Public Health Services have declared 11 local government areas (LGAs) in south-east Queensland (QLD) as high-risk (Level 2) from 4:00 pm today, Saturday 31 July. The declaration is in response to new cases of COVID-19 in QLD and that State’s announcement of a lockdown for these areas. Anyone currently in Tasmania (arriving before 4:00 pm…
Category: Racing updates
Update to face mask requirements for travellers from Victoria
Friday 23 July 2021People currently in Tasmania who have been in Victoria on or since 8 July, and are not currently subject to a quarantine requirement, will not be required to wear a face mask in public or limit movement in the community from 12:01am tomorrow, Saturday 24 July. People currently in Tasmania who have been in South…
Trotting to cease in Tasmania
Thursday 1 April 2021Reintroduced 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…
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…