Angle Park Preview - 18th July 2024
TELLING THE TAIL by The Shadow
How good is the racing here tonight at headquarters, Race 8 is the Final of the 2024 SA Champion Pup-py sponsored by Fresh Pet Food Co, as mentioned last week the Shima Shine /Dakota Roxy litter is well represented with three runners and Dakota Ava scorched the track here last week when winning by 7 lengths, she has drawn box 1 and is definitely the one to beat. Zinfandel Trace is the danger for mine as she can run time with a clear run early. The winners Cheque is $10,000 so it will certainly buy plenty of kibble for the winning connections.
Race 1 - 4,5,2,1
Race 2 - 2,1,5,4
Race 3 - 2,1,4,6
Race 4 - 7,8,1,2
Race 5 - 7,8,4,2
Race 6 - 1,2,5,8
Race 7 - 1,3,4,5
Race 8 - 1,4,6,7
Race 9 - 8,5,1,2
Race 10 - 7,6,4,5
Race 11 - 1,8,5,6
Race 12 - 6,8,4,2
Best Bets
Race 3 No 2 - Fantastic Spike
Race 6 No 1 - Super Seabird
Race 7 No 1 - Victa Chrissy
Best Each Way
Race 8 No 6 - Dakota Rylen
VACCINATION RULE FOR RACING IN SA – REMINDER
Trainers are reminded that Rule 25 (Minimum Vaccination Requirements) took effect Monday, 1stMay, 2023. Vaccination Certificates must be received by GRSA prior to close of nominations for af-fected greyhounds to be considered eligible for nominating. It is also imperative that once the grey-hound has been vaccinated the paperwork is lodged by yourself as soon as possible. Trainers are also reminded that they must not have their greyhound vaccinated within 5 days of racing. Should this oc-cur, the greyhound will be scratched from its engagement or if paperwork lodged after an engagement and discovered the greyhound raced inside the 5 days then the matter will be referred to the stew-ards.
ANGLE PARK THURSDAY (City A)
Next week's Angle Park Thursday meeting features -
$5,810 Mixed Masters Feature Final – 530m (For greyhounds 3¾yo or over at time of nom - must have raced previous 6 months or qualy trialled in that time. 4yo and higher will have preference. N/P. Heats 18/7/24)
$3,680 Fastest Forward (1-6 Wins) Final–530m (Heats Thur 18/7/24. N/P Worst to Best of this category. Final 8-dog+reserves, comprising greyhounds running fastest times in Heats regardless of finish posi-tion.)
$2,785 Maiden – 530m
$3,680 Grade 6 Bitches – 530m
$6,315 Special Event N/P-595m (all greyhounds considered.G5 must advise if do not want a start)
$3,680 Juvenile – 530m
$7,140 Open – 730m
* Nominations close Monday 22nd July with GRSA at 9.00am.
BOY FROM THE BUSH
The Boy from the Bush gives his selections for tonight’s excellent night of racing at Angle Park tonight -
First 4 selections -
Race 1 - 5,4,2,8
Race 2 - 4,2,1,5
Race 3 - 4,2,1,8
Race 4 - 2,7,1,8
Race 5 - 8,7,2,4
Race 6 - 5,1,2,3
Race 7 - 5,3,1,4
Race 8 - 1,4,3,6
Race 9 - 2,5,7,8
Race 10 -1,4,7,5
Race 11- 1,8,5,7
Race 12 -8,1,6,4
Best Bets: Race 5 No 8 Springvale Rex
Best Bets: Race 7 No 5 Boom Boom Jinx
Best Bets: Race 11 No 1 Glastonbury
2024 FRESH PET FOOD CO SA CHAMPION PUPPY FINAL TONIGHT
After two excellent heats last week of the 2024 Fresh Pet Food Co Champion Puppy, tonight’s final looks a great race on paper over the 530m for some of our most exciting young sprinters in the state.
Heat winners last week were taken out by kennel mates Dakota Ava in 30.53 and Dakota Rylan in 30.73 both trained by Kerry Stagg.
Tonight’s final is worth $14,275 and will be race 8 on the program due to start at 9.09pm.
