Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
The scheming, scamming, stooging fools in charge of the Auckland Trotting Club have called a meeting to boot New Zealand’s best investigative racing writer, the award winning Dr Barry Lichter, out of the club. What’s the Doctor’s alleged crime? Writing the truth about last month’s Annual General Meeting. WTF? Isn’t that what racing writers are […]
Slides shown by Brooks (pictured above) detailed how the club could “extinguish all debt” after the Pukekohe land sells. He revealed the club, whose loans peaked at $370 million during the project, lost $75 million building apartment block A and $33 million on apartment block B, for a total loss of $108 million. Along with […]
The Directors of the Auckland Trotting Club don’t own it’s land, the members of the club do. It is there for the club, and for the club only. This is not a business, it is a 132 year-old not for profit association formed and operated for the purpose of promoting harness racing by conducting races […]
The word around the traps is that of 12.01am Saturday morning, the great, grand folly better known as the Auckland Trots Night TV experiment is – in a word – cactus. Dead, buried, cremated. Gone, gonzo, gone burger. Only a few short weeks ago a club (Auckland) teetering on the verge of bankruptcy paying for […]
