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Thursday Preview - Murray Bridge - 6th May 2021

06/05/2021
Racing News

TELLING THE TAIL
By The Shadow

The highlight of tonight’s racing here at Murray Bridge is the final of the 2021 Bayroad Queen Stayers Cup, race 6 on the 11-event programme. It’s certainly turned out a wide-open affair which will make for a good betting race so we will have a crack at the Trifecta and First Four.

Race 1 - We start the night with a Maiden event and the Rasmussen kennel has three runners which I have put in the top 3 headed by Cawbourne Marto who showed some pace when placed here last start. Canya Razor is making his debut and could be a Smokey, add Outback Rebel. Box Up 2.5.7.8

Race 2 - This is a very good event with a couple of inform runners in Isla Gracie who has won 4 of her past 5 and Phase who is yet to taste defeat in his 4 starts, both these look very hard to beat again and are the main two for mine. Ransoms Pride is another who has been racing well winning 3 of his last 5 and looks a monty for the Trifecta. Box Up 1.4.6.8

Race 3 - The main chances in this look the book ends with Right Way drawing the rails and Cash Storm out in box 8, both have been in terrific form and look the ones to beat. Sandave Vision was an improver here last run and can run into the placings once again. Box Up 1.5.7.8

Race 4 - Troy Murray rarely leaves the track without a winner and he has a big chance with Agent Hamish who has won in quick time back in town when able to lead, he should get a clear run here and looks a very good chance in this. Departure Gate will be running on along with Mai Tai Focus. Box Up 1.2.5.8

Race 5 - Boombox Robbie was a last start winner here in quick time and is drawn for a repeat performance again tonight so we will put him on top in this. Alfieri is another who can carve out quick times when on song, he handles a wide draw and is the danger. Sir Truculent has been struggling of late over the journey and drops back to the sprint here and is a chance of running into the placings. Box Up 1.5.7.8

Race 6 - This is the FINAL of the 2021 Bayroad Queen Cup over the 680m and we will go with Oakvale Impact who has won his past two here over this trip in good fashion, he has been in terrific form of late and is drawn to have every chance. Bedrock Fred has early pace and is a chance of leading from the inside. Add Barbados Express and the well-drawn New Years Tears. Box Up 1.2.4.8

Race 7 - All Show goes well at the venue and looks a big chance. Both Canya Bandido and Sudden Force for the Trifecta. Box Up 1.3.6.8

Race 8 - Allinga Road has been in fine form of late and was a last start winner from this draw in 25.32, he looks very hard to beat again. Kennel mate Rhyme Nor Reason hasn’t had a huge amount of luck in recent runs and is a chance of improving. Blue Tick Fern and Howling Hoss both have pace and are place chances. Box Up 2.3.5.7

Race 9 - Occipital Eyes was checked on box rise here last start when well supported, he won his previous two in good fashion and can return to the winner’s circle tonight. Deadly Mamba is another amongst the main chances from his good draw. Box Up 2.5.7.8

Race 10 - This is a wide open affair and have a liking for Under Study who is making her debut at this venue, she has been racing well at Gawler and can run a cheeky race here 1st up. Straight Blaze never looked in doubt when scoring here in good fashion last run, he is amongst the better chance again along with Banjo Riley who has the draw. Box Up 1.2.4.5

Race 11 - It’s a toughie to go home on and with only the four runners we will go with Uncle Ray in the Mike Giniotis kennel, he has been placed here in the past and the small field should suit. Bella’s Night and Gorgeous George will be running on. Box 1.4.6.8

Best Bets

Race 4, No: 2 - Agent Hamish

Race 6, No: 8 - Oakvale Impact

Best Each Way

Race 3, No: 5 - Sandave Vision

 

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KENNEL CAPERS ONCE A MONTH

The monthly Kennel Capers for May 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.

 


The Boy from the Bush gives his selections for tonight’s super night of racing at Murray Bridge.

