Following cancellation of Saturday’s Thoroughbred meeting due to the southern Tasmanian snap Covid lockdown, Tasracing investigated opportunities to provide southern participants with a race meeting this week. Tasracing took an optimistic view that southern Tasmania would be out of snap lockdown as at Monday evening and thankfully this proved correct. Participants and guests are advised…
Hobart Trials Rescheduled
Friday 15 October 2021Please be advised that the Hobart trial session scheduled for Saturday 16/10/2021 has been transferred to Tuesday 19/10/2021 commencing at 6:30pm.
Tasracing Thoroughbred Tracks Update – Friday 15 Oct
Friday 15 October 2021Elwick As part of the Elwick Thoroughbred track management plan, the track was ‘turned out’ on 8 August for Spring renovations where all critical works were completed to plan by 20 August. The work consisted of dethatching, aeration, seeding, topdressing and fertilising the track. It commenced with a dethatching of the track to remove unwanted…
Increased funding for racing industry confirmed by Tasracing Board
Thursday 30 September 2021Tasracing has finalised the funding allocation for the three racing codes after consultation with code industry groups. At its 29 September meeting, the Tasracing Board agreed to increase code funding by $2.26 million, or 8 per cent. As part of this increase, stakes will increase for the harness code by 6 per cent, 7.1 per…
Greyhound code funding allocation 2021-22
Thursday 30 September 2021Tasracing has finalised the Code Funding Allocation for the 2021/22 season. The funding details were reviewed and recommended by the Greyhound Reference Group at its recent meeting. The increase in funding will see a 7.71% increase on the base stake allocation to the code. The percentage increase in base stakes is not reflected in the…
Thoroughbred code funding allocation 2021-22
Thursday 30 September 2021Tasracing, in conjunction with the Thoroughbred Advisory Network, is pleased to announce that from 1 October 2021 the Code Funding Allocation for 2021/22 will be implemented as follows. Base stakes to increase: MDN to BM70 increased from $20,000 to $21,000 Age MDN increased from $20,500 to $22,500 CL3 to BM71+ increased from $20,500 to $23,000…
