Reintroduced as a trial in July 2018 and confirmed to continue in January 2020 subject to Industry support, trotting races in Tasmania have failed to achieve the support from the industry that was hoped for. Although there was strong initial support the decline has been obvious specifically over the last 7 months with races being…
Category: Racing updates
Harness – Tasbred Selected First
Thursday 1 April 2021As further support for our TASBRED Breeders as of 11 April Tasracing will implement the following race condition ‘Tasbred Selected First’ on specific races as set out below. This race condition will be placed on all rating-based races with a front from 30-59 at all Premier meetings. The exclusions will be: Age based races NMT…
Greyhound stakes to increase from 1 April 2021
Wednesday 24 March 2021Following a review of the expenditure of the Code Funding Allocation against budget, Tasracing, on the recommendation of the Greyhound Reference Group, has determined that the unexpended funds will be distributed via an increase in stakes for graded races for the remainder of the season. Stakes for graded races from 1 April until 30 June…
Greyhound programming update
Monday 1 March 2021Tasracing has reviewed the recommendations of the Programming Sub Committee following the meeting on 26 November 2020 and has amended the Minimum Nominations Policy and the Race Programming policy effective from 17 March 2021. The amendments to the Minimum Nominations policy are cosmetic. The changes do not impact the way in which the policy is…
Hobart Greyhound meeting Friday 15 January 2021 abandoned
Thursday 7 January 2021Due to low nomination numbers for the heats of the Maiden Thousand Series, the meeting scheduled on Friday 15 January 2021, which was scheduled for the conduct of the heats, has been cancelled. The five heats of the series will be scheduled as part of an 11 race program at the Hobart Greyhound Racing Club…
Greyhound feature event amendment
Tuesday 24 November 2020Tasracing, on the recommendation of the Programming Sub Committee, has approved the following amendment to the Feature Events Calendar: Cascade Draught Maiden Series – Hobart The series has been rescheduled and will now be conducted with heats on Thursday 11 March 2021 with the final to be held on Thursday 18 March 2021. This change…