Wimbledon Dog Track RIP

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Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP

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Romford wrote:This is for the UK :

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Holy **** balls! Mad amount of tracks. I didn't know there was one in Dagenham either. Things you learn.
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I never knew Dagenham either...remember and visited White City, Wembley, Hackney, Harringey and Southend.
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You have to admire the temerity of em

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Quality :D
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Some great old pics here :

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hammerdivone wrote:Great shame, we always had a summer evenings racing there each year as a family.
rare as rockinghorse shat wrote:What made you stop exactly?
We didn't, we just won't be going this year obviously!
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peter49uk wrote:You have to admire the temerity of em
Would make a great film...
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hammerdivone wrote:We didn't, we just won't be going this year obviously!
Ah I see. From how you said it, I thought it was something that you had previously given up rather than being forced to now.
Would have been interested as an insight in to what your individual reasons were, to see if others may have shared the same reasons.
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Up the Junction wrote: Would make a great film...
I thought that actually. Danny Dyer and Ray Winstone :D
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One thing is for sure...there are going to be plenty of dogs competing for very few runs down the South East now.

The A8s are going to be run by A3s

Must also add that both the Smoke tracks are now very tight....with shedloads of trouble on the first bend. Plenty of owners wont be relishing their prize mutts going lame around Rommers and Crayford.
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Cockneyboy311 wrote:
I thought that actually. Danny Dyer and Ray Winstone :D
Sadly the knob that is Vinny Jones would be a shoe-in......although a certain Jools Holland owns dogs
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Hersham Hounds are going to be busy.

If you're thinking about it, greyhounds are incredibly docile and will happily sleep for twenty hours a day.
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