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Harness racing in Australia is conducted with Standardbred horses racing around a track while pulling a driver in a two-wheeled cart called a "sulky", "gig" or "bike". Standardbred racehorses compete in two gaits, pacing and trotting, and trotters may enter pacing events, but not vice versa. Pacers contest 80% to 90% of Australian harness races.
The marquee event of Australasian racing is the Inter Dominion Series, which includes a pacing series and a trotting series. The series is held yearly and rotated around the Australian State Controlling Bodies and once every four years the Inter Dominion Championships are held in New Zealand.
The newly reconstructed paceway reopened in 2008 as Tabcorp Park, Menangle, and is the fastest and largest harness racing circuit in Australia at 1400 metres, and is now the major harness racing venue in New South Wales. In 2011, the track saw the first sub 1:50 mile ever run in Australasia, with Smoken Up running 1:48.5 in the Len Smith Mile.
It is often referred to as the Inter Dominions or Interdoms for short as it generally encompasses two series: the Inter Dominion Pacing Championship for pacers and; the Inter Dominion Trotting Championship for trotters. The host of the series was rotated between the six harness racing states of Australia and the North and South Islands of
The track has a crushed granite surface and is 845.50 metres in circumference, with the length of the straights being 150.90 metres. [2] Races are run in an anti-clockwise direction. Race meetings are held at Globe Derby Park every Saturday night and Monday afternoon of the week, and Friday nights as well during winter. Races are held all year ...
As of 2006 the Western Australian Trotting Association have used Gloucester Park for more than 70 years, starting with the first Inter Dominion Championship held in February 1936. [1] Gloucester Park has also been used for Telstra Rally Australia. [2] Between 1977 and 1979 Gloucester Park was used as a venue for World Series Cricket matches. [3]
Harold Park Paceway was a harness racing track in Forest Lodge, New South Wales, in use from 1890 to 2010. It was a half-mile track (804.5 metres) but was just 739 metres in circumference until some changes in its later years. Races at the track were run over distances of 1,760 m, 2,160 m, 2,565 m and occasionally 2,965 m.
In 2015, the track hosted the Speed Energy Formula Off-Road truck racing series, popularly known as the Stadium Super Trucks, as a support event for the Ultimate Sprintcar Championship; [1] Sheldon Creed went on to win the first (and only) Formula Off-Road race held at Valvoline Raceway. [2]