Greyhound Racing
Greyhound racing was first held at Eastville in 1932 and the Bristol Greyhound Company purchased the stadium in 1940. Two major events were held annually, the Golden Crest and the Western Two year old Produce Stakes. Racing came to an end in 1997.
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Famous quotes containing the words greyhound and/or racing:
“Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)