Enjoy a night out in The Laurels Function Centre as Sale Turf Club presents this wonderful show.  Only $45.00 for members and $50.00 for non-members, this includes both Dinner and the Show. 

Tables are of 10, but don’t worry if you can’t make up the numbers, we’ll put you together with some new friends as you dance the night away.
Bookings are mandatory to the Club on 5144 2962.

in conjunction with a raceday.  The Expo commences at 9am through to 3pm and entry to the Expo and Racemeeting will be a gold coin donation that will be donated to Central Gippsland Hospital Sale.

A vast range of catergories will be on offer, Exhibition spaces are available by contacting the club on 5144 2962.

Sale Trainer – Kevin Milham has entered the very talented Miss Matari and Ken Fythe from Stony Creek has nominated the evergreen Rockpecker.  Whilst all nominations are not yet in, we will no doubt have a very strong contingent of entries as per usual.

 Held on the 26th January, we incorporate a Kids Day out with heaps of free children’s activities hosted by Camp Australia.  We also have our Sale Turf Club Jumping Castle in action, as well as our playground.

1st race is held at 1:15pm, but get here early as we will be conducting a Flag Raising Ceremony at 12:30pm.

The Big Screen will be here, the Laurels room will be open to the general public, so no matter what the weather conditions you will always have a comfortable day at the races.

Following closely after Australia Day, we see the running of the Sale Quality meeting.  This meeting features the $75,000 GBG Concrete & Construction Sale Quality over 1200m, this races always attracts a high quality field.  Come and picnic on our spacious lawns and enjoy a Great Day out.

With the sun shining down, a magnificient spring day was had with what can only be described as 1st class racing.  The Cup had a bit more drama than we usually like, with last years winner Eraset scratched at the barriers after dislodging his jockey and doing a lap of the track on his own.  No doubt Danny O’Brien would be disappointed as Eraset was touted to make it Back-to-Back cups.  Top weight Pinnacles was considered one of the “class” horses of the field and this panned out so with a magnifient ride by Steven Arnold ensuring the horse had a dream run.  Trainer Rick Hore-Lacy will now set the horse the mighty task of competing in the Group 1 Emirates Stakes race on the last day of the Flemington Spring Carnival, we wish them all the best and again hope that Sale form proves to be a fantastic guide.

One of the stories of the day was the Joan Pracey trained Upstacker who duly won the $100,000 Turbull Toyota Inglis Race.  Making the long journey from their home track of Hawksbury, Upstacker arrived on the Wednesday prior to Cup day and was hosted on track by local trainers Cliff & Michelle Murray.  Thankfully we then had some cooler days which enabled Upstacker to recover from the journey.  Reports that made this office on Thursday morning after morning track work was that Upstacker was a bit green with the Victorian way of going, luckily he is a very fast learner and on the day railed the Victorian way of going like a greyhound to win the race and a very popular win it was, with Joan accorded all the congratulations usually reserved for a local.  Joan is now headed back north, no doubt with plans to return next year – possibly with a runner in the Sale Cup this time. 

A very well behaved and very well dressed crowd of over 5,000 was in attendance, with police happy with the behaviour and atmosphere of the event.  Fashions on the Field again proved to be popular with over 60 ladies entering.  We hope that all those that attended had a “Great Day Out” and we look forward to seeing everyone at ‘Greenwattle Racecourse – Sale” in the near future.

Racing Victoria’s Super VOBIS incentive scheme launched an exclusive reward for owners with horses contesting the $100,000 Inglis Trophy race at Sale on Cup day.  Super VOBIS will provide a $50,000 Inglis eyarling sales voucher to the winning owners of the Inglis Trophy race.  The vouchers awarded by Suepr VOBIS can be redeemed by purchasing a Suepr VO”BIS qualified yearing at next year’s Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale or Inglis Melbourne Autumn Yearling Sale.

Inglis, Australia’s leading thoroughbred auctioneers, will provide free entry to the $2.6m Inglis Race Series to the yearling purchased with the Super VOBIS voucher.

“Racing Victoria is delighted to work with Inglis to promote valuable returns to owners through the Super V”OBIS and Inglis Race Series schemes and support racehorse ownership of Victorian bred hroses sold at the Premier and Autumn Sales which are world class” said Richard Andrews Racing Victoria Owners and Breeders Manager.

For a low $90, Ladies can enjoy a delicous 3 course luncheon, beverages, giveaways, fashions and of course fantastic company in the Laurels.  Seats are still available, so call the club on 5144 2962 and reserve a seat/table now.

Belgietto raced ten times last season for four wins and three placings.

Registering two wins at Flemington last December, the five-year-old son of Bel Esprit finished a close-up third behind rank outsider Cybercyn in the Listed CS Hayes Stakes (1600m) at Morphettville in the autumn.

In order to be eligible for the award, the respective horse must be training on one of five Gippsland tracks and performances are based on anywhere in Australasia only.

Other nominees for the award included the Gelagotis-trained pair of Mourinho and Module, the Sharyn Trolove-trained God Help Her, John Pascoe-trained Yasey San, Cliff Murray-trained Haka Brave and Andrew Murray-trained Willysfilly.

Willysfilly claimed the award for Best Performed Horse on Gippsland tracks, beating Belgietto, Gold Help Her, Haka Brave and the Cliff Murray-trained Skybee.

Other award winners on the night are listed below:

Leading Trainer In Gippsland: Robbie Griffiths
Leading Jockey In Gippsland: Brian Park
Leading Apprentice Jockey In Gippsland: Jake Noonan

The Gippsland Racing Awards will be held on Saturday August 13 at the Sale Turf Club function room – The Laurels.  Categories of awards are:

Gippsland Horse of the Year -   Criteria: Horse must be trained in Gippsland on one of the 5 Gippsland tracks. 
Nominees are:

• BELGIETTO trained by Peter Gelagotis
• MOURINHO trained by Peter Gelagotis
• MODULE trained by Peter Gelagotis
• WILLYSFILLY trained by Andrew Murray
• GOD HELP HER trained by Sharyn Trolove
• YASEY SAN trained by John Pascoe
• HAKA BRAVE trained by Cliff Murray

Best Performed Horse on Gippsland Tracks: Criteria: Horse must be trained in Gippsland and only results on Gippsland tracks taken into account.
Nominees are:

• BELGIETTO trained by Peter Gelagotis
• WILLYSFILLY trained by Andrew Murray
• GOD HELP HER trained by Sharyn Trolove
• HAKA BRAVE trained by Cliff Murray
• SKYBEE trained by Cliff Murray

Leading Trainer in Gippsland – Most wins accumulated on the 5 Gippsland Tracks
Leading Gippsland Based Trainer – Most wins accumlated anywhere.
Leading Jockey in Gippsland – Most wins accumulated on the 5 Gippsland Tracks
Leading Apprentice Jockey in Gippsland – Most wins accumulated on the 5 Gippsland Tracks

All welcome to attend – Bookings can be made at the Sale Turf Club – 5144 2962.

Following Maffra Day, racing resumes at Greenwattle Racecourse on Thursday June 30th.