 Yankee Express secured a hat-trick of Scurry titles in the early 1980s before Slough won the English Greyhound Derby with one of their greyhounds called Tico (trained by Arthur Hitch) in 1986.In 1987 Slough became the fourth and last track of the 1966 deal to be sold by the GRA to developers.It closed on 21 March 1987 with the last race being won by Ted Dickson's Yellow Crest.