Coops "...not faster than a dog over the half mile ...", let's bring that distance back a bit and I mean from a standing start. My recollection is that Star of Florida (Qld thoroughbred) ran 43.9 for 800ms at Dalby not too many years ago. Mantra Lad's record equalling run in 2008 over only 725ms at the Meadows was 42.28. I love the dogs and I really like Mantra Lad but where a dollar is concerned I would want to be on Star of Florida, that is, if he wasn't now 12 or so years old, fat and lazy. Anyway, as I have indicated more than once before, good on you Coops, keep enjoying every minute of it, I envy you. My wife doesn't hate me even though she keeps telling me to get a job but there is never going to be another dog in the yard. My adult daughter apparently suggested to her at Xmas with regard to a present for me, "how about a greyhound". It is reported that my wife's response was something like "and are you going to buy him a new home at the same time". My wife finished up buying me a new tent, do you think there is a message there?