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…
Category: Harness News
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…
Filly tops Tasmanian sale
Monday 7 March 2022
By Peter Wharton A filly from the second crop of the USA 3YO Colt of the Year Downbytheseaside brought the top price of $32,000 at the Tasmanian Harness Yearling Sale at Carrick Park on Saturday afternoon. Offered by Melissa Maine, of Faithful Park stud, Latrobe, the lovely, athletic filly out of the Bettor’s Delight mare…
Tasmanian Harness Yearling Sale on Saturday
Saturday 5 March 2022
By Peter Wharton The Tasmanian Harness Yearling Sale, the sale that produced last season’s outstanding juvenile Mickey Oh, will be conducted at Carrick Park on Saturday, starting at 2pm. The pre-sale parade will commence at 1pm. The catalogues lists yearlings by 12 different stallions including the established sires Sweet Lou, Always B Miki, Sportswriter, A…
Filly traces to Prancing Ruby
Friday 4 March 2022
One of Tasmania’s oldest and most successful families dating back to the Hall of Fame mare Prancing Ruby will be represented by a filly at the 2022 Tasmanian Harness Yearling Sale on Saturday, March 5 at Carrick Park.