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TELLING THE TAIL by The Shadow
Happy New Year !!!!!
Tonight’s 11 event programme looks fairly even so it’s a good chance to get a couple of handy trifectas up.
Race 1 and Kalden Balerion can kick us off with a win from box 7. Beach Wary will need early luck from box 5 but will be in the final 4. Box Up 2.5.7.8
The 2nd and Dakota Fancy looks the one to beat who should be charging across the field. Irish Keepsake has the perfect draw of 1 but can be tardy early. Box Up 1.2.4.8.
Race 3 and Dakota La Flash has a good turn of early pace and should lead all the way for mine. Couta Model won on debut here from box1 and has the same draw again tonight. Box Up 1.2.3.6.
Race 4 and I like the inside 3 and Boojerooma looks the main pick from box 3. She has pace and should be cherry ripe for this on recent efforts. Oran Bale will be running on along with Gunslinger Girl. Box up 1.2.3.5
The 5th and there is a lot of early pace in this event down on the rails. Spring Amanda is very smart in box 5 and will be powering home over the top. Box up 1.2.3.5 in a good betting race.
Race 6 and there are at least 5 chances. But we can’t pick them all, so lets go with Sporting Tears out in box 7. Allen Namour is well drawn on the fence and appears a trifecta chance. Box Up 1.2.5.7
Race 7 and this is a very open affair and Firecette has the form on the board after his last start win here in 30.13 from box 3. Mr Leonardo can be hit and miss but is more than capable when on song. Box Up 1.2.3.7
Race 8 and this is the New Year Sprint and what a race it is with all 8 having a chance. I have settled on Van Carrho Flash from the Murray kennel in box 3. He will be hard to beat with an ounce of luck early. Blue Viper has a good turn of pace but has been battling to run a solid 500m of late. Box Up 2.3.5.6
The 9th and this is the distance event and Luna Jinx can bounce back into the winners circle but she will start very short. Zara McLaren has been in terrific form and is more than capable. Box Up 1.2.6
Race 10 and the speedy Gun McBain gets the nod from me. He loves a wide draw and should lead all the way. Victa Victoria will be charging home late but is slow early. Box Up 1.2.6.7
The final event on New Year’s Day and this is a very tough event if your not in front by now, well good luck!! Box up 1.3.4.8
Best Bet
Race 6 No 7 Sporting Tears
Best Eachway
Race 8 No 6 Galilee Spirit
Best Roughie
Race 4 No 8 Velo Girl
Good Luck and Happy Punting
JACKPOTS TODAY
ANGLE PARK EXACTA JACKPOT
Race 7 tonight at Angle Park the Grade 5 will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include an Exacta Jackpot of $10,055.
ALBION PARK QUADRELLA JACKPOT
Race’s 5,6,7 & 8 tonight at Albion Park will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a Quadrella Jackpot of $16,215.
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 $2,373.
ANGLE PARK THURSDAY
Next weeks Angle Park meeting features –
$4,415 Glen Gallon @ Stud Grade 6 Bitches Final – 515m (Heats 1/1/15. Winner of final to receive free service to Glen Gallon)
$4,800 Mixed – 600m
$4,800 Free For All – 731m
Nominations close Monday 5th January 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.
BOY FROM THE BUSH
Selections for tonight’s 11 event card of racing at Angle Park featuring the New Year Sprint-
First 4 selections –
race one 5/2/7/6
race two 8/2/3/1
race three 3/1/2/5
race four 3/2/7/5
race five 1/2/7/5
race six 7/1/2/3
race seven 1/3/4/2
race eight 3/8/5/2
race nine 1/6/2/4
race ten 7/4/1/6
race eleven 8/1/4/5
Best Bet – Race 2 No 8 Dakota Fancy
Best Eachway – Race 8 No 8 Punishment
Best Roughie – Race 1 No 4 Spring Charlotte
LOCAL INDUSTRY NEWS
NEW YEAR SPRINT TONIGHT
What a great way to kick of the New Year with an outstanding line up of sprinters gathered for the 2015 New Year Sprint. This race rotates between being the Christmas Sprint and New Year Sprint each year depending on when the Thursday night falls during the festive season.
Also on the program will be three heats of the Glen Gallon @ Stud Bitches Grade 6 over the 515m. These are heats for a $4,415 Final to be run next Thursday 8th January with the winning connections of the final receiving a free service to Glen Gallon.
RACING OFFICE CLOSED NEW YEARS DAY
The GRSA racing office at Angle Park will be closed on Thursday 1st January (New Years Day) for the night meeting. With this meeting being a Public Holiday the Trainers Fee will be paid electronically into the Trainers Bank Accounts. Race Fields will be made available upstairs in Chasers Restaurant for participants.
NO TRIALS AT STRATHALBYN TOMORROW DUE TO THE HEAT
The trials scheduled for tomorrow night at Strathalbyn have been cancelled due to the extreme heat forecast for that region.
MOUNT GAMBIER MOVED TO SUNDAY THIS WEEK
Due to the extreme forecast temperature at Mt Gambier tomorrow the meeting scheduled will now be conducted on Sunday. GRSA thanks Sky Racing, the Mt Gambier GRC and participants for their support in moving this meeting earlier in the week.