First 4 selections –

Race 1:  5,8,2,7
Race 2:  8,6,4,1
Race 3:  1,8,5,2
Race 4:  2,5,1,8
Race 5:  1,8,7,5
Race 6:  7,2,1,8
Race 7:  3,6,8,4
Race 8:  2,1,3,7
Race 9:  2,7,1,8
Race 10:  4,2,8,7
Race 11:  1,8,4,6

Best Bets:            Race 5, No. 1 - Boombox Robbie

Each-Way:          Race 6, No. 7 - Shadow Burner

Roughie:              Race 8, No. 2 - Yarindale

 

MURRAY BRIDGE THURSDAY (PROV 1)

Next weeks Murray Bridge Thursday meeting features –

$1,325 Heats Maiden – 455m ($3,280 Final 20/5/21)

$5,120 Free For All (N/P)– 680m

$1,230 Grade 6 – 395m (For greyhounds who have won 1 race or Maiden Heat and Final)

Nominations close Monday 10th May with GRSA at 9.00am.

 

GAWLER SUNDAY (CITY A)

Next weeks Gawler Sunday meeting features –

$10,710 Final SA Anniversary Cup - 531m (Heats 9/5/21)

$3,280 Grade 6 Final – 531m (Heats 9/5/21)

$2,255 Open Maiden – 531m

$5,120 Maiden/Grade 6 – 643m

$5,120 Graded – 643m

$3,280 Bitches Grade 5 – 531m

******Standby Shortcourse only run if required******

Nominations close Wednesday 12th May with GRSA at 9.00am.

 

LOCAL NEWS

2021 BAYROAD QUEEN FINAL TONIGHT AT MURRAY BRIDGE

Last week at Murray Bridge there were two terrific heats of the 2021 Bayroad Queen where the first four placegetters qualified for tonights Feature final.

Heat winners were –

Bedrock Fred – 39.26

Oakvale Impact – 39.23

The Final field in Box Draw order is:

  1. New Year Tears  Ryan Tugwell
  2. Barbados Express  Ben Rawlings
  3. Springvale Anna  Bob Fletcher
  4. Bedrock Fred   Cherylee Barber
  5. Shanlyn Charlott  Vadim Roz
  6. Tapestry Tears  Lauren Harris
  7. Shadow Burner  Tony Rasmussen
  8. Oakvale Impact  Nathan Wilson
  9. Allegra (1st Res)                                           SCR
  10. Joe’s Gold (2nd Res)                                  SCR

The $7,055 Final will be race 6 on the program and is listed to jump at 8.25pm (SA time).

This will be the sixteenth running of the Stayer’s Cup and will be the fourth year it has been named the Bayroad Queen Stayer’s Cup in recognition of one of the State’s best stayers. Bayroad Queen competed in the early 80’s and in 1982 she won the National Distance Final breaking a 13 year dominance of NSW and Victoria. She also won the equivalent of the Association Cup at Harold Park and Sandown Cup at Olympic Park and was named the SA Greyhound of the Year. She broke the Angle Park track record on two occasions inside a month and at the peak of her powers she was considered the best stayer in the country

Previous winners (at Angle Park) are:

         2006             BOTHING                             B. Stamenkovic 43.13

         2007             BARON ALLEN                    L. Rasmussen     43.78

         2008             LE GRANDE BALE              S. Matcott           44.04

         2009             UNCLE REMUS                   T. Kelly                  43.89

         2010             SATANIC CASH                  R. Isaacson          42.84

         2011             SATANIC CASH                  R. Isaacson          43.35

         2012             KALDEN MAYHEM            T. Murray            43.44

         2013             KALDEN MAYHEM            T. Murray            43.65

         2014             PSYCHOTIC GOLD             P. Jovanovic       43.19

         2015             SPRINGVALE CLINT          G. Harris               43.39

         2016             DANYO’S TOM                   Lauren Harris      43.73

         2017             PURPOSE DRIVEN             C. Butcher           43.63

         2018             LEGIT BOSS                         Kim Johnstone  44.04

         2019             SALDANA                             Judi Hurley          43.48

         2020             SIR TRUCULENT                 Wally Harkins     43.40

 

SA OWNED AND BRED – OAKVALE STYLE TRIALLING TONIGHT AT SANDOWN

Oakvale Style will trial tonight at Sandown in preparation for a tilt at next Thursdays Sapphire Crown heats.

