is it not the case that most of the coursing blood ie saluki has been diluted between english and irish dogs. is it not a bit stupid taliking about english and irish dogs when im sure irish bitches have been lined with english dogs and vice versa. as someone said the salukis came from the middle east f**k all irish there. The bigger the feilds the more saluki needed english, tighter feilds more greyhound irish. prob talkn balls but there u go.