Tasracing has closed its Elwick offices effective 5pm today (Tuesday 24 March). The decision follows a week of staggered remote working. Tasracing CEO Paul Eriksson said the office closure would protect the health and wellbeing of the company’s teams and the broader industry. “Tasracing will continue to utilise skeletal staff on site between 9am and…
NARS Round 2 results
Thursday 12 March 2020Chris Graham represented Tasmania in the second round of the 2020 NJT National Apprentice Riders Series in the seventh race at Ascot on Wednesday afternoon. Graham, who now resides in WA finished fourth aboard Celtic Court, earning three points for Tasmania in the series. The series comprises five heats with Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and…
NARS Round 1 results
Friday 6 March 2020Ianish Luximon made the most of his opportunity to represent Tasmania in the 2020 National Apprentice Riders Series by winning the heat aboard Queen’s Needs in Hobart yesterday. Luximon, who is indentured to Adam Trinder, has been riding in the state for three months but had been unable to land a winner but he…
Apprentice jockey series comes to Tasmania
Monday 2 March 2020The Tasmanian leg of the National Apprentice Race Series (NARS), Australia’s premier competition for apprentice jockeys, will be held in Hobart on Wednesday (4 March 2020). First run in 2008, the series brings together apprentice jockeys from across Australia and the series continues to go from strength to strength with this year seeing the competition…
Hobart club doing its bit for bushfire ravaged greyhound families
Sunday 23 February 2020THE Hobart Greyhound Racing Club has put its weight behind a special bushfire fundraising project that will benefit families in two states. Greyhound racing participants are a tight bunch and while the two families set to benefit from the fundraiser are from South Australia and New South Wales, the Hobart club wants to play its…
Five yearlings to watch at Monday’s Tasmanian Magic Millions sale
Thursday 20 February 2020Tasracing’s resident racing expert Pete Staples has cast his eyes over the 2020 Tasmanian Magic Millions Yearling Sale draft and has come up with five fabulous youngsters to be followed during their racing careers. From the moment they pass through the sale ring on Monday at the Inveresk Sales Complex, Staples will be keeping tabs…