Harness racing, also known colloquially as running, is an important audiences sport in Australia, with a large sum of money at stake each year with the bandar and Totalizator Agency Board (TAB). In Australia there are 91 tracks of harness racing, which hold over 1,900 meetings every year. There are about 2,900 drivers and 4,000 coaches with around 5,000 Standardbred horses are sniffed and registered annually.
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Racing
Harness racing in Australia is done with Standardbred racing horses around the track while pulling the driver on a two wheel cart called "sulk", "gig" or "bike". Standard graduated race horses compete in two echoes, pacing and running, and trotters can enter pacing tempo, but not vice versa. Pacers contest 80% to 90% of the Australian harness race. Racing is done in a counter-clockwise direction generally above a distance of 1,609 meters (1 mile) to 2,650 meters, although some races like the A G Hunter Cup run at greater distances. Harness racing tracks are usually sized from 700 to 1,000 meters.
Racing is managed by Harness Racing Australia (formerly known as the Australian Harness Racing Council), with each State Principal Racing Authority agreeing to comply, and to enforce rules and regulations.
Race meetings are often held at night, with many major metropolitan meetings being held on Friday and Saturday evenings. Standard racing in Australia is slightly different from American racing, because it uses a metric system to measure distance and there are often more beginners in the race.
Racing begins in one of two ways, either from the back of the cellular barrier, using the mobile start or behind the tape from the beginning of the stand. The mobile barrier is usually a car or an ute with two long arms, behind the horse lined up before moving to the starting line. The obstacle can cover the entire track and in some cases, the phone can have ten wide horses. As the wings of the gates swing back, the speed of the vehicle begins, thus releasing the horses. This is the most common method for starting pacers and trotters in Australia.
Australian International Design Awards that won the starting gate of AVA Integrity Mobile are used in Australia and include auto start. This innovation allows the starter to concentrate on the horse and contribute to integrity and fairness during the "rising score". The modern early gates only use the driver to steer the vehicle and the starter in the back to observe the race and call the wrong start if necessary.
Starting stands are made where the horse stands with flat feet behind the elastic bands connected on the track. There are usually several tapes on the track at 10 or 5 meters intervals; this allows the handicappers to paralyze the horse. This can be done on a victory in certain classes or on a discretionary basis. Both pacers and trotters races are done starting from the stands.
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Major races
The Inter Dominion is a major harness racing competition conducted between horses from Australia and New Zealand. This series has been contested since 1936 and the race has alternated between Australia and New Zealand. The Australasian Pacers Grand Circuit is a Group One (G1) event designed to be an exhibition item of Harness Racing Industry Australia and New Zealand.
Other important races in Group One include Miracle Mile Pace, A G Hunter Cup, Chariots of Fire, the Victoria Cup, Australian Pacing Championship, Pacing Gold Australia, Inter Dominion Pacing Championships and Inter Dominion Trotting Championships
The premier teenager's armor racing series in the Southern Hemisphere is Australasian Poultry Breeders for best trotters and comedians of two, three and four years old from Australia and New Zealand. Other three-year events include New South Wales Derby, Victoria Derby, West Australian Derby, and Queensland Derby.
Australian independent company Pacing Gold Limited (APG), owned by three major clubs, is responsible for three major harness tracks of the eastern states:
- NSW Harness Racing Club (Tabcorp Park, Menangle),
- Albion Park Harness Racing Club (Albion Park, Brisbane), and
- Harness Racing Victoria (Tabcorp Park, Melton).
APG sold its annual premier sales in three eastern states and managed a series of sales-related futures sales for two-year-old and three-year-old players who lull in eastern Australia and sold on APG sales.
History
Initial meeting and club
The running race began on April 30, 1810 in Parramatta, New South Wales when the first event was held during the sports carnival and was won by Miss Kitty by an imported Hector (Old), Arabian stallions used for Thoroughbreds breeding.
In 1834 Western Australia held its first run in Fremantle and in 1844 Tasmania recorded the first run event in Launceston.
The first organized race meeting for trotters and runners in Australia was held Jan. 21, 1860 at the racetrack in Flemington, Victoria. The featured show is Race Harness, which has 100 ruler wallets. Running under the saddle was another event held that day and it had a purse of 50 rulers.
