I agree that isn’t a good representative of the Saluki. This is a little more accurate depiction. I agree wholeheartedly with WOW. I’ve told this example before, but I had two catch dog females at the same time. One was a really doggy gyp. Not feminine but more masculine in head shape and size as well as muscular. Her angulation in the back end wasn’t as good as the other female either. The second female was my favorite of the two. At least twice as fast, twice as strong, and the stamina between the two wasn’t even comparable nor was the athletic ability. Most people liked the doggy gyp and would argue that there was no way that she more stream line better angulated female was the superior dog. So one day we hooked the two gyps up to a sled and properly fit pulling harnesses. What the doggy gyp had to lean into to pull, the the better angulated deeper chested female ran with and never took a deep breath afterwards. I also pulled my old retired catch dog against some Greater Swiss mountain dogs. They had an easy 30 pounds and years of youth on him. It was the second time he ever even looked through a pulling harness. They eventually became spectators because he was going down the track with weight they couldn’t budge. Again, if they had been made like he was, he wouldn’t have been able to compete at his age and experience as they were regular pull dogs. I have no doubt he would’ve outran them in both short and long distance. Like WOW said, chest depth and well sprung along with proper angulation front to back aren’t preferences but proven necessities. Your big dogs don’t hold for longer periods because they are big, they hold because they are big and well built. When you loose your angulation and wind capacity, they will loose the ability to hold for longer periods and multiple hogs. Just my opinion of course but it’s been learned over my almost 49 years of life dealing with horses, dogs, and believe it or not, chickens.
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