Harlow Greyhound Stadium

HARLOW 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.
The greyhound track at Harlow is situated at 0° 3' E 51° 46' N and operates under NGRC rules. The Essex track can be found at The Pinnacles in Harlow and races on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings. It first opened for racing in 1995.

The traditional distances over which races take place are 238 metre sprints, standard 415 metres and a marathon over 946 metres.

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) Harlow Track Records at a snapshot in time:- SPRINT 238 metres Nellie Thursby 14.73 secs. Rating 8 18th September 2002 STANDARD 415 metres Barton Wade 25.50 secs Rating 15 9th October 2002 DISTANCE 592 metres Borna Payment 37.01 secs Rating 19 31st March 2010 EXTENDED 769 metres Snappy Girl 49.42 secs Rating 10 31st May 2006
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=542489&txtYCoord=210178
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 Harlow badges and artefacts for sale then email johnslusar@fsmail.net