The Ballarat and Creswick Trotting Club was founded in 1861 to become the first club in Australia set up specifically to promote Harness Racing.
In 1882 the first Australian harness race track was built at Elsternwick Park (Melbourne). The same year the first ran race in Queensland was arranged by the Brisbane Driving Park Club and held at Eagle Farm. The first all-trotting meeting in Tasmania was held in Newtown in 1884.
The meeting took place under the electric light on February 6, 1890 in what is now Harold Park Paceway. The further introduction of the night ran on illuminated tracks led to an increase in the presence and development of a large racing industry.
In 1902 Trots Club of New South Wales was established to formalize harness racing after the Government banned unregistered races. On November 19, 1902, the inaugural meeting was held in the field of Forest Lodge as it became known later, later known as Epping until March 21, 1929, and came to be known as Harold Park.
The cell barrier was first used in Harold Park, the New South Wales line on November 2, 1956 in the one-mile race won by Mineral Spring in 2: 01.2. But the barrier was deemed unsafe after two races and it took 9 years further before further attempts were made. Prototype hydraulically operated mobile barrier introduced to NSW in 1963 by William (Bill) George Smith, a Sydney motor body builder who has a passion for harness racing and wants to make it more attractive to the public and passengers. On October 14, 1970 in an article on the success of Miracle Mile, the Sydney Morning Herald reflects the introduction of a new barrier in 1965. The article states that after months of testing barriers in the gymnasium on Sundays, performances and trials during 1964 and 65 Then decided to introduced a barrier at Harold Park. Harold Park piloted and approved the use of a barrier designed by Smith on May 21, 1965. 'End of 1966 Trotting Club of New South Wales Ltd and H & amp; W D Wills is promoting a new feature race called Miracle Mile 'Craven Filter. The idea is to break the two minute miles and for Australian horses to gain recognition around the world. The first Miracle Mile was held at Harold Park in 1967 and New Zealand horse Robyn Dundee won by breaking the two minute barrier at 1:59.
On July 7, 1975 in Queensland, Junior Harness Racing was founded by a group of farmers to provide young people, aged between 6 and 16, an opportunity to gain a practical introduction to the Harness Racing Industry. Children have the opportunity to push the Shetland horses in armor under race conditions. No prizes are paid on the horse race, but the winner and the getter place receive the medal.
Horse
Harness racing became a popular sport because only a few people could afford the hacking cost, let alone Thoroughbred race horses, whereas most families had horses that could be driven and ridden. The initial running event is scheduled to Run under the saddle and Hacking trick . Various allowances are made for horses measuring under 15 1 inch hands, too. In 1893 hopples were used for the first time in the race at Kensington, New South Wales meeting on imported kebiri, Plain Bill. At the beginning of the twentieth century races for trotters drawing light carts or high-sulkies were introduced and then light specially designed light, small wheel gigs were used.
Sir William Don inbred Thoroughbred fries raised by Mr. Mackenzie in 1856 near Murrumbidgee River became the 13th fastest pacer in the world of harness racing. He was in Mozart (GB) from a horse by the same Mozart. This drilling is able to maintain good speed when free-footed racing, which is not stepped on, and is the best Australian horse harness cultivated until the 1870s.
Vancleve (USA) was imported into Australia in 1882 and holds the Australian mile record for trotters. He then became the eternal father of Fritz, the champion running all the time. Fritz, foaled in 1890 and broke the previous Australian Standardbred record for more than 10 seconds for a mile. Progeni Vancleve won him as a prominent prince in Australia and New Zealand, though he did not stand in stud in New Zealand.
Andrew Town of Richmond, New South Wales imported Kentucky bred, Childe Harold (by Harold) in 1882 for Ã, 3,935. Childe Harold has won at 1874 International Trot in Liverpool, England. In 1879, he won an important race in France, and he was later brought on tour to the Continent of Europe. In that year, he won races in Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany and also in Russia, where he won two major events. This male horse produces superior quality trotters and 45 of his sons become studs. Childe Harold's name can still be found in some of the Standardbred pedigrees today. Harold Park was named in honor of Childe Harold.
Globe Derby, in 1910 in Australia, was the rider champion of his day and later became the Leading Australian Sire for twelve seasons in a row and still has a racing breed of present.
