Tasmanian Racing

Racing Tasmania and Greyhound Racing Victoria may have just introduced the most interesting and controversial change in the Australian racing landscape, with greyhounds to be...

HETTI'S Produce (Destini Fireball x Miss Hetti Dec '15) will contest the heats of the St Leger (461m) at Hobart next Thursday after winning Tuesday's...

VICTORIAN trainer Robert Britton knows what it takes to win a Hobart Thousand, and how to do it on the Elwick circuit. After all, he...

IT WAS February 1940. The war in Europe was just starting to get really serious but racing across Australia continued as if every day was...

It was one of Tasmanian racing's great rivalries, and in 2001 it literally came to a head in the final of the Devonport Cup. Black...

Tasmania will determine its National Sprint representative on Monday night at Launceston. The race, which runs at 9:58pm, features multiple Group One winner Buckle Up...

Bookkeeper's recent record run over 600m at The Meadows was meritorious, particularly from the awkward box 8, but it was out of kilter with national...

Ominous signs continue to appear about the structure of greyhound racing in this country. At risk are the smaller states and the smallest TAB operation....

Building a statue of Bart Cummings was a nice touch. But be careful – the next one could be of the last remaining punter. Where...

Monday night at Shepparton dogs was about as average as it gets, except for one peculiarity. Six graded races readily separated themselves from six uninteresting...

What with dams, floods and elections, Queensland is now dominating the news. Racing Queensland chief Bob Bentley is taking advantage of the timing to press...

Thanks to an intrepid band of volunteers, the failed conductor rail at the Devonport Raceway has been repaired and heats of the Devonport Cup scheduled...

Over the last 15 years wagering in all forms in Australia (leaving out gaming, casinos and poker machines) has doubled to its current total of...

Patrick Smith (in The Australian April 30, 2011), talking of the gallops, has maintained “racing is losing ground by the meeting” and that “without an...

Interstate speedsters Octane Show and Lee Winter as well as litter brother Decembrist are the obvious obstacles for Tasmanian champion Damek in his quest to...

Feature racing returned to Devonport this week with the finals of the Tasmanian Country Oaks and Country Derby being run Tuesday afternoon. The Oaks final...

It's not common that someone trains a greyhound to win two feature race wins with the first dog they train. But this was precisely the...

The Tasmanian Racing Board has signed a long term funding deal with the State Government. Under the new agreement, racing will receive $27 million annually...

Australian Racing Greyhound has been following the Tasmanian industry reforms closely due to our have first hand experience of the naivety and narrow mindedness that...

As reported here back in September and then again in November, the Tasmanian racing industry is about to undergo some major changes to its management....

Further to our September story regarding the abolition of the the racing code councils in Tasmania, legislation to massively restructure the industry was yesterday introduced...

It seems we aren't the only ones getting a bad deal from Tasmanian Racing, Tasmanian Racing Minister Michael Aird has started major reforms to Tasmania's...

Despite the fact that those in charge of Tasmanian Greyhound Racing are backward and inept uncooperative toward us at Australian Racing Greyhound, the Tasmanian leg...

Nothing of interest is occurring in Tasmanian greyhound racing. But, even if there was, we would be unable to report it as Director of Racing...