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TASMANIAN THOROUGHBRED RACING CALENDAR AUGUST - NOVEMBER 2016 CUPS DOUBLE TO UP CUPS STORY PAGE 4 Tasracing Luxbet Park Hobart 6 Goodwood Rd Glenorchy TAS 7010 Telephone (03) 6212 9333 Members of the Board Dean Cooper Des Gleeson Danny McCarthy Joel Wallace Tania Price Chief Executive Officer Eliot Forbes Chief Financial Officer Mark Tarring Racing Manager David Manshanden Sales & Marketing Manager Sam Steven Thoroughbred Code Development Manager Simon Stout Advertising & Design Ronnell Zanotti (03) 6212 9312 Editorial Peter Staples (03) 6212 9318 Photography Peter Staples (03) 6212 9318 Ronnell Zanotti (03) 6212 9312 Blayne Hudson (03) 6212 9324 External Contributers Editorial Brad Cole, The Advocate Photography Greg Irvine, Magic Millions Sharon Lee Chapman, Fast Track Photography Quentin J Lang, quentinjlang.com Amelia Fry, Fry Photography Cover Photo: Up Cups, winner of both the 2016 Betfair Hobart Cup and the 2016 Betfair Launceston Cup. Image courtesy of Greg Irvine, Magic Millions. Story page 4 | 1 table of contents Tasracing O the s e Track s S r u ho pp e o ac rti r ng ired Tasmanian ret 04 08 10 14 20 24 11 12 13 44 46 48 features programme information racing information industry information contact lists section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 04-07 Cups Double to Up Cups 26-27 Programme Notes 42 Track Rating Scale 55 Office of Racing 60-62 Licenced Persons Integrity Notifications Contact Details 08-13 Feature Race Winners 28 Feature Race Schedule 44-49 At the Track • Trainers • Magic Millions 2YO Classic • Luxbet Park Hobart 55-56 Changes to 28 Feature Race Conditions Licencing & General • Farriers • The Gold Sovereign • Luxbet Racing Centre Information • The Vamos Stakes 30-31 Programme Grid Launceston • Jockeys • Luxbet All Weather 56-57 Steriline Racing/ • Trial Riders • The Tasmanian Oaks 32-40 Programme Detail Devonport ARMA Scholarship • Magic Millions 3YO Classic 40 Future Race Dates • The George Adams Plate 50 Tasracing Thoroughbred 58 Tasmanian Local Official Contacts (Back Cover) 41 Barrier Trials & Grass Gallop Schedule of Fees Rule Updates 14-16 Palentino Continues the 'Bred • Tasracing Dates in Tasmania' Success Story 51 tasBonus Scheme 58 Racing Australia Updates • Office of Racing Integrity • Bonus Payment Table 20-22 Sydeston Inducted into The • Tasmanian Racing Clubs Australian Racing Hall of Fame • Upcoming tasBonus Double • Racing Victoria Up Sale Voucher Races 24-25 OTT - Off The Track Gertie Nijborg and Campari 52 RBH Template Soda 53 Set Weights Scale Track Safety Limits - refer relevant ‘At the Track’ pages 44-49 2 | TASMANIAN THOROUGHBRED RACING CALENDAR CONTENTS | 3 TASMANIAN FEATURE RACE GALLERY LAUNCESTON CUP WINNER - UP CUPS LAUNCESTON CUP 5YO Chestnut Gelding by HELIKE (USA) from RISING ART CUPS DOUBLE Trained by David Brunton Jockey David Pires TO UP CUPS 2ND ARIANNE Hall of Fame trainer David Brunton is no stranger to winning feature races but to do it with Trainer Pat Hyland Jockey James Winks a horse that is bush-bred and was close to being retired to a life as a pony club horse is an amazing feat. 3RD SCHOCKERMOHLE Trainer Brett Scott Jockey Luke Currie WHEN locally-bred gelding Up Cups was sent to Longford on enough in reserve to stave off a Up Cups produced his most New Year’s Day 2015 to contest a late bid by Victorian mare Arianne 4TH GLADSTONE courageous performance to win modest lower class race in which to score by a half neck with another the $200,000 Group 3 Betfair he was expected to lead but he Victorian Schockemohle almost Trainer Scott Brunton Exchange Launceston Cup on a missed the start by three lengths two lengths away third. Jockey Anthony Darmanin heavy track in February, it was a and was still last turning for home. red letter day for his trainer David He stormed home to win and “Every local jockey wants to win Brunton. that’s when his racing life changed one of the major cups and this forever. horse gave me both in the space of The victory not only etched the two weeks,” Pires said. locally-bred gelding’s name in the “All of a sudden we worked out how record books as one of an elite to ride him and his form improved Up Cups was bred by the horse’s group to have won the Hobart dramatically. We gave him a good owners Rick and Tina Polley and and Launceston Cups in the same spell and this season he has been they were thrilled with the result. season but it gave him a record truly magnificent", Brunton said. “Who would have thought a year that had not been completed in the ago that this horse would be taking modern era. Up Cups was a big drifter in betting easing from $4.50 to start at $8.10 out the Hobart-Launceston Cup There are two traditional lead-up on Launceston Cup day, most double,” Polley said. Others