2022 TAB GOTY Award Winners Details
2022 TAB Greyhound of the Year
MALLEE MAGIC
2022 Starts 32-1sts 12, 2nds 5, 3rds 4
(Worm Burner x Bells Are Ringin)
Owner – Cameron Butcher
Trainer – Tony Rasmussen
2022 Prizemoney $99,165
Greyhound of the Month – April & September
Won heat Group 1 Adelaide Cup (6th in final)
Won heat & final 50th Anniversary Cup
Won heat Ashes Festival of Fire (7th in final)
Won heat Easter Cup (5th final)
Second heat SA National Sprint Championship (4th in final)
Second Kate’s A Scandal Christmas Sprint
Third heat Group 1 Melbourne Cup @ Sandown
Fourth final Listed SA Sprint Championship (4th in heat)
Fourth SA v Allstars Match Race Series
Eighth heat Group 2 McKenna Memorial @ Sandown
Only SA trained greyhound to break 30 seconds over 530m at APK (29.97)
Won 4 races in a row
Best Times: 29.97 (530m Angle Park)
34.04 (595m Angle Park)
29.76 (530m Murray Bridge)
MALLEE MAGIC – 33 votes
FANTASTIC RADLEY – 28 votes
VICTA GROSSO – 23 votes
SPRINGVALE MAX – 12 votes
VICTA HAYDN – 9 votes
2022 SA Bred Greyhound of the Year
VICTA GROSSO
2022 Starts 45-1sts 21, 2nds 7, 3rds 5
(Fernando Bale x Victa Victoria)
(SA Bred) Owner – My Four Girls Syndicate – Manger Susan Schadow
Trainer – Tony Rasmussen
2022 Prizemoney $70,425
Greyhound of the Month – June
Won heat Listed SA Sprint Championship (3rd in final)
Won heat & final Shane McQueen Feature
Won heat SA National Sprint Championship (3rd in final)
Won heat Mt Gambier Anniversary Cup (4th in final)
Second heat 50th Anniversary Cup (7th in final)
Second Eastar Match Race Series
Fourth heat Gawler Stayers Cup
Fifth Doug Payne SA Bred Feature
Fifth heat Group 2 McKenna Memorial @ Sandown
Fifth heat Group 3 Gawler Cup
Seventh SA v Allstars Match Race Series
Broke Gawler 531m track record
Broke Mt Gambier 512m track record
Won 5 races in a row
Best Times: 30.13 (530m Angle Park)
34.06 (595m Angle Park)
22.82 (400m Gawler)
30.22 (531m Gawler)
37.19 (643m Gawler)
29.18 (512m Mt Gambier)
16.57 (300m Murray Bridge)
34.45 (595m Sandown)
2022 SA Sprinting Greyhound of the Year
MALLEE MAGIC
2022 SA Distance Greyhound of the Year
FANTASTIC RADLEY
2022 Starts 21-1sts 18, 2nds 0, 3rds 1
(Fernando Bale x Fantastic Dotty)
Owner – Terrific Group Syndicate – Manager Danielle Chegia
Trainer – Elizabeth Chegia
2022 Prizemoney $69,860
Greyhound of the Month – August
Won final SA National Distance Championship (5th in Group 1 final)
Won Premier’s Cup Feature
Eighth Group 1 Topgun Stayers @ Meadows
Broke Angle Park 730m track record
Unbeaten over APK 730m winning all 12 starts over the journey
Won 6 races in a row
Best Times: 42.47 (730m Angle Park)
34.15 (595m Angle Park)
25.66 (455m Murray Bridge)
29.59 (530m Murray Bridge)
38.73 (680m Murray Bridge)
2022 SA Short Course Greyhound of the Year
(For greyhounds raced in events up to 400m)
TOBY WEST
2022 Short Course Starts 23 -1sts 9, 2nds 8, 3rds 1
(Mepunga Blazer x West On Jorji)
Owner – Bob & Valerie May
Trainer – Adam Manton
2022 Prizemoney $13,520
Second heat Murray Bridge Straight Track Cup (fifth in final)
Second heat SA National Straight Track Championship (fourth in final)
Equaled Gawler Track Record (Avid Tyson April 2014)
Best Times: 22.27 (400m Gawler)
19.15 (342m Angle Park)
2022 Sennachie Award of Excellence
(SA Bred and predominately SA Owned which raced with an Interstate trainer for 2022)
BEDROCK FRED
2022 Starts 18-1sts 5, 2nds 5, 3rds 3
(Spring Gun x Dashing Dee Dee)
(SA Bred) Owner – Michael Ceravolo, Stewart Barber and Gavin Harris
Trainer – Krystal Shinners (WA), Graeme Jose (Vic), Tony Brett (QLD), David Geal (Vic)
2022 Prizemoney $139,280
Second heat Group 1 WA Galaxy (sixth in final)
Second heat Group 3 WA Miata (seventh in final)
Third heat Group 1 Sandown Cup
Fourth Listed Cup Night Stayers
Won Group 3 Dashing Corsair (second in heat)
Won Group 3 Supers Stayers Invitational
Won heat Group 1 Queensland Cup (second in final)
