Angle Park Preview
It looks a fairly even night on the punt with the big highlight being race 2 on the programme as we see the return to South Australia of the Troy Murray trained Real Flash. She was a last start winner in Western Australia winning the Group 2 WA Oaks and is boxed to win. It will be interesting to see how quick she can go as she carved out a sensational 29.49 early last month here from box 8.
Race 1 and it is an interesting start to the night as there are several runners who would be normally running over the 600m. They are dropping back to the sprint here and all will be right in the finish. They are the 3, 4 and the 5 and I will put them all in our trifecta. Add in the pacey Aston Kane out wide. Box up 3.4.5.8
Race 2 and this is the highlight as mentioned before because we get to see Real Flash go around. She will be very skinny odds so we will need to get the first 4 so let’s go with 1 from 2.3.5 boxed for the trifecta and the first 4.
Race 3 and the inform kennel of Ben Rawlings looks to have a strong hold with their runner in Placid Planet. He has struggled here at his past couple but when on the lure is very smart and he is boxed for a bold showing. Black Bottle can improve along with Sandave Gem. Box Up 1.2.3.6
The 4th and I am going with a frontrunner here in Yiche, she is in form and has tardy beginner’s either side so she is my top pick. Allen Hodney will be running on late along with Galaxy Snow. Box Up 1.4.5.8
The 5th and there is a bit of value in this event and the punters elect will be Peejay Jack in box 5. He has been ultra-consistent and will be right in the mix again. Add in Breaker Kahn who could be the big improver along with Viral Bale. Box Up 1.2.5.8
The 6th and another open affair with at least 4 main chances and they all have a good turn of early pace so the run to the 1st turn will be vital. I will go with Lochinvar Akira down in box 1, she can kick up and take beating. The Rawlings kennel could be in for a big night if Alex’s Entity continues his good form. Add in Young Gun McBain for the trifecta. Box Up 1.4.6.8.
Race 7 would have seen Gun McBain start favourite however he has been scratched. Kalden Gambino now looks the top pick and is always a chance in this type of race along with the pacey Barnes Bay. Alderley Reform cannot be left out of calculations however looks to be racing a little flat at present. If you are looking for value don’t leave out Aston Wingard at good each way odds. Box Up 2.4.5.7
Race 8 and Fraya Bale is another who is in outstanding form and from box 2 she looks the measuring stick again and should lead throughout for another win. Spicy Peppa has early pace and should be there in the finish along with Sunday Shoes. Box Up 2.6.7.8 in a good betting race.
The 9th and there are 4 main chances again and they are all a chance of winning with early luck. I am leaning towards Princely Bogan for the Hearnden kennel as he looks perfectly drawn down in box 1 and on his recent Gawler form will be hard to beat. Ilys Bale can improve along with the pacey Koombooyana Kid. Box Up 1.2.4.5
Race 10 and Dee Ivy carved out a slick 29.98 win here last start from box 2 leading throughout. She can do it again from box 1 on that effort for Dean Decrea. Kalden Viseron has been in the money in his last 4 runs here and should be able to continue his good form and is a must for trifecta punters. Box Up 1.3.4.6
The final event is race 11 and Kenny Gill looks to have a handy one in Raglan Gun. He has won 3 from 3 and has kept on improving his times. Yoko Bale was a winner here last start from box 4 in 30.22 and looks well placed to be in the mix. Box Up 2.3.6.7
Best Bets
Race 2 No 1 Real Flash (will be very short)
Race 9 No 1 Princely Bogan
Best Each Way
Race 5 No 1 Breaker Kahn
Best Roughie
Race 7 No 2 Aston Wingard
Best First 4
Race 8 Box Up 2.6.7.8
UBET JACKPOTS TODAY
ANGLE PARK TRIFECTA JACKPOT
Race 8 tonight at Angle Park the Grade 5 Final will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a Trifecta Jackpot of $10,000.
ALBION PARK FIRST 4 JACKPOT
Race 8 tonight at Albion Park the Gold Cup Final will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a First 4 Jackpot of $20,000.
HOBART TRIFECTA JACKPOT
Race 7 tonight at Hobart the Invitation will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include a Trifecta Jackpot of $5,000.
