Great hazard pay in it aswell.
And a full medical check up
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I haven’t seen the full psychiatric report from each hare, but I believe 3 were caught and mauled to within an inch of their life.
I mowed a Hare down with the car the other day, he’d obviously had a mental breakdown as he ran across the road in front of me. Banning rural driving is probably a good way to stop the killing too.
Townies know best though…
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That’s a really excellent counterpoint Har. I’m surprised you never considered a career in law.
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Its a rule enforced by the bookies. The argument is that in a race of two, with the same owner, there is a distinct disadvantage to the public and bookies as to the outcome of the race. If they ran, the bookies would void all bets, whereas by dividing the stake, gambles are paid out (half the stake at full odds)
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Has it happened much before? Seems a bit of an anti climax.
Coursing, the most virtuous of sports, where even the bookies try to look after the punters.
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Its often happened and yes it’s a woeful disappointment. I was down there four times for finals day and I only ever witnessed two Derby final ran. And that excludes this year
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Has happened more often recently as owners of contenders are joining to prevent two fancied dogs from potentially meeting before the final
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The bookies only look after themselves… But you can imagine the wave of angry faces looking at them if they voided all bets, which on the dogs in question would be considerable, as they were 1st and 2nd favourite AP
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How would it work if dogs owned by same owner met in say semi or quarter final? Presume it could only be possible if same owner had 3 or more dogs qualify.
They could, but you can only guard two dogs. For example Owner owns A, B, C in Derby. The owner can only guard A&C or A&B or B&C with the remaining down unguarded and could still meet either of the other two in the first round. Guarding usually means they can only meet in the derby as guarded dogs are put in different halves of the draw.
In relation to meeting in a quarter or semi- they would still have to nominate one dog to go forward and that dog would have to run a bye course.
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Martina Devlin had an article in the paper at the weekend, accompanied by a 12 year old photo of unmuzzled greyhounds attacking a hare at an English Open Coursing meeting.
Saw that. But based on the stats only a couple of bunny rabbits got hurt last week. What about the 40 hares that went missing up in Laois though? The locals probably ate them.
She also threw in a completely uninformed agrument that the hare shouldnt be coursed because it’s a protected species.
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The countryside was full of them last summer, they are far from in-decline
Another metropolitan elite snowflake .
This is what you are dealing with:
http://evoke.ie/extra/pauline-mclynn-knitting-jumpers-for-hens
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