Greyhound Protection League

 

KNOW THE FACTS ABOUT GREYHOUND RACING

 

 

STATES WHERE LIVE AND/OR SIMULCASTING OF GREYHOUND RACING

IS NOW BANNED DUE TO LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS:

 

 

*once existed in the state; reversed legal status +banned simulcasting in 1998 – live racing outlawed in 1954

 

35 TRACKS OFFER LIVE RACING IN 13 OF THE 16 STATES WHERE DOG RACING IS LEGAL Active tracks in each state are indicated in parentheses. 8 tracks are seasonal; 27 are year-round. More than one third of the nation’s dog tracks are located in Florida.

 

 

MEXICAN DOG TRACKS: 

 

Up to a thousand American bred pups and grade-offs are sent to the Caliente Dog Track in Tijuana, Mexico, yearly. Breeders, dog owners and dog tracks located in the US supply the track with NGA registered greyhounds. The Juarez (reopened 2005 – closed 2006) and Nuevo Laredo Dog Tracks, now closed, were also supplied with American-bred, NGA registered dogs for decades.

 

DUE TO ECONOMIC DECLINE, TWENTY-SEVEN DOG RACING FACILITIES HAVE CLOSED AND/OR ENDED LIVE DOG RACING SINCE 1991 (several tracks such as Lakes Region, Juarez, Camptown, Rocky Mt. and Shoreline have closed, reopened, closed, been sold and reopened, etc.):

 

Key West GHP – Key West, FL (1991)*	St. Johns Greyhound Park – Jacksonville, FL (2000)**
Interstate – CO (1991)	Seminole Greyhound Park – FL (2001)*
Green Mountain Race Track – Pownal, VT (1992)	St. Croix Meadows – St. Croix, WI (2001)
Black Hills Track – Black Hills, SD (1992)*	Pueblo Greyhound Park – CO (2002)**
Fox Valley Greyhound Park – Fox Valley, WI (1993)*	Multnomah Kennel Club – Portland, OR (2004)
Yuma Greyhound Park – Yuma, AZ (1993)	Apache Greyhound Park – AZ (2004) **
Sodrac Greyhound Park – Sodrac, SD (1994)*	Geneva Lakes KC – Geneva Lakes, WI (2005)*
Coeur d’Alene Greyhound Park – ID (1995)	Plainfield GHP – Plainfield, CT (2005)**
Biscayne Kennel Club – Miami Shores, FL (1995)*	Post Time (Rocky Mt GP++)- Co Springs, CO (2005)**
Greenetrack – Eutaw, AL (1996) **	Shoreline Star – Bridgeport, CT (2006)**
Waterloo Greyhound Park – Waterloo, IA (1996)	Cloverleaf KC – Loveland, CO (2006)**
Wisconsin Dells GHP – Wisconsin Dells, WI (1996)*	Tampa Greyhound Park – Tampa, FL (2007) *** **

Camptown Greyhound Park – Frontenac, KS (2000)+  Wichita Greyhound Park – Wichita, KS (2007) 

 Jacksonville Kennel Club – Jacksonville, FL (2007)

 

*Building has been demolished **Remains open for simulcasting ***Open for table games

+Camptown Greyhound Park had a short but eventful history: opened in May 1995 – went bankrupt six months later.

New owner opened live racing – August 2000 – closed November 2000.

++Rocky Mt GP closed – 2001. New owner renamed it Post Time – live racing briefly – closed in 2005.

 

 

U.S. RACING GREYHOUND BREEDING STATISTICS AND ANALYSIS OF THE ANNUAL NUMBERS OF DOGS KILLED FROM 1986 – 2006:

 

Each year, thousands of young greyhounds who do not display potential to make money are disposed of at greyhound breeding and training farms. In addition, each week at tracks around the country, truckloads of failed or injured racers are sent to be killed at veterinary offices, animal shelters, research labs, and destinations unknown. In a transparent attempt to conceal the death toll, the industry and its supporters now claim that 90% of all “adoptable” greyhounds are adopted. One would have to agree that dead dogs are not adoptable. 

 

A.   Where do those puppies go? . . .

 

Many greyhound puppies and youngsters are judged to be of inferior racing quality at birth or during the farm training process. Many owners elect not to continue investing in dogs that demonstrate little potential of making money; the vast majority of those dogs are destroyed on the farm before they ever start a racing career. In recent years the yearly disappearance of thousands of puppies is explained away by the industry spokesperson as death from “natural causes”. However, this same spokesperson admitted in a 1991 interview that puppies were, in fact, destroyed on the farms. Industry insiders confirm that large numbers of pups are destroyed. Young greyhounds that do show promise are individually registered and named before going to a track at about 18 months.