The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) said in a statement yesterday that Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. must vacate its greyhound racetrack no later than next Friday, July 20, when the respective land concession expires and the five-decade-old racetrack is slated to close for good.
The statement came a day after Yat Yuen had asked the government to be allowed to keep the racetrack’s kennels for 120 additional days after the official closure. The company held its last races on June 30. Yat Yuen has said it needs more time to relocate the several hundred greyhounds still in the Canidrome kennels in Fai Chi Kei.
The gaming regulator did not, however, reject outright Yat Yuen’s application to temporarily house the remaining greyhounds in the Macau Jockey Club stables in Taipa. In the statement, the regulator said it had passed the request to other “competent” government entities.
