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"Irish Greyhound Racing"
Below are my Ratings for 19 Irish Tracks up to 31/12/2008.
These will be my final ratings as i have found that over the last 9 years that
they do not change a great deal once you have done the homework.
With the exception of Lifford which is due to very good management - excellent groundstaff and the ability to draw a better class of greyhound they are the stars of my study. In the last 5 years they have gone from minus 0.15 seconds to plus 0.20 seconds. Their Sunday racing has been a enormous success while Clonmel started well but was unable to hold on to the better class of dog.
Shelbourne Park has been very steady only changing from 28.84 to 28.92 and Cork is the only one to hold on to the plus 0.30 seconds, changing only from 28.60 to 28.72. Mullingar on the other hand a minus 0.50 second track has changed from 29.39 to 29.63 over that period.
| Stadiums | 525 yards | Time | plus or minus |
| Cork | 525 | 28.60 | +0.30 |
| Limerick | 525 | 28.65 | +0.25 |
| Waterford | 525 | 28.65 | +0.25 |
| Longford | 525 | 28.70 | +0.20 |
| Lifford | 525 | 28.70 | +0.20 |
| Ballyskeagh | 525 | 28.70 | +0.20 |
| Tralee | 525 | 28.75 | +0.15 |
| Dundalk | 525 | 28.80 | +0.10 |
| Clonmel | 525 | 28.80 | +0.10 |
| Shelbourne Park | 525 | 28.90 | Zero |
| Newbridge | 525 | 28.90 | Zero |
| Galway | 525 | 28.95 | -0.05 |
| Thurles | 525 | 28.95 | -0.05 |
| Harolds Cross | 525 | 29.00 | -0.10 |
| Enniscorthy | 525 | 29.00 | -0.10 |
| Kilkenny | 525 | 29.15 | -0.25 |
| Youghal | 525 | 29.20 | -0.30 |
| Derry | 500 | 29.35 | -0.45 |
| Mullingar | 525 | 29.40 | -0.50 |