Angle Park Preview - 27th August 2020
by The Shadow
We have a huge 12 event programme here tonight at headquarters and it appears on paper to be a good night to have a punt, we have been in form of late with some handy winners at good odds so lets hope we can continue the form into a big night of racing. As always all races are Trifecta and First Four events.
Race 1 - Justice For All has only had the four starts, he has a good turn of early pace and was run down here last week by Yarindale in good time, he can lead and pinch this for mine. Springvale Ortiz is the improver, he stumbled on box rise here last start so he can be forgiven for that run, he is drawn to run a cheeky race. Box up 1.2.4.7
Race 2 - This is the Maiden of the night and Nockatunga was a good even run when 2nd behind Spofforth on debut, he will only be improved by the run and is well boxed. Banjo Riley made good ground when 2nd Monday and should be cherry ripe for tonight, add Sallynoggin who has handy short course form. Box Up 1.4.5.7
Race 3 - Nipper Zsa has been placed here in two of her last 4, she has the early pace to lead and is amongst the main chances. Two hands George is well drawn, he can be awkward early and will be working home late. Tarra Rocket has the form on the board and will be very hard to beat with early luck. Box up 1.4.5.7
Race 4 - This is the 600m of the night and a very strong one at that, the outside three look the main chances and I’m going with Major Havoc, he made late ground behind Defy here last week although well beaten he should give this a shake. Toora Ziggy will start the punters elect, the small field will suit and he can run quick times with a clear run. Holy Reign is strong and can run the Trifecta. Box Up 2.4.6.8
Race 5 - Lektra Theory has been in fantastic form of late including a slick 29.58 run here Monday night from box 8, he should win again on that effort. Alfieri is a smart type but has been missing the kick, he flew late to run 2nd here last week and is the danger if he steps. Fantastic Pippa appears a place chance. Box up 1.4.5.7
Race 6 - This is certainly a wide open affair with a lot of quality, Querencia stormed home to win in 30.09, he is a class act when in full flight and is drawn for a bold showing. Bold Mirage gets the nod from me as he has drawn down on the fence, he has a heap of early pace and should be able to kick up early and hold the lead, he was only run down here in the final stages last week. Wooden Tiger will be flying late and is a must for the Trifecta. Box Up 1.4.7.8
Race 7 - Blister was well supported here last week and led them a merry dance to score in 30.07, he looks the leader again and is boxed for a bold showing once again. Rushes is a newcomer from NSW, he has won 5 from 12 and is in the powerful Rasmussen kennel and is sure to be primed for a 1st up assault. Spring Burner and Threaten for our First Four. Box Up 1.2.6.7
Race 8 - The Des Hockley trained Maddison Kaye is our top pick in this, she has been in terrific form of late with wins at Gawler and a very good 2nd here last start behind Lektra Theory, she looks one of the better bets of the night. Sweet Rose is in form and is very strong and hasn’t missed a cheque at her last 5 runs, add Springvale Shine who loves to track wide and is strong. Box up 1.2.3.6
Race 9 - American Man wasn’t disgraced when 3rd here last week and was doing his usual storming home late, he loves a wide draw and is amongst the main chances. I’m Top Girl has been hit and miss of late on lid rise, she is well drawn and should be at good each way odds and will give this a big shake. Velocity Dory has early pace and is a chance of pinching this if there is trouble behind her early. Box Up 1.2.4.8
Race 10 - This is the distance of the night and Sir Truculent WINS AGAIN, he is the super star of distance racing here in SA and is a credit to Wally Harkins how well he is going. Miss Bellawood and Miss Takiri for the tri. 5.1.3.7 for a $1
Race 11 - The Murray kennel has been on fire of late and Velocity Bottino went the BON at Murray Bridge last start over the short, she has been racing well and should go very close in this. McLaren Illusion is strong, he only need to within striking distance down the back to run a cheeky race at odds. Box Up 1.4.5.8
Race 12 - It would be very nice to go home on a winner after a big night of racing and we will stick with Another Storm who ran a handy 2nd here on debut, he should only be improved by the run. Exhilarating is another who can step up, he has drawn well in this and is a must for our Trifecta, add Joes Gold for next best. Box Up 2.4.5.8
Best Bests
Race 1, No: 7 - Justice For All
Race 8, No: 6 - Maddison Kaye
Best Each-Way
Race 11, No: 1 - McLaren Illusion
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KENNEL CAPERS ONCE A MONTH
The monthly Kennel Capers for August was released last week so make sure you grab yourself a copy.
