[1][2] Hardy Wright served with the Royal Navy during World War I, meeting his future wife in Portsmouth during this time.
[2] He came to live at Watchhall, near Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, in the early 1920s, where he set up kennels with his father.
In 1947, he had the runner-up in the Waterloo Cup hare coursing event with Mr. Walter Wilson's Western Water, but his greatest successes came in the mid-1950s.
In 1954 and 1955, he won the coveted cup with Mr. Tom Noble's Cotton King and Mr. Truelove's Full Pete respectively.
His cousin, Harold Wright, trained nine Waterloo Cup winners, an unbeaten performance.