Greetings....I was a greyhound trainer for many years, and I've even raised a few litters.......and have been pretty deeply interested in racing greyhound bloodlines for quite some time now, and provide bloodline analysis and info to breeders free of charge.
I can assure you that the whelping and registration numbers that the NGA records are above reproach. Each month, the breedings and whelpings are listed by litter and registrant, in the Greyhound Review....this information has always been public, and can be documented by anyone who wishes to take issue with the various fabrications that we see put forth by certain individuals or groups----or to check on the NGAs accuracy.
Every racing greyhound whelped, even the stillborn births, are reported and tabulated in th.e yearly whelping statistics. All protocols concerning the reportage and registration of matings and whelpings are mandatory, if the breeder wishes to race their greyhound. No state as yet recognizes any non-NGA registered greyhound as a legal racer. The various states regulate racing.
It is critically important to the racing greyhound breed, and to breeders, that scrupulous records are maintained, not only of bloodlines and of sires and dams--- but of their progeny and their performances.
Since racing greyhounds are selectively bred toward racing performance, and are selected for breeding as a result of their own racing abilities and aptitudes, it is important that accurate records of whelpings and registrations are kept----so that bloodlines and their progenitors can be objectively evaluted.....in terms of their opportunities, failures and successes, versus the population as a whole. The various effects of linebreeding, nicking patterns and outcrossing, can also be viewed in some sort of relative and objective context. ......which is, moreover, the essence of responsible, selective breeding.
For example, I don't simply want to learn that WW Time Warp (an accomplished young sire) is ranked in the top 20 sires.....or that he has sired 463 offspring.....nor do I merely wish to learn only that he has sired 168 top-grade winners......but I do need to know that he has had a significant number of breedings to provide a reliable sampling, versus his competitors, and that if 168 of his offspring have won top grade races....then his "strike rate" is 36.3%....which places him in the highest echelon of greyhounds who have had a similar number of breeding opportunities. ......upon further investigation (of his pedigree), I can see that he is the modern day exponent of the Rosary Meadows branch of the powerful Kiche female family----which is our foremost domestic sire-producing female family....and also the direct family of Hall of Fame immortals, like Downing and Rural Rube.
FYI.....There are 46 different female families of racing greyhounds, and they are all of critical importance to the racing breed. Some of them can be traced as far back as the 1700s, where records of progeny and performance were also kept..
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