Angle Park Preview

18/12/2014
Racing News

SEASONS GREETINGS

On behalf of the GRSA Board Members, Management and Staff we would like to wish all greyhound industry participants and followers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

TELLING THE TAIL by The Shadow

Well this is the last chance to win some cash on a Thursday night before Christmas. I would like to wish all participants a safe and Merry Day on the 25^th and don’t forget to give your greyhounds a special treat for Christmas.

Race 1 and Wheels of Fire is the form runner and will take a power of beating. We can’t leave out Breaker Kahn who is in the in-form kennel of Kath Johnstone. Squall Bale is very slow early but will be running on over the top. Box Up 1.2.4.6

The 2^nd event and this is a tough race as it’s a very open affair. There are several who can lead and a couple who will be charging home late. Allinga Dot has good country form and is drawn to run a bold race from box 3. Add in Dashing Dee Dee and Cherokee McLaren. Box Up 3.6.7.8 in a good betting race.

Race 3 and there is a bit of pace in this down on the rails. I am going with the inside 3 and add the 6 who is knocking on the door. Box Up 1.2.3.6.

Race 4 and Luna Jinx made short work of these last week, with the only difference being that we see the return of Psychotic Gold. They look the pair to beat so let’s go in order for a $1, 2.8.1

The 5^th and Aston Wingard is in form and has the pace to kick up early. The main dangers look to be Dyna Paul and Sporting Tears. Box Up 1.3.4.6

Race 6 and the Murray kennel should be able to back up with another winner, and that is Big Zap. He can be hit and miss on box rise but is very strong and will be flying home. Disco Dave has pace out in box 8 and is a place chance. Box Up 2.3.5.8

Race 7 and Fancy Rick is boxed to win. He has the pace to lead from the rails draw. Black Bottle has struck form and is another with early burn. Box up 1.2.3.8 in a very good betting race.

The 8^th and how good is this event, The Doug Payne Feature final. Set The Scene is very smart and the wide draw is a bonus. Blue Viper will be right in the mix along with Lannister. Box Up 1.2.6.7

Race 9 and this is a 600m event and Black Daddy will appreciate the small field. The likely leader will be Spring Amanda so it will be a match in 2. Let’s go with 8.4.6 in order for a $1.

Race 10 and a very open affair for mine. I like the book ends as they both have early pace. Spring Pearl can be hit and miss early but is strong this looks a good pick 4 event. So go with 1.4.7.8.

The final event Race 11 and we can go home on a winner with Koombooyana Kid. He looks the leader out in the 7. Dyna Phoebe is another who will be kicking up. 3 & 7 look the obvious Quinella.

Best Bet

Race 11 No 7 Koombooyana Kid

Best Each Way

Race 7 No 8 Black Bottle

Best Roughie

Race 6 no 2 Good Odds Punk

JACKPOTS TODAY

ANGLE PARK TREBLE JACKPOT
Race’s 6,7 & 8 tonight at Angle Park will carry an extra bonus for punters, they will include a Treble Jackpot of $6,267.

ALBION PARK FIRST 4 JACKPOT
Race 6 tonight at Albion Park the Big Dog Challenge Final will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a First 4 Jackpot of $5,000.

ALBION PARK QUADRELLA JACKPOT
Race’s 5,6,7 & 8 tonight at Albion Park will carry an extra bonus for punters, they will include a Quadrella Jackpot of $10,000.

HOBART FIRST 4 JACKPOT
Race 8 tonight at Hobart the Hobart Thousand Final will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a First 4 Jackpot of $10,000.

HOBART QUADRELLA JACKPOT
Race’s 5,6,7 & 8 tonight at Hobart will carry an extra bonus for punters, they will include a Quadrella Jackpot of $10,000.

HOBART DAILY DOUBLE JACKPOT
Race’s 7 & 8 tonight at Hobart will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a Daily Double Jackpot of $2,834.

