Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The jungle drums just keep getting louder that the developer is not going to meet the 8 November deadline for payment of the final $90 million for the Franklin Training Centre. If they don’t, the Auckland Trotting Club is in a world of pain. Promises have been made to the club’s bankers. They’re owed $80 […]
Although no-one from the Auckland Trotting Club is coming out and admitting it to participants and the public, our inside mail is the Chinese property developer that has signed contracts to purchase the training center at Pukekohe won’t be paying for it in a lump sum later this year as we have all been lead […]
Hi Archie Couldn’t let the postings re Auckland Trotting Club go by without some sort of answer. For the record none of the shite written by Guerin is new – it has been common knowledge for at least 12 months that the club has been accruing interest at over $100k per week since the Gleneagles […]
With the entire future of the Auckland Trotting Club dependent on the finalisation of the sale of its land and training centre at Pukekohe and the payment of the balance of $90 million by the buyer, we thought we would do some research into who exactly that company or person is. This is what we […]
Australian developers have consent to build 193 new apartments at Auckland’s Alexandra Park, demolishing one of two grandstands to make way for the scheme to add even more units to the land off Greenlane West Rd. Lance Rosenberg, managing director of Sydney-headquartered financier Gleneagle Securities, said that the business had permission to develop Parkview on Cornwall […]
The Auckland Trotting Club was once a Premier Club. In 1990 the Kumeu area supplied a large portion of horses racing at Alexandra Park. There were a number of great horseman, trainers and drivers, based at the Kumeu track. Trials every Sunday would start early and finish late. The yearling parades in the new season […]
RELOCATION OF THE TRAINING TRACK This is looming on the horizon and once the court has completed the documentation the next phase of the sale and purchase agreement will be triggered which incorporates a lease back arrangement for the club whilst we look for an alternative block of land to relocate to. Already we have […]
There are two Group races on the card at Alexandra Park on New Year’s Eve, the time honoured Group 2 Franklin Cup for pacers at its 77th running and the 33rd running of the Group 3 Greenlane Cup for trotters. The races are worth $60 000 and $50 000 respectively, which is good money for […]
Isn’t it perfect to have Len ‘Bubbles’ Oughten in place as the 2nd-in-charge of a trot club that has just received an $8.5 million down payment on its only training facility, the one that it sold at 2020 prices on a pay when you can raise the cash in 2024 deal? This is he, who […]
Auckland harness racing’s woes continue with just 63 horses slated to start tonight at the metropolitan meeting at Alexandra Park, on a card where only 5 of the 8 races boast a field of eight or more runners. Two of the races have miserable fields of just 6 starters, with another having only 7 horses […]
