On the Sunday before the coursing started, Greyhound 2000 looked pretty slick. The exhibition, held in Newmarket, told an interesting story of how coursing, had, for a brief period at the end of the nineteenth century, been the most popular spectator sport in Britain, with crowds of up to 100,000 at the Waterloo Cup; of how Queen Victoria had asked to meet the Irish dog Master McGrath, winner of three Waterloo Cups; of how coursing had segued into greyhound racing, which began in 1926 and, with its greater accessibility and gambling opportunities, gradually took over. The exhibition (and its g