Saluki came in a very close second, along with Borzoi. Collie won out because that's the personality type I'm enjoying in a dog right now.

Looking at the little fuzzball in front of me, the sighthound-influenced physiology is really obvious. Rough collies are what happened when Victorian aristocrats crossed farm collies into borzoi because the results were so darn pretty and elegant. I find it rather hilarious that this echoed what the peasantry had done in prior generations, breeding their collies to illegal greyhounds so that they could more easily poach game.