General Appearance: Should be that of an elegant, graceful aristocrate among dogs, possessing courage and combining muscular power with extreme speed.

Headl: Slightly domed, long and narrow, with scarcely any perceptible stop.

Ears: Small and fine in quality, lying back on the neck when in repose.

Eyes: Set somehwat obliquely, dark in colour, intelligent, but rather soft in expression.

Neck: Clean, free from throatiness, slightly arched, very powerful and well set on.

Shoulders: Sloping, should be fine at the withers and free from coarseness.

Chest: Rather narrow, with great depth of brisket.

Ribs: Only slightly sprung, but very deep, giving room for heart and lung.

Back: Rising a little at the loins in a graceful curve.

Loins: Extremely muscular, but rather tucked up, owing to the great depth of chest and comparative shortness of back and ribs.

Forelegs: Bone flat, straight, giving free play for the elbows, which should be turned neither in nor out, pasterns strong.

Feet: Hare shaped with well arched knuckles, toes close and well padded.

Hindquarters: Long, very muscular and pwerful, with well bent stifles and strong second thighs, hocks broad, clean and well let down.

Tail:Long, set on and carried low in a graceful curve.

Coat: Long, silky (not woolly), either flat, wavy or rather curly.

Colour: Any colour, white usually predominating, more or less marked with lemon, tan, brindle, gray or black. Whole coloured specimens of these occasionally appear.