Article: Greyhounds: Breeding Lines: Tex takes Pride in his first season as a sire.(Sports)

WHEN, over 90 years ago, the Tralee medical practitioner Henry Chestnut decided to buy a couple of puppies from England, he set in motion a chain of events whose reverberations culminated in the `big bang' of a famous Irish Derby victory at Shelbourne Park last Saturday night.

On his behalf, the coursing reporter W J Bourne selected from the Barbican sale in London in February 1909 a bitch (Chinoline) and a dog (Chinosol), from an Earl's Court-Water Baby litter, bred in Peterborough by Samuel Whitsed.

Chinoline cost three ...

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