Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Alexandra Park is putting on a seven race card on Friday night, but there are only 46 horses accepted to run at it. The field sizes are 7 – 7 – 6 – 6 – 9 – 5 – 6, meaning that only one race at the meeting pays dividends down to third place. Cambridge on […]
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 […]
There is no better illustration of the parlous state of north island New Zealand harness racing than the fields for the Auckland Trotting club race meeting at Alexandra Park tonight. There are 10 races on the program but only 71 horses entered to run. Only 3 of the 10 races have enough horses in the […]
The Auckland Trotting Club are indeed buying a new property to build a replacement training centre for Franklin Park that it just sold off to pay its huge debts from the failed property development that was supposed to make the club rich into eternity from the sell off of surplus land at Alexandra Park (nobody […]
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 […]
As we have learned from the experiences over the ditch at Wagga and in Queensland, it takes at least two years to build a new harness racing track and training facility, so now that the Auckland Trotting Club has received the down payment from the Chinese property developer for its training complex at Franklin Park, […]
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 […]
A great article about the future of the trots in the North Island Capital, by Dr Barry Lichter The Auckland Trotting Club is still committed to setting up a new training centre despite revealing it’s likely to have only $15 million left after the sale of Franklin Park. The club’s annual report shows its debt […]
It would be lovely to believe that the Auckland Trotting Club really had made a profit of almost a million dollars for the year, but sadly it didn’t. EBITDA means earnings before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization. After those things were factored in the club actually lost $6.78 million. The club’s asset base dipped by […]
What you see in the picture is what Auckland Trotting Club president and wrist bound timepiece salesman Jamie ‘Watches’ Mackinnon told leading NZ race writer last year about the sale of the Franklin Park training centre at Pukekohe. A key provision in the sale deal was that the club would get a lease that would […]
