Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Auckland Trotting Club is marketing the sport dynamically. It is spending bucket loads on advertising with SENZ, the Kiwi’s newest sports radio station. Club Chairman Jamie ‘Watches’ MacKinnon is doing paid breakfast radio interviews on the station’s morning show (paid for by the ATC, not SENZ). SENZ are going to do a live broadcast […]
Dr Barry Lichter DOES NOT believe that he has the right to exhume Cardigan Bay’s remains to transfer elsewhere. That is just another one of Watch’s lies. What Dr Lichter believes is that New Zealand’s greatest ever pacer – one of the world’s best in history – should not have his headstone knocked down so […]
There is the usual scuttlebutt around concerning the health and wellbeing of the club’s finances. The one we can’t hide from is the interest expense on the debt whilst we await the settlement on the Pukekohe land. However, I am pleased to report that across our businesses, Gaming, TAB, and The Alex we are trading […]
At it’s most simple, we can see that more and more people will want to live a residential lifestyle nearer and nearer to our clearly non-residential activity. We are already aware that dust and noise from our racing activity is beginning to register as an impact on neighbours, in a way that has simply not […]
Merv Dean will long be remembered as the man who bought the great Cardigan Bay from the Todd brothers of Mataura. But there was much more to Merv than just that. Merv’s parents ran tobacconists in Hamilton, and in his youth Merv assisted his uncle, Henry Lee, one of New Zealand’s most notorious bookmakers. Lee […]
What is the name of the case? Racing Integrity Board & Harness Racing New Zealand v REDACTED Who is REDACTED? 8 harness racing industry participants or former participants. Their identities are protected by a suppression order issued by the Supreme Court. 6 of the people with name suppression are licensed or were formerly licensed. 5 […]
Copy That and Self Assured first met not in a race, but on a card, at Alexandra Park on 14 December 2019. They won separate races over 2200m, with Copy That running 1.6 seconds faster in his. It was a portent of things to come. The pair’s first actual race contest was in the 2020 Ashburton […]
It seems that Mark Jones might have been doing a bit more than working his horses when he was spotted recently jogging up pacers on the sand at Woodend Beach, which it has to be said is some distance north east of his base at Burnham. Either that or Jones is a miracle worker, judging […]
The tip out of Auckland is the young gelding who made the incredible debut Punk Rocker is a certainty from the pole in the 9th race at Alexandra Park tonight. They say that the switch from the barns of Steve Reid and Simon McMullan over to the stables of Sheryl Wigg and the Invisible Men […]
A lack of the early fire predicted against favourite Copy That was the undoing of the All Stars challenge. “He’s a great horse but we were probably hoping from where we were that he would have had a tougher time early which would obviously have given us a better chance. Once he had that fairly […]
