Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Cambridge as we know it is dead. The track still remains, but after this week’s votes to hand it and everything else except the unsecured debts over to Harness Racing New Zealand, the club that for so many years is gone, or survives as nothing but an asset-less shell anyway. Soon when the unsecured creditors […]
Auckland harness racing can once again become a growth story – Brad Steele, CEO Auckland Trotting Club Former Harness Racing New Zealand CEO has kicked off the first month in his new job as CEO of the Auckland Trotting Club the same way he ended his last. By making fluffy, vacuous motherhood statements that promise the […]
The great elephant in the room about the proposed Cambridge takeover by HRNZ is this question: What happens then? Project Stamina – the nation wide NZ Racing Review ordered by the Racing Minister, and conducted by an external consultancy group – has made a number of recommendations that directly impact both on Cambridge and on […]
What is happening? HRNZ is asking its member clubs to vote to take over the Cambridge Raceway and all of its assets. Why is it happening? Cambridge (under its various guises) is essentially broke. It owes $3 million in debts. $1.9 million of the debt is owed to HRNZ itself. The other $1.1 million is […]
Tomorrow (Monday 31 August) Harness Racing New Zealand is asking its members – the trotting clubs across the country plus a couple of industry associations – to vote on a proposal to acquire all of the assets of Waikato Bay of Plenty Ltd, Cambridge Raceway Ltd, and Taylor Steet Ltd (collectively the Cambridge club) for […]
You just can’t please some people, especially the anti-greyhound brigade who seem to want to see the noble breed that has been mentioned in history since the days of Cleopatra disappear from the face of the earth. Dr Alison Vaughan, the senior scientific officer from the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty […]
Anyone who has an interest in New Zealand racing of either code should be interested in this superb episode of the Guerin Report in which NZ’s pre-eminent racing journalist and commentator Mick Guerin explains the financial and governance dilemmas facing both codes on the shaky islands side of the ditch, asks the questions of the […]
I was watching the NZ Trackside coverage of the trots using the VPN on Friday night, and was shocked to see popular presenter Greg O’Connor waxing lyrical in praise of the wholesale cuts to prizemoney. Trackside brought all the major races up on screen, and had all the rich slot races gone and two new […]
What I have reproduced below is a missive from Gary Chittick about the Project Stamina team report and recommendations for the reform of New Zealand racing. Like most things that Chittick writes, it is well worth a read. ————————————- It would appear I now have to continue my weekly Corner with the amount of rumblings at the […]
