Harness will see an increase in race dates for the 2022-23 season. 4 additional meetings have been scheduled across the state. This has been due to King Island returning to their pre-covid season number of 7 meetings as well as ensuring that the Harness season does not have single meeting weekends consecutively as seen in…
Tasmanian race dates for 2022/23 released
Thursday 30 June 2022
The 2022/23 racing season will feature 70 thoroughbred meetings, 90 harness meetings and 162 greyhound meetings, Tasracing has announced. Of the 70 thoroughbred meetings scheduled in Tasmania, there are seven meetings on King Island between December and January. After the outstanding success of the two Friday night meetings at Launceston last season, the Tasmanian Turf…
2022-23 Greyhound Race Dates
Thursday 30 June 2022Due to the exit of DAPS there is a lot of change from the dates allocated in 2021/22 for the greyhound code. Feature events with stake money over $5000 including the Devonport Chase have been relocated to Hobart. Named as The Chase until relocation back to the Coast, this will be run as a feature…
Thoroughbred Race Dates 2022/23
Thursday 30 June 2022Thoroughbred race dates for the 2022-23 season will remain largely the same as the 2021-22 season. There will be 70 thoroughbred race meetings across the state including 7 on King Island between December and January which is a return to their pre-covid number. There will once again be two Friday night meetings at Launceston on…
Harness Feature Events – Oaks / Derby
Tuesday 21 June 2022Tasracing, in conjunction with all Harness racing clubs, held a workshop in March to discuss and plan the Feature Events calendar for the 2022/23 race season. One major change will be the movement of the 3YO Tasmanian Oaks and Derby. Generally held at the Tasmanian Trotting Club (TTC) meeting in March, agreement was reached to…
DISTANCE RACES – MINIMUM FIELD SIZE TRIAL
Friday 17 June 2022Following a recommendation from the Greyhound Reference Group, Tasracing and the Office of Racing Integrity have agreed to a policy change to the minimum field size for distance racing for a trial period of two months. Currently the Minimum Nomination policy states that there must be a minimum of 6 eligible first preference nominations for…
