The 2023 6ty° Youngbloods Challenge will again see the state’s best young drivers on display on Sunday night. In a break from tradition all four heats of the series will be held in Launceston on Tassie Golden Apple Final night on Sunday, 3 December. For the 24th consecutive year, the series will be sponsored by…
Category: Harness News
Harness Code Funding Allocation 2023-24
Monday 30 October 2023Tasracing in conjunction with the Harness Industry Forum is pleased to announce that from 1 October 2023 the Code Funding Allocation for 2023/24 will be implemented resulting in the following for the industry. Additional Meetings – There will be 3 additional meetings run during FY24. This is due to the fall of weekends and the…
All Bets Off two-year-old Pass Line scores again
Tuesday 24 October 2023
Brilliant two-year-old filly Pass Line (All Bets Off) stormed into calculations for the $700,000 Breeders Crown Final when she annexed a $25,000 harness racing elimination in 1:53.3 at Hoosier Park, Indiana on Friday (Oct. 20). Pass Line has now won 10 of her 12 starts for $524,652 in stakes. She holds a mile record of…
Tasracing Update on Interim Report into Tasmanian Harness Racing.
Monday 2 October 2023
Tasracing notes Ray Murrihy’s interim report into Tasmanian harness racing. It also notes that the report is still an interim report which made a series of statements related to ratings, programming and balloting. Tasracing provide the following update to industry. There will be no changes made to the existing published programmed races up till the…
Vicbred heat winner by ‘Lenny’
Tuesday 5 September 2023
Former superstar pacer Lennytheshark, who is standing his first season in Tasmania, was represented by the Vicbred Super Series three-year-old heat winner Little Miss Lily at Ballarat on Wednesday night (August 30). Despite sitting parked throughout, Little Miss Lily prevailed in a three-way photo to post her fourth success. Lennytheshark, a winner of $3million and…
KI countdown on in earnest
Thursday 31 August 2023
Just over three months remain until the King Island racing season commences for 2023/24 where seven race days have been scheduled. The success of the inaugural running of the Miners Rest Cup back in January breathed new life into racing on the Bass Strait Island, and all involved with the King Island Racing Club are…