Hunting with Cheetahs

The postcard above is one of the most common images available of a "Cheetah hunt". Although the back say's "Cheetah" it is obviously a leopard in the image. Post card manufacture's were known to take "liberties" with images on their cards, and as the lithograph from much earlier, below states: Asiatic Cheetah--Once upon a time, the Asiatic Cheetah(a different subspecies from it's African cousin) was quite common and roamed all the way from Arabia to Iran, Afghanistan and India. The Asiatic Cheetah was also known as the leopard, and were kept by Kings and Princes to hunt Gazelle, we can assume the numbnut's postcard guy imposed a "leopard" in the wagon in the photo above. Or they did use Leopards, but that seems real unlikely to me.