She is owned by Nathan and Kerri Wilson and bred by Kerri. She has been sent to Jeff Britton for this series.

She’ll trial after race 2, and Sandown will stream it on their twitter page for those interested

 

2021 SA ANNIVERSARY CUP HEATS AT GAWLER ON SUNDAY

There are three heats of the SA Anniversary Cup over 531m to be run at Gawler on Sunday night. The final will be run the following week on Sunday, 16th May which is an open event worth $10,710 total stakemoney.

The SA Anniversary Cup are races 3, 4 and 5 and features the likes of Defy, Gary’s Miracle and Air Marshall in heat 1, Canya Go Wild, Zipping Sultan and Spring Vinnie in heat 2 with Tangelo Fire, Spring Burner and series favourite Jack’s Well in heat 3. The first 2 from each heat and two fastest thirds will progress through to next weeks final. The box will also be conducted on course after the running of Race 6 on Sunday night.

 

TRIAL SCHEDULE DURING ANGLE PARK REDEVELOPMENT - effective Monday 12th April

Monday – Gawler (Morning) – no bookings required

Tuesday – Murray Bridge (Night) – book with Trialbooker from Monday 11.30am to Tuesday 3pm

Wednesday – Gawler (Night) – book with Trialbooker from Tuesday 11.30am to Wednesday 3pm

Thursday – Gawler (Morning) – no bookings required

Friday – Murray Bridge & Murray Bridge Straight (Morning) – book with Trialbooker for one turn only from Wednesday 11.30am to Thursday 3pm

Saturday – No Trials

Sunday - Murray Bridge & Murray Bridge Straight (Morning) – book with Trialbooker for one turn only from Thursday 11.30am to Friday 3pm.

Satisfactory and Qualifying trials now at Gawler on Wednesday nights each week.  Nominations close 12.30pm Wednesday (for online nominations 11.59pm Tuesday) Qualifying for the following Friday.

 

SATISFACTORY & QUALY TRIALS NOW ONCE A WEEK AT MURRAY BRIDGE ON FRIDAY – effective immediately

During the Angle Park shutdown GRSA will now conduct Satisfactory Trials and Qualifying trials at Murray Bridge for both tracks on Friday mornings effective last week.

We will move this away from the monthly Tuesday night during this period, which was difficult to staff, and didn’t provide enough opportunity for trainers to clear or qualify greyhounds whilst Angle Park is out of action.

These Satisfactory and Qualifying trials will be conducted between 8.50am and 9.15am fitting in the middle of the One Turn track finishing and the Straight track starting, however, please fit in with staff on the day.

Satisfactory and Qualifying trials now at Murray Bridge on Friday morning each week.  Nominations close 12.30pm Thursday, Qualifying for the following Monday on the One Turn and the Wednesday week on the Straight.

 

SATURDAY MORNING MEETINGS ONCE A FORTNIGHT AT GAWLER

The next meeting will be on Saturday, 15th May at Gawler which will be a Timed Graded Meeting - “Worst to Best” rating. Maiden AND 1-4  WIN RACES WILL HAVE FIRST PREFERENCE - Greyhounds graded into 3 categories. Maidens, 1-4 wins & 5 or more wins. Specific grades of greyhounds are not considered except for Maidens. Races–N/P with Pathway Prizemoney. Reserves will be determined by Grader. There will be No Guarding. Refer to “Time Based Grading” published conditions.

• Nominations close Tuesday, 11th May at 9.00am.

 

MURRAY BRIDGE STRAIGHT TRACK CUP FINAL (350M Murray Bridge)

Open                                    

HEATS @ $965                  Wednesday    19.05.21

FINAL @ $7,145                 Wednesday    26.05.21

• Nominations close Friday, 14th May at 9.00am.

 

CITY A MEETINGS FOR PRIZEMONEY AND GRADING AT THE VENUE

Gawler Sunday 9th May

Gawler Sunday 16th May

Murray Bridge Thursday 20th May

Murray Bridge Thursday 27th May

Gawler Sunday 6th June

Gawler Sunday 13th June

Murray Bridge Thursday 17th June

Murray Bridge Thursday 24th June

 

CHANGES TO FEATURE ANGLE PARK EVENTS WHILE SHUTDOWN – VENUES AND DISTANCES

HOWARD ASHTON @ GAWLER     531M (Group 3 Event)

Special Event – No Penalties Apply .For SA Bred greyhounds whelped in January 2019 to June 2019 and paid up for Breeders 2021.               

