Upcoming Feature Races
Greyhound Racing SA has considered the future of some of our immediately upcoming feature races planned for Angle Park.
GRSA advise that the Anniversary Cup Heats and SA Distance Championship Heats to be run on Thursday 16th April will be run as planned leading into both Finals on Thursday 23rd April. In support of participants both finals will be conducted with the advertised stakemoney.
GRSA advise that the Howard Ashton series will continue in the racing dates as advertised in May with stakemoney remaining also as advertised. GRSA believes this series is a very important one for breeders and owners alike with industry contributing to this stakemoney and eligibility restricted to SA Bred greyhounds born in a specific 6 month period. This series has already begun with one prelude series at Gawler and one prelude series at Angle Park already completed. The next prelude in this series will be conducted with heats on Monday 20th April and Angle Park and the final the week later on Monday 27th April. The Group 3 Howard Ashton will be run with heats on 13th May, semi finals on 21st May and final on 28th May. Greyhounds do not need to compete in the prelude series to be eligible for the Howard Ashton.
Noting the current quarantining in place for the Mt Gambier region, GRSA will work with the Mt Gambier Club in the coming days to discuss an exemption for affected connections of paid up greyhounds which preserves their opportunity to continue to compete in the series.
GRSA will be making more announcements regarding feature races for the remainder in the coming weeks.