The Tasmanian owned and trained The Shallows – which won the $75k Tasmania Cup and the $12k 4/5YO Classic – has won the Vizpix Broadcast Services 4YO & Older Horse or Gelding of the Year Awards and the Ladbrokes Horse of the Year award. The prestigious prize was announced at the Tasmanian Harness Racing Awards…
Changes to harness race programming guidelines
Friday 8 April 2022Implemented on 1 Jan 2021, the Harness Race Programming Guidelines are reviewed on a quarterly basis to better match available races with the racing population for welfare and race quality reasons. The Programming sub-committee met on Monday, 15 March and discussed the proposed changes to the current guidelines. The proposed changes were subsequently endorsed at…
Planned ‘Devonport@Launceston’ meeting Tuesday 29 March
Tuesday 22 March 2022Joint announcement from Tasracing and ORI Due to unforeseen OzChase change implementation delays and COVID impacts for key ORI staff, the meeting on 29 March will be run as a Launceston meeting and graded accordingly. The Devonport City Cup will be re-scheduled to a date to be advised. Program for the revised 29 March meeting…
Who will be crowded Tasmania’s harness racings best from the 2021 season?
Tuesday 22 March 2022
We will find out on Saturday 9 April at the Elwick Function Centre in Hobart. In what appears to be one of the most open Horse of the Year awards in recent memory with performances such as Tasmania Cup winner The Shallows, Globe Derby winner and Victorian Derby placegetter Longfellow, and Mickey Oh who dominated…
Stakes To Increase From 1 April 2022
Tuesday 22 March 2022Following 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 financial year. Stakes for graded races from 1 April until 30…
Filly tops Tasmanian sale
Monday 7 March 2022
By Peter Wharton A filly from the second crop of the USA 3YO Colt of the Year Downbytheseaside brought the top price of $32,000 at the Tasmanian Harness Yearling Sale at Carrick Park on Saturday afternoon. Offered by Melissa Maine, of Faithful Park stud, Latrobe, the lovely, athletic filly out of the Bettor’s Delight mare…
