Due to the installation of the Hub Rail, the Hobart trials on Monday 9 July have been transferred to Monday 16 July 2018.
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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…
Greyhound programming update
Wednesday 27 June 2018
The Programming Sub Committee at its meeting in June reviewed the Minimum Nominations policy and on the recommendation of the Sub Committee the policy has been amended with the addition of the following clause: 2.7 If there is a Mixed 1/2 or Grade 2 race with less than 8 starters plus 2 reserves and, after…
Life on the Wire Melbourne bound
Tuesday 26 June 2018
TALENTED Tasmanian mare Life on the Wire will have her next start in Melbourne. Following an impressive trial win over 800 metres in Hobart today, trainer Scott Brunton confirmed Life on the Wire would head back to Melbourne for a first-up tilt in a $100,000 mares’ race over 1200 metres on 14 July. The four-year-old…
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…