In 1934, Springfield Globe by the Globe Derby was lulled in Tasmania and later won the Inter Dominion. Springfield Globe is an extraordinary man who produced 229 winners. Dual gaited U Scott (USA) was exported to New Zealand in 1935 when he was two years old, where he became the extraordinary crown prince of 410 winners of $ 2,315,503 and his name stands out in the lineage of many of Australia's largest horses.
New South Wales grew up, Lawn Derby, un-hoppled race, was the first player to break the two-minute barrier in Australia or New Zealand when he recorded 1: 59.4 on the Addington track in New Zealand in 1938.
In 1952 at Harold Park Avian Derby became the first two-minute march in Australia. Ribands broke a two-minute span in 1954 at Harold Park in a 1: 58.7 time trial. He ran then in America where he took his total win to 41 and earned him $ 82,385.
In 1958 Edgar Tatlow imported Meadow Vance (USA) by Adios of Subway by Billy Direct, who won 328 and was the first Australian to earn 100 credits under 2:10. Meadow Vance is also an extraordinary ancestor.
Thor Hanover (foaled 1959, USA) by Adios was imported into Australia where he became one of the most important countries, having more than 400 winners for his credit, including Gammalite and Rip Van Winkle.
On 13 February 1960 at Harold Park Caduceus of New Zealand defeated Apmat Australia by half-length in the Inter Dominion final before the 50,346 world record crowd. In America, Apmat beat their best player, Bye Bye Byrd (first harness horse to win over $ 500,000) with a head at 3:07 for a mile and a half.
In 1963 Cardigan Bay of New Zealand, one of the truly great Standardbred horses, won the Inter Dominion Pacing Championship final in Adelaide before going to America. There he became the world's ninth horse to win a million dollars, (the first eight being the Thoroughbreds Horse).
The dual gaited, Mount Eden (1966) won eight of the starting eleven including six consecutive races as three years (3yo), destroying a series of State, Australia and World Records in the process, including a 2: 04.0 world record for 3yo more from 1Ã,½ mile (1970). The owner then received an American offer of $ 300,000, at which time the highest price was paid for Australian horses - Standardbred or Thoroughbred. Mount Eden does not exist in America due to injury and retirement to study there but he is not well protected and returns to Western Australia.
Maori's Idol became the first Australian trotter to break two minutes with a time of 1: 59.3. on November 19, 1977 in the Moonee Valley. He is one of Australia's biggest trotters and he won 24 consecutive races before being placed in the 1978 Melbourne Inter-Dominion Final.
Pure Steel, in 1977, 1978 and 1980 became the only pioneer to win the A G Hunter Cup, three times and he also won the WA Benson & Hedges Cup four times. He is the first Standardbred to win A $ 500,000 in Australia.
San Simeon has a 29-race victory record from his first start as a two-year-old to his defeat at Interdominion 1981. He started his 29th race winning race by winning all 10 starts in two years. He was elected a two-year-old Australian champion in 1978/9 and the $ 50,162 he earned that season was Australia's new record for a horse of his age.
Popular Alm (1976-2000) is one of the fastest players produced by Australia, running an incredible time in many distances. The popular Alm set a world record for a time trial of miles in the Moonee Valley on May 13, 1983, running 1: 53,2. He ran 62 times for seven seasons with 49 wins, seven seconds, and three thirds for a wager income of $ 710,883
Gammalite won 16 Group one race and became Australia's first Australianbred horse to grow up to win a million dollars in 1983. He also won Grand Pacers Australasia Pacers during 1982, 1983 and 1984, and twice won Inter Intermediate Pacing Inter Final Inter.
Australian horseback riding with a winning race is Cane Smoke, by Smart Lobell (USA) from Hondo Marie. This kebiri has a total of 120 wins during the 1980s and early 1990s. He started about 400 times and recorded 34 wins in a single season. The second highest number of wins has been recorded by the legendary Paleface Adios with a total of 108 wins, followed by Village Kid with 93 wins and trotters, True Roman, nine wins with 73 wins and Scotch Notch with 67 wins and winners from two Inter Dominion trophy championships.
Sir Vancelot (NZ) we are the first horse to win three consecutive Inter Championsion Pacing, during 1997-98-99 and also many Grand Circuit and Group One.
