Nottingham Greyhound Race Times and Schedule: Every Meeting Through the Week

Nottingham Runs Four Regular Meetings a Week

Nottingham greyhound race times follow a fixed weekly pattern that makes Colwick Park one of the most reliably scheduled tracks in British greyhound racing. Four regular meetings a week, split between evening and morning sessions, generate a steady flow of racing data and betting opportunities that rarely pauses for more than a day or two.

That consistency matters for two reasons. For bettors, it means there is always a Nottingham card to study within recent memory. For the dogs themselves, it means the track surface, the going and the competitive environment are in near-constant use, which keeps conditions more predictable than at tracks that run less frequently. Across the UK, GBGB-licensed tracks recorded 355,682 individual greyhound runs in 2026 — and Colwick Park’s four-meeting-a-week schedule contributes a meaningful share of that total.

Knowing when Nottingham runs, how long each meeting lasts and how the schedule shifts with the seasons is basic intelligence. It is also the kind of information that is surprisingly hard to pin down in one place, which is why this guide exists.

Day-by-Day Schedule: Times, Intervals and Race Count

Nottingham’s weekly schedule divides into two distinct session types — evening meetings and morning meetings — each with its own rhythm, audience and betting profile.

Monday evening is the first meeting of the Colwick Park week. First race typically goes off around 18:37, with subsequent races at roughly 15-minute intervals. A full card usually consists of 12 to 13 races, which means the meeting runs until approximately 21:45 to 22:00. Monday evenings tend to attract a mix of graded races across the distance range, from 305-metre sprints to 500-metre middle-distance events. The evening slot makes this the most popular meeting for on-course attendance, with the stadium’s facilities — restaurant, bars, trackside seating for up to 1,500 — geared toward the social element as much as the racing.

Wednesday morning is the first of two mid-week morning sessions. First race is usually around 11:09, with the same 15-minute interval pattern. Morning meetings at Nottingham are primarily remote betting products — the stadium is open but the audience is overwhelmingly watching via streams or following on result services. Morning cards tend to be slightly shorter, typically 11 to 12 races, and feature a higher proportion of lower-grade contests. That does not make them less analytically interesting; in fact, the lower grades can offer more predictable form patterns because the dogs are more consistently matched.

Thursday morning mirrors Wednesday in format and timing. The same start time, the same interval structure, the same race count. Having back-to-back morning meetings on consecutive days creates a particularly useful data pair for form students: you can compare going conditions, times and trap performance across a 24-hour window, controlling for many of the variables that make cross-week comparisons unreliable.

Friday evening closes the Colwick Park week and follows the same structure as Monday’s session. First race around 18:08, 12 to 13 races, finishing before 22:00. Friday evenings are the premium product — racecards often feature the week’s strongest fields, including potential trial races for upcoming open events and higher-grade competitions. For bettors, Friday evening is where the week’s form study comes together: you have Monday’s evening card, Wednesday and Thursday’s morning cards, and now a fresh Friday evening card to apply your analysis to.

The 15-minute interval between races is standard across all sessions and all UK greyhound tracks. That gap is not arbitrary — it accounts for the time needed to parade the dogs, load the traps, run the race, weigh the runners, confirm the result and process the pari-mutuel dividends. For bettors following remotely, the 15-minute cycle creates a cadence that is faster than horse racing but slow enough to allow meaningful assessment between races. In practice, you have about 10 minutes of usable study time between result confirmation and the next race’s off time.

Seasonal Adjustments and Bank Holiday Fixtures

The four-meeting weekly pattern holds for most of the year, but it is not immutable. Seasonal adjustments, bank holidays and major sporting events can shift Nottingham’s schedule, sometimes adding meetings and occasionally cancelling them.

During the summer months, evening meetings may have slightly later start times to capitalise on longer daylight hours, though the shift is modest — typically no more than 15 to 30 minutes. More significant is the effect of summer weather on the track surface. Extended dry spells can harden the Worksop Grey sand, requiring more frequent watering between races and occasionally leading to going changes mid-meeting. Winter brings the opposite risk: heavy rain or frost can make the surface unraceable. Track inspections are carried out on the morning of each meeting, and cancellations — while uncommon at Nottingham, which benefits from good drainage — do happen.

Bank holidays often bring additional fixtures. Easter, the May bank holidays and the August bank holiday weekend are traditional periods for extra cards across UK greyhound racing, and Nottingham typically adds afternoon meetings on these dates. These bonus meetings are popular with both on-course and remote audiences, and the racecards tend to be stronger because trainers have more dogs available and the scheduling allows for flexible entries.

The Christmas and New Year period follows a modified schedule. Some regular meetings may be moved or replaced by special holiday cards, and Boxing Day racing is a longstanding tradition in UK greyhound racing. Nottingham usually contributes to the festive programme, though the exact schedule varies year to year and is published by the track and the GBGB calendar well in advance.

The practical takeaway: always confirm the schedule before assuming a meeting is running. The official Nottingham track site publishes upcoming fixtures, and the GBGB maintains a central calendar for all licensed tracks. Checking these before studying a card that might not exist is a small habit that prevents wasted effort.

How the PGR Calendar Affects Nottingham’s Fixtures

Since January 2026, Nottingham’s racing schedule has been integrated into the broader Premier Greyhound Racing calendar. PGR is the media brand through which Arena Racing Company now represents 14 UK greyhound tracks, and its influence on scheduling is more significant than most punters realise. When ARC signed its long-term media rights deal with Entain in 2021, Kevin Robertson of ARC described it as a “new era of collaboration” — and the scheduling infrastructure that followed has borne that out.

The primary effect is coordination across tracks. PGR manages the broadcast and media rights for its portfolio, which means race times at Nottingham are scheduled to avoid direct clashes with other PGR venues wherever possible. If Central Park (Swindon) is running a Monday evening meeting, Nottingham’s Monday card may start at a slightly different time, or the two tracks may alternate weeks for specific time slots. This coordination maximises broadcast coverage and ensures that bookmakers and streaming services can carry races from multiple tracks without overlap. ARC operates five greyhound tracks directly, and PGR extends that coordination to a further nine partner venues.

For bettors, the PGR calendar creates a denser product. Rather than Nottingham’s four meetings a week existing in isolation, they fit into a national schedule that offers licensed greyhound racing almost every hour of every day, from early-morning cards to late-evening sessions. The practical benefit is that if you miss Nottingham’s Wednesday morning meeting, there is likely a PGR card from another track running later that day with comparable grade levels and data quality.

The scheduling also affects the quality of competition at individual meetings. PGR open events and trial stakes are rotated around the portfolio, which means Nottingham periodically hosts races that attract dogs from outside its normal training catchment. These special fixtures — typically flagged on the GBGB calendar weeks in advance — can produce results that do not follow normal Colwick Park form patterns, because the visiting runners have no local track data.

Understanding Nottingham’s place in the PGR ecosystem matters because it shapes what you see on any given racecard. The schedule is not just a timetable — it is a strategic allocation of racing product across a national network, and Colwick Park is one of its anchor venues.