Angle Park Preview

02/10/2014
Racing News

Well it doesn’t get any better than tonight’s racing for the greyhound enthusiast. We have7 fantastic heats for the Adelaide Cup. There are a lot of interstaters crossing the border to try and claim the Macro Meats Adelaide Cup and with a very handy $75,000 to the winner on offer, who can blame them. The locals have the home track advantage and we see the return of the local hero in Ernie Bung Arrow who was last year’s Cup winner. He has drawn his box in race 8. Good luck and watch in awe at the caliber of smart performers that are gracing the Angle Park loam tonight.

Race 1 and we will kick off with the Troy Murray trained Van Carrho Flash. He is an ex NSW performer with 10 wins and 21 placing’s from his 47 starts. He is sure to be well tried and is well drawn. Add in Allen Illem and Velocity Daff. Box Up 1.2.3.6

The 2^nd and I am going with an early leader and that is Caramel Flirt. She had a smart win two runs back at Gawler from box 8 and is a chance of carving across here to lead and win. Premier Event continues to improve along with Absolute Boss. Box Up 1.4.6.7.

The 3^rd event which is the first of the Adelaide Cup heats and I am going with Iva Vision. He loves this track and won the Derby final here last month from this draw in a slick 29.57. Mepunga Hayley is another who is a top chance and the kennel is firing at the moment. Box Up 1.3.6.8

Race 4 and the inside two look the main chances. Allen Deed from the Dailly kennel is drawn for a big run. He is very smart when on the bunny but can be hit and miss on box rise. Wind Whistler is no stranger to the track and is yet to miss the money here in 3 outings. He will take a power of beating. Box Up 1.2.7.8 in a terrific event

Race 5 and we continue with another fantastic heat and the class runner is the well drawn Campaspe Will. He is knocking on the door and is drawn to win for mine. National Time has good form along with a couple of locals in Kalden Gambino and Nebula. We can’t forget Texas Titan, another from Victoria who has a keen liking to the venue. Box Up 1.2.3.5

The 6^th and a very open affair with a lot of class runners in this event. The top 3 are the 4 , 5 and the 6. Clash Of Kings gets the nod for mine on his trial here in 29.77 last week and the youngster has won 8 from 13 and has a very big future ahead of him. Box Up 4.5.6.7

Race 7 and we see a heap of pace in this event. They are both on the rails coming from Aston Kane and Ollie Bale. Both are very quick when on the bunny and have outstanding form. Gimme Fuel has a big motor when on song and has a BON 29.44 next to his name two runs back at Sandown. Box Up 1.2.4.7 in another quality event.

Race 8 and we see the return of the local champ in Ernie Bung Arrow, who will be trying to go back to back like Hawthorn. He hasn’t had the best lead up to the race with several setbacks with niggling injuries. Sidney’s Shadow can bounce back from a fall here last start (not a pun) from box 3 and Mepunga Armagh can pinch this. Box up 3.4.7.8

Race 9 the last of the 7 heats of the Cup and we see the outstanding Crackerjack Dak a winner of over $60,000 in prize money. He has 18 wins and 14 placing’s from his 44 starts. Local hope Footluce Diva is well drawn down in box 1 and is in terrific form. Box Up 1.3.7.8

The 10^th and this is the 600m event of the night. There is a heap of pace down on the fence so I will go with a stalker out in box 7, the smart Token MClaren who will camp on them early and storm home over the top. As It Goes will set the pace along with Big Zap. Box Up 1.2.4.7

Race 11 and Manic is more than capable of winning this. He has a good turn of early burn and is strong at both ends. Funky Chicken led throughout here last start and went on to win in 30.06 from box 2. Add the inform Young Gun McBain and that is the trifecta. Box Up 1.3.4.5

The final event on a great night of racing and don’t forget the final of the CUP is next Friday the 10^th of October and we will go home on a winner in He’s a Villian. Everyone will be jumping on the 1 dog and let’s hope at each way odds we will be running on to score. Box Up 1.3.4.6

Best Bets

Race 1 No 3 Van Carrho Flash

Race 3 No 8 Iva Vision

Best Each Way

Race 4 No 7 Galilee Spirit

Best Roughie

Race 6 Dustnado

JACKPOTS TODAY

ANGLE PARK FIRST 4 JACKPOTS ON ADELAIDE CUP HEATS
Race’s 3-9 tonight at Angle Park the 7 heats of the Adelaide Cup will carry an extra bonus for punters, they will include First 4 Jackpots of $2,000 on each race.

