• Rhymney Valley track faces uncertain future
• Welsh government wants to ban greyhound racing

Just after 3pm on a Wednesday covered in spring sunshine and the hare is running at Wales’s last greyhound track.

Nestled between the Rhymney River and the A469 at Ystrad Mynach, four miles from the historic town of Caerphilly, a small but loyal band of followers have made their way to the Valley Greyhound Stadium for racing woven into Wales’s sporting fabric.