2010 Sky Racing Adelaide Cup

The Sky Racing Adelaide Cup is one of South Australia’s premier greyhound racing events. Taking place at Angle Park in Adelaide, the 515m race has total prizemoney & trophies of $152,000, which means it attracts the cream of Australian racing greyhounds.

We will update this page with box draws, heat results and final tips as they become available, so be sure to bookmark the page for future use!

To navigate through the page, use the links below to jump to the relevant section:

• 2010 Sky Channel Adelaide Cup General Information
• Field Forms for 2010 Adelaide Cup Heats
• Box Draws and Field Forms for the 2010 Adelaide Cup Semi-Finals
• A look at the 2010 Adelaide Cup Final Box Draw
• 2010 Adelaide Cup Final Field and Box Draw
• 2010 Adelaide Cup Final Results

2010 Sky Channel Adelaide Cup General Information

Sky Racing Adelaide Cup Race Dates:

Thursday 7th January: Sky Racing Adelaide Cup Heats (Up to 8) @ $3,250 each or The Advertiser Interstate Challenge @ $15,000

Thursday 14th January: Sky Racing Adelaide Cup Semi-Finals x 4 @ $6,500 each

Thursday 21st January: Sky Racing Adelaide Cup Final @ $85,000
Total Prizemoney & Trophies of $152,000

Nominations: Close on Thursday 31st December with GRSA at 9.00am. A special nomination form is available from GRSA or nominations can be made on-line, please specify Adelaide Cup.
TOP 16:
The Adelaide Cup Selection Panel will select the TOP 16 greyhounds from the nominations. They will be seeded through to the Adelaide Cup Semi-Finals on January 14th.
From the TOP 16, invitations will be issued to compete in the Interstate Challenge on January 7th (At least 4 SA greyhounds will be included in the TOP 16). Remaining greyhounds will be graded into race/s on the 7th January, unless withdrawn as per acceptance procedure below. Withdrawal by a TOP 16 greyhound at this point does not affect its Cup Semi-Final position.
The winner of the New Year Sprint, run on Thursday 31st December gains automatic selection in the TOP 16 and the Interstate Challenge.
Greyhounds that have won a Group Three race in South Australia or an Open Grade Group One race since July 1st 2009 are automatic inclusions in the Top 16.
Acceptance:
The TOP 16 list will be released on Thursday night (31st December). After release of this list, Trainers not wishing to race on January 7th, will have up until 9.00am on Monday 4th January to withdraw from this meeting. Any withdrawals after this time will be subject to normal scratching penalties.
Remaining greyhounds nominated (outside the Top 16) will compete in the Cup Heats, with 16 qualifying (under normal heat & final rules) for the Adelaide Cup Semi-Finals. The reserves for the semis will be the next eligible qualifiers. Should any of the TOP 16 be withdrawn prior to the box draw for the Cup Semi-Finals, it will be replaced by the next highest qualifier from the Heats.

Adelaide Cup Heats & Interstate Challenge Box Draw:
The Box Draw for the Sky Racing Adelaide Cup Heats & interstate challenge will take place at GRSA on Monday 4th January at approximately 1.30pm.

Adelaide Cup Semi-Finals:
The Semi-Finals of the Sky Racing Adelaide Cup will be run on Thursday 14th January. The first two from each semi will qualify for the Final, with the two fastest thirds declared as reserves (as per heat & final rules).
Adelaide Cup Selection Panel:
A Selection Panel will choose the TOP 16 and the greyhounds to be invited to the Interstate Challenge. This panel will consist of the GRSA Grader (Chairman), Operations Manager, Racing Officer and 2 members of the SA greyhound media.

Field Forms for 2010 Adelaide Cup Heats

Angle Park – 07 Jan 2010, Thursday

Adelaide Cup Heats

Box Draws and Field Forms for the 2010 Adelaide Cup Semi-Finals

Tomorrow night sees the running of the 2010 Group 1 Sky Racing Adelaide Cup semi-finals, with some of the best greyhounds in Australia competing for a spot in the Adelaide Cup final on the 21st of January.

To help punters make their selection, below we have listed the box draws for the races, and below that embedded the form fields for the semi-finals. The semi finals will run as race 5, 6, 7, and 8 on the night’s ticket.

2010 Adelaide Cup Semi Final Box Draws

Form Fields for the 2010 Adelaide Cup Semi-Finals

Sky Racing Semifinals Adelaide Cup

A look at the 2010 Adelaide Cup Final Box Draw

AdelaideNow’s Craig Cook has taken a look at the 2010 Adelaide Cup Final box draw, and after reading the article (originally published here) we thought it was well worth sharing with our readers. All in all, it’s clear that High Earner might have the chance to live up to his name, being clear favourite for the $85 000 final.

QUEENSLAND greyhound High Earner will start favourite for the Group 1 Adelaide Cup after drawing the prized box one in Thursday night’s rich final.

Trained by Dave and Christine Robartson at Churchable east of Ipswich, High Earner ran the fastest time of four semi-finals last week, posting 29.66sec for the 515m at Angle Park.

From the red box, the son of Collision will get every opportunity to win the $85,000 Adelaide Cup and live up to his name by exceeding $200,000 in career prizemoney. Fellow Queenslander Mr Metz looks the major danger after drawing box four from where he led all the way to win his semi-final.

Victorian Dyna Lachlan drew alongside High Earner in box two and will need to repeat his exceptional start in The Advertiser Interstate Challenge two weeks ago to threaten the northern invasion.

SA’s three runners could not have fared worse at the box draw.

Strictly Mambo, for Jan Jones, Ken Gill’s Where’s Diamond and Gavin Harris’ Springvale Dash drew the outside three boxes.

SA’s Greyhound of the Year awards at Angle Park last night was the venue for the box draw that will go a long way to determining the destiny of the 2010 Cup.

Drink Driver, trained by Rob Harnas at Lewiston, was declared the 2009 SA Greyhound of the Year.

The son of the 2005 Adelaide Cup winner Collide won three Greyhound of the Month awards in succession during 2009, from February to April.

Tafari Bale, for Lisa Rasmussen, was the Distance Greyhound of the Year and Paul Barry’s chaser Gold, who won $55,000 for the season, was the 2009 SA Bred winner.

So after that insightful look at the box draw, who will you be placing your money on?

2010 Adelaide Cup Final Field and Box Draw

2010 Adelaide Cup Final Results

Thursday night saw the running of the 2010 Adelaide Cup Final, which we’ve been covering on this site. Ultimately the night was a night of surprises, with pre-race favourite High Earner having a shocking run, with the Andrea Daily-trained Dyna Lachlan comfortably taking the race.

Below, we’ve embedded the results for the 2010 Adelaide Cup Final.

2010 Adelaide Cup Final Results: