If you listen to the lurcher lads then the quality of lurchers in the past surpasses anything we've got now.
" Old Shep, he could jump a double decker bus, kill anything, guard the house with his life, tell me when the keeper was about at night, kept the family in meat for 15 years, we never needed a butcher, would retrieve as gently as a field trial lab and lay the game in my bag, took a red stag single handed, sprouted wings and caught grouse and pheasant, never looked for a fight with another dog, but killed alsations and pit bulls for fun, never near a vet , wiped his own arse, gyps