Whilst I do see where your coming from DB, from what I know of coursing with lurchers, in the main, the end result is everything! That is what you measure a dog by, sport or not. You/we may all enjoy the run but a dog is judged on what it kills, not how well its ran, that only follows the end result. Form always follows function.
that is the difference in hunters and coursers my dogs invariably kill at the end of the course but I dont get that much satisfaction from the kill, I have lived where the kill meant food on the table but here that is not a essential part of daily living so the