The 2024/25 racing season will feature 73 thoroughbred meetings, 99 harness meetings and 160 greyhound meetings, Tasracing has confirmed. Of the 73 thoroughbred meetings scheduled in Tasmania, there are seven meetings scheduled for King Island between November and January. After the outstanding success of the eight Friday night meetings at Launceston last season, the Tasmanian…
Category: Harness News
Harness Race Dates 2024-2025
Friday 31 May 2024Harness will retain the same number of race meetings as 2023-24 at 99 (including 7 on King Island) for the 2024-25 season. Below are notable dates for the 2024-25 calendar: • A Saturday SKY 1 timeslot was allocated to the Tasmanian Trotting Club on 3 August, which will hold the running of the Tasracing Eureka…
Harness Programming Update
Thursday 16 May 2024Tasracing are continuing to work on providing the harness industry with fair and competitive racing. For the near future programs will continue to be released on a monthly basis. Copies of monthly programs will be available at the Hobart and Launceston raceday offices. These will also be available via the Tasracing Corporate website along with…
North-west coast tracks update
Wednesday 8 May 2024Tasracing will commence work immediately on a new proposal for greyhound and harness facilities that suit the daily requirements of north-west coast-based trainers. Tasracing CEO Andrew Jenkins said significant project cost increases had made the current tracks development proposed for land adjacent to the Devonport Airport unaffordable and it would no longer proceed. “The total…
HARNESS PRIZEMONEY – FY24
Tuesday 7 May 2024Following a review of the expenditure of the Harness Code Funding Allocation against budget, due to a number of factors over the previous few months including the deletion of meetings and races, the Harness Code has an underspend in FY24. The amendments to the Equity in Participation policy introduced mid-April 2024 have further seen the…
Harness Industry Survey
Wednesday 17 April 2024The recently released Murrihy Report outlined several recommendations to ensure the competitiveness of Harness racing in Tasmania. Tasracing in consultation with industry have already initiated a number of changes to the Equity in Participation Policy and programming. To ensure that Tasracing has provided all stakeholders and participants with the opportunity to provide feedback, Tasracing in…