Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Auckland Trotting Club members who voted last night to sell the Franklin Park training centre were told it was highly unlikely the $100 million price would be spoiled by unfavourable rezoning. In pressing home how crucial it was for the club to sell the land, before the bank did, lawyer Graham Harford said the club […]
Subject Commissioner appointment for the Auckland Trotting Club I request that due to a decade of mismanagement at the Auckland Trotting Club that a Commissioner be immediately appointed. Introduction The ATC has had a rich 130-year history, which saw the Club rise to pre-eminence in New Zealand racing. The Club was debt free, has outstanding […]
I haven’t had the opportunity to read the Auckland Trotting Club (ATC) annual report as yet, mainly because I haven’t got a copy to read. So I will suspend all doubt about the veracity to the media reports until such as time as I get one, but in the interim may I ask the following: […]
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 […]
Alexandra Park 1973. Once were warriors, now just holes in the ground and towers in the sky. “I think we’re doomed in Auckland. Harness racing could be extinct in the north in five years. We’ve been on a slippery slope for so long and breeders have been treated like toe-rags for years. “It’s amazed me […]
You must leave, now take what you need You think will last But whatever you wish to keep You better grab it fast The highway is for gamblers Better use your sense Take what you have gathered From coincidence Leave your stepping stones behind There’s something that calls for you Forget the debt you’ve left […]
The Auckland Trotting Club (ATC) has sold the farm to fund its failed dreams of transforming itself from a racing association into a property developer. Every single blade of Alexandra Park, including the track, has been mortgaged. There are two mortgages held over AP. The ANZ bank holds one for $500 million. Westpac hold the […]
