Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 12 hours ago
The last greyhound racing track in Sydney’s inner-city has closed for good. Last night, thousands packed into Wentworth Park for one last night out with the dogs.

Category

📺
TV
Transcript
00:02There were long queues as race fans filed through the turnstiles for the final time.
00:09A night for both the bookies and the history books.
00:12I've been coming here with my mother and father when I was eight year old so I've been coming a
00:16long time
00:16so I've got to come for the last night.
00:18It's an iconic track, it's just got a sound and a ring to it that no other track's got in
00:24Australia really
00:25and it's very very sad for it to go, yeah.
00:27You can see the tears in my eye mate. It'll be right.
00:31Bittersweet.
00:33Bittersweet.
00:34Bittersweet.
00:35Bittersweet.
00:36Across the road animal rights protesters were celebrating the occasion.
00:41Here to say good riddance to the greyhound racing industry and the city.
00:44This is the jewel in the crown for the racing industry.
00:47For it to close down it's a huge blow to the industry.
00:51They're trying to celebrate tonight but it's a huge loss for them.
00:54It's a win for the greyhounds.
00:55The sport has been a fixture at Wentworth Park for almost a century.
01:00A legacy not lost on those there to witness the final race.
01:04The mechanical hare performing one last lap of the track.
01:09Souvenir hunters have already been at work digging up the track and taking what they can.
01:15The rest is destined for the bulldozer.
01:18Wentworth Park will now be returned to public use as greyhound racing bows out of the inner city.
01:25The UNURinde group находится at Wentworth Park during thearisier.
01:26That is the future?
01:26There are new jumpsuites.
01:27You can have reconifice and fire when the goose busted in front of the track.

Recommended