Anyone have a blue lacy?

If so, I'd like to hear of experiences with this breed.

Thanks, by the way

two of them, the male is gunshy and worthless for hunting outside of coursing, but otherwise a great companion and fantastic frisbee dog. The female would be fine if she had ever been broken from barking, but she was a rescue dog that was going to get the needle so I gave her a home. Also great at coursing. I tried to get the local sighthound club to allow me to course them on an actual competition run at some point, they ended up being so stuck up about me even asking I ended up pissing them off by playing frisbee with them adjacent to their little wine and cheese gathering. And they got really pissed off once I broke out the whistle.

Kept lean and worked often these are amazingly fast dogs. Beauregard could hang with west texas jacks long enough for a fun show, and cottontails are nothing to either of them.

There is a lot of variation in the breed. Some are more sighthound/greyhound like in stature and poise, while some are more muscular and scenthound like, if that tells you anything.

Mine are pushing 8 now though and age plus easy living has taken its toll, especially on the male. My fault there.

The only thing I know about them came from a half blue lacy/half border collie mix about 40 years ago. I was amazed to see him gain on a jack rabbit in an oat field. When the rabbit was about 200 yds from the brush on the other end I shot way over him. The rabbit turned and got ran over by the dog though the dog didn't try to kill the rabbit.
Another time I ran a horse down a sandy road and the dog looked back over his shoulder with his tongue hanging out as he passed me and the horse.
I chased some white tail on horse back and the dog was way ahead of me when they all disappeared.
This dog was my constant companion as a teenager. He seem to have no nose nor any interest in fighting or killing anything, but if it ran from him he would try to run it down.
The border collie part stood out when around cattle and goats. He was an ace at driving either. If a goat broke away he could catch it and turn it easily. Cattle tried running him down a number of times and it was fun to watch them discover they were no match for him.
He could easily jump any ranch fence and a couple of times got him to jump 8 feet up into an old barn loft with me.
My grandfather had an evil cow horse that was pretty hard to catch sometimes. So when I went after the horse I took the dog and if the horse ran from me I siced the dog on the horse. After a quarter mile or so of being chased, the horse would begin to give out and was easy to catch.
The dog was always in much better shape than the horse. My understanding of the blue lacy is they are normally cow dogs and not hunters. This particular dog fit that well.
In addition I had two brothers. If we got into a fight the dog would normally try to bite the one winning the fight. Once my grandfather used a belt on one of my brothers and got bit for his trouble.

The dog looked like this one.

Sounds like a lacy for sure. I bet the border collie made for a pretty good set of herding characteristics.

They sure are greased lightning, aren't they?

Considering he was a working dog I never expected jack rabbit speed. In the sandy fields about 80 miles west of you in Palo Pinto County he was amazing. That jack had a 75 yard head start and it evaporated before he realized that he was being chased.