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Greyhound racing is undergoing a resurgence in popularity as more and more people discover it as both a sport and a form of gambling.

Put simply, the dogs chase a lure around a track and the winner of the race is the dog whose nose first reaches the winning line. Greyhounds cover 480 meters in aproximately 28 seconds, twice the speed of a human athlete. Greyhounds race from 15 months of age, but typically are best from 2 ½ to 3 ½ years old.
The first recorded attempt at racing greyhounds on a straight track was made beside the Welsh Harp reservoir, Hendon in 1876, but this experiment did not develop. The sport emerged in its recognizable modern form, featuring circular or oval tracks, with the invention of the mechanical or artificial hare 1912 by Owen Patrick Smith. O.P. Smith had altruistic aims for the sport to stop the killing of the jack rabbits and see "greyhound race as we see horses".
In common with many other sports, greyhound racing enjoyed its highest attendances just after the Second World War—for example, there were 34 million paying spectators in 1946. The sport experienced a decline from the early 1960s, when the 1960 Betting and Gaming Act permitted off-course cash betting, although sponsorship, limited television coverage, and the later abolition of on-course betting tax have partially offset this decline.
 
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