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ANGLE PARK THURSDAY
Next weeks Angle Park meeting features –
$6,430 Kings & Queens Final – 515m (For dogs & bitches whelped between 1st March 2018 and 31st May 2018. Special Conditions apply depending upon nominations. Heats 27/8/20)
$3,280 Grade 5 Masters–515m (For greyhounds 3¾yo or over at time of nom-must have raced previous 6 months or qualy trialled in that time. 4yo & higher will have preference)
$2,255 Open Maiden – 515m
Graded – 600m
$5,120 FFA – 731m
Nominations close Monday 31st August with GRSA at 9.00am.
The Man In The Tower gives his selections for tonight’s super night of racing at Angle Park.
First 4 selections –
Race 1: 7,1,2,4
Race 2: 1,8,7,4
Race 3: 7,4,5,1
Race 4: 8,6,4,2
Race 5: 4,7,5,2
Race 6: 1,8,7,5
Race 7: 1,6,2,8
Race 8: 6,1,3,5
Race 9: 2,8,1,7
Race 10: 5,1,7,3
Race 11: 4,8,7,1
Race 12: 2,8,7,4
Best Bet: Race 11, No: 4 – Velocity Bottino
Each Way: Race 12, No: 8 – Another Storm
Roughie : Race 8, No: 1 – Established
The Boy from the Bush gives his selections for tonight’s excellent night of racing at Angle Park.
First 4 selections –
Race 1: 1,7,8,2
Race 2: 1,7,4,2
Race 3: 7,8,4,5
Race 4: 8,4,1,6
Race 5: 4,7,5,1
Race 6: 8,1,7,2
Race 7: 1,2,6,4
Race 8: 6,2,3,4
Race 9: 5,8,2,1
Race 10: 5,1,3,7
Race 11: 1,4,5,8
Race 12: 4,2,8,5
Best Bets: Race 4, No. 8 - Toora Ziggy
Each-Way: Race 1, No. 1 - Springvale Ortiz
Roughie: Race 11, No. 1 - McLaren Illusion
LOCAL NEWS
HEATS KINGS AND QUEENS FEATURE TONIGHT
Tonight GRSA will conduct the Kings and Queens Feature series with one Kings Heat and one Queens Heat tonight with the final of $6,430 next week on Thursday, 3rd September; this series is conducted in continued support of any greyhound affected by the change to the GCA Age Restricted Classics change a few years ago.
The series has drawn together some exciting chasers with the likes of Blister, Jabari and Spring Burner doing battle in the Kings and Springvale Shine, Sweet Rose and Maddison Kaye in the Queens.
The first 4 from each heat will go into next weeks final. The box draw will be conducted on course after the running of Race 9 tonight.
CATCH THE THIEF TO TRIAL IN PREPARATION FOR OUR FEATURE RACES
Exciting chaser Catch The Thief has been sent across to Petar Jovanovic and will trial tonight at Angle Park in between races.
A winner of 16 of his 27 starts including the Group 2 WA Derby and Listed Winter Cup, Catch The Thief will be targeting the Match Race series and Group 1 Adelaide Cup coming up in a month’s tIme.
GRSA will post vision of the trial on the GRSA Facebook site after he has competed.
SHADOW MIST TRIALLING AT WENTWORTH PARK SATURDAY NIGHT
Local sprinting star Shadow Mist will trial on Saturday night at Wentworth Park before the first race leaving the option open for him to take his spot in the Million Dollar Chase semi finals on Friday 9th October.
