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04/12/2014
Racing News

TELLING THE TAIL by The Shadow

The highlight tonight is the Brian Johnstone Memorial Final which is race 8 on the programme with a massive $25,000 to the winner on offer. Victorian trainer Jeff Britton has qualified four runners and can nearly run the First 4.

Race 1 and Set The Scene has his perfect draw of 7 he will be winding up down the back and will take a power of beating. He can be hit and miss on box rise and looks very hard to beat. Allen Illem will be running on along with the well drawn Lolly Bale. Box up 1.5.7.8.

Race 2 and this is a terrific betting race as there are several chances. Dyna Drama is in form and has her paw on the till. She can kick up on the fence and will be right in the mix. Velocity Tara is a good eachway hope and now the reserve getting a run Aston Wingard puts it right in the mix. Box Up 2.5.7.9.

The 3^rd and it is very hard to go past Big Zap for Troy Murray. He is resuming and was a last start winner in a slick 30.48 at Gawler from this draw. Senni Tony is a rough chance for a place along with the pacey Disco Dave. Box Up 1.3.5.6.

The 4^th and the Murray kennel can get a race to race double when Van Carrho Flash wins. He is a very smart performer and looks the winner again from box 8. Fancy Rick is more than handy along with Illusive Allen. Box Up 1.2.3.8

Kim Johnstone has Wild Soul in form and he is the measuring stick in race 5. His best form has been from wider draws but with 2 sub 30 sec wins on the trot here, he should be hard to beat again from the rails draw. Galilee Spirit will be carving across along with Emerley Senorita. Box Up 2.4.6.8.

Race 6 and this is a 600m affair and the main chances have drawn awkwardly. Grifter Bale was very impressive on debut here when winning by over 7L and can only improve with another look at the track. Blue Viper has a heap of pace and will be the likely leader and Aeroplane Bowser has struck form and will be flying home late. Box Up 3.5.7.8

The 7^th and another 600m event and we see the Strathalbyn Cup winner in Black Daddy who makes his South Australian City debut and has drawn well down in box 1. He loves this trip and will be very hard to beat. Apocal Bale for Tony Rasmussen is in outstanding form and is the big danger. Box Up 1.5.6.8 in a terrific race.

This is the major event of the night, the Brian Johnstone Memorial. How good is this particular race. Oakvale Destiny missed the kick last week and was runner up behind kennel mate Textas Titan. She is a class performer and loves this circuit and should bounce back. Oakvale Flyer charged home to score in 29.95 from box 1 in the semi, and is well suited from the wide draw. Texas Titan carved out a best of night run in 29.66 here last week and is in outstanding form. Box up the Jeff Britton Four 3.4.6.7.

Race 9 and Zac Bale has been struggling for form of late from wide draws. He appears a BIG improver from the rails draw tonight, Yambla Mick can cap off a big night for the Murray kennel after a week off. Box up 1.2.3.6

If you like fishing jump on Coorong Kid out in box 8 in race 10. He is hit and miss on box rise but is very smart when close enough. He appears well suited in this and gets the nod. Add Max Tyson and Aha McBain. Box Up 1.6.8.

Race 11 and Squall Bale will be charging home late and is a big chance along with Dyna Garth who is the likely improver. Box Up 1.3.5.7

Best Bets

I will go with the Murray kennel to have a HUGE night

Race 3 No 1 Big Zap, Race 4 No 8 Van Carrho Flash, Race 9 No 2 Yambla Mick

Best Roughie

Race 6 No 1 Crash Dooley

JACKPOTS TODAY

ANGLE PARK EXACTA JACKPOT
Race 8 tonight at Angle Park the Group 3 Brian Johnstone final will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include an Exacta Jackpot of $8,287.

ALBION PARK FIRST 4 JACKPOT
Race 8 tonight at Albion Park the Group 1 Brisbane Cup final will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a First 4 Jackpot of $5,000.

ALBION PARK QUADRELLA JACKPOT
Race’s 5- 8 tonight at Albion Park will carry an extra bonus for punters, they will include a Quadrella Jackpot of $12,664.

HOBART EXTRA DOUBLE JACKPOT
Race’s 3 & 4 tonight at Hobart will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include an Extra Double Jackpot of $2,611.

