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  2. Posted

    8 hours ago, WembleyLion said:

    Trevor Redmond

    Exactly, that was Trevor Redmond.

    When his attempt to establish speedway in the Caribean did not work out as planed, he changed direction and went to Rhodesia, where he joined up with Scotsman Alex Hughson and quite successfully promoted speedway in Rhodesia/Southern Africa for a few years in the early 1970s.

    I'm not aware of any other attempt to take speedway to the Caribean, neither before nor after Redmond's venture.

     

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    By the way, does anyone of You guys know who tried to introduce speedway & stock car racing track to Jamaica in the late 1960s?

    It didn't really work out, as only some stock car racing ever took place there, but no motorcycle speedway.

    And, no, for once it wasn't Hoskins, but an other well known speedway promoter in Britain, in fact even a New Zealander by birth, too, just like Hoskins. 

    Any guesses, who it was?

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    That photograph with JSH looking up to that man Wilfred McIntosh standing tall over his speedway bike is well known. It can be found in Ron Hoare's book "Speedway Panorama" (page 144). But it was only a gag, a hoax, just one of Hoskins' many publictity stunts, and McIntosh never seriously considdered a career as a speedway rider. From his physical stature alone, this giant of a man he was totally unsuited to become a speedway rider.

    I don't know if he ever rode in an official race at all, possible not even in a second half heat race. He was only posing for this publicity picture with Hoskins and Chitty, I guess.      

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    CanidromeOutside.jpg

    I have just discovered on Wikipedia that in 1930 they had not just one, but in fact THREE greyhound tracks in Shanghai. 

    Here is a 1930s picture with an outside view of the most impressive of the three Shanghai greyhound tracks, the "Canidrome" Greyhound Stadium. This was a pretty impressive building, but this is not the one, where the speedway racing took place. The speedway was staged at the Shen Garden Stadium, owned by the Shanghai Greyhound Racing Club.  

    The "Canidrome" was one of three dog racing tracks to be built in Shanghai in 1927–1928. The first was Luna Park ("Ming Garden" in Chinese), opened in May 1928. In 1932, the Municipal Council of the Shanghai International Settlement closed Luna Park down because of concerns about gambling, and thereafter it became a general amusement park. The second was the Stadium ("Shen Garden" in Chinese), owned by the Shanghai Greyhound Racing Club, which was also closed down by the Municipal Council in 1932, and thereafter became a sports stadium, and is now the Jing'an Workers Stadium. The Canidrome, being under French jurisdiction in the French Concession, was the sole survivor after 1932. It was also the largest of the three stadiums.

     

    On SPEEDWAY PLUS there is a short article written byTony Webb about the Shanghai Speedway http://www.speedwayplus.com/Shanghai.shtml

     

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  19. Posted

    2 hours ago, iris123 said:

    Interesting mention of speedway in Shanghai, China there

    Shanghai Speedway was promoted by an Australien entrepreneur, Mr. Les Levante, who leased the local greyhound stadium. The first speedway meeting in Shanghai was held on Sunday, June 1, 1930, featuring eleven Australian riders. There were no local riders involved. 

    Levante's touring party had initially travelled from Brisbane to Manila, where a track was constructed in a baseball stadium. For some reason, speedway racing did not catch on in the Philippines, and after only a short stay, Levante and his troupe of riders went on to China. The arrangement with the stadium in Shanghai also was only for a short space of time, and according to the support given, would or would not become a permanent institution in Shanghai. But as in Manila, it didn't catch on in Shanghai, either.

    The names of the eleven speedway riders, who went on this enterprising tour of East Asia in 1930, they are Arthur Yenson, Jack Allen, Mannie Scofell, Harry Lillistone, Billy Lunn, Les Lawrence, Harold Meston, Harry Radford, Len Street, Bernie Rein, and Tommie Tompkins.    

  21. Posted

    Bergé was doing great riding for my club Landshut in the Polish Div.1 in the past two years. Moody, yes, sometimes, but most of the time simply brillant.
    He concentrates on speedway now, and does not ride in long-track or grass track meetings anymore. 

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  25. Posted

    13 hours ago, stevehone said:

    final in Poland too so straight through, maybe noone else wanted to stage it

    Germany should have taken it on.

    Pocking stages its annual 4-Team-International meeting on Easter Sunday, this year on March 31, that's the day after the Euro Team semi-final in Gdansk. That would have been the perfect place to run this Germany v Ukraine v Sweden v Latvia meeting.    

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