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Greyhounds have very short hair, which is also easy to maintain. There are 30 types of different hair color recognized, with variations of white, gray, red and black, among other colors, which can occur alone or in combinations.

History

This breed of dog has been considered so valuable throughout history there was a time when common people were forbidden to possess. Even in England it was to enact a law allowing only hunt with greyhounds nobles and kings, while the servants of the nobility could not even possess and freemen, although they could have a copy, should be disabled for other than competitive. King officials toured the kingdom to perform this task mutilation. This hunting with greyhounds restricted to royalty and nobility.

When the great forests became scarce, the greyhounds were first used for hunting hare and as public entrepreneurial pursuing careers in mechanical prey, and where money is bet. Later followed suit, with the use of greyhounds, horse racing and a curious fact is that at the beginning of these races greyhounds were assembled by monkeys performing these jockeys.

Greyhounds the race.

The first race in which greyhounds chasing a mechanical barrier was in London in 1876, but the race did not have many followers. It took until 1920 for this new form of entertainment to be taken seriously. In 1926 Manchester was used on an oval track for the practice of this sport, and since this form of the track is always used.