DAPTO FIRST 4 JACKPOT
Race 6 tonight at Dapto the Puppy Classic Final final will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a First 4 Jackpot of $1,000.

ANGLE PARK NEXT THURSDAY

Next weeks Angle Park meeting features –

$4,415 Feature Mixed Grade 4/5 Final – 600m (Heats 4/12/14)

$4,415 Free For All Bitches Only – 515m

$2,350 Juvenile – 515m

$3,065 SA Bred Grade 5 – 515m

$3,355 Grade 5 – 600m

$4,800 FFA – 731m

Nominations close Monday 8^th December at 9.00am with GRSA

HOT WEATHER POLICY

A reminder to trainers with the hot weather coming to make sure they are aware of the updated conditions relating to the Hot Weather Policy. This policy is available on the GRSA website and also at the track.

KENNEL CAPERS ONCE A MONTH

The monthly Kennel Capers for December 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.

BOY FROM THE BUSH
Selections for tonight’s exciting 11 event card of racing at Angle Park including the Group 3 Brian Johnstone Final-
First 4 selections –
race one    7/5/3/1
race two              2/9/5/7
race three               1/8/3/6
race four             2/8/5/1
race five       6/2/8/1
race six       5/3/2/8
race seven            6/1/5/3
race eight       3/7/2/4
race nine      2/5/8/1
race ten        3/8/6/1

race eleven 5/7/3/4
Best Bet – Race 1 No 7 Set The Scene

Best Eachway – Race 5 No 6 Emerley Senorita

Best Roughie – Race 9 No 5 Gunsmoke McBain

LOCAL INDUSTRY NEWS

2014 BRIAN JOHNSTONE FINAL

Last Thursday night at Angle Park there were two terrific semi-finals of the Group 3 Brian Johnstone final where the first four placegetters from each semi-final qualified for tonights feature final. The fastest qualifier for the final was Texas Titan for master Victorian trainer Jeff Britton who overcame a slow start to power home to victory in a slick 29.66 in the second semi-final. He defeated his higher rated kennel mate and sister in Oakvale Destiny who also walked out of the boxes and railed hard before just going down in the final straight. Both look hardest to beat tonight after drawing nicely in boxes 4 and 3 respectively.

The first semi-final was a two dog war between the Jeff Britton kennel mates Oakvale Flyer and Weblec Belle. Leaving the front straight on the first occasion Oakvale Flyer led thanks to the inside just ahead of Weblec Belle and from there no more than a head separated them until the winning post with Oakvale Flyer prevailing in a solid 29.95. It was a stirring battle between the Britton kennel mates given him four qualifiers for the final. Cameron Butcher qualified two of his brightest stars in Spicy Peppa and Dodger I Am for tonights final. Four greyhounds tonight also come from the extremely successful litter of Vapour Whirl x Foot Luce bred locally by Nathan Wilson and Ken & Melissa Trowbridge.

The Final field in Box Draw order is:

1. Spicy Peppa Cameron Butcher

2. Gun McBain Vadim Roz

3. Oakvale Destiny Jeff Britton

4. Texas Titan Jeff Britton

5. Dodger I Am Cameron Butcher

6. Weblec Belle Jeff Britton

7. Oakvale Flyer Jeff Britton

8. Sunday Shoes Nathan Wilson

9. Gunsmoke McBain (1^st Res) SCR

10.Young Gun McBain (2^nd Res) SCR

The Group 3 Brian Johnstone Final is for eligible SA Bred greyhounds whelped between July 2012 and December 2012. The $36,500 Final is race 8 tonight and is listed to jump at 9.11pm (SA time).

Tattsbet is offering a super Exacta Jackpot of over $8,000 on the final with the pool expected to get to over $50,000.

The final part of this series will be the Gawler Classic 2014 to be run in January 2015.

GROUP 1 BRISBANE CUP FINAL TONIGHT

The Group 1 Brisbane Cup Final tonights looks a fabulous race with an outstanding line up qualifying through the heats last week.

With $75,000 on offer to the winner the racing will be tight and tough.

