The team based there joined the English Dirt Track League in 1929 finishing 5th, with Syd Jackson and Billy Elmore the leading riders.
They competed in the top division of British speedway between 1957 and 1961, before dropping down to the newly formed Provincial League in 1962, which was their final season.
[5] Speedway was also staged at the greyhound stadium on Saxby Road in Melton Mowbray in 1949.
[6] The Melton Mowbray Motorcycle Club, chaired by Plant, staged several meetings on a cinder track there.
[6][5] Paddy Mills set up a training track in a field in Syston in 1952, running training sessions attended by several riders who went on to represent Leicester Hunters, including Ivor Brown and Bryan Elliott.