English Greyhound Dogs Waterloo Cup 1877
by Peter Ogden
Title
English Greyhound Dogs Waterloo Cup 1877
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Digital Art - Chromolithograph
Description
This is a restored reproduction of a circa 1877 English chromolithograph print of two purebred English Greyhounds by Jones and Dickens, Liverpool. The caption on the original print reads: "The Celebrated Greyhounds". Information on famed Coomassie can be found in google search if followed by the word "greyhound" as in Coomassie greyhound [without quotes].
The Greyhound on the left is Coomassie ["Won the Waterloo Cup 1877"]. The Greyhound on the right is Braw Lass ["Run up for Waterloo Cup 1877"].
The Waterloo Cup was a coursing event organised by the National Coursing Club. The three day event was run annually at Great Altcar in Lancashire, England from 1836 to 2005 and it used to attract tens of thousands of spectators to watch and gamble on the coursing matches. It was founded by The 2nd Earl of Sefton and, originally, was supported by his patronage.
It was the biggest annual hare coursing event in the United Kingdom and was often referred to by its supporters as the blue riband event of the coursing year. A hare coursing event of identical name was held in Australia from 1868 to 1985, at which point it became a lure coursing event.
Run as a knock-out tournament between sixty four coursing greyhounds from Great Britain and Ireland, supporters described it as the ultimate test of a greyhound but opponents of hare coursing, such as the League Against Cruel Sports, saw it as a celebration of cruelty. The Hunting Act 2004, which came into force just after the 2005 cup, made hare coursing events illegal in England and Wales, and the Waterloo Cup has not taken place since.
The English Greyhound, or simply the Greyhound, is a breed of dog, a sighthound which has been bred for coursing, greyhound racing and hunting. Since the rise in large scale adoption of retired racing Greyhounds, the breed has seen a resurgence in popularity as a family pet.
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March 14th, 2023
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