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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Debates on working-class leisure and gambling
Historiography of greyhound racing
Argument
Notes
1 The rise of greyhound racing in Britain, 1926–45: the politics of discrimination
Beginnings
The internal politics and organisational rivalries of greyhound racing
Chadbards and sabbitarians: the National Anti-Gambling League, religious and the Establishment hostility to greyhound racing and the Monte Carlo type ‘Canine Casinos’
The state of greyhound racing in 1932 and the ‘Tote crisis’, 1932–34
The impact of the Second World War and continuing discrimination
Conclusion
Notes
2 Discrimination and decline: greyhound racing in Britain, 1945 to the 1960s
Attlee’s post-war Labour government, the rise of the off-course betting, planning controls and taxation
Continued discrimination and decline
Conclusion
Notes
3 ‘Animated roulette boards’: financing, operating and managing the greyhound tracks for racing the dogs, c. 1926–61
Investing in the tracks and the small-scale middle-class and professional investor
The structure and infrastructure of a greyhound track: the morphology and operation of the track
Two main rival business models and the changing income stream, operating costs and profitability of tracks, 1926–61
Preparing for race day
Conclusion
Notes
4 Dog breeding, dog owning and dog training: dividing the classes
Breeding the greyhound
Training, owning and racing greyhounds on NGRS/NGRC tracks
Dog breeding, training and racing at the flapping tracks
A conflict over legitimacy
The 1960s and 1970s
Conclusion
Notes
5 An Ascot for the common man
The representation and image of greyhound racing and gambling
The inter-war years
Varied experience
The greyhound tracks and the community
Conclusion
Notes
6 Policing the tracks, detecting malpractice and dealing with the racketeers and ‘shady’ individuals, 1926 to c. 1961
‘Renaming the Casino at Monte Carlo in England, except the dogs are substituted for the roulette board’: opposition to greyhound racing, police observations and policing the tracks, 1926 to the early 1930s
The police and ‘Tote crisis’ of 1932–34
The Sabini brothers and ‘Big Alf’
Policing the tracks
Malpractices and social evil: the distinction ‘between petty dishonesty and organised malpractice’
Conclusion
Notes
7 The decline of greyhound racing in Britain, 1961–2017
The closure of the tracks: global cruelty and off-course betting
BAGS and the streaming of greyhound racing
Self-regulation of the sport
Conclusion
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Appendices
Appendix 1 Names of National Greyhound Racing Society tracks in England, Scotland and Wales, June 1933
Appendix 2 The number of greyhound tracks in some towns and communities in England and Wales in 1947
Appendix 3 Greyhound tracks in England and Wales, by county, in 1947
Appendix 4 Attendances at sixty-seven of the seventy-seven NGRS tracks in 1948
Appendix 5 List of NGRS greyhound tracks closing in 1950 and 1951 and the list of those leaving the NGRS between 1950 for being unable to keep to NGRC standards
Appendix 6 A list of the thirty-six NGRS and PGTCO track that closed their totalisator between 1947 and 1953
Appendix 7 Pool Betting Duty and Surcharge, September to December 1961
Appendix 8 Money raised from the Greyhound Pool Betting Duty and from the Greyhound Bookmakers’ Licence Duty, April to December 1962
Appendix 9 Indicators of the decline in greyhound racing between 1951 and 1977
Bibliography
Index
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