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Six-year-old Gotta Go Cullect gelding Go The Red has taken a liking to Tasmanian racing. The Wayne Yole-trained pacer arrived from Queensland in June and has won seven of his 12 Tasmanian starts. The pacer will be out to build on that record in the Ladbrokes Quick Multi Stakes (2200m) at the Ladbrokes Racing Centre, Mowbray, […]
Bookmakers have opened Barbary Tales as the favourite for Saturday night’s $100,000 LAFM Beautide at Launceston’s Ladbrokes Racing Centre, Mowbray. Barbary Tales finished third behind Fighter Command and Bettablack Tiger in last year’s Beautide in Hobart. 12 months later, she returns with a career record of nine wins from 18 starts. Her most recent win […]
Two-year-old filly Melican justified her short quote, recording an easy win in the Hobart Belmont (1609m) for two- and three-year-old maiden fillies on Sunday night. The Rodney Ashwood-trained pacer was sent out the $1.14 favourite, with Alex Ashwood in the sulky, and didn’t let her supporters down with a 25.2m win over Baby Charlotte ($7) […]
Poster Boy gelding Haveyoumetmaynard ($1.35 fav) took 0.4s off the Launceston Two Year Old track record when obliterating his harness racing rivals in a Two-Year-Old Maiden event over 1680m on Sunday night. After being scratchy in his gear in the score-up, driver Gareth Rattray took the Chris Howlett-trained pacer straight to the lead and held a […]
Shes Allaboutluv ($1.90 fav) handled her harness racing rivals with relative ease when claiming the 2026 Brighton Cup in Hobart on Sunday night. Driver Ethan Arnott settled the mare near the tail of the small field before landing in the one-one near the 1500m after mid-race moves at the front of the field. Arnott drove […]
Longford-based trainer-driver Todd Rattray will head to Launceston on Friday night with three chances across the eight-race card, but it is promising filly Quetzalli (Captain Crunch) who shapes as the headline runner for the stable in the seventh race, a three-year-old race restricted to horses with no more than one lifetime win over 2200m. The […]
Brighton trainer Paul Ashwood took two horses to Launceston on Friday night, and he ended up preparing a winning double with Alot Like Pendles and McMayhem. Both winners were driven by Rohan Hillier, with the pair starting at short odds and proving too strong in their respective races. Alot Like Pendles was the first leg […]
Trainer Wayne Yole will use Friday night’s Launceston meeting as the starting point for Solo Safari’s (Lather Up) harness racing campaign towards some of the state’s premier three-year-old races later in the season. The pacer has not raced since winning last season’s Dandy Patch Final in Hobart and has been gelded since that victory. Solo Safari, […]
Triedtotellya has been named the Ladbrokes Horse of the Year at the annual awards and Hall of Fame dinner in Hobart on Friday night. Trained by Rohan Hillier and owned and bred by the Howlett family, Triedtotellya won eight of his nine starts in 2025, including feature wins in the Easter Cup and the Tassie […]
The Ladbrokes Easter Cup series begins in Launceston on Sunday night with two heats of the $75,000 Group 3 event (2698m). 10 runners will face the starter in each of the two standing start heats, with the first six across the line guaranteed a spot in the final on Easter Saturday night (4 April). Triedtotellya […]
Consistent pacer Alberio (Village Jasper) gave his Carrick-based trainer Neville Rattray the biggest harness racing win of his training career when claiming the Inaugural Circular Head Cup (2180m) on a windy afternoon at the Wivenhoe Paceway in Burnie on Sunday. The 10-year-old gelded son of Village Jasper produced his brilliant standing start manners in the $14,000 […]
Tasracing has opted not to proceed with the purchase of a Eureka slot, instead redirecting those funds into a significant expansion of the TASBRED scheme designed to bolster Tasmanian breeding and ownership. From 2027, a second TASBRED bonus will be introduced, offering an additional $10,000 to eligible three- and four-year-olds. The bonus will be split […]
