Due to the installation of the Hub Rail, the Hobart trials on Monday 9 July have been transferred to Monday 16 July 2018.
Category: Harness News
Trotters Programming
Thursday 28 June 2018With the release of the field for the re-commencement of trotting in Tasmania at Hobart on Sunday 1 July 2018, Tasracing has reviewed the programming for trotters going forward and has made the following amendment: Hobart Wednesday 18 July 2018 EHC18071808 – has been amended to T0 & Better Discretionary, RBD, 2090m, $8,100. Tasracing…
Trotters set to compete in Hobart on Sunday
Tuesday 26 June 2018
After a 90-year absence, trotters are set to compete in Hobart on Sunday. The last trotting race in Tasmania was won by Lampton at Carrick in 1927, although a few squaregaiters have beaten pacers during the interim. In December 2016 Yankee Avenue beat the opposite gait on King Island, making the gelding the first trotter…
Extended nominations for this weekend’s trotting race
Monday 25 June 2018
TROTTING racing returns to Tasmania this weekend for the first time in over 90 years. The first of many trotting races has been scheduled for this Sunday night, July 1 in Hobart, with extended nominations for the race to close at 9:00am Tuesday June 26th. The race programmed this Sunday is an $8,100 T0 or…
2018 BOTRA Claiming Novice Drivers’ series
Thursday 21 June 2018
Tasracing has selected the 10 participants for the 2018 BOTRA Claiming Novice Drivers’ series. The drivers are Matthew Cooper, Taylor Ford, Samantha Gangell, Samantha Freeman (Emergency), Wade Rattray, Allister Woods, Krisy Grant, Braden Howlett, Charlie Castles, Connor Crook and Brady Woods. The series for drivers who are eligible to claim a concession will be conducted…
2018/19 Tasmanian race dates announced
Friday 8 June 2018
Race dates for Tasmania’s three codes of racing have been finalised for the 2018/19 racing season. Highlights in the schedule: Seventy-two thoroughbred meetings (including seven King Island meetings in December and January. Eighty-nine harness meetings (up seven meetings compared to last season). One Hundred and sixty-two greyhound meetings on Mondays, Tuesday and Thursdays. Twenty-one thoroughbred…