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Greyhound racing just turned 100, and says its dogs are fine. But are they?

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par Mia Cobb, Research Fellow, Animal Welfare Science Centre, The University of Melbourne
Donald Maurice Broom, Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare, University of Cambridge

This year, greyhound racing in Britain turns 100 years old. The first race ran on July 24 1926 in Manchester, where six dogs chased a mechanical hare around a track.

Recently, the Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) published its 2025 welfare figures, under a reassuring headline: licensed racing “maintains high welfare standards”.

Look closely, and those same…

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