Best Times: 41.92 (715m Cannington)
41.42 (710m Albion Park)
2022 TAB Nominations Greyhound of the Year
FANTASTIC RADLEY
MALLEE MAGIC
SPRINGVALE MAX
VICTA GROSSO
VICTA HAYDN
2022 Greyhound of the Month winners
January – Stout Monelli
February – Stout Monelli
March – Fantastic Victor
April – Mallee Magic -
May – Springvale Max
June – Victa Grosso
July – Giant’s Flash
August – Fantastic Radley
September – Mallee Magic
October – Buzz Junkie
November – Spring Honour
December – Springvale Roxy
2022 Outstanding Service to Industry Award
Mike Wittholz – Presented by Bob May (President GGRC)
2022 Outstanding Service to Industry Award
Kaye Versari – Presented by Ray Fewings (GRSA Industry Director)
2022 Special Achievement Award
Filthy Phantom – trainer Tony Hinrichsen
Filthy Phantom was recognized as a greyhound that continues to create history with his longevity in racing. “Baz” as he is affectionately known around the kennel turned back the ageing clock continuing to race past 300 starts and 6 years of age. Filthy Phantom currently has had 336 starts for 38 wins and 122 placings - $45,473 in stakes. He was born on 29th April 2016 and started his racing career at Strathalbyn (which no longer holds greyhound meetings) on 22nd December 2017.
2022 SA Stud Dog of the Year
Worm Burner - 233
Worm Burner was awarded the leading SA Sire for 2022 making it a fourth win in a row after he won in 2019, 2020 and 2021. In 2022 progeny of Worm Burner won 233 races, 167 wins in front of his nearest rival in another brilliant year. Some of his best performed greyhounds for the year included Adelaide Cup finalist and GOTY finalist Mallee Magic (12 wins), John Gray Feature winner It’s Smudgy (12 wins) and short course performer Classy Chaos (13 wins).
2022 SA Brood Bitch of the Year
Victa Victoria - 82
Victa Victoria was awarded the Brood Bitch of the Year for the second year in a row, with 82 winners in 2022. She took out the award last year with 108 winners. Her winners came from the outstanding Fernando Bale litter with 11 or the 12 greyhounds winning atleast one race in 2022.
Standouts of the litter include GOTY Finalists Victa Grosso (21 wins) and Victa Haydn (8 wins), Group 3 Gawler Cup winner Victa Reid (9 wins) and Festival of Fire “Flame” winner Victa Kurt (12 wins). Victa Buzz (7 wins), Victa Maggie (7 wins), Victa Mikey (6 wins), Victa Emma (6 wins), Victa Daryl (3 wins), Victa Oreo (2 wins) and Victa Florence (1 wins) rounding out the litter mates.
2022 SA Breeder of the Year
Joan Schadow – 278 points
This was the thirteenth time this award has been presented and was introduced to recognize the outstanding Breeder in the State. This award is decided on a point’s basis for SA Bred greyhounds that have won races at Sky Racing meetings during 2022 in SA.
Joan’s winners were mainly out of two litters. The Fernando Bale x Victa Victoria litter that produced standouts Victa Grosso and Victa Haydn who are finalists for the SA Greyhound of the Year along with Victa Reid and Victa Kurt after winning multiple feature races during the season along with the other “VICTA” dogs. The 12 pups from this litter have won a total of 82 races between them. The Fernando Bale x Victa Polly litter whist the progeny is only very young they have already produced multiple race winners Victa Speed, Victa Tony, Victa Alby and one of the most exciting young sprinters in the nation, Victa Damian.
2022 SA Owner/Trainer of the Year (Tier 3)
Gavin Harris - 51
Gavin Harris was the leading Owner/Trainer of the Year with a total of 51 TAB winners in 2022. Gavin’s licence classification only allows him to train those greyhounds that he is in the ownership of, and he had a wonderful year. Gavin had good success with his greyhounds, including GOTY finalist Springvale Max (15 wins) which won the Group 3 Howard Ashton and Gawler Produce, Springvale Rex (7 wins) and Zinfandel Nikki (6 wins).
