Angle Park Preview - 6th July
TELLING THE TAIL by The Shadow
We have another top night of racing here at headquarters tonight, with a strong 12 event program, several of the events are wide open so it will make for a chance to have a crack at the First Four. As usual all races are Trifecta and First Four and we need to bounce back from an ordinary night on the punt from last week.
Race 1 - 5,4,3,8
Race 2 - 5,2,8,1
Race 3 - 7,1,8,3
Race 4 - 7,5,1,3
Race 5 - 8,3,4,2
Race 6 - 3,5,1,4
Race 7 - 1,8,6,7
Race 8 - 3,8,5,1
Race 9 - 6,4,8,1
Race 10 - 7,1,2,5
Race 11 - 2,3,8,7
Race 12 - 8,7,3,4
Best Bets
Race 3 No.7 - Coorong Cam
Race 7 No.1 - Live It
Race 10 No.7 - Ragin’ Riot
Best Each Way
Race 6 NO 3 Boom Boom Jinx
The Boy from the Bush gives his selections for tonight’s excellent night of racing at Angle Park tonight -
First 4 selections
Race 1 - 5,8,7,3
Race 2 - 5,4,2,7
Race 3 - 7,1,3,4
Race 4 - 7,5,3,1
Race 5 - 6,2,8,4
Race 6 - 1,5,3,4
Race 7 - 8,6,2,7
Race 8 - 3,1,5,8
Race 9 - 6,8,1,4
Race 10 - 1,2,5,7
Race 11 - 7,2,5,8
Race 12 - 8,6,2,1
Best Bets - Race 1, No. 5 One Last Kiss
Best Bets - Race 10, No. 1 Lot Of Poise
Eachway - Race 11, No. 7 Basil Brush Rose
ANGLE PARK THURSDAY (City A)
Next weeks Angle Park Thursday meeting features –
$5,535 Heats 2023 Fresh Pet Food Co SA Champion Puppy – 530m (For greyhounds whelped on or after 1st July 2021. Unraced Maidens are ineligible. N/P. $14,275 Final 20/7/23)
$3,505 Fastest Forward (1-4 Wins) Final – 530m (Heats Saturday 8/7/23. N/P 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. Any race on the program)
$3,505 Special event Grade 5 (worst to best) – 530m (One 8 dog field will be graded from the Weighted Points Score table of Grade 5 pool of greyhounds worst to best grading. No guarding and no reserves. Trainers cannot nominate for this event specifically. Non Penalty)
$2,650 Maiden – 530m
$3,855 Maiden/Grade 6 – 595m
$4,560 Mixed -595m
$6,790 Open – 730m
Nominations close Monday 10th July with GRSA at 9.00am.
VICTA DAMIAN IN CONSOLATION OF BRISBANE CUP TOMORROW NIGHT
After running a brilliant second in last weeks heats of the Group 1 Brisbane Cup, SA’s star sprinter Victa Damian for Lisa Rasmussen was unlucky not to make the final however will line up in the $100,000 Consolation tomorrow night at Albion Park. The Sunshine State’s feature meeting has been moved to the Friday night with the Group1 Queensland Cup race 6 (7.16pm SA time) and the Group 1 Brisbane Cup race 8 (8.12pm) however most local eyes will be on race 7 @ 7.35pm where Victa Damian has drawn box 3. A clean getaway should see the son of Fernando Bale and Victa Polly make short work of his competitors on a fantastic night of racing.
MURRAY BRIDGE STAFF AT TRIALS
Please be advised that GRSA has not been able to obtain staff to manage some upcoming trial sessions at Murray Bridge, resulting in no trials on Monday 10th July and Monday 17th July.
There will be trials on Wednesday 19th July however there will be NO satisfactory trials. The next fortnightly opportunity will now be on Wednesday 2nd August.
Should staffing issues change trial sessions will be put back on where possible.
ANGLE PARK TRACK TURNOVER THIS MONTH
As part of the maintenance of the Angle Park Track a track turnover will take place on Saturday 15th July. The contractor is only available on weekend’s, and this is the best opportunity the team have to keep the track maintained which will require both Saturday and Sunday to prepare the track for racing on Monday night. As a result, the trials on that Saturday will be cancelled. This will all be weather dependent.
