Angle Park Preview - 25th July 2024
TELLING THE TAIL by The Shadow
We have another 12 event program and go straight to race 7, the open stakes over the 530m, how good is this event with an elite six greyhound field. Fantastic Spike was a last start winner here in a BON 30.36, the Chegia kennel has him flying winning his last five and is boxed to perfection down in 1. Where’s Poppy is nicely drawn off the track in box 8, she keeps on stepping up to the plate in FFA company and is one of the dangers again. Xile Bale is one that needs luck early in the run, he went 30.41 here last week and should get a handy sit into the back. And yes we can’t leave out Adhana Rico, he loves this track with 12 wins and 5 placings from his 20 starts here and has a personal best of 30.27 here.
Race 1 - 6,1,2,7
Race 2 - 2,1,7,4
Race 3 - 2,6,4,1
Race 4 - 6,2,3,1
Race 5 - 1,2,6,4
Race 6 - 7,3,2,8
Race 7 - 1,8,2,4
Race 8 - 7,4,3,2
Race 9 - 3,2,8,7
Race 10 - 7,5,1,9
Race 11 - 2,8,1,4
Race 12 - 4,6,2,8
Best Bets
Race 1 No 6 Sutton Ebony
Race 5 No 1 West On Muffin
Race 12 No 4 Dakota Rylen
Best Each Way
Race 8 No 4 Amron Dan
Good Luck
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 affected greyhounds to be considered eligible for nominating. It is also imperative that once the greyhound 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 occur, 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 stewards.
ANGLE PARK THURSDAY (City A)
Next week's Angle Park Thursday meeting features -
$5,810 State Heats 2024 National Sprint Championship-530m ($25,000 Final 8/8/24. Group 1 Nat Final @ Angle Park SA Saturday 24/8/24)
$2,785 Maiden – 530m
$4,050 Grade 6 – 595m
$2,100 Heats Fastest Forward (1-6 wins) – 530m ($3,680 Final Thursday 8/8/24. Selected from Worst to Best of this category. Final field will be an 8-dog field plus reserves, comprising of the greyhounds running the fastest times in the Heats, regardless of their finishing position in those Heats. Trainer can only have 2 runners per Heat however may have more if insufficient nominations. N/P. Trainers MUST nominate Time Graded Heats to be considered.
$7,140 Open – 730m
$4,250 SA Bred Grade 5 – 530m
$4,790 Mixed – 595m
* Nominations close Monday 29th July with GRSA at 9.00am.
The Boy from the Bush gives his selections for tonight’s super night of racing at Angle Park tonight -
First 4 selections -
Race 1 - 2,6,7,1
Race 2 - 1,2,7,5
Race 3 - 6,2,1,4
Race 4 - 8,6,2,3
Race 5 - 1,2,4,5
Race 6 - 7,1,2,3
Race 7 - 8,1,4,5
Race 8 - 4,1,2,7
Race 9 - 3,2,4,8
Race 10 -5,7,8,1
Race 11- 2,1,8,4
Race 12 -4,1,2,6
Best Bets: Race 5 No 1 West On Muffin
Best Bets: Race 8 No 4 Amron Dan
Best Eachway: Race 4 No 8 Rhonda Wine
ANGLE PARK TRACK HARROW TOMORROW – TRIALS ON SUNDAY
The GRSA Maintenance team will undertake a track harrow of Angle Park tomorrow (Friday 26th July). With inclement weather the last few weeks this is looking like the best opportunity to complete a harrow in a lead up to the Nationals throughout next month.
As a consequence of this work, the trial session this Saturday 27th July has been moved to this Sunday 28th July in support of participants with trial times expected to be slower than normal. This maintenance will be weather dependant and GRSA will keep participants informed if something changes.
2024 GAWLER CLASSIC FINAL ON WEDNESDAY 31st JULY
The $3,300 final of the Gawler Classic for 2024 over 400m will be held on Wednesday 31st July after heats were run yesterday for greyhounds paid up for Classic for 2024.
The heat winners were Josie Dakota (22.74) and Allinga Mercury (22.99) with the final being an 8 dog field.
2024 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA – SA SPRINT NOMINATIONS CLOSE ON MONDAY
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 next Thursday, 1st August for the Sprint Heats over 530m with the State Final of the Sprint on Thursday 8th August now worth $25,000..
• Nominations for the Sprint heats 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.
The one-off Distance Final now also worth $25,000 for the Nationals over the 730m will be conducted on Thursday, 8th August.