ANGLE PARK NEXT FRIDAY DAY (CITY B)

Next weeks Angle Park meeting features –

$2,000 Grade 5 Bitches Only – 515m

$2,000 Maiden/Grade 6 – 600m

$2,000 Open Maiden Stake – 515m

$2,000 Grade 6 (special conditions) – 515m

All other races $2,000

Nominations close Monday 22^nd 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 was released last 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 Doug Payne SA Bred Feature over 515m-
First 4 selections –
race one    2/6/1/7
race two              6/7/1/3
race three               7/6/3/2
race four             2/1/8/6
race five       3/8/4/1
race six       3/8/4/5
race seven            1/2/3/5
race eight       8/6/1/3
race nine      8/4/2/1
race ten        4/7/8/1

race eleven 7/3/8/9
Best Bet – Race 7 No 1 Fancy Rick

Best Eachway – Race 1 No 2 Squall Bale

Best Roughie – Race 8 No 8 Gun McBain

LOCAL INDUSTRY NEWS

DOUG PAYNE TONIGHT

A great night of racing at headquarters tonight featuring the $6,875 Doug Payne Feature for Open SA Bred greyhounds. It’s an outstanding field with the box draw making it even more interesting with all runners given a hope of filling the placings. Impressive last start winner Set The Scene looks nicely boxed in box 6 for Laurie Cahalan however there is plenty of speed on his inside from Blue Viper, Punishment, Emerley Senorita and Taser McBain. Not to mention last stat winners Vuchko, Lannister and Gun McBain who all have excellent ability. It looks a great race on paper.

Trainers are reminded to collect a free bottle of wine from the Racing Office tonight when getting their Trainers Fee to thank them for their participation this year.

HOBART THOUSAND FINAL TONIGHT

Australia’s Feature Calendar switches to Hobart tonight with the running of the $75,000 to the winner Hobart Thousand Final. One of the National Calendar’s longest running feature races, it has its origins back in the 1930’s.

A top field has been assembled from the heats last week who have progressed through to tonight’s Group 1 Final. TattsBet will be offering a Fixed Priced service on the Hobart Thousand Final with Melbourne Cup winner Dyna Villa and Above All who was super impressive in his heat look hardest to beat.

ANGLE PARK ON BOXING DAY DURING THE DAY WITH INCREASED PRIZEMONEY
As there is no Thursday night racing next week due to Christmas Day GRSA has decided to increase the prizemoney for the Friday Day meeting at Angle Par. All races on Friday 26^th December will be worth $2,000 and will be a City B meeting for grading purposes. Races will be considered as if they were Monday night grades to allow trainers to “Beat The Grader” from Monday to Friday and Friday to Monday giving them a chance to win two races for just one grade. All races will be 515m, 600m and 731m to be run with the Catching Pen in use. There will be no 388m on this class of program.

*Nominations close Monday 22^ND December with GRSA at 9.00am.

SA GREYHOUNDS SHOOTING FOR GROUP 1 GLORY INTERSTATE

On Saturday night Ben Rawlings has taken Grifter Bale across the border to run in the heats of the Group 1 Sale Cup over the 650m. Grifter Bale has been in super form over the 600m since joining the Rawlings camp with two wins and a second from his three starts at headquarters. He has drawn box 2 in the first heat of the Cup which is race four on the program due to start at 6.18pm (SA Time). There are 6 heats of the Cup featuring some of the best middle distance greyhounds in the land including Star Recall, Allen Deed, Texas Titan and superstar stayer Sweet It Is.

Kathy Johnstone has also jumped across the border to the Meadows on Saturday night with her front running sprinter Black Bottle engaged in the heats of the Group 1 Silver Chief. After two brilliant wins at Angle Park he has deserved a shot at the big time and has drawn box 1 in the first heat of the feature which is due to be run at 7.07pm (SA time). The Silver Chief also features a top line up including Dyna Villa, Above All, Gorham Bale and Clash Of Kings.

