Inspired by visions of Audrey Hepburn’s fawn, my ambitions shrank to a blue whippet called “Pimlico” (where I rented). At 47, I finally acquired the mortgage and the partner, Terence, that ...

Whippet racing later became popular in the mining areas of the North and Wales but also in London and the Midlands, and the breed was nicknamed the “poor man’s racehorse”.

FORT MOTT STATE PARK, N.J. – When mutant, muscle-bound puppies started showing up in litters of champion racing whippets, breeders of the sleek dogs invited scientists to take DNA samples aft… ...