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FOREWORD

BY M.-DOMINIQUE CRAPON DE CAPRONA - USA

Welcome to the Special issue of the The results of major events have been
Sloughi Review #7 scattered everywhere since the early
1970s.
I discovered a few months ago that when
the National Race Director of the We therefore decided to make at least 2
National Oval Track Racing Association Special issues about the history of racing

for “Other Breeds” than Whippets Sloughis: Special issue #7 and Special issue
recently changed, the website with all the #7B (more if necessary)
past information organized by the
previous Race Director disappeared. This Issue #7 focuses on the history of
Along with it all the titles earned by the amateur racing with Sloughis in the USA.
dogs, including the Sloughi, were lost.

The following issue #7B will focus on the
This triggered the thought that I should history of racing Sloughis in Europe.
preserve the history of racing Sloughis in
the USA before it is forgotten. Wishing good reading.

I talked to Els Siebel about the same idea
for Europe. Racing there with Sloughis is

several decades older than in the USA This issue is dedicated to Jack W. Lewis of
and requires considerable search in old Reata Whippets for his amazing support in
magazines, websites and the like to put enabling the Sloughi to race in the USA.
together. My everlasting love to Uddah who started
it all.

Cover photo: Sloughis presented at the Algiers’ cynodrome, Algiers, 1954.
About Xavier Przezdziecki.
Alla Kacimi El Hassani tells us:
“His mission in Algiers, his relations with the government, the construction of the dog racing track, and
the list of owners, the majority of whom were officers, suggest that the races were for profit. Since locals
could not be attracted to racing at a dog track in a settler neighborhood of the capital, with only 700
meters of length.”