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find it difficult to follow the hares' sharp turns which they make to evade the dogs. This agility gives the hare an important and often crucial advantage as it seeks to escape. Under some coursing club rules, the dogs are awarded points on how many times they can turn the hare, and how closely they force the hare's progress. In the UK, the contest between the greyhounds was usually judged from horseback, and the winning greyhound proceeded to the next round of a
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Since the introduction of muzzling for greyhounds in 1993, deaths to hares are less common, falling from an average of 16% to about 4% of hares coursed (reducing to around 150–200 hares per year). Muzzled dogs are more likely to buffet a hare than to bite it, a factor that may still affect the hare's
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aiming to significantly increase their numbers. Some coursers say that coursing assists conservation because it leads to sporting landowners creating a habitat suitable for hares. Opponents of coursing say that the converse is true, namely that coursing takes place where hares live rather than hares
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In 2000, the rules of the UK National Coursing Club awarded a point to a greyhound that killed a hare "through superior dash and speed". By early 2003, this rule had been deleted to remove the appearance of the kill incentive. Observers of hare coursing at the Waterloo Cup – the most important event
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The chased hare will then run at around 40–45 km/h (24–26 mph) and the course will last around 35–40 seconds over 0.5 km (0.3 miles). The greyhounds which pursue the hare will, being faster, start to catch up with it. As greyhounds are much larger than hares but less agile, they
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Lure coursing is a sport for dogs based on hare coursing, but involving dogs chasing a mechanically operated lure. Some critics of hare coursing suggest that coursers could test their dogs through lure coursing. However, coursers believe that, while lure coursing is good athletic exercise for their
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while they chase the hare. After the coursing event, the hares are transported back to where they were netted and re-released into the wild. Whereas the UK form of coursing was run with dogs winning points for their running and turning of the hare, the Irish form is run on the basis that the first
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with effect from 18 February 2005. Prosecutions were successful against two hare coursers in 2008 and against two Yorkshire landowners in 2009. The private prosecution brought against the organisers of the March 2007 North Yorkshire event organised by a Field Trialling Club clarified in September
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became a centrepiece of the campaign against coursing in the UK. In opposition, coursing has long enjoyed the fame of being known as "the noblest of field sports" precisely because the death of the hare is not the aim of the sport. Under most regulated forms of coursing only two hounds pursue the
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which submitted its final report in 2000 said that about 250 hares were killed each year in formal coursing. although much larger numbers of kills are believed to take place in informal coursing. The UK National Coursing Club and the organisers of the now defunct Waterloo Cup said that, on
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promoted a bill, AB2110, to make it a crime for any person in California to engage in open field coursing – defined as a "competition in which dogs are, by the use of rabbits, hares, or foxes, assessed as to skill in hunting live rabbits, hares, or foxes". A pro-coursing campaign was also
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In the context of open (not park) coursing, the (British) National Coursing Club evidence to the Burns Inquiry said that muzzled coursing can cause more suffering than unmuzzled if the coursing officials are not able to reach injured hares quickly. The Irish Council Against Bloodsports, an
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It is from Arrian that the most famous quote on the sporting fairness of coursing originates: "... true huntsmen do not take out their hounds to catch the creature, but for a trial of speed and a race, and they are satisfied if the hare manages to find something that will rescue her".
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who examined the hares blames the "significant stress" of being "corralled and coursed". Coursing supporters deny that hare coursing is cruel and say that hares that are injured, pregnant or ill are not allowed to run. Hares are reported to be examined by a vet before and after racing.
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suggesting that many tens of thousands die cruelly each year. Hare coursing also takes place in Russia but is illegal in most European countries and in Australia, where it had a long history from 1867 until it was banned in 1985 following a long decline in popularity.
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Thou shouldst rather be moved with pity to see a silly innocent hare murdered of a dog, the weak of the stronger, the fearful of the fierce, the innocent of the cruel and unmerciful. Therefore, all this exercise of hunting is a thing unworthy to be used of free
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in the UK coursing calendar until it was last held in 2005 – regularly reported a minority of people in the crowd cheering when hares were killed. In 2005 in the US, points were still awarded for a "touch ... where the quarry is captured or killed".
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Legal, formal hare coursing has a number of variations in how it is undertaken. Open coursing takes place in the open field, and closed coursing (or park or Irish style) takes place in an enclosure with an escape route. Open coursing is either run as
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During the 19th century, coursing crossed the class divide, and reached its peak of popularity, with more than 150 coursing clubs in Britain, some attracting up to 80,000 people. By the late 19th century, hare coursing had become a predominantly
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Whether for sporting or hunting purposes, hare coursing was in Europe historically restricted to landowners and the nobility, who used sighthounds, the ownership of which was at certain historic times prohibited among the lower social classes.
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Greyhounds were introduced in the Americas for sport and pleasure, they helped farmers control jackrabbits, and organised coursing meets were taking place in the United States in the 19th century, by 1886 according to
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During the 2006–07 coursing season, the leading United States coursing body, the National Open Field Coursing Association, registered 480 dogs of various breeds, and oversaw 83 coursing events. Its quarry is the
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since 2002, as Ministers have refused the coursing clubs permission to net hares, and have protected them from being coursed or hunted under the Game Preservation (Northern Ireland) Act and in June 2010 the
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In different parts of the world two contrasting arguments are made in favour of hare coursing. In some places, the high densities of hare leads to the animals being considered as agricultural
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oversaw 23 hare coursing meetings. Over 100 hares "required assistance" after being struck during races, which led to over 20 of them dying of natural causes or having to be euthanised.
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In some countries, it is a legal, competitive activity in which dogs are tested on their ability to run, overtake and turn a hare, rather than a form of hunting aiming at the capture of
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living where coursing takes place. It is also the case that coursing kills slower hares, and it is said by some coursers that this leaves faster hares to breed and multiply.
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voted to ban the practice. The two extant Northern Ireland coursing clubs since 2002 have travelled to the Republic to hold meetings jointly with coursing clubs there.
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which are crossbred sighthounds. The sport grew in popularity in Europe during the 19th century but has since experienced a decline due in part to the introduction of
