Dear Harness Industry Participants Tasracing and the Office of Racing Integrity (ORI) advise: We are writing to provide clarification relating to the announcement earlier today that horses competing this weekend will not be considered as having Unfulfilled Engagements in respect of the Australia Day meeting on Wednesday 26 January 2022. The fields for the meeting…
Category: Harness News
2022 Tasmanian Harness Sale catalogue online
Tuesday 18 January 2022
The catalogue for the 2022 Tasmanian Harness Yearling Sale – the auction that produced last year’s outstanding juvenile Mickey Oh – has been unveiled and will present a strong lineup of racing future stars.
Devonport Harness – Sunday 23rd January
Friday 14 January 2022Due to COVID concerns the 2022 Burnie Harness Racing Club have decided against holding their meeting scheduled on Sunday 23rd January. The Devonport Harness Racing Club will hold the replacement meeting in the existing day timeslot. Approved programmes for the rescheduled meeting are available here. Discussions continue on the rescheduling of the Burnie Cup. Details…
MEDIA RELEASE: COVID cancels King Island racing season
Tuesday 11 January 2022
Following a decision to cancel the King Island race meeting on Saturday 8 January because of an increase in the number of COVID cases on the island, race meetings for Saturday 22 January (King Island Cup), 29 January and 5 February have also been cancelled. Tasracing CEO Paul Eriksson said the current level of COVID…
Two Tassie greats recognised in new Tasbred features
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Tasracing’s commitment to the Tasmanian harness racing breeding has been further strengthened with two additional $20,000 races restricted to be Tasbred pacers to be held in early 2022. The series will be restricted to three-year-old and older pacers with no more than two lifetime wins. Heats will be selected by maidens first, one win horses…
Harness Stakes Increase from 1 January 2022
Friday 17 December 2021Tasracing in conjunction with the Harness Industry Forum is pleased to announce that as from 1 January 2022 the Code Funding Allocation for 2021/22 will be increased following the 4.3% announcement on November 30th. The increase has resulted in the following stakes increases for the industry. Base Stake increases: Secondary meetings – $5,750 to $5,950…