Greyhound Races
The Canidrome, located in the northern part of the city, is the only Greyhound Racing facility in Asia. Today, it is considered one of the largest and best equipped in the world.
What makes the Canidrome unique is a 500-yard oval track, two grand stands, several private boxes, special private track-level enclosures, a VIP lounge and a coffee shop. It also includes ten kennels, a training kennel, which includes x-ray, operating and treatment rooms.
Races are held four times a week on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturdays and Sundays with over 300 dogs racing each day. Races are broadcast over radio and TV from broadcast studios also located within the complex.
Another unique feature of the Canidrome is that it is the first to automatically grade greyhounds by computer. Greyhounds are raised or lowered in class according to their performance as monitored by a computer system.
Another computer system performs the various bet computations to drive the totalizator board on the track as well as hundreds of betting machines located in the Canidrome and in varied off-track betting centres around Macau. Thus, the Canidrome can offer punters a varied mix of betting possibilities starting from win and place, right through quinellas, trifectas, double quinellas, double trifectas, and up to all-up win and all-up place. This gives the potential of large gains from small investments.
Off-course centres are located at Hotel Lisboa, Kam Pek Casino, Jai Alai Casino, and the Wing Heng Building on Avenida Almeida Ribeiro.
Entry to the Canidrome is 2 patacas and to the Members' stand is 5 patacas.