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It is now 1998 and the marvelous Sloughi Notes from Jack Williams Lewis' desk:
have become a great success among
sighthound fanciers for both their beauty, From the beginning LGRA saw a
grace, and racing ability. phenomenal growth.
Here are some facts for the first 4 years
And on a parallel track, LGRA has grown to from 1995-1999:
be a first-rate racing organization with the
annual Schedule including 50 Meets all In 1995, a partial season beginning in
over the US and Canada with over 600 August 95, there were a total of 7 meets.
hounds registered to participate. In 1996, the first full season saw 33 meets;
and the 1999 season held 74 meets!
In the meanwhile, the Sloughi now count
amongst their ranks several Oval Racing At the end of 1995 there were 9 Sloughis
Champions (ORC) and ORCs "Assissa" and registered and 21 by the end of 1999.
"Aswad" have also achieved their
Gazehound Racing Championship's (GRC)! Other breeds were as follows: Afghan-0/75;
Azawakh-0/5; Basenji-0/56; Borzoi-
The future seems assured for the Large 12/218; Greyhound-30/263; Ibizan Hound-
Gazehound Racing Association, and even 4/4; Irish Wolfhound-0/48; Italian
more so for the hounds who inspired Greyhound-0/29; Pharaoh Hound-0/25;
LGRA's birth, the magnificent Sloughi of Rhodesian Ridgeback-7/59; Saluki-5/41;
Dominique de Caprona and Bernd Fritzsch. and Scottish Deerhound-1/58.
13 breeds were racing at LGRA events in
*Editor’s note: The Sloughi was recognized 1999.
by the National Oval Track Racing
Association (NOTRA) in December 1994 at A Sloughi racing club for all LGRA breeds
the time Jack William Lewis was NOTRA's was created in Iowa in 2004: the Shi'Rayân
National Race Director and in 1995 he was Sloughis Amateur Racing Association,
also the National Race director for the Large SSARA; its first meet was sponsored by the
Gazehound Racing Association (LGRA). The St Louis Area Sighthounds SLASH. The club
Sloughi did not need membership approval is still active with 7-8 events per year 18
to be recognized by LGRA as it was the years later (2022).
foundation breed.
https://www.lgra.org
https://sloughi.tripod.com/sloughinet/SS
ARA.html
