Editing Greyhound (section)

=== Coursing ===
{{Main|Hare coursing}}

[[File:Gray-Hound.jpg|thumb|"Gray-Hound" in a 1658 English woodcut]]
The original primary use of Greyhounds, both in the British Isles and on the Continent of Europe, was in the coursing of deer for meat and sport; later, specifically in Britain, they specialized in competition [[hare coursing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/turbervilesbooke00turb/page/246|title=Turbervile's Booke of hunting, 1576|first=George|last=Turberville|date=7 October 2018|publisher=[Oxford] : Clarendon Press; New York : [Oxford University Press]|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Some Greyhounds are still used for coursing, although artificial lure sports like [[lure coursing]] and racing are far more common and popular. Many leading 300- to 550-yard sprinters have bloodlines traceable back through Irish sires, within a few generations of racers that won events such as the [[Irish Coursing Club|Irish Coursing Derby]] or the Irish Cup.<ref>Irish Greyhound Stud Book</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Gunnar von Boehn |url=http://www.greyhound-data.com/ |title=The Greyhound Breeding and Racing Database |publisher=Greyhound-data.com |access-date=2011-05-31}}</ref>