Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This Saturday night at Alexandra Park sees the running of the $50 000 Group 2 Franklin Cup. $50 000 is damn good money for a Kiwi trot race, and every owner wants to win a Group race. The problem is that in Auckland there are no horses left to race in them. The race has […]
STATEMENT FROM HRNZ – Funding Update Following the TAB’s recent decision to reduce funding to all three racing codes, the Harness Racing New Zealand Board has today decided its response to the proposed shortfall. Due to trading difficulties, the TAB will reduce funding for the remainder of the current season by a total of $15m, with […]
The Board of the Auckland Trotting Club have today announced that they have suspended the club membership of renowned NZ harness racing writer, lover of the sport, and earnest Hall of Fame supporter Barry Lichter. They did not name Barry as the member who has been suspended – that would take integrity and balls – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
