Thoroughbred trial information 29 March Due to restrictions, trials will be after Hobart Races on Sunday 29 March. Two trials are scheduled. Only horses that require a barrier certificate will be able to trial in the foreseeable future. Updated trial dates will be announced early next week. Racecourse entry Please be advised that access to…
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Tasracing Elwick office announcement
Tuesday 24 March 2020Tasracing has closed its Elwick offices effective 5pm today (Tuesday 24 March). The decision follows a week of staggered remote working. Tasracing CEO Paul Eriksson said the office closure would protect the health and wellbeing of the company’s teams and the broader industry. “Tasracing will continue to utilise skeletal staff on site between 9am and…
NARS Round 2 results
Thursday 12 March 2020Chris Graham represented Tasmania in the second round of the 2020 NJT National Apprentice Riders Series in the seventh race at Ascot on Wednesday afternoon. Graham, who now resides in WA finished fourth aboard Celtic Court, earning three points for Tasmania in the series. The series comprises five heats with Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and…
NARS Round 1 results
Friday 6 March 2020Ianish Luximon made the most of his opportunity to represent Tasmania in the 2020 National Apprentice Riders Series by winning the heat aboard Queen’s Needs in Hobart yesterday. Luximon, who is indentured to Adam Trinder, has been riding in the state for three months but had been unable to land a winner but he…
Apprentice jockey series comes to Tasmania
Monday 2 March 2020The Tasmanian leg of the National Apprentice Race Series (NARS), Australia’s premier competition for apprentice jockeys, will be held in Hobart on Wednesday (4 March 2020). First run in 2008, the series brings together apprentice jockeys from across Australia and the series continues to go from strength to strength with this year seeing the competition…
Hobart club doing its bit for bushfire ravaged greyhound families
Sunday 23 February 2020THE Hobart Greyhound Racing Club has put its weight behind a special bushfire fundraising project that will benefit families in two states. Greyhound racing participants are a tight bunch and while the two families set to benefit from the fundraiser are from South Australia and New South Wales, the Hobart club wants to play its…