{"id":2796,"date":"2020-10-04T18:57:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T18:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2020-10-04T18:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T18:58:32","slug":"the-greyhound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2796","title":{"rendered":"The greyhound"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The era of greyhound racing in the U.S. is coming to an end<\/em>, wrote the National Geographic in its October 2020<\/a> issue. Photos are from the article.<\/p>\n

Next time to Florida, there would be one less attraction, not that I’ve attended the dog racing before. The famed Derby Lane<\/a> is closing down at the end of this year. The last race is on December 27, five years short of its centennial.<\/p>\n

Greyhound is a handsome and masculine dog. 64 years old Derby Lane CEO, with an appropriate last name, Richard Winning says \u201cIt\u2019s a shame to have to shut down after 95 years.\u201d May he write a book about it after the closure? After all, it was his great-grandfather T.L Weaver stepped in to save the venue in 1925, when the initial partners ran out of money. There are a few states in the US that still have the race, and a few countries such as UK, Aussie, Ireland, New Zealand, Mexico and Vietnam.<\/p>\n

But no worry, “Farmer remains hopeful that he can use his Native American heritage as a way to save racing in Florida. He\u2019s got a plan to convince either the Seminole or the Miccosukee tribes to acquire a track that would operate in conjunction with one of their casinos and thus be exempt from state or federal regulation. That would, he said, \u201cbuild a tradition.\u201d So far, though, the tribes have expressed no interest.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The era of greyhound racing in the U.S. is coming to an end, wrote the National Geographic in its October 2020 issue. Photos are from…<\/p>\n

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