Tonights Champion Puppy final in Box Draw order is:
1. Dakota Ava -- Kerry Stagg
2. Jubilant -- Bill Wudarczyk
3. Bookaloo -- Damien Smith
4. Zinfandel Trace -- Gavin Harris
5. Jabuk -- Damien Smith
6. Dakota Rylen -- Kerry Stagg
7. Scary Eyes -- Cameron Forshaw
8. Dakota Shine -- Colin Simes
9. Apilla -- SCR
10. Josie Dakota-- SCR
2024 $8,000 EXCHANGE PRINTERS MOUNT GAMBIER ANNIVERSARY CUP FINAL THIS SUNDAY
Sundays $8,000 Exchange Printers Anniversary Cup Final at Mt Gambier has seen a top line up drawn together after two heats were run last Sunday over the 512m. Heat winners were the Jason Newman trained Purified (30.04) and the Captain Abbott trained Top Cadillac (29.70). It looks an outstanding line up which will be race 8 on the program due to start at 2.37pm. Other features on the program are $3,000 20th running of the John Reid Memorial Maiden Final over 520m after two heats were run last Sunday which is race 4 on the program due to start at 1.14pm and the $4,500 Eric Lewis Memorial Feature Open over the 732m which is race 3 at 12.56pm.
2024 GAWLER CLASSIC HEATS ON WEDNESDAY JULY 24 – NOMINATIONS CLOSE TOMORROW
The first part of the series for the Classic 2024 eligible greyhounds will be the Gawler Classic Heats over 400m which will be run on Wednesday, 24th July with the $3,300 Final on Wednesday, 31st July.
*Nominations for the Heats close tomorrow (Friday, 19th July) with GRSA at 9.00am.*
2024 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN AUGUST
The GCA National Championships are just around the corner. The National Finals this year will be held locally at Angle Park and are to be conducted on Saturday, 24th August.
Both the National Sprint and National Distance Finals are at Group 1 level worth $85,000 to the winner.
The State series’ for SA will be held at Angle Park on Thursday, 1st August for the Sprint Heats over 530m with the State Final of the Sprint and one-off Final over 730m of the Distance on Thursday, 8th August.
In an effort to support this series ALL States will be conducting their Finals on the same night to be run within a two hour period.
• Nominations will close at the normal time with GRSA which will be at 9am on Monday, 29th July
A reminder to all trainers of the clause which requires a greyhound to have been domiciled in South Australia for a period of not less than 76 days out of the 150 days immediately prior to the nomination closing date to be eligible to represent SA.
For the Sprint series going back is on Wednesday, 15th May 2024.
For the Distance due to South Australia running as a one off Final going back is on Wednesday, 22nd May 2024.
If unsure of a greyhound’s status, please contact the GRSA grading staff.
NATIONAL STRAIGHT TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP AT MURRAY BRIDGE
The National Straight Track Championship this year will be held locally at Murray Bridge on Saturday morning, 24th August with around $28,000 to the winner – so all the National Finals will be held on the same day.
This year SA will have two SA dogs represent the State in the series with QLD, NSW, VIC and SA chal-lenging for the title.
With the Straight Track series being in SA with the circle and the other States, our Heats will be held at Murray Bridge on Tuesday, 6th August with our Final on Tuesday, 13th August. Prizemoney for the SA Straight track Final will be $10,000 to the winner aligned with the other three States.
It is important that trainers are aware that these series’ for the circle and straight track are run around the same time so please be mindful of this when nominating and the qualifying criteria.
• Nominations close with GRSA at 9am on Friday, 2nd August (this will allow the opportunity if greyhounds get run out over the 530m in the Heats for the Sprint series a chance to nominate for the Straight)
A reminder to all trainers of the clause which requires a greyhound to have been domiciled in South Australia for a period of not less than 76 days out of the 150 days immediately prior to the nomina-tion closing date to be eligible to represent SA, which going back is on Sunday, 19th May 2024. If un-sure of a greyhound’s status, please contact the GRSA grading staff.
• Full 2024 Conditions of Nomination for both the GCA National Sprint and Distance Champion-ships Series and the GCA National Straight Track Championship Series are available on the GRSA website.
PREFERENTIAL BOX DRAWS TO START AT MURRAY BRIDGE STRAIGHT TRACK IN AUGUST
GRSA will conduct Preferential Box Draws for selected events at the Murray Bridge Straight track start-ing from the 1st August meeting (Maidens and Feature Cup and Championship series will be excluded). These types of events are being regularly programmed Interstate under each state’s conditions. Events will be specifically advertised, and trainers must advise if they want to compete in these events along with the racing trait of the respective greyhound at the time of nominating in the comments box. If trainers do not provide this information when nominating, they will not be considered for these adver-tised PBD events.