ALBION PARK TRIFECTA JACKPOT
Race 8 tonight at Albion Park the Gold Coast Cup Heat 4 will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a Trifecta Jackpot of $14,050.

HOBART QUINELLA JACKPOT
Race 6 tonight at Hobart the Mixed 3/4 event will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a Quinella Jackpot of $805.

HOBART ANY 2 JACKPOT
Race 7 tonight at Hobart the Invitation will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a Any 2 Jackpot of $4,511.

KENNEL CAPERS ONCE A MONTH

The monthly Kennel Capers for October will be released next week so make sure you grab yourself a copy. Remember to keep up to date with weekly updates and media releases using the GRSA website at www.grsa.com.au. For up to the minute information provide GRSA with your mobile phone details for text message updates for all Industry news.

ANGLE PARK NEXT FRIDAY (Adelaide cup final)

Next weeks Angle Park Friday meeting features –

$107,500 Final Macro Meats Adelaide Cup– 515m (Heats 2/10/14)

$6,875 Consolation Adelaide Cup – 515m (trainers must renominate)

$7,450 Premiers Cup – 731m

$4.415 Spud Regis @ Stud Bitches Final – 515m (Heats Monday 6/10/14)

$4,800 Free For All – 600m

Nominations close Tuesday 7^th October at 9.00am with GRSA

MAN FROM THE TOWER
Selections for tonight’s exciting 12 event card of racing at Angle Park featuring 7 heats of the Group 1 Macro Meats Adelaide Cup-
First 4 selections –
race one    3/1/2/7
race two              8/4/1/2
race three               1/8/6/4
race four             1/2/7/4
race five       1/2/3/5
race six       5/6/4/7
race seven            1/2/4/3
race eight       3/7/8/4
race nine      3/1/2/5
race ten        1/6/2/5
race eleven         5/3/1/2

race twelve 3/1/6/4

Best Bet – Race 7 No Aston Kane

Best Eachway – Race 10 No 1 As It Goes

Best Roughie – Race 11 No 2 Misato Bale

LOCAL INDUSTRY NEWS

NOMINATIONS CLOSE EARLY DUE TO PUBLIC HOLIDAY

A reminder to trainers that the nominations for the Gawler Thursday meeting on 9^th October close at 9.00am tomorrow (Friday 3rd October) due to the October long weekend Monday (6^th October) being a public holiday.

The nominations for the Friday Adelaide Cup meeting on 10^th October close at 9.00am on Tuesday 7^th October.

Also a reminder that Daylight Savings starts this weekend!!!!!!

TATTSBET FIXED ODDS MARKET FOR ADELAIDE HEATS

Below is the Fixed Odds Market for tonight’s Group 1 Macro Meats Adelaide Cup Heats. Tattsbet have also included a First 4 Jackpot of $2,000 on each of the heats.

The TattsBet market is listed below as at 11.00 am today. Win /Place 1+2.

Race 3 Heat 1:

Very Bitta	SA	13.00	4.70
Winbrook	SA	26.00	8.75
Musquin Bale	Vic	4.00	1.93
Woodnear	Vic	9.00	3.50
Mepunga Hayley	Vic	3.50	1.77
Genghis Kahn	SA	11.00	4.10
Iva Vision	Qld	2.50	1.47

Race 4 Heat 2:

Allen Deed	Vic	1.80	1.23
Wind Whistler	Vic	11.00	3.90
Limburg Fear	SA	15.00	5.00
Blurred Lines	Vic	8.00	3.00
Proven Juddy	SA	SCR
Sporting Tears	SA	51.00	16.00
Galilee Spirit	SA	5.50	2.30

Superfonic Vic 5.00 2.15

Race 5 Heat 3:

Campaspe Will	Vic	1.75	1.11
Kalden Gambino	SA	8.00	2.00
Texas Titan	Vic	6.00	1.72
Shady Deal	SA	34.00	5.75
National Time	Vic	6.00	1.72
Charmed Assassin	SA	21.00	3.90

Set The Scene SA 15.00 3.00

Nebula SA 13.00 2.75

Race 6 Heat 4:

