Mate I like coursing dogs....always will even though I don't own one now...
Personally I admit I think there the best ...generally speaking for rabbit hare and and smaller deer...
Big deer fallow bucks and stags...fox..boar etc...then probably something else
But them coursing dogs brought up right can do other things...
I even used to take mine ferreting...of course she wasn't a patch on the purpose bred collie grew types ..or whippety types at that game...
These two of mine or pretty useful ferreting dogs...and they can catch hares...
But there not going to mat