personally i think no to much shit being bred by to many part timers the best dogs, imo, were the dogs that HAD to catch to feed their owners and themselves and nowadays a dog like that is just not needed so dogs can afford to miss a few hundred rabbits over the season that years ago would of been shot for!! yes we had many good lines of hare coursing salukis, fox taking bull crosses etc etc before the ban but, again imo, these are a luxury of the times and not what the original lurcher was bred for and for that matter i think the dogs of old were better as mistakes/blank nights meant one he