Tuesday night meetings to commence at Angle Park in May
Greyhound Racing South Australia (GRSA) is pleased to announce the introduction of Tuesday night meetings at Angle Park, commencing on May 14, 2024.
The Tuesday night meetings are designed to meet demand, providing more racing opportunities for lower class greyhounds within SA.
The meetings will be time graded, with 10 races of six dog fields. The meetings will operate in tandem with Saturday morning race meetings which will target greyhounds of the same class with the racing distance at both race meetings restricted to 342m.
Excess nominations are currently received for Saturday morning meetings. The Tuesday meetings will provide a further outlet for greyhounds that are nominated for the Saturday mornings and are not provided with a starting opportunity. Greyhounds falling into this category will be granted preference rights if nominated for the subsequent Tuesday night meeting.
With Saturday morning and Tuesday night meetings being restricted to 342m nominations, opportunities for 530m time graded greyhounds will be programmed for other Angle Park dates.
Trainers are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the details below for the Tuesday night meetings, changes to the Saturday morning meetings and updated trialling times for Angle Park.
Tuesday night meetings
Weekly Tuesday night meetings at Angle Park (commencing May 14, 2024) will be time graded, Provincial 2 class, restricted to 10 races of six dog fields with reserves over 342m only. Groupings will be ‘Worst to Best’ with maidens, 1-4 wins and 5+ wins.
Grading procedures for Tuesday nights will grant preference rights to any greyhound nominated at the immediately prior Saturday morning meeting but not provided with a separate starting opportunity at the Tuesday night meeting when fields were drawn, provided the said greyhound is re-nominated for the Tuesday night meeting. Greyhounds in this category include those listed as a reserve and not placed in another starting field at the time of box draw for the Saturday morning meeting and greyhounds that were nominated but were not graded to start in a field or listed as a reserve.
Any greyhounds placed in a starting field at the time of box draw for a Saturday morning meeting will be considered last if nominated for the immediately following Tuesday night meeting. This will ensure the greatest number of greyhounds are provided with the opportunity to compete at either the Saturday morning or Tuesday night meeting.
The meetings will be graded with reserves where nominations permit.
Nominations will close for the Tuesday night on the Friday before at 9am with GRSA . The meeting will start at approximately 6pm SA time.
Saturday morning meetings
The fortnightly Saturday morning meetings, as from May 11, will remain a time graded meeting but will be restricted to 10 races of six dog fields with reserves over the 342m only.
Reserves at Saturday morning meetings will, where possible, be graded to a ‘cascading’ format. For example, if there are four races of one pool of greyhounds then the reserves of the first race will also be included in the second race as starters, the reserves for the second race will also be included in the third race as starters and so on.
Changes to Angle Park trials
Trialling at Angle Park will move from the weekly Tuesday night to a weekly Wednesday night format, as from May 15.
Whilst GRSA is committed to ongoing provision of Saturday morning and Tuesday night racing and Wednesday night trials, participation levels will be monitored.