Conditions -
• PBD racing to be introduced for advertised race events at the Murray Bridge Straight track as from August 1, 2024
• Three racing traits – R = Rail, M = Middle, W = Wide
• The Trainer nominates the racing trait of the greyhound relating to box rise and 50m after the start
• This is reviewed by Stewards/Grading teams
• Box draws via OzChase which can now accommodate an automated process where greyhounds can be grouped by trait and then automatically box drawn
• Grading of each race event will be done under normal grading and programming guidelines
• There will be No Reserves for these events
Specific PBD Events programmed –
Tuesday 6th August – PBD Grade 6 Heats – 300m
Tuesday 13th August – PDB Grade 6 Final – 300m, PBD Grade 5 300m
Wednesday 21st August – PBD Grade 6 – 350m
Wednesday 28th August – PBD Mixed – 350m
INDUSTRY CONSULTATIVE GROUP MEMBERS APPLICATION
Very shortly our ICG selection committee of Tracie Price (Mount Gambier), Steve Coates (GOTBA), Alan McCulloch (AGRC), Janette Rice (Gawler) and Manuel Stuppos (Murray Bridge) will be calling for ex-pressions of interest for expiring members of the ICG to continue, along with new applications for consideration to be selected onto the ICG for their upcoming meetings.
Expiring members (September 30, 2024) are Ryan Tugwell, Dr. Greg Moore and Keaton Bond, there-fore, these positions will be advertised shortly. If you have previously applied but were unsuccessful please reapply as the opportunity may come up on this occasion.
TUESDAY NIGHT MEETINGS ON THE CALENDAR
Greyhound Racing South Australia (GRSA) announced the introduction of Tuesday night meetings at Angle Park, which started a few weeks ago. The Tuesday night meetings are designed to meet de-mand, providing more racing opportunities for lower class greyhounds within SA.
The meetings will be time graded, with 10 races of six dog fields. The meetings will operate in tandem with Saturday morning race meetings which will target greyhounds of the same class with the racing distance at both race meetings restricted to 342m. Excess nominations are currently received for Sat-urday morning meetings. The Tuesday meetings will provide a further outlet for greyhounds that are nominated for the Saturday mornings and are not provided with a starting opportunity. Greyhounds falling into this category will be granted preference rights if nominated for the subsequent Tuesday night meeting.
With Saturday morning and Tuesday night meetings being restricted to 342m nominations, opportuni-ties for 530m time graded greyhounds will be programmed for other Angle Park dates. Trainers are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the details for the Tuesday night meetings, changes to the Saturday morning meetings and updated trialling times for Angle Park.
GRADING UPDATE REMINDERS
• GRSA allow one extra Grade 6 over another distance for City A Thursday meetings bringing this into line with all tracks in SA.
• GRSA removed the condition where once a greyhound has won a Grade 5 or higher event on a City A meeting that the greyhound will lose all Grade 6 events at all other tracks. This means a greyhound could be a Grade 4 or Grade 3 over 530m on a Thursday City A meeting and will still be able to win Grade 6 events at other tracks.
• GRSA allow a greyhound after winning a Grade 5 Masters event in faster time than the time standard to get back Into Masters with 2 runs in a Grade 5 at the track and distance, it doesn’t matter if they are placed or unplaced just so long as there are two starts out of Masters. This was changed from being just unplaced to get back.
SA BREEDERS SUPPORT PROGRAM
The Breeders Support Claim which has been increased to a maximum of $5,500 per litter will apply to all SA bred and whelped litters where the mating took place on or after April 1, 2024.
Breeders will be able to claim from a wider variation of breeding costs including stud fees, veterinary and transport, vaccination costs and whelping costs. Please see the breakdown below for Breeders who are looking at breeding their next litter. Claims will be processed upon receipt of the Litter Regis-tration form and Claim form.
While this support applies to litters conceived on or after April 1, 2024, GRSA will also reward each of the breeders that have supported the industry in the current financial year (July 2023 to June 2024) with a one-off bonus payment of $1000 for any litter whelped during FY24, prior to the new $5500 re-bate applying.
These payments have been processed this week with the last scheduled for Friday, July 19.