Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Many in New Zealand are asking themselves an awful question right now. What’s worse? A kiddy fiddler of someone who gives bicarbonate to a horse? The answer is self-evident. It’s the convicted sex offender. Why then is a formerly high-profile Kiwi harness racing participant who falls into that category allowed back at the track less […]
Auckland Trotting Club Chairman ‘Watches’ Mackinnon was quoted on the HRNZ website yesterday as saying that he hoped the hopes the national body will be able to help at least partially fund a new training centre to replace the one he and his merry band of stooges at the ATC are selling before the banks […]
There are some major things about the advertisement calling for expressions of interest to buy the Auckland Trotting Club’s training centre and land at Pukekohe. 1) The call for expressions of interest was not put out until 7 April This makes no sense. The ATC members are paying interest of around 6% on the $80 […]
7 Apr 2025 A strategically located development site in the rapidly growing location of Pukekohe is available for purchase and offers developers the opportunity to acquire a major landholding that has scope for residential, commercial, and industrial projects. The 35.2ha freehold site is spread across multiple titles and is situated at 240-242 Station Road and 27 […]
By Garrick Knight, published in The Harness Xpress, 8 May 2025 It’s crunch time for the Auckland Trotting Club (ATC) as it looks to lock in a deal to sell the Franklin Park Training Centre in Pukekohe in an effort to reduce debt. Appointed sales agents, Colliers International, called for expressions of interest by April 17 […]
The offers are in for the Pukekohe training center that the Auckland Trotting Club needs to pay the banks the $80 million they owe for the failed Alexandra Park property development. $67 million is the highest offer, payable over two years. $80m – $67m = a shortfall of $13 million, and no training track or […]
We witnessed something extraordinary at Alexandra Park on Friday night. The Great Northern Derby, which has been run over 2700m for the past half a century, was run over 2600m instead. It wasn’t supposed to – 2700m was the scheduled distance – but someone stuffed up. As the mobile reached the release point it just […]
The Auckland Trotting Club is more than $80 million in debt that it doesn’t have the money to pay. Its only way out is to sell the farm before the bank sells it for them. Club members were promised a holy grail, an unsolicited $100 million from a Chinese developer if the club sold the […]
It was 59 years ago that an ageing Cardigan Bay traveled to the US and took on the young superstar Bret Hanover, then regarded as the greatest pacer in the world. That view was reassessed after Cardy took him to town. Can you believe that the Auckland Trotting Club desecrated his grave to make room […]
Five new buyers are already in the mix, led by an Iwi development company By Garrick Knight, Harness Express Auckland Trotting Club officials have pulled the pin on its $100 million sale deal for the Franklin Park Trotting Centre in Pukekohe. After the buyers, Mount Hope Limited, failed to settle the deal by the agreed […]