might races to the Hobart Cup and they likely because of the constant rain have thought this horse was at the are the Jockey Club Cup and the that turned the track rating from a end of his game 12 months ago but weight-for-age Summer Cup and Good 4 to a Heavy 8 by cup start I always had faith in him.” Up Cups won them both. time. Up Cups ventured to South Winning both major cups also “We weren’t worried about the Australia to contest the Adelaide earned for his connections the rain because we knew he could Cup over 3200 metres in March UBET Cups Double Bonus of handle rain-affected ground but it and while he was unable to find $100,000 to be shared equally was a wide barrier. David (Pires) a spot in the placings he was still between the trainer and owner. managed to get him into a great game in defeat. spot early and the horse did the Travel arrangements to Adelaide Hall of Fame trainer David Brunton rest,” Brunton said. is no stranger to winning feature were far from ideal after the plane races but to do it with a horse that Up Cups was able to settle better that was to take him to South is bush-bred and was close to than midfield and one-off the rails Australia was cancelled at the last being retired to a life as a pony club with cover while Ollie’s Gold set minute. horse is an amazing feat. the pace with the well-backed “It might have been a different story Gladstone on the heels of the had everything gone to plan with “This horse is an absolute ripper leader. and who would have thought that the travel arrangements but he we were close to giving him away Gladstone, prepared by David’s ran a good race all the same and when he’d lost all form,” Brunton son Scott Brunton, hit the front he arrived home safe and sound Up Cups with jockey David Pires after winning the 2016 Launceston Cup said. at the top of the home straight but so that’s the main thing,” Brunton Photo courtesy of Greg Irvine, Magic Millions Up Cups powered home and had said. 4 | TASMANIAN THOROUGHBRED RACING CALENDAR FEATURES | 5 "Every local jockey wants to win one of the major cups and this horse gave me both in the space of two weeks." 2015 Tasmanian Jockey Premiership winner David Pires ABOUT 14 years ago David Pires same season so she was definitely a "Winning the premiership was great was wondering if he had made the big stepping stone in my career." and there's no doubt the opportunity right choice to pursue a career as to team up with Scott and David a jockey in Victoria, but when he Despite his success Pires took Brunton has been the best career time out to reassess his career received an invitation from Longford move since I've been in Tasmania. I so he moved back to Melbourne trainer Ian Hay to try his luck in pretty much call myself a Tasmanian where he spent about six months Tasmania it changed his life. now because this state has given me contemplating his future. all I have ever wanted from racing, When he arrived at Hay's stables he especially this season." carried with him a nothing-to-lose "I had reached a stage in my life David Pires attitude that eventually established where I wasn't sure what I wanted to him as one of the state's best riders. do beyond 30. I'd been riding since I was 15 and there's no doubt I was "I was 20 and almost ready to pull the struggling with the lifestyle that is very pin when Ian Hay invited me to Tassie taxing on your personal life." so I had my indentures transferred to him and that's where my riding career Pires ended up in Queensland but really took off," he said. when equine influenza arrived and shut down racing in that state in "My association with his former great 2007, he moved back to Tasmania. mare Dragila opened the doors for me to make it in Tasmania. Dragila Last season Pires completed another won the Newmarket, Tattersall's milestone in his career by winning his Stakes and Bow Mistress in the first jockeys’ premiership by booting home 74 winners. Elated trainer David Brunton with jockey David Pires after winning the 2016 Betfair Launceston Cup. 6 | TASMANIAN THOROUGHBRED RACING CALENDAR Photo courtesy of Greg Irvine, Magic Millions FEATURES | 7 GALLERY RACE FEATURE TASMANIAN FEATURE RACE GALLERY HOT DIPPED with Ibrahim Gundogdu winning the Magic Millions 2YO Classic Photograph by Sharon Lee Chapman, Fast Track Photography HOT DIPPED 2YO Bay Filly by WRITTEN TYCOON from GALVANIZED MAGIC MILLIONS 2YO GOLD SOVEREIGN Trainer Brendan McShane Jockey Ibrahim Gundogdu Winner of the MAGIC MILLIONS 2YO CLASSIC Winner of the GOLD SOVEREIGN ONE of the highlights of the Betfair The Gold Sovereign win was so emphatic opportunity to be tested across the water,” Hot Dipped was bred by Tasbreeders Exchange Tasmanian Summer Racing that rider Bulent Muhcu had time to sit up McShane said.

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