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Although fallenangel has posted in coursing I thought some may not see the post.
The Last Waterloo Cup
FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2
"A little bit of England going." That's how one lover of hare coursing describes the ban that outlawed the pursuit earlier this year. Paul Yule's elegiac film follows the sport through its last season, climaxing with the three-day Waterloo Cup meeting. It's a sad portrait of a vanishing subculture. We see a lot of the coursing itself: pairs of greyhounds chase a hare around a field and win points for making it turn. Mostly, the hare escapes because it's more nippy and knows the lie of the land; one time in ten, we're told, it's caught and killed. We also meet the fans, women in flat caps, bookies in fur coats, Asian men who train dogs - all of them bewildered by the coming ban. And we see the anti-blood-sport protestors :rant: who, having won their battle, come to gloat and shout "losers". By the end of the film it's hard not to feel that theirs may be a hollow victory.
The Last Waterloo Cup
FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2
"A little bit of England going." That's how one lover of hare coursing describes the ban that outlawed the pursuit earlier this year. Paul Yule's elegiac film follows the sport through its last season, climaxing with the three-day Waterloo Cup meeting. It's a sad portrait of a vanishing subculture. We see a lot of the coursing itself: pairs of greyhounds chase a hare around a field and win points for making it turn. Mostly, the hare escapes because it's more nippy and knows the lie of the land; one time in ten, we're told, it's caught and killed. We also meet the fans, women in flat caps, bookies in fur coats, Asian men who train dogs - all of them bewildered by the coming ban. And we see the anti-blood-sport protestors :rant: who, having won their battle, come to gloat and shout "losers". By the end of the film it's hard not to feel that theirs may be a hollow victory.
