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Sarah Spina-Matthews

'A special buzz': fans farewell racing at dog track

Thousands flocked to Wentworth Park to bid farewell to greyhound racing at the inner-city track. (Robbie Stephenson/AAP PHOTOS)

Jeff Collerson first set foot on the greyhound race track at Wentworth Park in December 1962, as a 17-year-old cadet journalist.

Now, aged 81, the veteran greyhound writer was trackside as the dogs raced around the circuit, nestled against the Sydney city skyline, for the final time.

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