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FFS - you deliberately left the other clause out which is specifically aligned to the objectives of the Club.  All other clauses are tested against those objectives. Geez spin around if you will.  One minute you are saying it should be returned to the community that built it now you are saying stuff history it is what the latest community wants!  When the assets were built up a long time before this latest generation came along!!   The realised assets should have gone to Kumara to further racing on the West Coast.  Not sold to developers to to reduce the rates of ratepayers of the Westland District Council. But just keep on perpetuating the poster child myth that the Westland Racing Club gave the finger to NZTR!  

Can't you read? The one I quote clearly says they would seek NZTR approval in accord with the one you cite. They have invested in Kumara btw. Loaned them money and sponsored races there and the other West Coast clubs. Unfortunately, times change and the 150 year old agenda you are promoting became unviable and unnecessary in the eyes of today's members.

So the 150+ year paramount objective of the Club is over ridden with no consideration to those members who developed the assets to pursue their chosen sport of racing. I think you are deliberating obfuscating the point to suit an ill advised agenda.  Racing AND the people of Westland could have benefited by the Club investing in Kumara which is officially in the District of Westland.   You also ignore the clause immediately above the one you quote: In the event of the Club being wound-up or put into liquidation in accordance with (a) above, the property and surplus assets of the Club after payment of the Club's liabilities and the expenses of the winding-up must be disposed of in accordance with section 27 of the Racing Act, for racing, public, charitable, or other purposes in the manner that the Club, with the approval of NZTR, determines.  

I think you miss the point. Once members resolved to not continue to pursue the object of racing at Hokitika, dispose of surplus assets, and dissolve the club, the original objectives were no longer. The constitution still said that in the event of dissolution the club would seek NZTR approval to dispose of surplus assets "for the benefit of the people of Westland", NOT for the benefit of racing.

Mrs. John Magnier, Derrick Smith, and Michael B. Tabor's Plutarch (Into Mischief) has been ruled out of consideration for the GI Kentucky Derby, according to an updated Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard sent by Churchill Downs Wednesday. Trainer Bob Baffert confirmed to Daily Racing Form the colt emerged from his win in the GIII Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita Feb. 7 with body soreness and will remain in light training. Plutarch, a son of 2015 champion 3-year-old filly and 2017 $6-million Keeneland-topping mare Stellar Wind (Curlin), has not been off the board in six starts, including in the GI American Pharoah Stakes and the GIII Del Mar Juvenile Turf Stakes at two. The post Plutarch Exits Derby Trail with Body Soreness appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

For a Green Bay Packers fan like Paul Farr, it was hard to watch his team squander an 18-point lead and lose to the Chicago Bears in the NFL playoffs. A month later, on the frozen tundra of Aqueduct Racetrack, he suffered another heartbreaking loss.View the full article

English football icon Harry Redknapp said that his late grandmother, the inspiration for his love of horse racing, “wouldn’t believe” he had a horse that is “running in the [Cheltenham] Gold Cup”. Redknapp owns The Jukebox Man, who is vying to be the favourite for the race that is regarded as the blue riband of jumps racing and the climax to the Cheltenham Festival on March 13. “It would be a dream wouldn’t it,” Redknapp said of winning it. “I love my racing. Football, obviously, has been my...View the full article

By Dave Di Somma, Harness New Desk   Hawera trainer Willie Fleming can’t remember the last time he had such a short-priced favourite at the races. At Palmerston North today he lines up well-performed maiden Run Blaze Run in the Manawatu ITM Mobile Pace. After being placed second in his last four starts the Betterthancheddar five-year-old is currently at $1.55 to finally break through. “He’s overdue really isn’t he?” laughs Fleming. “You’d like to think today is the day but racing’s racing and anything can happen.”  To be driven by Jay Abernethy, Run Blaze Run has drawn handily at four. “He has been improving all the time and is starting to work things out.” Run Blaze Run will be one of two “Run” horses at Manawatu this evening. Fleming will also back up his seven-race winner Run Mason Run in Race 4, the Manawatu Knitting Mills Ltd Mobile Pace, after a fifth placing on Tuesday. “He’s drawn better (2) and can be at the pointy end where he likes it,” says Fleming. He’s currently at $14 in the market with the Michael House-trained Goorambat Art, who’s drawn the ace, the $2.05 favourite. Both the “Run” horses are out of the Flemings’ own broodmare American Cha Cha. She has also produced Run Lola Run. The seven-year-old has yet to make it to the races “but she has just qualified”. Fleming worked her this morning ahead of the two hour trip to Palmerston North, hopeful he can snare his first training success for the year. “When ‘Mason’ won at Cambridge (December 18,2025) he went out favourite and the punters were right,” says Fleming, “let’s hope they are right again.” Fleming won’t have to wait long to find out, Run Blaze Run is in the first race starting at 5pm. To see the field click here    View the full article

Waikato Thoroughbred Racing (WTR) have renewed their partnership with Wexford Stables for this year’s $4 million NZB Kiwi (1500m), with the Club selecting L’Aigle Noir (NZ) (Ribchester) as their representative. The familiar combination contested last year’s inaugural running of The NZB Kiwi with Sethito (NZ) (Super Seth), who finished sixth, and they are looking to improve on that result when the Southern Hemisphere’s richest three-year-old race is run on Champions Day at Ellerslie Racecourse on March 7. A deal was brokered shortly after L’Aigle Noir’s luckless fourth placing in last Saturday’s $150,000 Group Three Eagle Technology Uncle Remus Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie, and WTR Chief Executive Andrew Castles was pleased to secure the gelding just a fortnight out from the rich feature. “We are thrilled to link with Wexford Stables again, and Mark Chitty and his ownership team,” Castles said.  “I connected with Lance very quickly after the running of the Uncle Remus and we are delighted that they chose us as their partner for The NZB Kiwi.” Bred by Anne Marie de Spa and Charles Hall, L’Aigle Noir is by Haunui Farm’s Group One-producing shuttle stallion Ribchester and out of stakes performer Silhouette Noire (Dane Shadow). He is raced by the couple in partnership with Haunui Farm principal Mark Chitty. After one start as a juvenile, the gelding has built a solid record at three, winning first-up over 1230m at Arawa Park in November before placing in the $120,000 Group Three Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) at Pukekohe in December. He later finished seventh in the $250,000 Group Three Cambridge Stud Almanzor Trophy (1200m) on TAB Karaka Millions night before producing an eye-catching effort in the Uncle Remus Stakes last weekend, which cemented WTR’s decision to select the gelding.  “We are thrilled to pick him up late in the piece,” Castles said. “I thought his run on Saturday, outside of the winner, was as good as any in the race and he probably should have run second with a clear run. “I went and saw him at Wexford Stables and he is an absolutely gorgeous example of the Thoroughbred, he is a cracking type. If he runs up to that type then he is more than a genuine top-five chance.” WTR will host a members’ function at Te Rapa Racecourse next Wednesday prior to the running of the big dance three days later. “We have got a members’ function next Wednesday night, very similar to the one we held last year,” Castles said. “We’ll have the connections in attendance, and our members and supporters are invited to join us as we preview The NZB Kiwi.” Lance O’Sullivan, who trains L’Aigle Noir in partnership with Andrew Scott, was pleased to renew the association with WTR, and he is hoping they are blessed with better fortune in this year’s edition. “He ran really well last Saturday,” O’Sullivan said. “He got held up at a pretty crucial part of the race and he would have finished a lot closer. He is a nice horse and a very good type. “They (WTR) had no luck in the race last year (with Sethito), so hopefully this year we get a bit of good luck. We are delighted to be partnering with them once again.” View the full article