HOBART ANY 2 JACKPOT
Race 5 tonight at Hobart the Grade 5 will carry an extra bonus for punters, it will include an Any 2 Jackpot of $4,517.
KENNEL CAPERS ONCE A MONTH
The monthly Kennel Capers for June will be released today so make sure you grab yourself a copy. For up to the minute information provide GRSA with your mobile phone details for text message updates for all Industry news.
ANGLE PARK THURSDAY
Next weeks Angle Park meeting features –
$4,415 Grade 4 Feature Final– 515m (Heat 11/6/15)
$4,800 Heats Stayer’s Cup – 731m (Final 25/6/15)
$3,265 SA Owned Grade 5 – 515m
$4,800 Free For All – 731m
Nominations close Monday 15th June at 9.00am with GRSA
BOY FROM THE BUSH
Selections for tonight’s terrific 11 event card of racing at Angle Park featuring the Grade 5 Bitches Final tonight -
First 4 selections –
Race 1 6/8/3/5
Race 2 1/2/6/3
Race 3 5/1/6/2
Race 4 5/1/4/8
Race 5 4/5/1/2
Race 6 1/6/4/7
Race 7 3/4/7/1
Race 8 2/3/1/8
Race 9 2/1/5/4
Race 10 1/7/3/4
Race 11 2/5/6/3
Best Bet Race 8 No 2 Fraya Bale
Each-Way Race 3 No 5 Dunstall
Best Roughie Race 10 No 7 Anisa Bale
LICENSE RENEWALS DUE
It’s time to renew your license which will expire on the 30th June 2015. It is vital that you renew your license before the cut off time to ensure no greyhounds will miss a run. Renewal notices are being sent out this week from GRSA however many participants will have renewed for two years last year so may not need to. Check with Owners locally and from Interstate to ensure all licenses are renewed well and truly before June 30th.
UPDATED BREEDING RULES FROM 1ST JULY
From the 1st July there will be new breeding rules in place regarding the Registration of a Breeding Female, reporting of Litters and Breeding Restrictions. The Breeding Female is to do with registering your bitch for a Pink Card before you breed from her. She needs to be DNA tested and registered before she can breed. The changes to rules make it clear that all paperwork and processes have to be completed before she can be inseminated. Please update yourself with the new conditions in kennel capers, on the GRSA website or contact GRSA Animal Welfare Officer Belinda Pearce.
2015 GAWLER BREEDERS HEATS
On Tuesday the 2015 Gawler Breeders Heats were held at the Northern circuit with three terrific heats. The qualifiers will now compete in next Tuesdays final worth $4,600.
Heats winners were –
Long Gully Magic – 30.61
Long Gully Ben – 30.71
Lady Xanthe – 30.65
LUNA JINX IN GROUP 1 BRISBANE GOLD CUP TONIGHT
SA owned Luna Jinx will be shooting for another Group 1 win when she steps out in race 7 tonight at Albion Park. She has drawn nicely in box 2 and should be further improved with another week in Brisbane after her solid second last week in the heats. The heats were won last week by Tuavasa Shek and Dzeko and along with Lady Toy they look the hardest to beat for SA’s star stayer. She should be able to find the rails early and with a clean passage she should be storming home at the finish. We wish Gavin Harris and her connections all the best.
The field and box draw is as follows:
1. Tuavasa Shek Tony Brett
2. Luna Jinx Tony Brett
3. Cyndie’s Magic William Elson
4. Cosmic Vee Bee Rob Britton
5. Dzeko Samuel Dart
6. Zipping Maggie Peter Dapiran
7. Hougenie Peter Ruetschi
8. Lady Toy Brooke Ennis
9. Reality Ghost (res) Les Lewis
10. Mullaway (res) Joanne Price
STAYERS’ CUP COMING UP ON THURSDAY 18TH JUNE
On Thursday night 18th June we will be running the Stayers’ Cup heats over the 731m worth $4,800 each which we are hoping will be well supported. The final is worth $5,000 and will be run on Thursday 25th June.
* Nominations will close with GRSA on Monday 15th June at 9.00am.
EXTRA PRIZEMONEY FOR PORT AUGUSTA CUP MEETINGS
The Port Augusta Greyhound Racing Club has advised that there will be $100 extra added to each race (excluding Cup Final) for meetings on 20/6/15 (Cup Heats) and 4/7/15 (Cup final). The Cup final will be worth $3,000 total prizemoney on 4th July.
