Racing Office

Introduction

The Racing Office is responsible for the tasks listed below for the Harness and Greyhound Racing Industries.

Racing Office staff are responsible for managing the production and distribution of race fields and form guides for over 240 meetings each year, as well as processing and distributing the results of those and over 80 trial meetings.

The following is a list of services provided by the Racing Office separated by race code.

Harness Racing

• Handicapping of harness horses
• Receive and process all race and trial nominations
• Conduct eligibility checks
• All field selection and barrier draws
• Produce and distribute race fields and form guides
• Receive and distribute scratching information
• Process all race and trial results, stable returns, gear notifications, training notifications, nomination forms, clearances and claiming authorities.

Greyhound Racing

• Grading of greyhounds
• Receive and process all race qualifying trial nominations
• Conduct eligibility checks
• All field selection and box draws
• Produce and distribute race fields
• Receive and distribute scratching information
• Process all race and trial results, training notification of named greyhounds, nomination forms and any other race related paperwork