With NSW clashing with the Group 1 Adelaide Cup the Lauren Harris team have some big decisions ahead. No doubt we will see him back in Adelaide for the Match Races series on Thursday 24th September but trialling atleast gives the connections plenty of options.
GAWLER CLASSIC 2020 SHORT COURSE HEATS TOMORROW
The Gawler Classic series for 2020 kicks of tomorrow with three heats programmed worth $1,500 each.
With 18 nominations this was a terrific start to the series. The first 2 from each heat and 2 fastest thirds will qualify for next Friday’s $3,000 final on 4th September with the final being an 8 dog event..
The next leg of this series will be the heats of the Classic 2020 Prelude (1) to be run at Angle Park on Monday 21st September.
Please take note on the back of the successful Fridays night meeting at Gawler last week we have fortunately been given times of race 1 - 3.58pm to race 12 - 7.48pm for tomorrow’s meeting. Again this is not a regular thing and has occurred due to the addition of the Bordertown thoroughbreds meeting postponed from last Sunday.
2020 BOURNE KENNELS MOUNT GAMBIER CUP FINAL THIS SUNDAY
On Sunday the Mount Gambier Greyhound Racing Club will not only conduct the feature $14,275 Bourne Kennels Mount Gambier Cup final it will also feature a $2,300 consolation of the Cup , the $1,500 The Produce Store Maiden, the $1,800 Formula 400 Final and the $2,000 The Tankman 600 Open Feature over 600m.
Its going to be a fantastic day in the South East of the State starting on Sunday.
Mount Gambier Cup Final – Race 7 @ 1.59pm (Sky 1 coverage)
- Rajasthan – Tim Aloisi
- Rough Pearl – Lee Bartholomew
- Sunset Milo – Tim Aloisi
- Cawbourne Terry – Tony Rasmussen
- Call Me Billy – Ben Rawlings
- Kipling – Tim Aloisi
- Dyna Carnie – David Peckham
- Little Earner – Tony Rasmussen
- Two Times Twice– Ben Rawlings (1st Res)
10. Ask Me Now – Damien Bates (2nd Res)
TONY RASMUSSEN SHOOTING FOR BONUS IN MOUNT GAMBIER CUP FINAL
SA trainer Tony Rasmussen will be aiming for a $5,000 bonus if either Cawbourne Terry or Little Earner can take out the Cup final on Sunday.
This was part of linking of the Murray Bridge Cup when he won with Hot Sophie and Mt Gambier Cups.
SCRATCHING TIMES FOR MT GAMBIER THIS SUNDAY AT 3PM ON FRIDAY
Please note the scratching’s for the Mt Gambier meeting this Sunday will close at 3pm on Friday. This is due to resourcing so the scratching’s can be made in office.
MOUNT GAMBIER DATE CHANGES TO ACCOMMODATE STAFF
GRSA will move the first two meetings in September at Mt Gambier from the Thursdays to the Sundays due to the availability of the oncourse Vet.
GRSA appreciates the support of the MGGRC and Sky Racing for making these changes.
Delete : Mt Gambier Thursday 3rd September 2020 (TAB) DAY
Add : Mt Gambier Sunday 6th September 2020 (TAB) DAY
Delete : Mt Gambier Thursday 10th September 2020 (TAB) DAY
Add : Mt Gambier Sunday 13th September 2020 (TAB) DAY
Nominations for these meetings will now close on the Tuesday prior to the meeting at 9am with GRSA.
REMOTE TRAINERS FEE TO ASSIST MOUNT GAMBIER MEETING
With continuing border restrictions affecting participation in the South East due to COVID-19, GRSA have decided to support the Mount Gambier meetings knowing the importance to be racing on a weekly basis during this time.
For those trainers that live more than 150 kilometres from Mount Gambier and travel to these meetings they will receive an additional $75 payment to their normal Trainers Fee. The fee will be capped at one payment per registered premises and will continue until the borders are open.
