by The American Kennel Club following in 1929.

A small number of Saluki kennels survived the war, and along with fresh imports belonging to a second wave of soldiers returning from the Middle East, the slow process of re-establishing the breed began again.

The popularity of the Saluki in the United States, according to the American Kennel Club, has remained relatively stable over the past decade, with the breed ranked 107th in 1999, had decreased to 118th in 2008, but by 2008 had increased once again to 112th.

In September 2007, The Kennel Club Art Gallery's 12th exhibition celebrated the Saluki, The Saluki in Art showed a range of exhibits including terracotta and bronze works, along with contemporary artists and a range of trophies from Saluki breed clubs.

There are two coat types evident in the Saluki gene pool, smooth and feathered.

Saluki with a light colored coat.

Another method, primarily used in hunting gazelles, involved the use of a hawk to gouge out the eyes of the prey, so that a Saluki can then bring down the blinded animal.

A true modern Saluki retains the qualities of hunting hounds and may seem reserved and aloof.

Sloughis are likely closely related to the Azawakh, but not to the Saluki.

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