Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Our favorite Kiwi trot trainer Mark Jones needs just one more winner to make it to the 800 career wins mark. Will he ever get there is the question most are asking? Jones has been stranded on 700 for the past 5 weeks since he last trained a winner, and hasn’t even looked like getting […]
With the entire future of the Auckland Trotting Club dependent on the finalisation of the sale of its land and training centre at Pukekohe and the payment of the balance of $90 million by the buyer, we thought we would do some research into who exactly that company or person is. This is what we […]
The announcement by the NSW Racing Minister that he has ordered GWIC to conduct an inquiry into various matters concerning Greyhound Racing NSW while under just-resigned CEO Rob Macaulay’s leadership has gained widespread publicity in recent days, mainly for all the wrong reasons. Allegations 0f animal cruelty made by GRNSW’s former chief vet Alex Brittan […]
In scenes straight out of the movie Dumb and Dumber, apprentices Tahlia Fenton and Alisha Donald were both yesterday fined by Stewards at the Ipswich meeting for breaches of the rules relating to jockeys phone use. They should also have been charged with rank stupidity. Fenton’s offence involved using her mobile phone while in the […]
Jack Trainor has been outed for 10 months for the Chubby Checker positive swab to levamisole. Kerry Ann Morris should be feeling blessed. Her horse threw positive to levamisole twice. This one of Turbo’s only had one bad swab. The appeal if there is one will be very interesting indeed. So will his sentence for […]
John Hunt’s wife Carol, 61, and daughters Louise (top right) and Hannah were killed. Three women killed in a Hertfordshire home were the wife and two daughters of BBC racing commentator John Hunt, it has been confirmed. Carol Hunt, 61, Hannah Hunt, 28, and Louise Hunt, 25, were found seriously injured at a house in […]
The newly announced million dollar Carnival of Cups bonus for any horse that can win all five Cups run at Albury, Young, Tamworth, Parkes and Penrith – with half a million for a horse that wins four, or a quarter of a million for three – is a hugely exciting initative, particularly given that the […]
Michael Rodd’s ride on the leader Fifth Position in the 5th race at Eagle Farm yesterday was sheer lunacy, a misjudged steer of such magnitude by the senior rider that he should have been given time. The times say it all. Rodd took Fifth Position through the first 1200m of this BM78 class 1800m race […]
An article about the parlous finances of the Auckland Trotting Club written by Michael Guerin and published on harnesslink yesterday may be more skilfully written than ours, but it merely reflects what we have been telling you and warning about in the articles below for the past three years. https://peterprofit.com/category/auckland-trotting-club/ The ATC Directors whose grandiose […]
The Club is exposed to interest rate risk on bank borrowings for the funding of developments in progress, all borrowings are held on floating rates of interest and will be reviewed regularly for options to fix interest rates to minimise exposure to market movements. Interest capitalised into inventory under construction is subject to a change […]
