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Birmingham Race Course

1000 John Rodgers Drive, Birmingham, AL 36210
205 838 7500
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3.0 of 5 stars 3 Reviews
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Cottondale, Alabama, United States
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“its a race course the took out the horses”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 13 May 2012

i though we were going to have live horse races, but all they have now is simal cast racing and bingo machines.

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Athens, Tennessee
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“Run down location for a greyhound race track.”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 7 April 2012

You must really want to gamble to go here. Very run down building and grounds. Very dirty place to watch the races, and very smokey. This place needed renovated 20 years ago!

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Bay Springs, MS
2 reviews
2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
“Fun but smokey and where's the food?”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 13 November 2011
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They advertise (even there) that they have dinner plates but we found the menu very lacking and sparse (and expensive). Customers were smoking where there were non-smoking signs. This is inconsiderate of course but the employees did not ask these customers to comply with the posted signs either. When clearing people out at end of the night the security was... More

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