The Greyhounds were originally hunting dogs because of their speed. The modern Greyhound racer tracks its origins to coursing. Chasing is the dog's pursuit of games or other animals chasing their prey speed, based on vision, not smell. The pursuit is a common practice of the nobility and ordinary people, dating back to the early Greeks.
The earliest attempt of the actual race was in 1876, near the Welsh Harp reservoir in Hendon, but it did not develop further. In order to help farmers in the Midwest control the population of long-eared cannabis, the Greyhound was imported into the United States in the late 1800s.
In 1912, Owen Patrick Smith invented an artificial or mechanical hare. His aim was to stop the killing of Jack Rabbit and to see the Greyhound Racing in the same way that people watched horse racing. Mechanical baits make it possible to race around a circular or elliptical orbit. The first track was opened in 1919 in Emeryville, California...
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