• Nominations for the Distance Final will close at the normal time with GRSA which will be at 9am on Monday, 5th August.
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 Distance series going back is on Wednesday, 22nd May 2024.
In an effort to support this series ALL States where possible will be conducting their State Finals on the same night to be run within a two hour period. 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 challenging for the title.
With the Straight Track series being in SA along 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 nomination closing date to be eligible to represent SA, which going back is on Sunday, 19th May 2024. If unsure of a greyhound’s status, please contact the GRSA grading staff.
• Full 2024 Conditions of Nomination for both the GCA National Sprint and Distance Championships Series and the GCA National Straight Track Championship Series are available on the GRSA website.
BOOST FOR NATIONALS PROGRAMMING
With the August calendar now released GRSA has attempted to provide diverse racing opportunities for all of our greyhounds during the Group 1 National Championships held later next month to ensure all race meetings are supported with terrific financial rewards available for our participants.
• The SA National Sprint and Distance finals to be decided at Angle Park on Thurs¬day August 8 will see total prizemoney elevated from $15,000 to $25,000.
• The race meeting at Angle Park on Saturday night, 24th August will not only feature the two Group 1 $136,750 National Sprint and Distance Finals there will also be an extra $1,500 added to all other events on the program including the Classic 2024 Prelude (1) Final enticing some of the very best chasers.
• The race meeting at Murray Bridge on Saturday morning, 24th August will not only feature the Group 3 $44,875 National Straight Track Final, but the whole 10 race card will be conducted with City A Metro prizemoney (Category 1) with a shared Straight track and One Turn meeting planned. This will be a great spectacle to have both tracks in operation on the same day. Feature races on the meeting will be an Open Straight track Feature over the 350m along with a Grade 5 over 300m, bearing in mind as this meeting is a Prov 1 for grading purposes all grades on the Straight track will not be higher than a Grade 5. One turn features a Special Event over the 455m along with two Finals, a Grade 6 455m Final and a Grade 5 395m Final with those Heats run on Friday, 16th August. This should encourage a high quality and interesting meeting for oncourse and off course patrons.
• The race meeting on Thursday night, 22nd August at Angle Park will provide an opportunity for some short course events with the main focus for sprinting, middle distance and stayers at Angle Park on the Saturday night. This meeting will provide a mix of events over multiple distances with highlighted events being Maiden Heats over the 530m, a Maiden/Grade 6 Final over 595m from Heats on Thursday, 15th August, a Grade 5 for Male dogs over 530m along with a restricted Grade 6 (1-2 win) event over 530m. Over the 342m we have programmed a Mixed 342m event with some of the quickest bend greyhounds on show, along with two Finals from Heats on Saturday morning, 17th August, one Time Graded 1-4 wins (3 Heats) and one Time Graded 5+ wins (2 Heats) which will provide some of our lesser lights an opportunity to share the spotlight on our City A meeting.
• At all other meetings during Nationals week, there will a Nationals Bonus payment where all winners, seconds and thirds will receive $100, $50, $25 extra respectively.
With the Gawler Show on the 24th and 25th August resulting in Gawler having a week off, both Angle Park and Murray Bridge will take the focus of our meetings during this time and it is hoped that the spread of racing opportunities provides for a great Nationals week for our local participants and industry.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR ICG
The ICG selection committee is currently seeking expressions of interest from participants in several categories -
Public Trainer – Mid Size
Interest In Greyhounds
Owner
to be considered with existing nominees, for appointment to the ICG (Industry Consultative Group).
We are seeking participants who can take an industry-wide perspective and contribute positively to the industry. The ICG selection committee are responsible for appointing the members of the ICG which currently meet three to four times yearly for approximately two and half hours. The term of membership is 2 years. If you would like to express your interest please complete the application form online or from kennel capers and forward to Shaun Mathieson at GRSA via email [email protected] by Friday 16th August 2024. Once applications have closed these details will be forwarded to the ICG selection panel for their consideration. If you require further details, please contact Shaun Mathieson at GRSA.
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 starting 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 advertised 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
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 Registration form and Claim form.
HEATS CLASSIC 2024 PRELUDE (1) AT ANGLE PARK
The $3,700 Heats of Classic 2024 Prelude (1) will be run on Thursday, 15th August with the $4,500 Final on Saturday, 24th August over the 530m to coincide with the Group 1 Nationals meeting. For SA Bred greyhounds whelped July 22 to December 22 and paid up for Classic 2024.
* Nominations for the Heats close Monday, 12th August with GRSA at 9.00am.