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During 1949, and for a dog's age afterwards, cries like these will bring many of France's thoroughbred poodles and poms running to their masters. It came about in the natural course of a standing Société Centrale Canine de France (French Kennel Club) policy which decrees that all show dogs born in a given year bear the same initial. This year the club's registry reached the letter X. As France's dog lovers pored diligently over their dictionaries, they were reassured by club officials that it was not absolutely necessary...
...crowds (2,600,000 last year) outnumber Florida's horse-race fans. Last week, thousands of Miamians saw the horses run at Gulfstream in the afternoon, then hustled down to the Biscayne Kennel Club to go to the dogs by night. The track sprawled like a giant outdoor roulette wheel, which is about what it is. Chasing after Swifty, the mechanical rabbit that never loses a race, were eight greyhounds clawing and skidding around turns at close to 40 m.p.h.-as fast as a race horse runs. Most fans, who couldn't remember the name...
Meals at Midnight. Kirkpatrick keeps his 30-dog kennel on a lot about two miles from the track. At 7 a.m., his trainer and two assistants take each pooch for a walk. Then the dogs have their toenails pedicured, get combed and rubbed. At 10:30, the dogs are put in kennels and the blinds are pulled down. They nap until 4. A couple of hours before the race, they are taken from their owners and kept under inspection by the Florida Racing Commission. At midnight, after the races, Kirkpatrick's greyhounds get their one meal...
...generous woman," said the members of her hunt, but by week's end, as more & more farmers joined the boycott, the Blazers were hunting under police protection and there was more trouble ahead for them. Said Harry Walker, second whip of the hunt: "If Mrs. Hanbury goes, the kennel staff goes...
...year, for the first time in the history of Manhattan's blueblood Westminster Kennel Club show, was a boxer, a mighty pug-ugly named Warlord of Mazelaine, which won best-in-show over 2,598 rivals. The decision was up to one judge and his conscience, and he cleared it this way: "The Boston [terrier] impressed me very much but the boxer was best tonight. Perhaps tomorrow the Boston would have had the better...