2022 TAB Leading Trainer of the Year
Tony Rasmussen – 233
Tony Rasmussen made it lucky number seven training awards as he was awarded the TAB leading Trainer of the Year for the seventh year in a row, with a total of 233 winners at TAB meetings in SA during 2022 increasing from his 217 from last year. Tony received great support again from his wife Lisa, children and band of helpers making it a real joint effort.
Many of his winners came from the litter of Fernando Bale and Victa Victoria and litter of Fernando Bale and Victa Polly with the “Victa” dogs winning multiple races however with more new owners coming on board and travelling 100’s of km locally and interstate the winners have followed.
Lisa came ninth in this year’s leading trainer award with 99 wins down from her 151 from last year.
Club 100 – SA trainers with 100 or more Winners for the Year
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Tony Rasmussen |
233 |
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Tracie Price |
201 |
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Ben Rawlings |
191 |
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David Peckham |
177 |
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Jack Trengove |
141 |
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Clint Trengove |
137 |
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Lauren Harris |
111 |
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Nicole Price |
109 |
2022 SA Syndicate of the Year
“My Four Girls” Syndicate – 119 wins
Manager – Susan Schadow
This is the sixteenth time that this award has been presented to acknowledge an important part of our industry in Syndication. The “My Four Girls” Syndicate was formed in SA on 24th January 2020 with current members including Sue Schadow, Carol Hondow, Ron Schadow and Kerry Braun. Robyn Basham left the syndicate on 24th March 2022. In 2022 The Syndicate won 119 races with their greyhounds winning races at all of our venues. The main performers were Victa Grosso (21 wins), Victa Kurt (12 wins), Victa Reid (9 wins), and Victa Haydn (8 wins).
A special mention to other SA registered syndicates who had good success in 2022 which included Board Racing (69 winners), The Nineofus (40), Next Racing (35) and Razza Racing (33).
2022 SA City Strike Rate
Ken Gill – 38.46%
This award is based on performances for Angle Park city meetings (City A/City B). The trainer must also have a minimum of 20 starters for the year. Ken qualified mainly through the performances of Sunset Toxic who had 9 wins from 19 starts at city tracks. During 2022 Ken trained 10 winners from 26 starters at city meetings, giving him a winning 38.46% strike rate.
2022 Gawler Trackstar Award
Springvale Roxy – 18 starts (11/2/3)
Trainer – Mike Giniotis
Springvale Roxy raced 10 times over the Gawler 400m journey with 6 wins and 2 placings with her best time being 22.50. She raced 8 times over the 531m journey winning 5 races and placed on 3 occasions with her best time being 30.34. She raced all year winning 61% of her races and running in the top three 88% of the time.
2022 Run Of The Year – Stout Monelli (February) & Victa Grosso (September)
With the voting comprising of 50% Public Vote and 50% GOTY Panel both of these performances could not be split in the voting process, so they are joint winners.
Stout Monelli for trainer Tim Aloisi jointly won the Run of the Year after he smashed the track record over the 595m at Angle Park on Thursday, 10th February. Stepping up to the 595m for the first time he quickly asserted his dominance on his rivals running to the front early and from there he was never going to be caught. He ran splits of 8.39 and 20.90, stopping the clock at 33.68 in winning by almost 7 lengths. He broke the previous best time by .32 meaning he would have beaten that greyhound by over 4 lengths. No other greyhound during the year was able to break the 34 second barrier.
Victa Grosso for trainer Tony Rasmussen also jointly wins the Run of the Year for the second year in a row. Last year Victa Grosso won the Run of the Year with a brilliant Group 3 Gawler Cup Feature win and this year it was all about pure speed. Five days prior he captured the Mount Gambier 512m track record in sizzling style he then ventured to Gawler over the 531m on Sunday, 2nd September. He started a dominate favourite and justified that quote leading throughout and winning by over 11 lengths with all attention on his time. He ran a time of 30.22 which bettered the previous mark by .01 which was set by Regional Image back in 2003 and then equalled by It’s Classified in 2015. This was one of the long-standing track records across Australia until it was broken in devastating style.
Stout Monelli received the most public votes and was second by the GOTY panel where Victa Grosso got top votes from the GOTY Panel and was second with the public votes.
Shaun Mathieson
Racing Manager