The track on Newlands Drive, off the York Road at the back of Regent Grove[1] was opened on 14 April 1928 by the Mansfield Greyhound Racecourse Co. During the first year of trading as a licensed track they were banned from National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) racing following the refusal to comply with the NGRC stewards instructions.

Throughout the years the track would switch between fully licensed affiliation and independent status (unaffiliated to a governing body) but would boast an English Greyhound Derby finalist in 1945.

[2] From the early 1950s the track was owned by local bookmaker Charlie Bint and had a fully licensed casino on site until licensing laws changed in the late 1960s.In the 1970s the stadium also promoted speedway (Doncaster Stallions & Doncaster Dragons) as well as stock car, hot rod and banger racing.

The track had its own well for watering the grass and they would have an intertrack competitions with Stanley Greyhound Stadium.

[3] And in 1975 held The Festival of Greyhound Racing which attracted huge sponsorship and national participation.