Nancy Anderson remembers mixing vats of horse meat, corn flakes and Carnation milk for her grandfather’s greyhounds in Enterprise, Kan., in the 1940s.

Those were tough times but her grandpa, Raymond Robinson, always fed the greyhounds well. They were the love of his life and his business.

It was that passion for greyhounds that earned Robinson, a dog trainer and breeder who lived the final years of his life in North Bend before passing away in 1963, a place in history when he was inducted into the Greyhound Hall of Fame as a Pioneer entry — meaning he was involved in the sport prior to 1940 — last April in Enterprise, Kan.

“He loved those darn dogs,” Anderson recalls. “They were beautiful. He loved them and he knew everything about them.”

Robinson earned the posthumous induction after Anderson, of Coos Bay, took a journey back through the early years of her life, collecting old photos and facts about her grandfather to compile a history of his greyhound breeding days. She presented the collection to the Hall of Fame’s board of directors, which promptly decided Robinson deserved the Pioneer induction.

“They said they’d never had a presentation like that before,” Anderson said with a laugh.

In April, Anderson and her daughter, Kelly Kauffman of Lake Tahoe, Nev., and cousin Bertha Barnett and her husband Bobby, of Dallas, Texas, traveled to Enterprise to accept the award in front of 150 people.

“It was quite an experience,” Anderson said.

Robinson’s dog career began in 1928. In those days, greyhound racing consisted of releasing a jack rabbit and having two dogs chase it to see which was fastest. That’s a far cry from the big-event, big-money world of greyhound now, where Anderson and her daughter attended a pup auction in Kansas where $975,000 changed hands.

Robinson’s legacy is still alive in the greyhound business, though. Bloodlines from some of the dogs he bred later in his life are still alive and producing champions.

Probably his finest contribution to the greyhound pedigree was a stud dog named Mordaunt, born in 1932. Even today, Mordaunt’s bloodline is ubiquitous.

“That dog is in a lot of pedigrees today,” said Gary Guccione, director of the National Greyhound Association in Abilene, Kan. “He’s probably in, I would say, 60 percent of the bloodlines. That was kind of Robinson’s legacy as far as contributing to the breed and to the future of the pedigree.”

Robinson lived a life on the move. In the 1930s, he traveled the country, wheeling and dealing his prize greyhounds.

“They did a lot of traveling,” Anderson said of her grandparents. “Whenever they stopped somewhere for a week, my mother and I would go out to the track and see them.”

The family settled in Oregon in the 1940s, eventually making its way to North Bend. Robinson bought and sold his last two dogs, Verge Harmony and Sherry Harmony, in 1960.

Greyhounds were the family business until the end of Robinson’s life. Anderson doesn’t think it was ever about money, though.

“It wasn’t the money. He made big money and spent big money,” she said. “It was all about those dogs.”