Editing Newmarket, Suffolk (section)

==Sport and leisure==
Newmarket has two racecourses, [[The Rowley Mile]] and [[The July Course]], and is home to 3,000 [[thoroughbred]] racehorses and over 70 racehorse trainers. The local [[association football|football]] team is [[Newmarket Town F.C.|Newmarket Town]]. In 2005–06 the club reached the quarter finals of the [[FA Vase]]. Newmarket Hockey Club play [[field hockey]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newmarkethockeyclub.com/index.php |title=Newmarket Hockey Club |publisher=Newmarket Hockey Club |access-date=2012-11-08}}</ref> and Newmarket Cycling and Triathlon club is an amateur cycling club in the town.

A [[Greyhound racing in the United Kingdom|greyhound racing]] track was opened around the Cricket Field Road ground, the venue used by Newmarket Town FC. The racing was independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body the [[National Greyhound Racing Club]]) known as a flapping track, which was the nickname given to independent tracks.<ref>{{cite book|last=Barnes|first=Julia|title=Daily Mirror Greyhound Fact File, page 420|year=1988|publisher=Ringpress Books|isbn=0-948955-15-5}}</ref> The track was active shortly after [[World War II]] and is known to have also been active during 1967. The date of closure is not known.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://greyhoundracingtimes.co.uk/2019/03/17/newmarket/|title=NEWMARKET|date=17 March 2019|work=Greyhound Racing Times}}</ref> An earlier instance of racing took place in 1933 at a venue described as the Duchess Drive Stadium.<ref>{{cite news|title=Greyhound Racing – Saturday 1 July|year=1933|newspaper=The Bury Free Press}}</ref>