Hi,
I can answer a few questions regarding greyhounds, as being the owner of possibly one of the largest form databases of greyhounds nationally
Fitness=Weight in most cases, If I find the avg racing weight of say every dog in my databes that have more than 50 career starts, the lighter racing weight half will be quicker than the heavy half, the frequency this occurs is quite remarkable.
So your friend is heading in the right direction, the only thing that will conflict with weight is when they are young 18 months etc, they will add weight as they grow an become more powerful(barring injury).

In regards to light weight bitches not favouring Box 1, well think of a heavy dog as a cement truck with the same acceleration, an the bitch as a sports coupe, so its a no brainer that on a two turn track with an 80 metre run from the boxes to the first turn, on avg a greyhound weighing less than 28 kilos will run faster than a greyhounds weighing over 33 kilos, but things do get a little more interesting on one turn tracks.



[ This Message was edited by: woof43 on 2004-01-10 20:59 ]