How to improve the speed of getting request content via the request module - pandas

Question

The below functions extract content from 'http://thegreyhoundrecorder.com.au/form-guides/' and append all content to a list. The function works fine, although the speed at which the content is scraped from the website is slow. This line tree = html.fromstring(page.content) in particular slows down the process. Is there a way I can improve on the speed of my request.
import lxml
from lxml import html
import requests
import re
import pandas as pd
from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError
greyhound_url = 'http://thegreyhoundrecorder.com.au/form-guides/'
def get_page(url):
"""fxn take page url and return the links to the acticle(Field) we
want to scrape in a list.
"""
page = requests.get(url)
tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
my_list = tree.xpath('//tbody/tr/td[2]/a/#href') # grab all link
print('Length of all links = ', len(my_list))
my_url = [page.url.split('/form-guides')[0] + str(s) for s in my_list]
return my_url
def extract_data(my_url):
"""
fxn take a list of urls and extract the needed infomation from
greyhound website.
return: a list with the extracted field
"""
new_list = []
try:
for t in my_url:
print(t)
page_detail = requests.get(t)
tree_1 = html.fromstring(page_detail.content)
title = ''.join(tree_1.xpath('//div/h1[#class="title"]/text()'))
race_number = tree_1.xpath("//tr[#id = 'tableHeader']/td[1]/text()")
Distance = tree_1.xpath("//tr[#id = 'tableHeader']/td[3]/text()")
TGR_Grade = tree_1.xpath("//tr[#id = 'tableHeader']/td[4]/text()")
TGR1 = tree_1.xpath("//tbody/tr[#class='fieldsTableRow raceTipsRow']//div/span[1]/text()")
TGR2 = tree_1.xpath("//tbody/tr[#class='fieldsTableRow raceTipsRow']//div/span[2]/text()")
TGR3 = tree_1.xpath("//tbody/tr[#class='fieldsTableRow raceTipsRow']//div/span[3]/text()")
TGR4 = tree_1.xpath("//tbody/tr[#class='fieldsTableRow raceTipsRow']//div/span[4]/text()")
clean_title = title.split(' ')[0].strip()
#clean title and extract track number
Track = title.split(' ')[0].strip()
#clean title and extract track date
date = title.split('-')[1].strip()
#clean title and extract track year
year = pd.to_datetime('now').year
#convert date to pandas datetime
race_date = pd.to_datetime(date + ' ' + str(year)).strftime('%d/%m/%Y')
#extract race number
new_rn = []
for number in race_number:
match = re.search(r'^(.).*?(\d+)$', number)
new_rn.append(match.group(1) + match.group(2))
new_list.append((race_date,Track,new_rn,Distance,TGR_Grade,TGR1,TGR2,TGR3,TGR4))
return new_list
except ConnectionError as e:
print('Connection error, connect to a stronger network or reload the page')