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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=245 BGCOLOR="#6699CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1008" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 212 ><NOBR><div> <B> <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH=1000 HEIGHT=208> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="HTMLobj-393/cairns_hdr_file.swf"> <PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=opaque> <PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=noscale> <EMBED src="HTMLobj-393/cairns_hdr_file.swf" menu=false quality=high wmode=opaque scale=noscale WIDTH=1000 HEIGHT=208 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> </EMBED> </OBJECT>  </B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 13 WIDTH="1004"><div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cairns Greyhound Racing Club"><B>HOME</B></A><B>     -     </B><A HREF="contact.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><B>CONTACT US</B></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=203 BGCOLOR="#6699CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="4" WIDTH="1007" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#FFFF00" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#003366 HEIGHT= 420 ><NOBR><div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="4" WIDTH="982" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#FFFF00" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#A6CAF0 HEIGHT= 380 WIDTH="175"><div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cairns Greyhound Racing Club">Home</A></div> <div> <A HREF="trackdetails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Track Details">Track Details</A></div> <div> <B>Track History</B></div> <div> <A HREF="fields.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fields Form">Fields - Form</A></div> <div> <A HREF="results.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Results">Results</A></div> <div> <A HREF="news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News">News</A></div> <div> <A HREF="functions.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Functions">Functions</A></div> <div> <A HREF="points.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Point Score">Point Score</A></div> <div> <A HREF="calendar.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Racing Calendar">Racing Calendar</A></div> <div> <A HREF="contact.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us">Contact Us</A></div> <div> <A HREF="sponsors.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Sponsors">Our Sponsors</A></div> <div> <A HREF="photogallery.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Gallery">Photo Gallery</A></div> <div> <A HREF="salewanted.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="For Sale Wanted">For Sale - Wanted</A></div> <div> <A HREF="membership.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Membership">Membership</A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF WIDTH="779"><div> <B><U>CLUB HISTORY</U></B></div> <bR> <div> The Cairns Greyhound Racing Club was born & formed through a General Public Meeting on the 28/08/1973 of which there was over 3000 people in attendance at this meeting. </div> <bR> <div> Mr.Harry Young was the Club President and he along with his hard working committee carefully prepared and planned for two years to make Cairns the first night Greyhound operation other then the Gabba Greyhound racing Club in SE Qld. </div> <bR> <div> Situated at Cannon Park - the distances in the beginning were 541 metres & 734 metres and the initial outlay of expenditure to get it off the ground came in at approx $175,000-00. </div> <bR> <div> The Cairns Greyhound Racing Club hosted it's very first race meeting on the 3rd July 1975 and was officially opened by Queenslands' Deputy Premier & Minister for Racing Sir Gordon Chalk & Lady Chalk. The 8 Race program was headed off with the 541m "NQ Lager Mixed Grade Stake" which was won by trainer John Keep's "RICKETY ROSE" in a time of 33.50. </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=32 BGCOLOR="#6699CC" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>