Nottingham Greyhound Stadium

NOTTINGHAM GREYHOUND STADIUM This site is not an official website for the track shown here and is neither approved or endorsed by the stadium. I am indebted to Richard English for the scans of badges on this page.
Whilst greyhound racing had taken place regularly at the old White City track in the City, a brand new track was opened at Colwick Park adjacent to the Horse racecourse. The greyhound track in the city of Nottingham is based at Colwick Park,and situated at 1° 6' W 52° 56' N. It operates under NGRC rules and first opened on 24th January 1980.

It hosts top class races and regularly sees the top dogs, even Greyhound Derby winners, compete in its prestigious races.

Track Records, as of 1987, are shown below together with an indication of how fast the time is in comparison to other tracks, both for currently open and defunct tracks, in the UK. Ratings are between 0 and 100, where 100 is an extremely fast time and reflects the speed of the track, tightness of the circuit and quality of greyhound visiting the tracks. I am grateful to Tony Nash for providing the data. SPRINTS (up to 385m) STANDARD (386-549m) DISTANCE (550-699m) EXTENDED (700-999m) Nottingham Colwick Park Track Records at a snapshot in time:- SPRINTS 312 metres Fagans Friend 18.41 secs Rating 53 STANDARD 485 metres Fearless Ace 29.26 secs Rating 32 STANDARD 500 metres Hollyhill Way 30.35 secs Rating 26 DISTANCE 680 metres Wailea Flash 41.67 secs Rating 52 Track Records, as of September 2014, are shown below together with an indication of how fast the time is in comparison to other tracks, both for currently open and defunct tracks, in the UK. Ratings are between 0 and 100, where 100 is an extremely fast time and reflects the speed of the track, tightness of the circuit and quality of greyhound visiting the tracks. SPRINTS (up to 385m) STANDARD (386-549m) DISTANCE (550-699m) EXTENDED (700-999m) Nottingham Track Records at a snapshot in time:- SPRINT 255 metres Skate On 14.84 secs. Rating 66 18th August 2014 STANDARD 480 metres Swift Hoffman 28.07 secs Rating 61 15th July 2014 DISTANCE 680 metres Fabulous Shanty 41.06 secs Rating 51 4th March 2013 EXTENDED 925 metres Fearsome Liberty 57.86 secs Rating 34 18th November 2013
I am grateful to Jon Seddon for the following link to a map showing the whereabouts of the old track http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?txtXCoord=459865&txtYCoord=339488
This section gives a comprehensive picture of the badges produced by the track throughout the ages, but only provides the briefest of glimpses of its history. For those wishing to undertake further research we can recommend a visit to http://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwgreyhoundd-21 where further reading can be undertaken.
If you have rare Nottingham badges and artefacts for sale then email johnslusar@fsmail.net