DUAL Inter Dominion winner Jimmy Rattray has a warning for anyone dismissing the lone Tasmanian raider as “just making up the numbers” in Saturday night’s $2.1mil TAB Eureka. It was less than a decade ago when Rattray, who comes from one of Tasmania’s most famous harness racing families, took an emerging pacer to Sydney where…
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Mystic Journey Stakes
Tuesday 22 August 2023
Tasracing is pleased to announce that the currently named Bow Mistress Trophy will now be known as the Mystic Journey Stakes from 2024. The initial running of the Mystic Journey Stakes will be on Tasmanian Derby Day in February next year at Elwick Racecourse. The race is widely known as the premier mares’ race in…
Tasracing Statement in response to Animal Liberation Tasmania footage
Thursday 3 August 2023
Vision has been circulated online late yesterday by Animal Liberation Tasmania and a group calling themselves Defund Tasracing that relates to the property of one of our greyhound trainers. Some of the vision, on face value, raises concerns relating to animal welfare and Tasracing will wait for ORI’s investigation, commencing today, before considering further action…
Beautide – final field announced
Tuesday 1 August 2023
The final field for Saturday night’s Beautide in Hobart has been announced. The winner of the $80,000 race will secure Tasracing’s slot in the world’s richest harness race, the $2.1 Million TAB Eureka, at Sydney’s Menangle Park on 2 September. The final field was selected from the 16 nominations received by the Tasracing Eureka Selection…
Response to Rosalie Woodruff’s Tasracing Funding Statements
Thursday 27 July 2023In response to a recent social media post by MP Rosalie Woodruff, Tasracing makes the following statement: The Tasmanian racing industry is partly funded under a 20-year funding deed established following the sale of the government-owned TOTE Tasmania to Tattsbett in 2011. Until then, the racing industry was self-funded and delivering a dividend to the…
End of an era for Mansfield
Wednesday 28 June 2023
After 45 years as the racing writer for the Examiner newspaper, Greg Mansfield will retire this week. Sunday’s Devonport meeting will be the last he will cover. Mansfield, 67, has been a constant for those involved in the racing industry for almost five decades covering all codes but predominately thoroughbreds. “I’m feeling a little nostalgic…