Its always the same when it comes to the crunch,talk is cheap but when asked to put up all the old excuses come up to old,work commitments,injury LOL LOL LOL.JMO.
I personaly wont be entering the competition because my dog isnt good enough at lamped rabbits.
If this type of lurcher is so good and worth keeping how come you havnt got a younger dog/dogs coming on to replace the old one?