The 2022/23 racing season will feature 70 thoroughbred meetings, 90 harness meetings and 162 greyhound meetings, Tasracing has announced. Of the 70 thoroughbred meetings scheduled in Tasmania, there are seven meetings on King Island between December and January. After the outstanding success of the two Friday night meetings at Launceston last season, the Tasmanian Turf…
Category: Harness News
Harness Feature Events – Oaks / Derby
Tuesday 21 June 2022Tasracing, in conjunction with all Harness racing clubs, held a workshop in March to discuss and plan the Feature Events calendar for the 2022/23 race season. One major change will be the movement of the 3YO Tasmanian Oaks and Derby. Generally held at the Tasmanian Trotting Club (TTC) meeting in March, agreement was reached to…
Drivers announced for the 2022 Cavalor Equicare Claiming Novice Drivers Series
Wednesday 27 April 2022
Article by Duncan Dornauf Tasracing is proud to announce the drivers for the 2022 Claiming Novice Drivers series in Launceston on Sunday, 15 May, and will do so with a new name. Cavalor Equicare has jumped on board as the naming rights partner for the series, which sees 10 of the state’s best up and…
The Shallows wins the Ladbrokes Horse of the Year
Monday 11 April 2022
The Tasmanian owned and trained The Shallows – which won the $75k Tasmania Cup and the $12k 4/5YO Classic – has won the Vizpix Broadcast Services 4YO & Older Horse or Gelding of the Year Awards and the Ladbrokes Horse of the Year award. The prestigious prize was announced at the Tasmanian Harness Racing Awards…
Changes to harness race programming guidelines
Friday 8 April 2022Implemented on 1 Jan 2021, the Harness Race Programming Guidelines are reviewed on a quarterly basis to better match available races with the racing population for welfare and race quality reasons. The Programming sub-committee met on Monday, 15 March and discussed the proposed changes to the current guidelines. The proposed changes were subsequently endorsed at…
Who will be crowded Tasmania’s harness racings best from the 2021 season?
Tuesday 22 March 2022
We will find out on Saturday 9 April at the Elwick Function Centre in Hobart. In what appears to be one of the most open Horse of the Year awards in recent memory with performances such as Tasmania Cup winner The Shallows, Globe Derby winner and Victorian Derby placegetter Longfellow, and Mickey Oh who dominated…