Blacks A Fake won the 2006 Dominant Inter Championships, 2007, 2008 and 2010, making him the only four-time winner of the Australasia's top fringe race and the highest prizemoney-winning prize winner in the world.
Our Waikiki beach ended with 19 consecutive wins on July 5, 2016 at TABcorp Park Menangle when he was beaten by the Ideal Situation in the 1: 52,8 mileage.
Australia is one of the last racer harness countries and the Standardbred breed countries adopted Artificial Insemination (AI) as a means of legitimate horse reproduction.
EI Outbreak
Equine influenza (EI) was originally found in the Sydney metropolitan horse complex at the end of August 2007, and spread to many areas of New South Wales and southern Queensland, mainly through the pleasure horse industry. This immediately stopped all horse searches across the country, but soon races in those countries without EI cases resumed. The entire racing industry is under enormous pressure due to lack of racing for Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds.
Status based on harness racing synopsis in Australia
New South Wales
Harness racing in New South Wales is controlled by Harness Racing New South Wales (HRNSW). The main line and metropolitan headquarters of New South Wales used to be at Harold Park Paceway, located in Glebe in Sydney to sell for more than $ 150 million. This enables a new 1,400m art track in Menangle to be built. Other major TAB tracks in the state include Newcastle, Penrith, Bankstown, Bathurst, Wagga and Young. On December 17, 2010, the last race meeting was held at Harold Park Paceway with Karloo Mick winning the final event. The winning post sold for $ 10,000 to Ray Hadley with the result of the Lifeline. Koala King holds the record of most victories here, with his tally reaching 40.
Queensland
Queensland racing racing race in Queensland. The state's main metropolitan line is Albion Park Harness Racing Club in Brisbane. The club is also located at Redcliffe Harness Racing & amp; Sporting Club Inc. (UBET racing twice a week) and state racing in Marburg. The Gold Coast line closes at the end of 2013 to pave the way for the Commonwealth Games facility; The club is still in delay in 2016.
The Queensland horses dominated many feature races across the country in 2006/2007, including Be Good Johnny winning Miracle Mile Pace, Blacks A Fake winning the Victorian Cup, Inter Dominion, and M H Treuer Memorial.
South Australia
Harness racing in South Australia is controlled by Harness Racing South Australia (HRSA). The main line of the country is Globe Derby Park in Adelaide. The closed track TAB is also located in Gawler, Mount Gambier, Victor Harbor, Whyalla and Port Pirie.
Tasmania
Harness Racing Tasmania (HRT) is the race controlling body of harness in Tasmania. The country's main tracks are in Hobart and Launceston, with major meetings being held at dusk on Sunday. Harness racing is performed at the following Tasmanian clubs:
- Burnie Harness Racing Club
- Carrick Park Pacing Club
- Devonport Harness Racing Club
- Launceston Pacing Club - The Tote Racing Center (Mowbray)
- New Pacing Club Norfolk
- North Pacing Club
- Tasmanian Pacing Club - Tattersall Park (Elwick)
- St Marys Pacing Club
Victoria
Harness racing in Victoria is controlled by Harness Racing Victoria (HRV). The metropolitan line of the state is Tabcorp Park, Melton. Victoria's harness racing meetings are usually held seven days a week, with major provincial tracks including Cranbourne, Bendigo, Ballarat, Kilmore, Shepparton and Swan Hill. Vicbred, Australia's racing and breeding program with annual prize money and bonuses of $ 4.35 million and HRV's Free to Race policy designed to encourage more owners to the harness racing industry. In 2009, Harness Racing Victoria opened a new race complex at Melton, which incorporates 1,000-meter trails as well as facilities such as restaurants, gambling machines, hotel accommodation and conference facilities. The new Melton line has replaced the existing metropolitan path in the Moonee Valley.
Western Australia
Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) is a harness racer in Western Australia. Gloucester Park in Perth is the harness race base in Western Australia. TAB covered tracks are also located in Bunbury, Pinjarra and Northam.
See also
- List of Australian and New Zealand punting
- Harness racing
- Harness racing in New Zealand
References
External links
- Harness racing in Australia
- The Queensland Standardbred Association - Adoption Program and regular member days
- Utilize racing information
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