2023 FRESH PET FOOD CO CHAMPION PUPPY SERIES NEXT WEEK – NOMINATIONS CLOSE ON MONDAY
Special Event – No Penalties Apply - Un-Raced Maidens are ineligible. For greyhounds whelped on or after
1st July 2021.
HEATS @ $5,535 – Thursday 13.07.23
FINAL @ $14,275 - Thursday 20.07.23
*Nominations for the Heats close on Monday, 10th July with GRSA at 9.00am.*
2023 MOUNT GAMBIER ANNIVERSARY CUP WORTH $8,000 ON 23rd JULY – NOMINATIONS FOR HEATS CLOSE ON TUESDAY
One of the main feature meetings for the Mount Gambier GRC is programmed on Sunday, 23rd July where the $8,000 (increase in prizemoney) Exchange Printers Anniversary Cup Final for Open greyhounds will be run over the 512m along with the $2,500 John Reid Memorial Maiden Final over 305m and the $5,000 Eric Lewis Memorial Feature Open over the 732m along with other events. Heats for both the Anniversary Cup and John Reid Maiden will be run on Sunday, 16th July with both weeks likely to have some terrific racing.
*Nominations for the Heats close on Tuesday, 11th July with GRSA at 9.00am.*
2023 NORTH V SOUTH CHALLENGE KICKS ON NEXT SUNDAY – NOMINATIONS CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY
The 2023 North V South Challenge will have a 531m Final worth $8,000 and a 400m Final worth $4,000, to be run at Gawler on Sunday 30th July and then on rotation with Murray Bridge over the coming years.
This year’s series will start with one Heat for Gawler greyhounds and one Heat for Murray Bridge greyhounds at Gawler on Sunday, 16th July, with the 531m Heats worth $2,285 each and the 400m Heats worth $1,995 for round 1. Round 2 will be at Murray Bridge with the same greyhounds competing in one Heat for the Gawler greyhounds and one Heat for Murray Bridge greyhounds on Sunday, 23rd July, with the 530m Heats worth $2,285 and the 395m Heats worth $1,995. Each Heat will consist of a maximum of 8 dogs with the Finals run at Gawler on Sunday, 30th July as an 8 dog Final plus reserves. Greyhounds will receive points through both rounds 1 and 2 to establish the 4 from each Club who will progress through to the Final.
Special conditions apply regarding who represents which club from the North or South, greyhound eligibility and how the series is structured. Full conditions are available on the GRSA website and in the current edition of Kennel Capers.
Post Code - who represents North (Gawler) and South (Murray Bridge)
5006 to 5152 Gawler
5153 Murray Bridge
5158 to 5169 Gawler
5171 Murray Bridge
5173 to 5174 Gawler
5201 to 5213 Murray Bridge
5231 to 5235 Gawler
5237 to 5238 Murray Bridge
5244 Gawler
5245 to 5264 Murray Bridge
5304 Murray Bridge
5331 Gawler
5333 Murray Bridge
5341 to 5725 Gawler
5271 to 5291 Murray Bridge
Nominations for Round 1 close with GRSA on Wednesday 12th July at 9am.
*Trainers need to be aware that the finals of this series are planned to be run at Gawler on Sunday 30thJuly. The National Straight track heats will be run on Tuesday 1st August and the National Sprint heats on Thursday 4th August. Please bear this in mind when nominating.
IMPORTANT UPDATE - LICENSING
GRSA wishes to advise Participants of the following:
• Owners renewing licenses will NOT require Police Clearances at the current renewal period (30/6/2023);
• Trainers, Attendants and Breeders WILL require Police Clearances as previously advised and
• A grace period will apply to those experiencing difficulties
If you are requiring assistance in obtaining a Police Clearance, we encourage you to contact Renee Colquhoun (8243 7113 – [email protected]) or Des Jonas (8243 7166 – 0478 189 366 – [email protected]) at your earliest convenience.
Please note – If you have not renewed your licence this may prevent any greyhounds being nominated for upcoming meetings from July 1 onwards. Please ensure your trainer and owner’s licences are all up to date when nominating.
GRADING REVIEW PANEL MEETING OUTCOMES – MAIN POINTS
• GRSA will allow one extra Grade 6 over another distance for City A Thursday meetings bringing this into line with all tracks in SA. No retrospectivity regarding this change.
