The 12 Days of Xmas – The Countdown to the Wilful Destruction of Harness Racing History
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$100 Million Later, the Wicked Watch Man Makes His Move
DEC 7, 2022 The Auckland Trotting Club has served an eviction notice on the New Zealand Trotting Hall Of Fame. Club president Jamie MacKinnon yesterday notified the Hall Of Fame its tenancy agreement will end on March 31 and it must vacate by that date. The order comes just two weeks after MacKinnon was universally […]
A Dunn Deal
Doesn’t Dunnie look like a man you can trust? Guess who has been voted in as the Vice-President of the Auckland Trotting Club? Robert Dunn. The President Jamie MacKinnon’s personal trainer. Apparently not everyone on the board is happy about it. Most of the harness racing world isn’t either. Any questions about the integrity of […]
They’d Sell Your Grandmother Too This Pair
The men who sold the world I think they should go join another club, because they’re never going to be happy. Auckland Trotting Club president and cheap watch salesman Jamie MacKinnon’s view about members who take an interest in the affairs of their club, and ask simple questions about the disappearance of huge swathes of […]
Keep Your Hands Off Our Silver, Hall Of Fame Tells Auckland Trotting Club
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 […]
The World According to a Cheap Watch Salesman
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 […]
Well, Well, Well – Look Who Owns Runners in the Race From Which Copy That Was Cut
Merv Butterworth is the master of posing the polite understated question that screams RORT! This below is an extract from a report by Dr Barry Lichter published this morning on the ever-excellent Lincoln Farms website www.lincolnfarms.co.nz, which I highly recommend as a must read for trot fans. (Copy That’s owner) Merv Butterworth said he hopes […]
The Death of Democracy – Protect Freedom of Speech – Save Dr Barry Lichter!
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 […]
Dr Lichter Gives Us the Drum on the Dodgy Auckland Deal – And Archie Dissects It – Part 3 – I Said I Loved You But I Lied
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 […]
Dr Lichter Gives Us the Drum on the Dodgy Auckland Deal – And Archie Dissects It – Part 2 – More Self Interest Than a Bloke Whose Wife Asks Him If She’d Be Unfaithful if She Shagged Rihanna in a Threesome With Him as the Third Wheel
$100 million ‘enormous’ offer Property sub-committee member Mark Sumich said the $100 million offer was “enormous” in the current climate. “This guy has paid a hell of a lot of overs. I don’t necessarily trust this buyer but the offer is there,” said Sumich. “We had notices served on us (by the bank) and if […]