HEATS   @ $2,000                            Sunday    30.05.21

SEMI-FINALS @ $4,000                  Sunday    06.06.21

FINAL @ $37,500                              Sunday    13.06.21

 

SHANE McQUEEN @ MURRAY BRIDGE  530M                    

Best greyhounds nominated     

HEATS @ $5,120                               Thursday   17.06.21

FINAL @ $8,580                                Thursday   24.06.21

 

GRADING OF CITY A MEETINGS WHEN ANGLE PARK SHUTDOWN –

When Angle Park is redeveloped in mid April the below outcomes have been listed below -

  • When Angle Park is shutdown for redevelopment that the City A meetings will be shared with Murray Bridge and Gawler. Murray Bridge will conduct back to back Thursday meetings allowing for Heats and Finals of normal and feature races. Gawler will then run back to back Sundays again allowing for Heats and Finals of normal and feature races. This will mean that there is one Metropolitan (CITY A) meeting per week.
  • Feature 515m races will be run at Gawler over the 531m and any 731m feature races will be run at Murray Bridge over the 680m (the 680m start will be available as the 731m boxes will be removed from Angle Park once redevelopment starts allowing for that distance to be available)
  • There will be a 680m CITY A prizemoney at Murray Bridge each Thursday every week whether City A or Prov 1 to support these stayers during this period.
  • These meetings will be considered as if the greyhounds have never raced at the venue. This will mean greyhounds will be grades Maiden, Grade 6 and Grade 5 to start with unless new into the state and regraded higher.
  • With all grades starting from new (no higher than Grade 5 effectively) there will not be as higher prizemoney races per meeting initially with no high grade races being conducted. There will be a Best 8 each meeting over the 455m, 530m, 680m at Murray Bridge and a 531m and 643m at Gawler for this high grade money. (GRSA will just make up these races). Trainers need to write “No Best 8” on the nomination if they do not want to be in this event. If there are insufficient nominations for a Best 8 the Grader will make up normally graded events based on current policy.
  • The Racing Department intends to run Grade 5 heats on a regular basis but may have to run Grade 4/5 heats to ensure there are races for these dogs. The finals of these races will pay the normal stakemoney for Finals (Grade 5 or Open depending on grade of Heats).
  • The Grader will give preference to 455m or higher at both Murray Bridge City A and Gawler City A meetings with the intent that no short course races will be conducted. However if there was a need to run some short course this would be under “standby conditions.  
  •  When a greyhound wins a Grade 5 or above over any distance at the Gawler City A and Murray Bridge City A meetings they will NOT lose any grade 6’s at other venues. The normal rule has been suspended.
  • If a greyhound has already won a Grade 6 (City A) it should be eligible for MB CITY A and GAW CITY A Grade 6 if they have more Grade’s to win as these are considered different tracks. They will still only be able to win one CITY A at each of these meetings if they do not win more races than allowed.
  • There will be NO retrospectivity for Grading when the shutdown of Angle Park occurs.

 

“BEAT THE GRADER” DURING REDEVELOPMENT

Our normal race schedule generally doesn’t allow for any “Beat the Grader “scenario’s however with the changes to  both Murray Bride Prov 1 and Gawler Prov 1 this is likely to happen which is an added benefit to owners and trainers.

It will be available for the Murray Bridge Monday Prov 1 to Murray Bridge Thursday Prov 1 and then the Murray Bridge Thursday Prov 1 to Murray Bridge Monday Prov 1.

For Gawler the Friday Prov 1 to Sunday Prov 1 could happen however there is only a few days between meetings.

Please contact the Grader for clarification around the “Beat The Grader” policy.

 

GOTBA RACING DATES – STARTING IN MAY

The GOTBA at Virginia will commence this year with Coursing set to begin on Sunday 9th May with 4 dog events programmed.

Other dates are –

Sunday 23rd May

Sunday 6th June

Sunday 20th June