Harlow Stadium

Harlow Stadium
Tenants
Location	Roydon Road, The Pinnacles, Harlow, CM19 5FT
Coordinates	51°46'19.8"N 0°03'49.6"E
Opened	1995
Greyhound racing

Harlow Stadium is a greyhound racing track located in Harlow, Essex, England.^[1] The stadium also has executive suites, a restaurant, a number of bars and conference and banqueting facilities.

Racing takes place every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday night.

Opening

Harlow Stadium opened on Wednesday 15 March 1995. The site chosen for racing was an area north east of the town known as the Pinnacles just off the Roydon Road and directly west of the football stadium. Access to the track is on Stadium Way past the Scimitar industrial park. Toni Nicholls bought the land from receivers when the new football stadium was being built in 1993 and constructed the new facilities including executive suites, a restaurant and conference and banqueting facilities. In addition a large car park was constructed. ^[2]

History

The first Racing Manager was former trainer Stan Gudgin who was replaced by Mark Schellenberg after Gudgins retirement. In 2005 Nicholls’s company Leaside Leisure Ltd came to an agreement with Barclay Entertainment to sell the track. The new stadium owner was Dave Barclay joint-owner of a successful building contractors business in the Essex area. Despite offers from developers Barclay continues to invest into the track and has achieved some notable successes for Harlow Greyhound Stadium. ^[3]

Following the closure of Walthamstow Stadium in 2008 Chris Page arrived as General Manager with five trainers; John Coleman, Mark Wallis, Mick Puzey, Graham Sharp and Kelly Mullins. Mark Wallis brought the ultimate prize to the track after winning the 2009 English Greyhound Derby with Kinda Ready. ^[4] Harlow was rewarded with a first Sky Sports televised meeting in 2011 and Barclay brought in Greyhound Sales in 2013.

Track records

^[5]

Distance	Greyhound	Time	Date
238m	Morning Glory	14.66	12.07.2014
415m	Barton Wade	25.50	09.10.2002
592m	Borna Payment	37.01	31.03.2010
769m	Snappy Girl	49.43	31.05.2006
946m	Killishin Masai	62.11	23.05.2010
415mH	Bomber Bailey	26.11	17.03.2010
592mH	Bozy Blue Blaze	38.30	22.08.2001

References

↑ "Track Search". Greyhound Board of Great Britain. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
↑ Fry, Paul (1995). The Official NGRC Greyhound Racing Yearbook, page 215. Ringpress Books. ISBN 186054-010-4.
↑ Hobbs, Jonathan (2007). Greyhound Annual 2008, page 187. Raceform. ISBN 978-1-905153-53-4.
↑ "Wallis makes Mark in Greyhound Derby". Harlow Herald.
↑ "Track records". Greyhound Data.

External links

Greyhound stadiums in Great Britain licensed by the Greyhound Board of Great Britain

Licensed stadiums	Belle Vue Brighton & Hove Crayford Doncaster Hall Green Harlow Henlow Kinsley Mildenhall Monmore Green Newcastle Nottingham Pelaw Grange Perry Barr Peterborough Poole Romford Shawfield Sheffield Sittingbourne Sunderland Swindon Towcester Wimbledon Yarmouth

English greyhound tracks

Licensed Tracks

Birmingham (Hall Green) Birmingham (Kings Heath) Birmingham (old Perry Barr) Birmingham (Perry Barr) Blackburn Blackpool (Squires Gate) Blackpool (St Annes) Bolton Bournemouth Bradford (City Stadium) Bradford (Greenfield) Brighton & Hove Bristol (Eastville) Bristol (Knowle) Burnley Cambridge Canterbury Castleford (Whitwood) Chesterton Clacton Coventry (Brandon) Coventry (Lythalls) Cradley Heath Crayford Crayford and Bexleyheath Derby Doncaster (Sprotbrough) Doncaster (Stainforth) Exeter Gateshead Gloucester and Cheltenham Halifax Harlow Henlow Hull (Boulevard) Hull (Old Craven Park) Hull (New Craven Park) Huntingdon Ipswich Kinsley Leeds (Elland Road) Leeds (Fullerton Park) Leeds (Parkside) Leicester Liverpool (Breck Park) Liverpool (Seaforth) Liverpool (Stanley) Liverpool (White City) London (Brixton) London (Catford) London (Charlton) London (Clapton) London (Dagenham) London (Hackney) London (Harringay) London (Hendon) London (New Cross) London (Park Royal) London (Perry Hill) London (Stamford Bridge) London (Walthamstow) London (Wandsworth) London (Watford) London (Wembley) London (West Ham) London (White City) London (Wimbledon) Long Eaton Maidstone Manchester (Audenshaw) Manchester (Belle Vue) Manchester (White City) Mansfield Middlesbrough Mildenhall Milton Keynes Newcastle (Brough Park) Newcastle (Gosforth) Newcastle (White City) Norton Canes Norwich (Boundary Park) Norwich (City Stadium) Nottingham (Colwick) Nottingham (White City) Oldham Oxford Pelaw Grange Peterborough Plymouth (Pennycross) Poole Portsmouth (Copnor) Portsmouth (Tipner) Preston Ramsgate Rayleigh Weir Reading (Bennet Road) Reading (Oxford Road) Rochdale Rochester Romford Rye House Salford (Albion) Sheffield (Darnall) Sheffield (Owlerton) Sittingbourne Slough Southampton Southend South Shields Spennymoor Staines Stanley Stockport (Hazel Grove) Stoke (Cobridge) Sunderland Swaffham Swindon Tamworth Towcester Wakefield Warrington Willenhall Wisbech Wolverhampton (Monmore) Yarmouth

Unlicensed Tracks (Independent / flapping)

Ashington Askern Aycliffe Barrow (Craven Park) Barrow (Park Road) Bedford (Cardington Road) Boston (Shodfriars Lane) Braintree (Cressing Road) Chester Durham Easington Exeter Goldthorpe (Highgate) London (Crooked Billet) London (old Dagenham) Luton Mansfield Woodhouse March Newhall (Oversetts Road) Norwich (The Firs) Norwich (Thorpe) Nottingham (Olympic) Peterborough (Newark) Plymouth (Beacon Park) Romford (old) Southend (Kursaal) Swindon (North Wroughton) Taunton (County Ground) Wansbeck Wheatley Hill Workington Yarmouth (old)

Coordinates: 51°46′20″N 0°03′49″E / 51.77215°N 0.06374°E / 51.77215; 0.06374

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