SATURDAY MORNING FORTNIGHTLY MEETING
We recently introduced the fortnightly Saturday morning meeting at Angle Park.
To accommodate this meeting through our weekly schedule we made some changes to the amount of races run during and after this meeting at other venues. We have changed to all G-SIX accept for feature and specific races. We moved the Wednesday meetings to be back to back Straight track and then Angle Park on a 3 week rotation. We have made the Saturday morning meetings Time Graded as this is the biggest group or greyhounds, with programming crucial to accommodate the weekly schedule. The next Saturday morning meeting will be held next week at Angle Park on Saturday 5th September.
ANGLE PARK TRACK MAINTENANCE
Please note that the Angle Park track was lightly spiked and graded on Tuesday to re-establish cambers.
At this stage the plan is to undertake a medium harrow next Tuesday (1/9/20), dependent on the weather forecast which looks good at this stage.
GOTBA COURSING TO START IN SEPTEMBER
Approval has been given by the GRSA Board for GOTBA to conduct three Coursing meetings this year at Virginia.
Unfortunately due to COVID-19 the Club have not been able to Course from the usual April to September race dates.
After liaising with the Club the below dates have been advised for Virginia Coursing.
Sunday 13th September
Sunday 27th September
Sunday 11th October
Nominations will be accepted the same way by GRSA via fax or email closing the Wednesday prior however the GOTBA committee will assist GRSA with the race fields process.
INTERSTATE GREYHOUNDS COMING TO SA FOR FEATURE EVENTS
Following Government advise since COVID-19 restrictions were put in place from earlier in the year GRSA have not been accepting any nominations from trainers domiciled in other States and this remains the case at present.
It is possible for Interstate greyhounds to compete in SA, however, they must be transferred into the kennels of a trainer domiciled in SA.
As the COVID-19 situation can change rapidly, GRSA will continue to update all participants of any changes to racing restrictions.
OAKS AND DERBY ELIGIBILITY IN 2020
The Group 3 SA Oaks and SA Derby to be run in September this year will be for greyhounds whelped on or after 1st June 2018 (27 months) which has stayed the same as the last few years.
The Heats of the Oaks will be run on the same night as the Derby again this year with Heats on Thursday, 10th September and the Group 3 Finals on Thursday, 17th September.
The Dates are:
Coffex Coffee Oaks (Group 3):
$4,715 Heats – Thursday, 10th September
$25,750 Final – Thursday, 17th September
BGC Industrial Cleaning Supplies SA Derby (Group 3):
$4,715 Heats – Thursday, 10th September
$25,750 Final – Thursday, 17th September
• Nominations for the Heats close Monday, 7th September at 9.00am.
***Where there are insufficient nominations to run heats of the Oaks or Derby (less than 10 nominations for each), the event will be conducted as normal graded events on the night with both Group finals conducted the following week (Thursday 17th September) where fresh nominations will be called for. GRSA encourages Trainers with eligible greyhounds to nominate for the heats of these prestigious series.
SA MATCH RACE SERIES ON SEPTEMBER 24
Due to border restrictions the normal State of Origin Match Race series (SA V VIC) has been postponed for 2020. Instead SA will still run a Match Race series for the best greyhounds nominated
Conditions -
• 515m Special Event - No Penalties Apply • Best 8 greyhounds in match race conditions
• 4 match races worth $2,500 - $3,250 each (runner-up $350) with overall winner receiving $5,000, 2nd place $1,430 and 3rd place $715.
- Nominations close Monday 21st September at 9am.
The head to head matches will be decided based on the final listing and nominations. Match 1 will be 1 v 4, Match 2 will be 2 v 3, Match 3 will be 5 v 8 and Match 4 will be 6 v 7. The Grader will then have to randomly draw the boxes (1 or 3) that each greyhound starts from. The most prizemoney will be allocated to the highest rated match.
GRSA will also have exclusive footage from inside the boxes of the greyhounds with has been a real highlight in past years.