Patrons on-course at Angle Park will be able to watch all the action as well as compare tote and bookmaker odds. Tattsbet will have fixed odds available on the series with a First 4 Jackpot on the Final of $5,000. The final is race 8 on tonights program due to start at 9.16pm (SA Time). My tip for the final is Queensland star Iva Vision from the stripe who should almost lead and will be hard to catch.

The Final field in Box Draw order is:

1. Cyndie’s Special W Elson

2. Iva Vision P Young

3. You Can Talk P Ruetschi

4. Exhibitionist D Chapman

5. Le Sirenuse T Tzouvelis

6. Fusaichi Kahn G Dart

7. Keybox D McDonald

8. Kiss Me Ketut D Burnett

9. Happy Haswell (1^st Res) SCR

10.Clash Of Kings (2^nd Res) SCR

ALDERLEY REFORM SCRATCHED FROM PUPPY CLASSIC TONIGHT

Unfortunately for SA greyhound fans Alderley Reform for trainer Terry Cahalan has been scratched from the Group 1 Dapto Puppy Classic final tonight. He drew box 2 in a high quality event and would have been one of the main chances.

FREE INDUSTRY SEMINAR TOMORROW

Final call for bookings for our free Industry Seminar to be held at Chasers Restaurant, Angle Park tomorrow. On outstanding line up of speakers are on hand to give our participants first hand knowledge about Breeding, Training, Animal Welfare and Drugs in our Sport.

Speakers tomorrow will include –

Introducion by Michael Fabbro - GRSA Chairman
David Batty - Racing Analytical Services Laboratory Director
Paul Westerveld - leading Victorian Breeder and Stud Master
Linda Beer - Greyhound Racing Victoria Animal Welfare Manager
Tony Brett - leading Queensland Group 1 winning Trainer

The seminar will start at 11.00am with each guest speaking for around 30 minutes. Lunch will be provided during the day along with refreshments at the conclusion of the seminar. There will be plenty of opportunity for industry participants to speak one on one with our guests during the course of the day.

You must book to claim your seat so please contact the Greyhound Racing SA administration to make a booking on 08 8243 7100. Remember, this is a free event.

As an added incentive on the day Tony Brett has kindly donated a free service to his star chaser Glen Gallon, valued at $1,100, as a special door prize to be drawn on the day.

THE DOUG PAYNE ON 18^TH DECEMBER
The Doug Payne Feature will be run on Thursday 18^th December. The race is for SA Bred greyhounds and is graded on a “Best 8” basis; it is run over the 515m trip. Prizemoney for the race is a total of $6,875 and outside of the Futurity events, it is the main SA Bred event for the year.
*Nominations close next Monday 15^th December with GRSA at 9.00am.

INTERNAL MATTS FOR ANGLE PARK 515M BOXES

Participants are advised that new internal box mats will be installed in 515m boxes on Thursday 11 December 2014.

OZ CHASE UPDATE

As most online nomination users would know there was an update yesterday for the screens for the online nomination process. This was mainly to assist NSW and Queensland users on Ozchase however when nomination it is suggested that you give yourself an extra 5-10 minutes to complete the process. There is an up to date Online Nominations User Guide on our website to assist participants.

RACE CALENDARS IN ONE SPOT ON THE WEBSITE

With recent up dates to the GRSA Website we have now consolidated all race calendars into the Racing/Calendars section. This will now house the All Tracks Calendars, Feature Events Calendars, the yearly racing calendar along with the normal day to day calendar.

This should hopefully make it easier to find for our participants.

EXTRA QUALIFYING TRIAL SESSION AT ANGLE PARK FOR TUESDAYS

Qualifying trials are conducted once a fortnight at Angle Park on Tuesday nights for greyhounds wishing to qualify for the Monday night Angle Park meeting. With the redevelopment at Gawler GRSA will now run qualifying trials every Tuesday night however every second week trainers can qualify for the Tuesday Day meeting. This will revert back to normal when Gawler is conducting race meetings.

Below is a list of Qualifying Trials for Tuesday night -

December 2

(for Angle Park Monday meeting on 8^th December)

December 9

(for Angle Park Tuesday meeting on 16^th December - FOL)

December 16

(for Angle Park Monday meeting on 22^nd December)

December 23

(for Angle Park Tuesday meeting on 30^th December - FOL)

EXTRA TRIAL SESSION AT ANGLE PARK ON MONDAY MORNING

GRSA will conduct an extra trial session at Angle Park on Monday mornings to accommodate the Gawler redevelopment. This will start on Monday 1^st December from 7.30am until 9.30am. These trials will be Finish On Lure trials only with no bookings required.