Regal Looper	SA	13.00	2.80
Screamin’	SA	34.00	6.00
Heidi Go Seek	Vic	16.00	3.25
Crusade Marjen	Vic	5.50	1.67
Oakvale Destiny	Vic	2.20	1.18
Clash Of Kings	Vic	3.50	1.38
Dustnado	SA	8.00	2.05

Punishment SA 21.00 4.00

Race 7 Heat 5:

Aston Kane	SA	4.00	1.48
Ollie Bale	Vic	2.20	1.20
Dakota Premier	SA	9.00	2.30
Gimme Fuel	Vic	6.00	1.80
Farmeroo	SA	26.00	5.00
Danyo’s Luke	SA	51.00	9.00
Mepunga Moss	Vic	7.00	1.96

Valladares SA 11.00 2.60

Race 8 Heat 6:

Woodside Jagger	SA	34.00	6.00
Eye Smith	Vic	10.00	2.35
Sidney’s Shadow	SA	6.50	1.82
Maximum Lil	Vic	5.50	1.67
Especially	Vic	18.00	3.55
Yiche	SA	41.00	7.00
Mepunga Armagh	Vic	4.50	1.52

Ernie Bung Arrow SA 2.00 1.15

Race 9 Heat 6:

Footluce Diva	SA	3.00	1.35
Kalden Balerion	SA	9.00	2.40
Crackerjack Dak	Vic	3.50	1.44
Hellyeah Bolt	Tas	9.00	2.40
Wild Soul	SA	8.00	2.25
Blue Viper	SA	34.00	6.75
Cosmic Wise	Vic	4.00	1.53

Emerley Senorita SA 17.00 3.80

TattsBet will also be offering a fixed odds market on next week’s Group 1 final.

ADELAIDE CUP NIGHT ARRANGEMENTS

The 2014 Macro Meats Adelaide Cup Final will be run next Friday 10^th October and will feature a twelve event program. Racing will commence at 6.36pm and the last race will jump at 10.35pm. The Cup will be race eight and is timed to start at 9.18pm.

There will be a Free Draw upon entry, a Charity Match Race and a Greyhound Auction. Bookmakers and tote facilities will be available under the downstairs auditorium as is usually the case for Adelaide Cup night and there will also be a satellite bookmaker service upstairs for Restaurant diners. We will have two projector screens downstairs and one huge screen out in the grassed area along with plenty of tote TV’s available for punters.

The TAB Van will be available in front of the grandstand area near the track along with another tote section in the Free Raffle Draw area along with tote facilities available for patrons in Chasers restaurant on the night.

Additional food outlets will be available for those people not eating in Chasers. There will be plenty of entertainment for families on the night. Entry fee for the meeting will be $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for concession.

“ERNIE” IN FIRST LISTING OF TOP GUN INVITATIONS RELEASED

The top 32 nominations for the Top Gun have been released this week with Ernie Bung Arrow the only South Australian greyhound receiving an invite. The Top Gun is by invitation only and is worth $150,000 to the winner and will be run on Saturday 25^th October at the Meadows. The final invitations will be sent out on Sunday 12^th October, only a few days after the Adelaide Cup so there will be a little bit more riding on next weeks Group 1 final. There are eight greyhounds in the top 32 who are competing in the Adelaide Cup Heats tonight being Ernie Bung Arrow, Mepunga Hayley, Iva Vision, Allen Deed, Campaspe Will, Oakvale Destiny, Ollie Bale and Crackerjack Dak.

GROUP 3 GOLD COAST CUP HEATS

Not only do we have seven fantastic heats of the Group 1 Macro Meats Adelaide Cup on tonight at Angle Park there is also four quality heats of the Group 3 Gold Coast Cup on at Albion Park which includes one of the best sprinters in the land competing in Flash Reality. Tattsbet will also be offering fixed odds on all heats.

KAY MCPHEE RETIRING FROM GRSA

After nearly 27 years with Greyhound Racing SA Kay McPhee has decided to retire. For the last 11 years of that time Kay has worked fulltime in the Racing Administration section and has been a valuable member of the GRSA team. She has successfully dealt with many parts of the business including processing of all prizemoney, greyhound namings and industry account details just to name a few. Her attention to detail and experience will be missed by our department and the company. Kay has been kind enough to stay on until after the Adelaide Cup and Greyhound Auction with her final day being Friday 17^th October. We wish Kay all the best in her retirement.

