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Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 1:40 pm
by Cockneyboy311
Holy **** balls! Mad amount of tracks. I didn't know there was one in Dagenham either. Things you learn.
Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:19 am
by Romford
I never knew Dagenham either...remember and visited White City, Wembley, Hackney, Harringey and Southend.
Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:50 am
by peter49uk
You have to admire the temerity of em
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Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 2:32 pm
by Romford
Quality
Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 2:40 pm
by Romford
Some great old pics here :
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Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 2:45 pm
by Romford
Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:59 pm
by hammerdivone
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!
Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:36 pm
by Up the Junction
peter49uk wrote:You have to admire the temerity of em
Would make a great film...
Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 10:44 am
by rare as rockinghorse shat
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.
Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:42 pm
by Cockneyboy311
Up the Junction wrote:
Would make a great film...
I thought that actually. Danny Dyer and Ray Winstone
Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:06 pm
by Romford
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.
Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:09 pm
by Romford
Cockneyboy311 wrote:
I thought that actually. Danny Dyer and Ray Winstone
Sadly the knob that is Vinny Jones would be a shoe-in......although a certain Jools Holland owns dogs
Re: Wimbledon Dog Track RIP
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:00 pm
by Johnny Byrne's Boots
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.