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Holland has a rich Sloughi
history.
It was about the turn of the
century that painter August Le Gras (in 1898) from Laren brought with
him from one of his many trips to Nothern-Africa the first Sloughi.
The race knew a flourishing
period for the first ten years of this century with Le Gras as "pace-maker".
Photographs, writing and paintings
from that time are still in our posession. Therefrom we can conclude that
the standard now is very well comparable with the "older" dogs, which
should say quite enough about the achievements of the breeders to keep
an original race, without trying to improve it.
August Le Gras even designed his own pedigree forms.
After the second world war
sadly enough there were no more thoroughbred Sloughis in Holland. It wasn't
until the 70s that some thoroughbred and real (looking at the pictures
from the beginning years) sloughis came to our country again.
With these imports a new program
of breeding carefully and moderate, the high quality of the race came
back in Holland, seeing the results at shows and racing.
we i.e. Min Darazja Loewwla -
intend to keep it that way
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