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SLOUGHI LGRA MILESTONES

BY M.-DOMINIQUE CRAPON DE CAPRONA - USA

K'Lar, Silkenswift Intent K'lar FC SORC GRC
© Saklad/Dalzell

Following the creation of the Large What is the K’Lar Award?

Gazehound Racing Association (LGRA) by
Jack William Lewis in 1995, Sloughis "The K’Lar award is presented to the dog
participated in many straight racing that accumulates the highest number of
events across the country and completed National Race Points each year, in memory
several Gazehound Racing Champion and of Borzoi K'lar, FC Silkenswift Intent K'lar
Superior Gazehound Racing Champion FC SORC GRC.

titles.
Owned by Sam and Sue Banks, K'lar
To top it all, in 2001, six years after the tragically died in 1996 on the way home from
creation of the LGRA, a Sloughi reached a race meet in Canada.
the height of becoming the #1 All breeds She was the first GRC and would have been
in American straight racing and winning the first SGRC had she lived, having
the K’Lar Award. It created quite a stir at accumulated 27.5 NRC points at the time of

the time; a very rare breed defeating her death."
popular sighthound breeds! He repeated
that feat again in 2002, frustrating some of
the competitors even more. Three years The first K’Lar award was given in 1997 to
the Greyhound "Dighty" Dighton Donna
later, in 2005, his kennel mate did the

same. (owner Godfroid).