Greyhound Racing
Greyhound racing was run continuously at the stadium from 1927 until its closure 60 years later. In 1935 Harringay held its first major race, the Pall Mall Stakes which moved to Oxford Stadium in 1987 after closure. In 1940 it hosted the prestigious greyhound race, the Derby. Such was Harringay's reputation that in the 1950s Sporting Life called the track "the best running circuit in Britain".
Although the sport was in decline from the 1960s onwards, Harringay had a brief spell of fame when the stadium became the home of Greyhound racing on London Weekend Television's World of Sport between 1972 and 1982.
The last greyhound meeting was held on 25 September 1987.
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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)