GRSA conducted the Eastar Match Race series in April where Alfieri won for Bill Wudarczyk in a sizzling 29.54. As part of that series, for winning, Alfieri would be guaranteed a spot as an SA representative in the State Of Origin. Whilst that series has been postponed GRSA will honour this condition with accepting Alfieri as one of the 8 greyhounds for the SA Match Race series so long as he is nominated.
GRSA will continue the condition that the overall winner of the SA Match Race series will be guaranteed a spot in the Group 1 Adelaide Cup on Friday, 9th October.
2020 TAB GROUP 1 ADELAIDE CUP RACE DATES AND CONDITIONS
TAB Adelaide Cup Race Dates:
Thursday, 1st October : TAB Adelaide Cup Open Heats up to 8 @ $8,580 each
Friday, 9th October: TAB Adelaide Cup Final @ $73,950 ($50,000 to the winner)
TAB Adelaide Cup Consolation @ $8,580
Nominations: TAB Adelaide Cup Heats close Monday, 28th September with GRSA at 9.00am.
Nominations can be made on-line, please specify Adelaide Cup or on a Multi Nomination Form.
GRSA will continue the condition that the overall winner of the SA Match Race series will be guaranteed a spot in the Group 1 Adelaide Cup on Friday, 9th October. This greyhound will not be required to compete in the heats on Thursday, 1st October.
BOOKINGS OF TRIALS THROUGH ONLINE TRIALL BOOKER
Trainers are reminded for those that book trials for Angle Park and Murray Bridge, staff are directed to accommodate those bookings.
For those trainers who wish to trial without booking, which is ok, they will only fit in if there is space or will be at the end of the bookings.
MURRAY BRIDGE SLIPPING TRACK NOW AVAILABLE
The Murray Bridge slipping track can now be used; those participants that registered their interest can pick up their key fobs from GRSA reception.
Darren at the Murray Bridge Club also has fobs available so please register so you can make use of this facility.
BEANIES NOW AVAILABLE FROM GRSA
Approved Beanie’s are now part of the GRSA Dress Code Policy and available for sale from GRSA.
These Beanies are GRSA specific and are the only ones approved. They cost $10 and are available the GRSA racing office.
GRSA PLAN TO DISSEMINATE SCRATCHINGS IN A MORE TIMELY MANNER
Historically, it has been GRSA’s standard practice to wait until after the appointed scratching time to officially release all the scratchings.
GRSA would not release any scratchings for a meeting until this time. However, in the current climate with many wagering organisations wanting to open markets early on our races, they are not able to do so due to greyhounds potentially being scratched for injury, illness, ineligibility etc. This can affect potential revenue back to the industry with persons not able to invest, or investing and having the market alter when scratchings are finalised. This will also provide greater transparency for trainers, staff and our business.
For a trial period of 3 months it will be GRSA’s intention upon receiving a scratching from a trainer to input this into OzChase at that time, which will then be made public through the GRSA website. Once the greyhound has been scratched by the trainer and made public it is considered as being withdrawn. This is not uncommon practice with other States doing the same thing. For greyhounds that become ineligible for a race meeting due to winning a Maiden event, racing on consecutive days, offending during the run or being injured on the night etc and engaged in another race meeting, GRSA staff will automatically scratch the greyhound (as it is ineligible) at either the completion of the meeting when finalised by the stewards or the next working day. We have always encouraged trainers to scratch these greyhounds that have become ineligible for their next engagements, however, this is not always the case with staff waiting to withdraw them at the appointed time. For trainers in certain circumstances that may wish to appeal an offence with their greyhound engaged in another event then they would be required to flag that intent with the stewards on the day.
The benefits of this change will provide -
- Transparency across our meetings
- Correct information in real time
- Wagering companies can field up to date markets
- Allows punters to wager with confidence
- Allows for wagering dollars not to be tied up until after the ‘All Clear ‘of a race if a selection was scratched
This will take effect from Monday, 24th August 2020.