Dog Racing Comes Back to Houston

La Marque, TX -- And they're off. An agreement hammered out between dog breeders and track owners allows live dog racing to return to Texas. Although the agreement abbreviate the racing season for Texas' two dog tracks, it allows them both to host races in the next two years.

Racing will resume at the Valley Race Park on November 25. The park will hold a 36-day, live greyhound race meet. Races will be on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through February 2017.

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The track will run 10 races per day over the course of the meet and is expected to award a total of $2.2 million in purses.

It will be the first live race meet held at Valley Race Park since 2013, and the first extended meet at the track since 2009. After Valley Race Park concludes the meet, racing will move to Gulf Greyhound Park in La Marque for a November 2017 to February 2018 season.

The Texas Greyhound Association hasn't announced the schedule, number of races or purses that will be awarded when racing starts back up at Gulf Greyhound.