Not really a fair appraisal of the breed though is it? Wasn't that club, or similar clubs, set up just to try to get deerhounds, that had been bred for f**k all apart from showing for a few generations, back to getting the 'coursing instinct' and a bit of speed, stamina and agility, back into the modern strains of deerhound, instead of just letting the breed sink lower and lower down the pan? Something along those lines anyway.
Just to add, though I'm by no means a deerhound expert, I've personally seen a few pure deerhounds that make those dogs in that clip look ridiculous, and have ple