NEW YEAR SPRINT ON 1^ST JANUARY

The New Year Sprint will be the feature race at Angle Park on Thursday 1^st January 2015. The race will be an open event with prizemoney of $4,415. Also on the program will be Heats of the Glen Gallon @ Stud Bitches Grade 6 over the 515m. These are heats for a $4,415 Final to be run on Thursday 8^th January with the winning connections of the final receiving a free service to Glen Gallon.

*Nominations close Monday 29^th December with GRSA at 9.00am.

ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS OVER XMAS AND NEW YEAR
Trainers are reminded that the Trainers Fee on Public Holidays are paid electronically into your bank account. This happens for all public holidays during the year so will also occur for December 26 and January 1^st. Prizemoney payments are finalised after Monday nights meeting and normally paid into your account by Wednesdays which should not change over this period.

GREYHOUNDS AUSTRALASIA TO CLOSE OVER XMAS

The Greyhounds Australasia office will be closed from midday on Wednesday 24 December and will reopen on Monday 5 January 2015.

They will endeavour to complete all processing work prior to closing on Christmas Eve.

MOUNT GAMBIER CANCELLED ON SUNDAY 11^TH JANUARY

After the recent changes to the Mount Gambier racing dates due to the redevelopment of Gawler there has been a change to the Mt Gambier meetings. The meeting on Sunday 11^th January has been cancelled after considering the fields for Mt Gambier on Friday and Sunday of last weekend. Mount Gambier will still race on Friday 9^th January with their dates in January now being Friday 2^nd, Friday 9^th, Friday 16^th, Friday 23^rd, Sunday 25^th and Friday 30^th. GRSA thanks the Mt Gambier Club and participants for their assistance during this period.

Date changes are listed below –

Delete: Mount Gambier – Sunday 11^th January 2015 (TAB) Day

PORT AUGUSTA MOVED FROM NEW YEARS DAY TO JAN 24

The Non TAB Port Augusta Twilight meeting set down for Thursday 1^st January 2015 has been transferred to Saturday Twilight 24^th January 2015 due to staffing issues.

Date changes are listed below –

Delete: Port Augusta – Thursday 1^st January 2015 (Non TAB) Twilight

Add: Port Augusta – Saturday 24^thJanuary 2015 (Non TAB) Twilight

SYNPAVE WALKWAYS INSTALLED FOR ANGLE PARK TRAINERS CAR PARK

Over the last few days the new synpave walkway areas have been laid in the Trainers car park at Angle Park. This should assist the greyhounds on warm days getting from the car park to the kennel house on a much cooler surface. New internal box mats were also installed in 515m boxes last Thursday.

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.

STRATHALBYN TRIALS OVER THE XMAS AND NEW YEAR PERIOD

The Committee of SGR have advised that over the Christmas/New Year period the following changes will be made to the trialling program at Strathalbyn:

No trials between Sunday 21^st December 2014 and Thursday, January 1^st, 2015. After the race meeting on Sunday December 21^st, 2014 the next trials will be held on Friday, January 2^nd, 2015 and our normal trialling program will resume.

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 23

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

December 30

(for Angle Park Monday meeting on 5^th January)

January 6

(for Angle Park Tuesday meeting on 13^th January - FOL)

January 13

(for Angle Park Monday meeting on 19^th January)

January 20

(for Angle Park Tuesday meeting on 27^th January - 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 started 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.

RACING OFFICE CLOSED ON BOXING DAY AND NEW YEARS DAY

The GRSA racing office at Angle Park will be closed on Friday 26^th December (Boxing Day) for the day meeting and Thursday 1^st January (New Years Day) for the night meeting. With these meetings being Public Holidays the Trainers Fee will be paid electronically into the Trainers Bank Accounts. Race Fields will be made available upstairs in Chasers Restaurant for participants.

VOTING FORMS FOR YPA AND VOLUNTEER AVAILABLE FOR GOTY

Voting Forms have been released for the Young Person Achievement Award and the Volunteer of the Year Award to be presented on Saturday 31^st January at the Greyhound of the Year Awards Night. The forms are available on the GRSA website, Angle Park and from the Country Clubs.

These are awards with good history so please get voting and support these two categories. Nominations close Friday 9^th January 2015.