Dog Walker

This is my Dog Walker in front of my Kennels at Church Lawford in 1960.  There are six greyhounds  with our own Whippet and Jack Russell who encouraged  young and lazy greyhounds  to keep going .   The time I kept them on varied from ten to thirty minutes dependent on the temperature and their fitness. On wet days they wore coats.   I often said I would put a canopy over them if one of them ever won a £1,000 race - but that day never came

There ALWAYS  had to be some one in attendance to switch off the electricity immediately one wished to urinate, defecate or got tired.   If it refused to walk, struggled to get loose or fell and got dragged around the consequences could  be fatal.    It was the brain-child of    Eddie Wray and its funding was by my friend John McConnell -- the one gutsy enough to risk going with me to see the safer tracks in the Antipodes.  It was such a pleasure to see those with roomy spacious turns and runners who were still sound at five or six years of age.