Kerry Algate from Entrée Recruitment has been employed to fill the role vacated by Kay in the short term.

TOKEN MCLAREN SCRATCHED FROM TONIGHT

Don Fosters star chaser was scratched from tonight’s Angle Park meeting due to him being graded into an incorrect race. With this being the case he has been scratched free of penalty leaving him free to compete in next week’s Premiers Cup.

CHASING THE GOLDEN BONE SYNDICATE DOG IN ON MONDAY

Newly named Pawesome Gold will start her racing career for the winners of the Golden Bone competition (the Bone Collectors Syndicate) on Monday night at Angle Park. She will race for the syndicate for 12 months before reverting back to her original owners. She has been trialling quite well for trainer Paul Fagan and will hopefully perform well. She is in Race 2 on Monday night due to jump at 6.26pm.

GAWLER TO RACE ON THURSDAY BEFORE ADELAIDE CUP

With this years Adelaide Cup being on a Friday night, Gawler will race on the Thursday night (9^th October). There will be Grade 5 Heats over 400m with the final to be conducted on Tuesday 14^th October. This meeting will be a Provincial 1 meeting.

Nominations close 9.00am on Friday 3^rd October with GRSA.

There will be no trials at Gawler on Thursday morning 9^th October due to set up required at Angle Park for the Adelaide Cup.

There will be no Sunday Twilight meeting on 12^th October due to the Greyhound Auction taking place at Angle Park.

ANNUAL GRADING REVIEW MEETING IN NOVEMBER

Prior to this meeting agenda items will be sought by way of industry consultation. This will be by way of consultation sessions at meetings dealing specifically with grading items and also correspondence from participants.

The consultation sessions will be as follows:
Friday 17^th October Strathalbyn
Sunday 19^th October Mt Gambier

Monday 20^th October Angle Park
Tuesday 21^st October Gawler

Based on all the information collected an agenda will be formulated and sent to the Grading Review Panel to be discussed at the review.

SA SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIP TO BE RUN IN OCTOBER

Owners & Trainers are reminded of the domiciliary clause on the SA Sprint Championship coming towards the end of October due to the shifting of the Gawler Cup to February. To be eligible a greyhound must have been domiciled in SA for a period of not less than 76 days out of the 150 days immediately prior to the time fixed for the finalising of nominations and drawing of fields. (Nationals policy adopted)

This date going back 76 days is 6^th August as nominations close on Monday 20^th October.

The $4,415 heats are scheduled to be run on Thursday 23^rd October, with the Final to be run on Thursday 30^th October. Total prizemoney for the listed final will be $22,000, with the winner’s share of $15,000.

Nominations close on Monday 20^th October at 9.00am with GRSA.

GAWLER TRACK UPGRADED TODAY

Over recent weeks we have experienced some issues with the surface at Gawler. This appeared to be as a result of the new sand added, therefore testing of the product was undertaken by the supplier. It was established that the sand was now being mined further in the quarries and as a result was producing slightly different textures.

GRSA have now sourced a new product which will be placed on the track today and tomorrow.

CATCHING PEN TO START RACING ON MONDAY 13^TH OCTOBER

With the trialling progressing well at Angle Park the implementation date for the Catching Pen will be on Monday 13^th October.

Nominations for this meeting close at 9.00am on Wednesday 8^th October with GRSA.

WEDNESDAYS ON SKY 1 IN OCTOBER
In October our Angle Park Wednesday meetings will be broadcast on Sky Racing 1. This was the same as last season and should continue at least until January.

2014 GREYHOUND AUCTION READY TO GO

The catalogue has been released for our greyhound Auction on Sunday 12^th October. One of these greyhounds (Nitro Burst x Hope’s Up) will be auctioned on Adelaide Cup night (Friday 10^th October) to assist in the promotion of the event.

There is a requirement for anyone wishing to bid on a greyhound including buybacks that they are registered before the Auction on the Friday night and also on Sunday.

In an added bonus Ray Borda from Macro Meats has graciously decided to sponsor the auction and has provided 19 x $250 vouchers to be drawn prior to Sunday to entice bidders to the auction and to be used on the purchase price (buy backs are excluded from this promotion). By registering for the Auction to Bid also will put you in the draw for the vouchers.