Greyhound Racing & Speedway
The stadium is now used for greyhound racing on Friday and Saturday night. The site was first used for Greyhound Racing in 1990, six years after the closure of the old Perry Barr stadium known as the Birchfield Ladbroke Stadium, which was demolished in 1984.
A major race called the Birmingham Cup was held at Perry Barr until 2009 and it also hosted the original classic race the Scurry Gold Cup from 2005-2008.
The stadium is also the home of the Birmingham Brummies speedway team.
Read more about this topic: Perry Barr Stadium
Famous quotes containing the words greyhound, racing and/or speedway:
“Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“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 dont get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats 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)
“The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnsons nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)