by Graham | Mar 31, 2019 | Middle England - South West Midlands Tracks
Cheltenham Racecourse, Evesham Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 4SH. The Cheltenham Horse Race Festival is one of the UK’s busiest meeting of the year, attracting the top runners and riders with the temptation of impressive prizemoney that the sport can...
by Graham | Mar 26, 2019 | Middle England - South West Midlands Tracks
Denham, Buckinghamshire It is known that the village of Denham in Buckinghamshire once hosted Greyhound Racing. It was during May 1928 that events took place around an oval circuit, with the lure controlled by a hand winch. Little else is known on how it operated, or...
by Graham | Mar 21, 2019 | Middle England - South West Midlands Tracks
The district of Wyken lies two miles north-east of Coventry City centre. It is here that The Coventry and Walsgrave Greyhound Racing Club staged meetings. The first gathering took place on November 16th 1929, when an eight-race event was staged during the late...
by Graham | Mar 20, 2019 | Middle England - South West Midlands Tracks
Wroughton, Swindon, Wiltshire Another Greyhound Racing venue found in Wiltshire was the one in the parish of North Wroughton, a parish located two miles south of Swindon town centre. Meetings took place in a field opposite The Black Horse Public House, with its first...
by Graham | Mar 19, 2019 | Middle England - South West Midlands Tracks
Colemans Farm, Lower Chicksgrove, Tisbury, Salisbury, SP3 6NB A venue known as Colemans Farm becomes the next temporary Greyhound Racing venue to discuss. Coleman’s Farm resides in Lower Chicksgrove, a hamlet situated two miles east of Tisbury and ten miles west of...
by Graham | Mar 15, 2019 | Middle England - South West Midlands Tracks
Kings Norton Rugby Club, Ash Lane, Alvechurch, Hopwood, Birmingham B48 7BD The West Midlands surprisingly could not be classed as hotbed for Greyhound Racing, but one of its few flip tracks was found at the Kings Norton Rugby Ground on Ash Lane, Hopwood, a venue...
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