Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There is the usual scuttlebutt around concerning the health and wellbeing of the club’s finances. The one we can’t hide from is the interest expense on the debt whilst we await the settlement on the Pukekohe land. However, I am pleased to report that across our businesses, Gaming, TAB, and The Alex we are trading […]
At it’s most simple, we can see that more and more people will want to live a residential lifestyle nearer and nearer to our clearly non-residential activity. We are already aware that dust and noise from our racing activity is beginning to register as an impact on neighbours, in a way that has simply not […]
Cardigan Bay’s grave used to have a head, and a marble top plate that it sat on too. They are gone! Who stole them? Who has got them? Where is the champs head and plate? Don’t worry about his skeleton. We will deal with that next. First we want Cardy’s head back! Pictures courtesy of […]
The tip out of Auckland is the young gelding who made the incredible debut Punk Rocker is a certainty from the pole in the 9th race at Alexandra Park tonight. They say that the switch from the barns of Steve Reid and Simon McMullan over to the stables of Sheryl Wigg and the Invisible Men […]
The word out of Auckland is no. I find it hard to believe myself, but that’s what they say. Nothing about the ATC would surprise me. We will find out soon I guess. When the rain breaks.
Alexandra Park suffers damage The entire track surface of Alexandra Park will need to be replaced after being trashed by the Auckland floods, with one of their biggest meetings already moved to Cambridge. The torrential rain last Friday and subsequent downpours have washed part of the track away and left deep rutting around the 1000m […]
I suspect that it may be a while before we race at Alexandra Park again. This photo was taken yesterday. What a bloody mess.
What’s really going on with the ATC Building Housing the NZ Hall of Fame? The ATC building located just inside the main entrance to the Club at Alexandra Park and known as the “Noel Taylor New Zealand Trotting Hall of Fame” houses a collection of harness racing memorabilia. In accordance with a Deed created in […]
The debt-laden Auckland Trotting Club is almost down to selling the family silver but has struck opposition in its latest bid to demolish Australasia’s only harness racing museum to make way for parking. The ATC reduced its debt from $122million to $73million last month by finally completing its sale of a large chunk of land […]
Jamie Mackinnon runs a business in Auckland selling cheap watches to shops in Levin and the Mangere Town Centre under the banner of Olympic Swiss, even though most of them are actually made in Thailand and wholesaled through China, which makes you wonder about the Chinese developers who’ve got the rights to buy the Pukekohe […]
