It has been 91 years since trotting races were held in Tasmania but in Hobart on Sunday night the forgotten gait makes its return. Trotting was originally the most popular gait used in harness racing but changes in the standardbred breed led to the pacing gait becoming more popular. The last trot race staged in…
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Life on the Wire Melbourne bound
Tuesday 26 June 2018
TALENTED Tasmanian mare Life on the Wire will have her next start in Melbourne. Following an impressive trial win over 800 metres in Hobart today, trainer Scott Brunton confirmed Life on the Wire would head back to Melbourne for a first-up tilt in a $100,000 mares’ race over 1200 metres on 14 July. The four-year-old…
Trotters set to compete in Hobart on Sunday
Tuesday 26 June 2018
After a 90-year absence, trotters are set to compete in Hobart on Sunday. The last trotting race in Tasmania was won by Lampton at Carrick in 1927, although a few squaregaiters have beaten pacers during the interim. In December 2016 Yankee Avenue beat the opposite gait on King Island, making the gelding the first trotter…
Extended nominations for this weekend’s trotting race
Monday 25 June 2018
TROTTING racing returns to Tasmania this weekend for the first time in over 90 years. The first of many trotting races has been scheduled for this Sunday night, July 1 in Hobart, with extended nominations for the race to close at 9:00am Tuesday June 26th. The race programmed this Sunday is an $8,100 T0 or…
2018 BOTRA Claiming Novice Drivers’ series
Thursday 21 June 2018
Tasracing has selected the 10 participants for the 2018 BOTRA Claiming Novice Drivers’ series. The drivers are Matthew Cooper, Taylor Ford, Samantha Gangell, Samantha Freeman (Emergency), Wade Rattray, Allister Woods, Krisy Grant, Braden Howlett, Charlie Castles, Connor Crook and Brady Woods. The series for drivers who are eligible to claim a concession will be conducted…
2018/19 Tasmanian race dates announced
Friday 8 June 2018
Race dates for Tasmania’s three codes of racing have been finalised for the 2018/19 racing season. Highlights in the schedule: Seventy-two thoroughbred meetings (including seven King Island meetings in December and January. Eighty-nine harness meetings (up seven meetings compared to last season). One Hundred and sixty-two greyhound meetings on Mondays, Tuesday and Thursdays. Twenty-one thoroughbred…