• GRSA has 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. No retrospectivity regarding this change.
• GRSA will now 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 has been changed from being just unplaced to get back.
INDUSTRY CONSULTATIVE GROUP PANEL MEETING OUTCOMES – MAIN POINTS
• There will only be one provisional breeders license being provided to multiple participants residing at the same residence. All other applications would be dealt with on a case by case basis. For implementation ASAP.
• 2 in 7 starts and 7 in 28 starts rule. The ICG agreed that a 10 day stand down period would be an appropriate penalty for those that knowingly nominated greyhounds that would be ineligible due to the rule. It was suggested any further infringements could attract a monetary penalty. To clarify any penalty would only apply once the dog had gone around, not in instances with late scratchings etc. It is the trainer’s responsibility to be aware of this rule and their implications. For implementation ASAP.
• The ICG panel confirmed and supported a $100 fine for any late Pink Card applications. For implementation ASAP.
• The ICG panel supported all trialling to be booked through the Trial Booker process to ensure specific criteria is met. Management to investigate amending trial booker into group categories to achieve greater efficiency at the session. For implementation ASAP.
ADDITIONAL TUESDAY NIGHT MEETING AT ANGLE PARK
After consultation and support by Sky Racing, GRSA has programmed an extra race meeting on the weekly schedule for the new season, with Tuesday night at Angle Park now on the calendar. This extra meeting will be shown on Sky 2 and will be for Category 3 prizemoney. It will also be for short course greyhounds (342m) exclusively to not affect 530m+ at Angle Park meetings on Monday (Category 2) and Thursday (Category 1). GRSA may initially have to utilise more 6 dog fields to spread out our numbers across the weekly schedule, however, this will only be determined at the time. These meetings will be graded events and as we haven’t run this category with greyhounds taking a grade (Saturday mornings are Non Penalty) it will be like a new venue with most grades being Maiden, Grade 6 and Grade 5 to start with.
Nominations will close on the Friday before, the same time as Gawler Wednesday. This does avoid Angle Park Monday and Murray Bridge Tuesday which close on the Thursday.
Trials at Angle Park will move from Tuesday night to Wednesday night and be run the same time as the Murray Bridge trials.
The implementation date is scheduled for 1st August, 2023.
NO ANGLE PARK TUESDAY 5TH DECEMBER 2023
Please note that due to SKY Racing 2 being closed in the night period of Tuesday 5 December 2023 for night two of the 2023 Harness Inter Dominion, GRSA will not have a Tuesday night meeting at Angle Park.
LOW GRADE RACE FOR THURSDAYS AT ANGLE PARK
In an effort to ensure we are programming 12 races each Thursday night at Angle Park, GRSA has introduced a low grade race for some Thursday nights. These races are for Grade 5 greyhounds over 530m that have a low WPS (Weighted Points Score). Prizemoney will be slightly less than a normal Grade 5, however, these races will be non-penalty. There will be no guarding, no reserves and only one 8 greyhound race. This should provide encouragement for those trainers who have 500m+ greyhounds but feel they cannot compete on a normal Thursday night due to current form. We are hoping to draw from a different pool of greyhounds and GRSA would encourage trainers to nominate.
$3,505 Special event Grade 5 (worst to best) – 530m (One 8 dog field will be graded from the Weighted Points Score table of Grade 5 pool of greyhounds worst to best grading. No guarding and no reserves. Trainers cannot nominate for this event specifically. Non Penalty)
The next programmed event is on Thursday, 29th June.
• Nominations close Monday, 10th July with GRSA at 9.00am
GRSA has also continued with the 1 – 4 win Time Graded Heats on a Saturday morning over 530m into a Thursday night Final, however, with the introduction of the race on Thursday night, in May the 5+ 530m Time Graded events will only be run if insufficient nominations for the meeting (there will be no Heats for this pool of greyhounds unless specifically programmed).
GRSA will also continue running Heats at Murray Bridge, Angle Park Monday and Gawler into a Thursday night Final where the program allows to draw from a different pool of greyhounds over 500m.
GOTBA COURSING DATES
GOTBA at Virginia Coursing dates until the end of the season. GRSA will continue to grade a mix of 4 and 8 dog events as the season progresses.
Sunday July 16, Sunday August 13, Sunday August 27, Sunday September 10, Sunday October 8