Here is a link to Colorado Lure Coursing Association
- to begin with ;) ....

...and another to American Sighthound Field Association

In Finland we often use sand banks and sandpits for LC, and these places are very popular among the saluki people. Sand might be more safe for the hounds than wet grass.

Here can you see Lottie and Nasima 29.4.06 on the last photo at the website - that was Lottie´s quite first official LC training... and... hm... she is hunting Nasima, I think ... :D ...
In later trainings, however, only the lure has been interesting for Lottie, who is extremely calm before running, and then runs with great purpose and is very concentrated. But..., of course, living hare is the best - no doubt about that! :rolleyes:
Nasima is never calm near the LC places we go to - she is losting a lot of energy by shouting and barking and jumping already before the real running... :blink:

Dome great photos there, what is the dog above the photo of yours?

I'd love to see afghans run, I like to think that some still have in them to be a coursing/hunting dog.

The dog "Letti" above Lottie and Nasima is a Chart Polski, an extremely beautiful and interesting breed!

Here some pictures of different breeds in LC and racing, some afghans, too.

The link is from our Finnish forum for hound people.

Beautiful pictures!!!

Do you ever have trouble with the sand hurting your dog's feet? I'm most used to retired racing greyhounds, and they sometimes have trouble with sand hurting their toes. If I remember correctly, it gets jammed up in their toenails and causes some problems. It's been awhile since I've run my guy, so I'm not clear on details. I did mostly sprint racing with my boy Gryffin, and we always ran on grass.

It can be a problem, but this can happen on any soft ground. Hard ground will cause more trouble, with regard to injuries IMO.

Alot of people wash the dogs feet after running as you yourself probably do.

You have to be careful incase the nail bed becomes infected as the infection can spread to toe joints causing serious damage.

I've only had nail bed infections three times with my dogs in over 15 years, once it has effected a dog that particular toe does seem to be more susceptible to future infection, like the seal of skin to nail is not as good as it was.