* Nominations will close with GRSA on Tuesday 16th June at 9.00am.
GAWLER PRODUCE STAKE NOMINATIONS
A reminder to all trainers with greyhounds paid up for the Gawler Produce Stake this month that you are still required to nominate for the heats on Tuesday 23rd June. The semis are listed for Tuesday 30th June and the Final will be held on Sunday 5th July as a twilight meeting.
The prizemoney breakdowns will be announced after the number of heats are known, however the Final is guaranteed at $22,000 and Consolation at $2,700.
*Nominations for the heats close on Thursday 18th June with GRSA at 9.00am.*
WINNING FORMULA NEW SPONSORSHIP
Recently Peter Bryce from Winning Formula has been oncourse at Angle Park and Gawler on a monthly basis being available to participants with his Winning Formula products. He has agreed to sponsor specific races with naming rights to the Maiden Heats and Finals and Juvenile Heats and Finals at Angle Park and Gawler. The monthly winner of the Angle Park Maiden Final will receive one of Peter’s products this Monday night. Peter will be back in SA at Mount Gambier on Friday 19th June, Gawler on Sunday 21st June and Angle Park on Monday 22nd June.
GOTBA TRACK THIS WEEKEND
The GOTBA have advised that the Virginia track will NOT be available after 10.15am on this Sunday 14 June. As “Do You Have the Fastest Dog in Australia?” time trials are being run on this day for all shapes, sizes and breeds of dogs.
GAWLER TRIALS TO START AT 7.30AM ON THURSDAYS FROM 4th JUNE
It has been highlighted that trainers are not arriving for Thursday morning Trials until at least 7.30am therefore extending the sessions. As a result these times have changed with Thursday now commencing at 7.30am and concluding at 10.30am from June 4. The Monday morning trial session at Gawler will still commence at 6.30am.
2015 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
The AGRA National Championships are just around the corner. The National Finals this year will be held at Wentworth Park in New South Wales to be conducted on Saturday 22nd August. Both the National Sprint and National Distance Finals will carry prizemoney of $75,000 to the winner. The State series’ for SA will be held at Angle Park on Thursday 30th July for the Heats with the State Finals on the 6th August.
The most important date for local trainers to remember is the national closing date for entries. Acceptances for the National Championships will close with GRSA on Thursday 23rd July at 12 noon. Nominations must be on the prescribed form and the conditions of nomination must also be signed. The forms are available at GRSA and on the GRSA website.
A reminder to all trainers of the clause which requires a greyhound to have been domiciled in South Australia for a period of not less than 76 days out of the 150 days immediately prior to the National Acceptance Closing date to be eligible to represent SA. If unsure of a greyhound’s status, please contact the GRSA grading staff.
POLICY RELEASED FOR TRIALLING AT ANGLE PARK AND GAWLER BEFORE THE RACE MEETING
The Industry Consultative Group recently met and discussed the trialling policies at race meetings and in particular how the Monday nights Angle Park structured policy has been accepted. The ICG panel decided to accept the Monday night policy for all Angle Park (except Thursday night) and Gawler meetings allowing for trialling to be conducted between kennels closing and the start of the first race. Kenneling times for these meetings will be extended by 15 minutes to allow for these trials to occur the same as Monday night.
The policy will now be introduced for Angle Park Monday & Wednesday along with Gawler Tuesday, Friday and Sunday to start from the Angle Park Monday meeting 4th May 2015. This will now be the sole policy for trialling at race meetings.
RACE MEETING TRIAL POLICY
Angle Park Monday & Wednesday along with Gawler Tuesday, Friday, Sunday (commencing Monday’s meeting - 4 May 2015)
Two fields from the boxes with a maximum of four (4) greyhounds will be conducted immediately following the completion of the kennelling procedure for the Race Meeting.
The following lists the order in which greyhounds will be selected in the event if more than 8 greyhounds nominated.
1) Reserves at the Meeting that do not obtain starts.
2) Trainers that have greyhounds engaged and are located in an area affected by track closures.
3) Trainers that have greyhounds engaged.
4) Satisfactory trials.
5) Other greyhounds.
