Woodlands Dog Track
Woodlands Dog Track is located on 400 acres of land in beautiful western Wyandotte County in Kansas City, Kansas. The track is a one mile dirt track that features dog and quarter horse racing. It is open year-round and has four restaurants.
Woodlands Dog Track’ first turn diner offers a fantastic view of the track and is the perfect setting for a group of 20 or more spectators. Meanwhile, "The Starting Box" is a casual, self-service area that overlooks the beginning of the track.
Woodlands Dog Track's atrium is especially suited to simulcast patrons. This area has many television monitors tuned to various dog tracks around the United States.
Racing dogs are also housed at Woodlands Dog Track's modern facilities. The compound also has an adoption kennel for retired dogs.
Getting to Woodlands Dog Track
Woodlands Dog Track is located at 9700 Leavenworth Road, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
History of Woodlands Dog Track
Dog racing in Kansas goes back to the mid-nineteenth century, when farmers imported dogs to help control the jackrabbit population. Later in the century coursing – in which dogs chased live rabbits in an enclosed field – became a popular entertainment.
The first regulated dog coursing match in the United States was held at Cheyenne Bottoms, Kansas in 1886.
One hundred years later, in 1986, Kansas voters decided by referendum to amend the state constitution to allow pari-mutuel wagering at dog tracks. The Legislature passed the Kansas Pari-mutuel Racing Act the following year.
Woodlands Dog Track opened in 1989. A horse track was added to the track a couple of years later.
In December 1998, William M. Grace, a gaming and construction magnate, bought the track.
The dog racing industry boasts that Kansas is the home of dog racing. The National dog Association (NGA), which operates the national registry of racing dogs, is located in Abilene; so is the National dog Hall of Fame.
There are more than fifty dog breeding farms in the Kansas, and among them they produced 6,500 of the 35,800 dogs whelped in 1998.
