Reintroduced as a trial in July 2018 and confirmed to continue in January 2020 subject to Industry support, trotting races in Tasmania have failed to achieve the support from the industry that was hoped for. Although there was strong initial support the decline has been obvious specifically over the last 7 months with races being…
Author: Angela Barrett
Harness – Tasbred Selected First
Thursday 1 April 2021As further support for our TASBRED Breeders as of 11 April Tasracing will implement the following race condition ‘Tasbred Selected First’ on specific races as set out below. This race condition will be placed on all rating-based races with a front from 30-59 at all Premier meetings. The exclusions will be: Age based races NMT…
Harness stakes to increase from 1 February 2021
Wednesday 27 January 2021
Following the announcement by the Minister for Racing of a 6% increase in stakes from 1 February 2021, Tasracing has consulted with the Harness Industry Forum as to how to best allocate the additional funding to the benefit of participants. Tasracing provided recommendations for the expenditure of the additional funding of varied increases to base…
Thoroughbred Remittance Advices – Notice
Wednesday 2 December 2020Tasracing in conjunction with Racing Australia have implemented changes to thoroughbred remittance advices for prizemoney. Remittances will now be emailed directly to jockeys, trainers and owners (if an email address is recorded) If prizemoney payments are split all individual owners will now receive a remittance notification via email for their % of prizemoney which has…
Harness race dates notice – amendments
Friday 9 October 2020Based on the extension to the 2020 racing season, it was agreed for Tasracing to undertake a review of the existing 2020/21 Harness race dates. With the change in the racing season it was agreed that the race dates for the May-July should be reduced to coincide with the cooler months and the recent the…
TTC Sweepstakes redraw
Wednesday 9 September 2020The barrier draw advertised on Harvey for the 2YO Sweepstakes incorrectly displayed that the barrier draw was to be based on PBD/LT$, also incorrectly published in the August – September Harness Calendar. The correct conditions for the Sweepstakes have been advertised on the Tasracing Corporate website since January 2020. The only amendment to these were…