The Whippet & Greyhound Club was formed in 1963. After a lot of talk, Carlene Anderson contacted Whippet &Greyhound owners and organised a meeting for interested parties. Owners of other b reeds in the Hound group also attended and tried to form a Hound Club, but they stuck to the original purpose that the meeting was called for and started The Whippet & Greyhound Club of South Australia.

The reason for the club catering for the two breeds was to foster the exhibiting of Greyhounds and the similarity of the two breeds in form and purpose. A Hound club was later formed in 1964.There was an attempt at one stage for the club to include Italian Greyhounds so the constitution now reads “whippets & greyhounds in group 4 “.