Beaconsfield trainer Damian Spring wears many hats. He breaks and pre-trains Standardbreds, he is the lure driver for the Launceston Greyhound Racing Club, and on Friday in Burnie, he was back in the winners’ circle for the first time as a harness racing trainer in 3 1/2 years. While his starters have been few since […]
Fresh off a training and driving double in Burnie last Monday week, and a further win in Launceston last Sunday, Wesley Vale’s Charlie Castles will be out to continue his winning ways in Burnie on Friday night. Castles will take four runners from his stable to the eight-race card, and he will drive all four. […]
It was an easy watch for favourite punters, as the Emma Stewart and Allan McDonough combination claimed both the Cavalor Equicare Tasmanian Derby and Cavalor Equicare Tasmanian Oaks in Hobart on Tuesday night. Both races were part of a six-race card that was postponed from Sunday night. Beach Diamond (Sombeachsomewhere) made the most of her […]
It’s been one day short of one year since Royal Reactor won a race, but the eight-year-old Auckland Reactor harness racing gelding gets his chance to bounce back into the winners’ list when he lines up in the Downbytheseaside Standing @ Woodlands Stud Pace (2090m) in Hobart on Friday night. The Ben Richardson-trained pacer has been […]
With Victoria’s opposition clear to the collection of the much-maligned harness racing Stallion Tax this breeding season, pressure is mounting on other State bodies to declare their position on the controversial breeding levy. Benstud Standardbreds principal Craig Judd, a vocal opponent of the tax, is calling on breeders and studs to be proactive in demanding […]
Kyabram-based horsewoman Kristy Butler is chasing back-to-back features in Tasmania – and this time, the stakes are even higher. Fresh from a memorable victory in the $60,000 Tasfreight Raider Stakes, Butler has set her sights on an even bigger scalp in tomorrow night’s (Aug 2) $80,000 The Beautide at Hobart. Butler has drawn barrier six […]
Race favourite Ravishing Ruby ($1.55 fav) made a winning race track debut when claiming the second heat of the Fehlbergs Produce 2YO Fillies Sweepstakes (1609m) in Hobart on Friday night. Driver Mark Yole took the Peter Bain-trained harness racing daughter of Always B Miki to the lead after the first 250m, and was able to dictate affairs, […]
Victorian trainer Tayla Fellows is hoping her first harness racing campaign across Bass Strait will turn into a career milestone, as she prepares promising pacer Do It (Always Be Miki) for Sunday’s (July 20) $60,000 Gr3 Tasfreight Raider Stakes Final at Launceston. Fellows and her partner Dylan Marshall, of Bendigo, have taken a four-horse team […]
Victorian reinsman Jack Laugher is putting the runs on the board in a harness racing campaign in his former home state of Tasmania. The 26-year-old, who is closing in on 1000 driving wins, left Tasmania eight years ago to pursue his driving career, but is temporarily back home with a 10-horse team. “It’s been nice […]
Seven-year-old Bettors Delight gelding Vanquish Stride is Tasmania’s new state record holder after winning the $20,000 Bevan Lee’s Butchery Golden Mile (1680m) in Launceston on Sunday night. The Wayne Yole-trained pacer had a soft run on the pegs and finished off best in a mile rate of 1:53.1s, breaking the state record for the third time this […]
Five-year-old Captaintreachrous gelding De Goey ($3 fav) claimed his fourth win of the season when proving too tough for his harness racing rivals in the Go Racing Ulverstone Cup (2698m) in Launceston on Sunday night. Driver Rohan Hillier got the Rohan Hadley-trained pacer away safely from his second-row draw in the standing start event to settle […]
Tasracing is delighted to announce that harness racing drivers have been selected for the upcoming BOTRA Novice Driver Series. BOTRA will once again support the series as naming rights partner. The Series will be held at the Tasmanian Trotting Club meeting in Hobart on Sunday, 4 May and will be decided over four heats. The […]
