 Speedway was also staged at the greyhound stadium on Saxby Road in Melton Mowbray in 1949.The Melton Mowbray Motorcycle Club, chaired by Plant, staged several meetings on a cinder track there.Paddy Mills set up a training track in a field in Syston in 1952, running training sessions attended by several riders who went on to represent Leicester Hunters, including Ivor Brown and Bryan Elliott.