Due to a Motor Home Show at the Devonport Showgrounds there will be no trials at Devonport from Thursday 6 February 2020 until after the race meeting on Tuesday 11 February 2020. The track will not be able to be maintained and watered at the crossing between the 580 and the 452 starts and as…
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A Racy youngster Guaranteed!
Wednesday 29 January 2020
By Peter Wharton Lilydale hobby breeder Shane Hawes is probably best known as the breeder-owner of the smart racemare Ark Breeze, the winner of the 2016 Granny Smith and runner-up in the Bandbox. He will be offering the first offspring of the Stonebridge Regal mare, a lovely colt from the initial crop of the USA…
Group winning dams represented at Tasmanian harness sale
Friday 24 January 2020
By Peter Wharton More than 75 percent of the dams represented in this year’s Tasmanian Harness Sale to be held on Saturday, February 15 at Carrick Park are race-winning mares or winner-producing mares. Among the race-winning dams are the Group winners Ark Breeze (Granny Smith Stakes), Cloudy Delight (Evicus Stakes and Tas. Sweepstakes), the feature…
First crop sires deliver range of quality yearlings
Monday 20 January 2020By Peter Wharton The first progeny of exciting, young sires Betting Line, Racing Hill and Guaranteed underpin the 2020 Tasmanian Harness Sale, to be held at Carrick Park on Saturday, February 15. Betting Line, the 2016 Little Brown Jug and North America Cup winner, has a single entry, Lot 20, a filly out of Western…
Catalogues available for Tasmanian Harness Yearling Sale
Monday 13 January 2020Catalogues for the 2020 Tasmanian Harness Yearling Sale, to be held at Carrick Park on Saturday, February 15, are available from all racetracks, Tasracing and the Office of Racing Integrity. The sale has attracted 19 entries – seven colts, 11 fillies and one gelding – from many of Tasmania’s leading standardbred breeders. Sixteen different stallions…
Expressions of interest – OTT Coaches
Friday 10 January 2020
Tasracing’s Off The Track program assists in the transition of retired thoroughbred and standardbred horses to equestrian and pleasure pursuits, and provides support for their ongoing wellbeing. Tasracing facilitates monthly clinics for the education of newly retired horses and those who have had little or no re-training. The clinics also provide support, education and mentoring…