Maddog McDermutt, the world’s greatest retired-to- the- pen Greyhound trainer, just ask him, first appeared on the pages of The Greyhound Review in 1978 in a story called Ol' Pink Eye and the Forever Flight.
It wasn't long before Maddog was offering all kinds of advice, on something of a regular basis, to the readers of The Greyhound Review. Maddog claimed, in his own way, as only Maddog can, that he was not the Daymon Runyon of Dog Racing. Daymon Runyon was the Maddog McDermutt of Horse Racing. Maddog has appeared, directly or indirectly, in over 250 published stories and articles. Maddog’s column “The Far Turn/In Search of the Big Picture” has taken Little Elsie and Maddog to most United States tracks, and to tracks and dog adventures in England, Wales, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and Canada. Not only are Maddog and sidekick Little Elsie household words within the Greyhound industry, they also have toured extensively on behalf of the Greyhound adoption movement. Maddog and Little Elsie and their adopted Greyhound Jones are lifetime honorary members of Greyhound Pets of America.
Here are eight of the best of the old, crazy adventures, vintage Maddog McDermutt, back when Greyhound racing was going strong, along with Maddog cronies Fleas Finnigan, Little Elsie, Mangy Martinez, Hugh Mungas, Ben Dover, Pooch the Mooch McGill, Jake (The Rake) Smith, Cornelius T. Cratervoid … all the old gang.
1. And Leave the Driving to Us.
2. Hugh Mungus
3. Ol' Pinkeye and the Forever Flight
4. A Fair Shake
5. The Impossible Dreamer
6. Whole ... eh!!!
7. Fidel Who?
8. Jacques Ra ... beet.