There will be NO trials at Angle Park on Saturday 27^th December during the Xmas/New Year break.

MURRAY BRIDGE NEWS

Please Note MURRAY BRIDGE WILL NOT be trialing on SUNDAYS due to Strathalbyn Racing on SUNDAYS>>>> Trials are now held on SATURDAY MORNINGS, from 9 am to 10.30 am. Bookings MUST be sent via Telephone to Kay Burns 0437 497 554 or Bob Harris 0410 668 682 or email to[email protected]. If there are no bookings there will be no trials.

STRATHALBYN NEWS

There will be No trials tomorrow night as the club ran trials last night. Trials will be run every Friday with the next Qualifying trials to be run on Friday 12^th December.

GAWLER TO STOP RACING DUE TO RE-DEVELOPMENT

Date changes are listed below –

Sunday Twilight 7^th December Gawler now Strathalbyn

Tuesday Day 9^th December Gawler now Angle Park

Friday Day 12^th December Strathalbyn now Mt Gambier

Sunday Twilight 14^th December Gawler nowStrathalbyn

Tuesday Day 16^th December Gawler now Angle Park

Sunday Twilight 21^st December Gawler now Strathalbyn

Tuesday Day 23^rd December Gawler nowAngle Park

Friday Day 26^th December Strathalbyn now Angle Park

Sunday Twilight 28^th December Gawler now Strathalbyn

Tuesday Day 30^th December Gawler nowAngle Park

Sunday Twilight 4^th January Gawler now Strathalbyn

Strathalbyn will race every Sunday Twilight during this period
Mount Gambier will race their normal Friday Sunday weekly rotation however they will have two meetings the week of November 28 & 30 and December 12 & 14
Angle Park will race every Tuesday during this period. These meetings will be Provincial 2 for Grading purposes the same as Wednesday meetings. The Tuesday meetings will be Finish On Lure meetings with the Wednesday meetings being Catching Pen. The prizemoney for Tuesday and Wednesday will be Category 2 during this period (ie Grade 5 = $1,400). There will be a mixture of all distances programmed.

Greyhounds eligible for Grade 6 events at Gawler during this period will be able to run at Angle Park on Tuesday ONLY for either Gawler Provincial 1 or Gawler Provincial 2 Grade 6’s. (Trainers MUST make this clear on your nomination form or else the grader will grade your greyhound into a normal graded event)

The Angle Park meeting on Friday 26^th December will be a City B meeting for grading purposes and Category 2 for prizemoney (ie Grade 5 = $1,400). This meeting will feature normal races programmed on a Monday night

GRSA appreciates the patience of the Industry during this time while the Gawler project enters the final stages of completion.

NO TRIALS AT GAWLER DUE TO REDEVELOMENT FROM 26^TH NOVEMBER

Commencing from the 26^th November 2014 there will be NO trials conducted at Gawler until further notice while work is being carried out at the venue.

AGRC XMAS FUNCTION

The AGRC committee has booked 120 places at Chasers Restaurant on Thursday 11th December, for our annual Xmas function. All members and their partners are welcome. The club pays for the buffet and provides drink vouchers for you both on the night. If you wish to bring extra guests that is fine but any guests will pay the normal price for the buffet. If you could please advise Gavin Harris 0418853111 or email [email protected], or Natalie Bailey 0417855532 or email [email protected] by the 4th of December, so we can finalise the numbers. This is great value for all members, so we encourage you all to come along. On the night the AGRC committee will be conducting some raffles and seat prizes as well and it is always a good, fun night.

NEW RED VESTS A BIG HIT

After terrific feedback from the Industry the new red vests are being distributed to all of our tracks to be used as the main apparel for participants. Participants are able to purchase their very own red vets for $20 however GRSA will still always have some available. These vets look very smart and come up particularly well on Sky Racing promoting SA Racing so with that in mind the long parade coats will be phased out of action with participants required to have a black or navy jumper available to be worn under the vests.