Participants are advised that Tasracing has adopted the following new/amended policies: 

Additional Races Policy

After the closing of nominations, if more than 135 nominations are received for a meeting the Club may apply for the conduct of an additional race on the programme provided Qualifying Trials are not scheduled for the meeting.  Approval for the additional race will only be granted if there are unexpended funds within the stakes budget at the time of the request to cover the stakes for the additional race.  The application shall be subject to the availability of Stewards and Sky Racing coverage of the additional race being secured either prior to or following the last scheduled event with, in the case of Hobart meetings, the last race not being scheduled after 10:50pm. 

Selection of the Greyhound of the Year Policy

By the end of April of each year, the Greyhound Reference Group, shall invite five suitable, independent persons without conflict of interest who they consider suitable candidates to be appointed on the Greyhound of the Year Selection Panel and shall appoint one of those persons to act as Coordinator for the panel.   The Panel shall determine one greyhound to be named as the Greyhound of the Year by whatever system is deemed appropriate by the panel, whether that be by consensus or by majority vote of the panel.   The Panel may make periodic announcements of the ongoing contenders for the Award, however the greyhound named as Greyhound of the Year shall remain confidential and shall only be announced at the Annual Awards Dinner.  To be eligible for the award a greyhound must have been domiciled in Tasmania for a minimum period of 3 months during the period in which the awards are determined and must have won a minimum of eight races, four of which were in Tasmania during the period (this includes Heats and Semi Finals). 

Postponed and Abandoned Meetings Policy:

When a race which is declared as a False Start or a No Race is not rerun or rescheduled then the payment of the prize money allocated to the race shall be distributed in accordance with GAR 57 (3).  When a meeting or part of a meeting is abandoned within 3 hours prior to the time of the opening of kennels for that meeting the prize money allocated to the races shall be distributed evenly among the relevant connections of the greyhounds eligible to compete at the time of the abandonment.   When a meeting or part of a meeting is postponed within 3 hours prior to the time of the opening of kennels for that meeting then a travelling allowance shall be made to each trainer of the greyhounds eligible to compete at the time of the postponement which shall be based on the area code of the telephone number of the trainer as per the following

          In the same telephone area code       $50

          The adjoining telephone area code   $130

          The furthest telephone area code      $180

Feature Events and Heats where deemed appropriate by the Club in consultation with the Stewards will be postponed, but all other races will be abandoned if they cannot be held as an additional meeting.  The payments in respect to postponed races are payable to each trainer (not each greyhound) who had a greyhound in any of the races postponed that was eligible to compete at the time of the postponement.