Henlow greyhound trial results

Monmore Flat Crayford Flat Harlow Flat Grade: A8 Distance: m Racing: Flat. To help personalise content, tailor your experience and help us improve our services, Timeform uses cookies.

By navigating our site, you agree to allow us to use cookies, in accordance with our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy. Trainer Day Strike Rate. K C Robins 4. Second race back from time off. Usual tapped for a yard of early pace. J M Ray Holds the edge judged on ratings. Facing easier task than last time. T J Nevin Hasn't impressed particularly in its trials.

Chance doesn't bode well in this line up. Although it is not necessarily guaranteed that it was operational all the time, as other types of lure may have been used and updated as time progressed. Please note that most racing venues distances had become varied throughout the years, the ones given above were at once point set and offers only a guidance to the track size.

Please note that alterations at most racing venues throughout its existence would see that the circumference of the track would vary, the one shown above offers only a guidance to the track size. Henlow Camp is a small town in Bedfordshire, situated roughly four miles north of Hitchen, with possibly its main source of an attraction being the Henlow Greyhound Stadium.

The years following the First World War had seen whippet racing developing rapidly throughout the UK, mainly in the north, were it had become part of the past times amongst the textile and mining communities.

One of the reasons on how the Henlow track developed was due to its close proximity of the Henlow Camp, an RAF base, which at the time would have accommodated a good number of whippet racing enthusiasts throughout its personal, who were no doubt in need of somewhere to race their pets.

Although Henlow had seen whippets chasing a drag hare in those early years, there had also been opportunities for greyhounds to run the same course also. But it was during the summer of that a more recognised oval greyhound track was laid, and due to the interest shown by locals, Henlow put on its first meeting on the 1st of August The track was primitive indeed, as the course had been marked out by wooden stakes, and the dogs chased a trackless type hare which happened to be nothing more than a lure pulled along by a hand operated winch.

The post war years had seen the track well organised as a programme shows then that races consisted of six greyhounds challenging over distances of and yards, yet still operated as an independent track. Although distances varied throughout the years due to alterations and development, by distances were being run over , and yards, with an inside Sumner hare type system fitted at the time.

It continued to operate undisturbed as a flapping track for almost fifty years before accepting an offer to join the NGRC in as a permit track operating under a C license.

Today, Henlow continues to operate under NGRC rules, but due to its graphical location, will probably not reach the standards of the big city licensed tracks, such as Sheffield and Nottingham.

Henlow has crowd capacity of just 1,, and offers six dog racing, with the hounds chasing an outside Swaffham McGee type hare. Distances are run over , , , , , and metres, with the track having a metre circumference.