GAWLER UPDATE
Work is progressing exceptionally well at the Gawler venue with contractors on target for the club to be racing at the venue for the first race meeting on Sunday 1st February. Trailing at the venue will occur before that with the likely first trial session being at Gawler on Monday morning 12th January (to be confirmed later next week). All going well we will trial back at Gawler on the Monday and Thursday mornings however the normal Wednesday night trial session will not be conducted until later in January when lighting has been confirmed. We will keep you updated as things develop.
JOHN GRAY FINAL ON JANUARY 22
It will be a huge night of racing on Thursday January 22 at Angle Park with the running of the $6,875 Final of the John Gray Final. This event is for Grade 5 greyhounds over the 515m and has always been well supported by the Industry with up to 8 heats a regular occurrence. The Heats will be run at Angle Park on Thursday 15th January. Who will join last year’s winner Wild Soul, on the honour roll for this year?
Nominations close with GRSA at 9.00am on Monday 12th January
A special mention to the AGRC who again are supporting the John Gray Final in 2015 and have been great supporters of this race for many years. Special thanks to local racing identity Ron Johnson who kindly donates a trophy each year for the winning connections.
SA BRED FUTURITY PAYMENTS
The next batch of futurity payments are due on Friday 9th January and there are three series for which payments need to be made.
The payments due are:
Breeders 2015 – Final Payment - Pups Born Jan 13 to June 13
This payment is for greyhounds for which the first two Sustaining Payments have been made. The Final Payment is $121 per greyhound.
Classic 2015– Second Payment - Pups Born July 13 to Dec 13
This payment is for greyhounds for which the first Sustaining Payments or a Final payment was made last June.
The Second Sustaining Payment is $55 per pup or a Final Payment of $121 can be made at this stage.
Breeders 2016 – First Payment - Pups Born Jan 14 To June 14
The First Payment is due for Breeders 2016. All SA Bred greyhounds born in the above period are eligible to make this payment.
The First Payment is $27.50 per pup or a “one-off” Final payment of $121 can be made at this stage.
We will sent out reminders shortly to those people we have recorded as the owners. If you have not received anything by the end of next week and think you should have, or if you have any questions, please contact Futurity Co-ordinator, Caralyn Fielden at GRSA asap.
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 11TH 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 11th 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 9th January with their dates in January now being Sunday 4th, Friday 9th, Friday 16th, Friday 23rd, Sunday 25th and Friday 30th. GRSA thanks the Mt Gambier Club and participants for their assistance during this period.
Date changes are listed below –
Delete: Mount Gambier – Sunday 11th January 2015 (TAB) Day
GREYHOUND OF THE YEAR ON SATURDAY 31ST JANUARY
The Greyhound of the Year function at Chasers Restaurant will be on Saturday night 31st January. It looks to be one of the most wide open years in recent history with the GOTY panel to meet tomorrow to determine the nominations for the prestige award.
Make sure you book your seat to be part of history at the GOTY awards dinner.
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 31st 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 9th January 2015.
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.
January 6
(for Angle Park Tuesday meeting on 13th January - FOL)
January 13
(for Angle Park Monday meeting on 19th January)
January 20
(for Angle Park Tuesday meeting on 27th 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 1st December from 7.30am until 9.30am. These trials will be Finish On Lure trials only with no bookings required.
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.
GRADING REVIEW PANEL
Main items from the Grading Review Panel in November which take effect from meetings from 1st January 2015.
Grade 6
The panel were generally comfortable with the Grade 6 format however recommended a slight change to the Angle Park Grade 6’s for Non SA Bred greyhounds. Currently greyhounds can only win two of the three Angle Parks before racing elsewhere. It was proposed that Angle Park Wednesday (Provincial 2) be considered with Gawler and Strathalbyn allowing for a win on a Wednesday over 388m for example to not carry the same impact as a Grade 6 win on Thursday night. This change would also assist those trainers regarding FOL and Catching Pen and provide more options for trainers. There will be no retrospectively in regard to grades.
Veteran’s Races
The GRP considered whether veterans races would benefit from the same approach applied to Juvenile racing where the Grader will consider a race of Veterans age as his first option when grading regardless of nomination (Feature Events excluded). The GRP were specific that this was only for Grade 5 greyhounds and would be treated as Non Penalty events with guarding as required. If trainers did not want to be considered for these races they could put “No Veterans” on their nomination.
Downgrade to Grade 5
The GRP considered when a greyhound has its second unplaced run and goes back to grade 5 company from a grade 4 they should be on the Order to gain an automatic start. Currently these greyhounds are not on the Order. The Grader advised that this would be worthwhile as these greyhounds have raced generally in FFA company and at times their form has tapered off at that level putting them at risk in gaining a run. The GRP recommended that this be added to number 6 on the Order of Preference which will include Grade 5 greyhounds.
KENNEL CAPERS ONCE A MONTH
The monthly Kennel Capers for January will be released in a few weeks 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.