PROCEDURE/CRITERIA
1) For Monday nights trainer to contact GRSA between 10.00am and 11.00am on the Monday to nominate. Should the Monday be a public holiday bookings are to be made between 8am and 9am on the scratching line on the Monday.
2) For Angle Park Wednesday, Gawler Tuesday & Friday trainer to contact GRSA between 9.00am and 10.00am on the day to nominate.
3) For Gawler Sunday trainer to contact GRSA between 8.00am and 9.00am on the scratching line on the day to nominate.
4) Other than reserve greyhounds Trainers will be restricted to trialling one (1) greyhound unless nominations determine otherwise.
5) Stewards allot the Box for the Greyhound.
6) Trials will be 515m & 531m in distance as first preference. Other distances considered depending on nominations.
7) Greyhounds currently under suspension or not cleared to race are not eligible to be nominated.(these trials are conducted as if they are at a race meeting so all greyhounds need to be eligible at nomination time)
8) Greyhound registration certificate or cards must be produced at kennelling time.
9) Trainers with other greyhounds engaged can utilize the extra kennel space until such time they are ready to leave OR trainers with no other greyhounds will be free to leave following their trial.
Please Note Kennelling times will be 15 minutes earlier for these meetings from 4th May to allow for these trials.
· If there are 12 races at Angle Park or Gawler there will be NO trials.
· The Vet Clinic at these meetings cannot be used to accommodate any greyhounds to allow for extra trialling greyhounds. This policy has been introduced so that participants book in under the policy. The Vet Clinic needs to be available for the Vet and Stewards at race meetings
Exceptions to this Policy–
· Thursday nights are kept available for the option for Interstate greyhounds to solo trial in a lead up to our Group races and also local greyhound’s trialling for Group racing interstate.
· Local greyhounds will be allowed to solo trial in a lead up to a feature race upon request and they will take one of the eight kennels available for trialling ahead of the policy and sit separately to the 4 dog trials. Feature races are considered to be – Adelaide Cup, Gawler Cup, Oaks, Derby, Howard Ashton, Brian Johnstone, SA Sprint, SA Distance Championship, SA Anniversary Cup, SA Country Cup, National Finals & any Group race Interstate.
· Local greyhounds will be allowed to trial on a race night, where they are in preparation for a feature event and nominated for a meeting and the race does not stand up. This will include all distances and also take precedence over the policy.
· If a greyhound qualifies for a feature final and requires a trial in between this will be conducted as a solo trial and sit separately to the 2 four dog trials.
Whilst these changes increase the time between kennelling and the first race by 15 minutes it should provide an opportunity for more trialling opportunities for one and two dog trainers in particular.
It is extremely important that trainers book in to trial at these race meetings. No trials will be accepted outside of these booking times.
2015 AGRC/GREYHOUND RACING SA GREYHOUND AUCTION
After a review of the Greyhound Auction held in October 2014 there was enough positive outcomes to ensure that the Auction will continue in 2015.
The conditions will be the same as last year however the GRSA Board have approved more prizemoney for the 2015 series with the series to increase by another $10,000. The series will now be worth over $50,000. Conditions below -
| Auction Date | October 2015 |
| Whelping Dates | 1st November 2014 to 31st May 2015 |
| Entry Fee | $50 per pup (non-refundable) |
| Commission | 11% |
| Minimum Price | $800 (No Reserve) |
| Fees to Enter Race Series | Nil |
| Race Series Dates | May 2017 (Greyhounds 23-30 months old) |
| Race Series Stakes | 1st- $16,000, 2nd-$5,000, 3rd- $2,500, Unpl- $500 |
| Breeder/Nominator Bonuses | 1st- $3,500, 2nd-$2,500, 3rd- $1,500 |
| Special Conditions | · Greyhounds purchased through the auction that are not SA Bred will be allowed the same grading exemptions in regards to Grade 6 and Juvenile races as locally bred greyhounds · Breeders that nominate 3 or more pups for the Auction will be entitled to a third Breeders Rebate application · The main race series Heats and Final are scheduled for May 2017. One month before (April) there will be a Wednesday 388m series with Heats and Final for pups sold at the auction. There will also be a Wednesday heats 515m and Final Thursday night 515m held in June the month after the main race series |