Auchinleck Greyhound Stadium

Auchinleck Greyhound Stadium
Location	Pennylands Road, Auchinleck, East Ayrshire
Coordinates	55°28'17.2"N 4°18'08.2"W
Opened	1930?
Closed	2003

Auchinleck Greyhound Stadium was a greyhound racing stadium in East Ayrshire.

The greyhound stadium in Auchinleck was located south of Mauchline Road and north of Barony Road in Auchinleck, East of Ayr.^[1] The track was a popular independent (unlicensed) track for over 70 years and had a 365-yard circumference and a 100 yards run to the first bend with the main distances being 264, 410 and 610 yards.^[2] The major race was the Autumn Auchinleck Derby but the stadium closed in 2003 and was sold for development in 2006.

Scottish greyhound tracks

Licensed Tracks

Aberdeen (Holburn) Dundee (Dens Park) Edinburgh (Powderhall) Edinburgh (Stenhouse) Falkirk (Brockville Park) Falkirk (Diamond) Glasgow (Albion) Glasgow (Carntyne) Glasgow (Firhill) Glasgow (Marine Gardens) Glasgow (Shawfield) Glasgow (White City)

Unlicensed tracks (Independent/flapping)

Aberdeen (Regent Park) Allanton Armadale (Bathgate Road) Armadale (Volunteer Park) Auchinleck Ayr (Voluntary Park) Ayr (Tams Brig) Barrhead Berwick Blantyre Carfin Corbiewood Cowdenbeath (Central Park) Cowdenbeath (North End Park) Crossgates Denny Dumbarton Dumfries Dundee (Tannadice Park) Dunfermline (East End Park) Dunfermline (Milesmark) Edinburgh (Royal Gymnasium) Falkirk (Firs Park) Galston Glasgow (Ashfield) Glasgow (Clydeholm) Glasgow (Coatbridge) Glasgow (Mount Vernon) Glasgow (Nelson) Greenock (Cappielow) Gretna (Halcrow) Gretna (Raydale Park) Hawick (Albert Park) Hawick (Target Hill) Irvine (Caledonian) Irvine (Townhead) Kilmarnock Kincardine Kirkcaldy Larkhall Linlithgow Methil Motherwell (Clyde Valley) Motherwell (Milton Street) Paisley Shotts (Gasworks) Shotts (Stadium) Stevenston Stirling (Forthbank Park) Thornton Tranent Wallyford Wishaw

References

↑ "OS Plan 1961". old-maps.co.uk.
↑ Barnes, Julia (1988). Daily Mirror Greyhound Fact File. Ringpress Books. p. 273. ISBN 0-948955-15-5.

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