Ewart Johnson, an 80-year-old West Palm Beach resident, was a bit melancholy Thursday afternoon as he scrutinized his racing form at the Palm Beach Kennel Club. It was the last day greyhound racing ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida joins the majority of the country to do away with greyhound racing in the state, a decision that was made in 2018. An empty stadium will be the new reality for the Derby ...
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The 1,200 racing greyhounds in Florida will either be adopted out or go to race in one of three remaining states with the sport. But exact breakdowns are unknown. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a ...
Since its peak in 1985, greyhound racing in the United States has been on the decline. Once the last track in Texas closed in June 2020, only four states—Arkansas, Iowa, West Virginia, and Florida—had ...
ST. PETERSBURG — Just a few years shy of its 100th birthday, Derby Lane still looks like its old self. Well, sort of. The grandstands at the longest continually operating greyhound race track in the ...
CHARLESTON — A bipartisan group of U.S. House of Representatives members are making another attempt at phasing out greyhound racing at West Virginia’s two tracks, but state and federal lawmakers ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - At midnight, the nearly century-old tradition of racing greyhounds in Florida will come to an end. The battle over greyhound racing was hard fought on both sides for decades ...