It was the first sport Sir Arthur Elvin introduced to the stadium.[42] The opening meeting was in 1927.[43][44] The greyhound racing provided the stadium with its main source of regular income, especially in the early decades, and continued to attract crowds of several thousand up until the early 1960s.[42] The stadium staged its last greyhound race meeting in December 1998 with the owners, the Greyhound Racing Association, citing economic reasons and the lack of plans for a greyhound track in the stadium's redevelopment.[45]