The hotel was next door to the Dolphin ground which had hosted cricket, bowls and football in the nineteenth century.

Work got underway in 1928 with the stadium taking shape on the east side of the Uxbridge Road and south of the Dolphin Hotel.

[5] Also in 1929, a greyhound called Idle Chief won 16 consecutive races and Bennett continued with his enterprises by introducing a training camp for boxers at his Dolphin hotel which included Tommy Farr, Ben Ford, Jack Doyle, Primo Carnera, Marcel Thil and Midget Wogan.

seeding did not exist which explains why trap draw had little advantage on a track favouring railers.

[10] The 1977 running of the Scurry ended with a three-way battle between two promising newcomers Wired To Moon and Cahurmore Speech and defending champion Xmas Holiday.

On the way back to the Northaw kennels after the race Adam Jackson's finalist Fiano was killed in a vehicle accident.

[3][13][14] The Scurry Gold Cup moved to Catford and the original Sunnymeads kennels are still used today but the stadium site is a Sainsbury's supermarket.