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The oldest form of hare coursing simply involved two dogs chasing a hare, the winner being the dog that caught the hare; this could be for sport, food or
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as part of its campaigning have shown very strong public opposition to hare coursing from both urban and rural residents of Northern Ireland (and the
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Reid, N.; Dingerkus, K.; Montgomery, W. I.; Marnell, F.; Jeffrey, R.; Lynn, D.; Kingston, N.; McDonald, R. A. (2007), "Status of hares in Ireland",
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is not always clear. Animal Place, a California-based animal rights group which opposes coursing, claims that the activity is legal in California,
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state lists jackrabbits as a protected species, due to an unusually low population for a western state, and bans all forms of hunting them.
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dog to turn the hare wins. This is denoted by either a red flag or a white flag, indicating the colours of the respective dogs' collars.
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The competitive version of hare coursing was given definitive form when the first complete set of English rules, known as the
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showed a film of coursing with sets of three greyhounds competing in the chase of a number of hares. Coursing was banned in
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organisation that campaigns against hare coursing has video evidence that shows this happening, even in enclosed coursing.
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subsequent survival. Hares can either die due to injuries sustained by contact with the much larger dogs or due to capture
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and continues to believe that it is wrong to expose animals to the risk of injury or death for human entertainment. The
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hare, the dogs competing against each other for a short time, and allowing the hare a significant chance of escape.
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Instead of being coursed on open land, the Irish form is run in a secure enclosure over a set distance. Since 1993,
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with two collars to release two dogs at the same time, in pursuit of the hare which is given a head start (known as
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Welfare implications for hares, Lepus timidus hibernicus, taken from the wild for licensed hare coursing in Ireland
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that are registered with a governing body such as the National Coursing Club or Kennel Club in Great Britain, the
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Reid, N.; McDonald, R.A.; Montgomery, W. I. (2007). "Factors associated with hare mortality during coursing".
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There are several differences between the rules of coursing in Great Britain (where it is regulated by the
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rather than greyhounds are used. These dogs have a precarious life after their coursing careers, with
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In 2015, it was reported that hare coursing incidents had fallen by approximately 78 per cent across
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Survival, movements, home range size and dispersal of hares after coursing and/or translocation.
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who attended the event estimated that a greater number, one in five hares coursed, was killed.
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on the welfare impact of coursing. The first thorough study was carried out in 1977–79 by the
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voted for Government Bills to ban hare coursing in 1969 and 1975, but neither passed the
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coursing, where a line of people walk through the countryside to flush out a hare, or as
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established. The Bill was passed by the Public Safety Committee but did not become law.
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Charles Blanning, Fullerton Press in association with the National Coursing Club, 2022.
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The practice of hare coursing has only recently, in historical terms, been debated in
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has said that coursing does not "reduce the population enough to alleviate damage".
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Report of Committee of Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs in England and Wales (2000).
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Coursing declined during the 20th century, notably due to the development of urban
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The oldest documented description of hare coursing is the work known in English as
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Burns, T., Edwards, V., Marsh, J., Soulsby, E.J.L. and Winter, M. (June 9, 2000).
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Gazehounds & Coursing: The History, Art, and Sport of Hunting with Sighthounds
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was founded to regulate the sport in 1858. From 1876 coursing meets were held at
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Elsewhere, such as in the UK, hares are not always seen as pests, and there are
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could have been extremely painful until chest or neck injuries were inflicted".
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Burns, T.; Edwards, V.; Marsh, J.; Soulsby, E. J. L.; Winter, M. (2000-06-09).
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Burns, T.; Edwards, V.; Marsh, J.; Soulsby, E. J. L.; Winter, M. (2000-06-09).
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reaches the hare and dispatches it (if it is not already dead). In the case of
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The Burns Inquiry, set up by the UK Government to examine hunting with dogs in
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average, one in seven or eight hares coursed were killed. Inspectors from the
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dogs, it does not approximate the testing vigour and sport of live coursing.
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in the 1920s and there were fewer than 30 coursing clubs in the UK by 2000.
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tournament. The 2003 UK coursing season ran from 1 October to 28 February.
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is organised by a smaller body, the North American Coursing Association.
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since the re-launch of an operation against coursing in September 2013.
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Modern hare coursing is practiced using a number of sighthounds: mainly
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The number of hares killed in coursing is unclear. The UK government's
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Integrating field sports, hare population management and conservation
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criticised hare coursing as an "aggravated form of torture" and the
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Coursing has long sparked opposition from activists concerned about
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since 1916. Because hares are not plentiful in all parts of the
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2009 that hare coursing is still an illegal activity under the
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with betting, and laws passed that have banned the practice.
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In recent decades, controversy has developed around hare
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rules have made it compulsory for the greyhounds to be
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Hare coursing was banned in England and Wales by the
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and this name was used for such events in Australia.
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Sloughi

Francis Barlow
hares
greyhounds
sighthounds
game
hunting
pest control
lurchers
greyhound racing
coursing
bloodsport
Spain
Ireland
Western United States
Arrian
the Roman period
Ancient Greeks
Xenophon
William Dansey

John Francis Sartorius
Emily Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury
Elizabeth I
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
Swaffham
National Coursing Club
Plumpton, East Sussex

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