Dog track items to be sold at auction

Cloverleaf Kennel Club general manager John Manning is pictured at the Loveland landmark in 2003.
Greyhounds round the last turn on the way to the finish line during a race at Cloverleaf in 2004.

By Kieran Nicholson | knicholson@denverpost.com | The Denver Post

PUBLISHED: April 4, 2008 at 10:09 a.m. | UPDATED: May 7, 2016 at 10:22 a.m.

Here’s your final chance to catch that always racing mechanical bunny.

Dogs stopped running at the Cloverleaf Kennel Club almost two years ago, and now what remains of the dog track will be auctioned off.

“Pretty much everything is up for sale,” said Casey Giddings, an auctioneer and spokeswoman with Rocky Mountain Estate Brokers.

The auction kicks off at 10:10 a.m. Saturday at the track and online.

The club, which opened in 1955, is in Loveland, just off Interstate 25 and U.S. 34.

Memorabilia, furniture, restaurant equipment and tools — more than 1,000 items — will be up for auction, Giddings said, including the mechanical rabbit that racing greyhounds chased tirelessly around the track.

The last dog race at the track was in May 2006.

The property is to be sold and redeveloped.

Those wishing to place bids online should go to whitleyauction.com/.

Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com