We received an unfortunate reminder of how dangerous the sport can be after a nasty fall in the first attempt of the third race in Launceston on Sunday night.
Driver Adrian Duggan remains in the Launceston General Hospital with further surgery required to his ankle.
The Stars
Cool Water Paddy – bounced back into the winners list in Launceston on Sunday night with a 2.9-metre win in a rating 70 to 79 event in a slick last half mile.
Illegal Immigrant – was well driven to victory once again by his trainer Troy Hillier when the gelded son of American Ideal defeated a handy field in the Great Northern Super Crisp Discretionary over 2200 metres when starting from a 20-metre handicap.
Agouda Ruler – continued on his winning way when he scored in the Tassie Wash two-year-old. The John Castles-trained pacer was first-up from a break and didn’t have a trial under his belt but was still able to get the job done courtesy of a confident drive by Gareth Rattray.
Kosimo – owner-trainer Mark Jones elected to send the Major Bronski gelding to Victoria during the COVID shutdown of Tasmanian racing where the mission paid off with a victory in Bendigo in late May. The pacer has been placed in two starts back in Tasmania before scoring on Sunday.
Resurgent Storm – broke the $100,000 mark in prizemoney when he scored his 11th career win in Hobart on Friday with Rodney Ashwood taking the drive for trainer, owner and breeder Roger Whitmore.
Multiple Winners
Hobart – Friday evening
No participants recorded multiple wins.
Launceston – Sunday evening
Rohan Hillier – driving double; Kosimo and Emjays Black Chip.
Troy McDonald – driving double; Altana Blue and Brian Who.
Ben Yole – training double; Altana Blue and Brian Who.
Calculated Sectional Standouts
Quickest last halves (800m) from last week’s action.
Hobart – Friday evening
Ozzie Major 57.56s, Guys Bettor Bet 57.78s, Monarkmac 57.85s, Capitallee 57.92s and Lord Stark 57.93s.
Launceston – Sunday evening
Lip Reader 55.18s, Reign Of Pain 55.50s, Cool Water Paddy 55.59s, Buster William 55.63s and Courageous Katee 55.69s.
View all available Tasmanian Sectional Data by clicking here.
Tasracing Official Price
Hobart – Friday evening
Hit’s: Capitallee $1.55 into $1.40, Lord Stark $6.50 into $5.50 and Resurgent Storm $5.50 into $4.80.
Defied The Drift: One Yankee Ginga $4.40 out to $4.80 and Black Ops $2.90 out to $3.30.
Missed: My Ultimate Romeo $4.40 into $4.00, Karalta Kruise $21 into $17, Royal Reactor $14 into $7.00 and Wandary Muscat $4.20 into $3.50 and Sign Of Oro $17 into $9.50.
Launceston – Sunday evening
Hit’s: Agouda Ruler $2.50 into $1.90, Kosimo $1.65 into $1.22, Altana Blue $10 into $7.00, Illegal Immigrant $5.50 into $4.80 and Brian Who $6.00 into $5.50.
Defied The Drift: Southern Gnp $8.50 into $6.50, Ideal Karalta $3.90 into $3.20 and Betterbsweet $6.00 out to $6.50.
Missed: Hillbilly Band $7.00 into $5.00, Black Centurian $6.50 into $4.60, Island Rocknroll $7.00 into $5.00, War Chest $12 into $4.60, and Salvator Mundi $5.50 into $4.40.
Trial File
Hobart – Friday afternoon
As we have seen in recent weeks, there has been a significant national rating range in trials where the highest rated horses have dominated and again that was the case in Hobart on Friday where Go In Style scored.
The former Victorian trained mare has joined the Tony Petersen stable, and she scored by 11.3 metres in Friday’s trial under a stronghold by Ricky Duggan.
The time for the mile trip was 2m 2.5s.
Launceston – Sunday afternoon
Three trials were staged prior to Sunday’s meeting.
Jimmy Mischief had to win the education trial, she was the only starter and recorded a mile rate of 2m 7.0s.
Im Full Tilt led all the way to score in the second trial by 5.6-metres in 1m 58.7s.
A half-neck separated the first three placegetters in trial three which was won by Mighty Spark, who led all the way in 2m 5.3s.
Trial Replays
You can view all trials since the resumption of the COVID shutdown by clicking here.
Week Ahead
Launceston is the venue for Friday night racing with a seven-event card on Sky Racing 2.
Race six, the Tassie Wash Pace sees a strong field go around over 2200 metres.
Smart three-year-old Colby Sanz has drawn barrier five and will be chasing back-to-back wins on the track. The pacer can expect strong opposition from Buster William and Taurisi who have second row draws.
The meeting commences at 17:55.
The Tasmanian Trotting Club Pace for the two-year-olds is the first of eight races in Hobart on Sunday night.
Trainer Paul Hill has a terrific strike rate with juvenile pacers, and the record is set to continue with Rocknroll Nitro drawing the pole position for the 1609 metre event, and the pacer looks the one to beat after his last-start second.
While speaking of the Tasmanian Trotting Club, their syndication initiative of getting new owners into the industry had something to celebrate on Monday when Beau Garcon scored a 23.3-metre win at Shepparton.
Some Tasmanian pacers doing battle over the next few days at metropolitan venues include;
Melton – Saturday night
Both Lip Reader and El Jays Mystery were engaged to compete at this meeting which has since been abandoned due to the current COVID – 19 situation in the metropolitan area of Victoria.
Another meeting at metropolitan level meeting will be held in Bendigo on Saturday night with fields for this meeting to be released later this afternoon.
Menangle – Saturday night
Race 2 Horse 6 No Apachemee.
Race 3 Horse 3 Timely Sovereign and Horse 9 Ignatius.
