auckland

[the galah]

the first to report anything on the auckland club,is peter profit as usual.

whille i can only read his headlines,it suggests good news for auckland and pukekohe.

Nothing in any of the nz media so far..

peter profit also reporting a well known australian trainer coming to auckland.

lets hope mr profits story is accurate,just it would be nice to know some detail if anyone has it who went to their meeting?

[TAB For Ever]

1 hour ago, the galah said:

the first to report anything on the auckland club,is peter profit as usual.

whille i can only read his headlines,it suggests good news for auckland and pukekohe.

Nothing in any of the nz media so far..

peter profit also reporting a well known australian trainer coming to auckland.

lets hope mr profits story is accurate,just it would be nice to know some detail if anyone has it who went to their meeting?

Sounds like this peter character knows someone very close to the action ! 

But you report nothing he has reported , maybe its too positive and doesn't suit ?

My connections are barely home from the meeting , so in view of this and the fact that media is excluded from meeting it no surprise nothing in 'media' !

The meeting began at 6.03pm Tuesday [ last night].....all the positive news and future plans took well over 2 hours , then the free meal and open bar took part as excited club members and chatted about the encouraging news coming out of the Club and Harness Industry. A quiet celebration overlooking the ribbon of light in the City of Sails , all locked up and nowhere to go other than back to the dessert table and Bar !

Onwards and upwards , 12 races on Friday into Group racing and Golden Gait [$million night] into New years eve Feature.

The ATC is back......form is temporary but class is permanent !

[mikeynz]

39 minutes ago, TAB For Ever said:

Sounds like this peter character knows someone very close to the action ! 

But you report nothing he has reported , maybe its too positive and doesn't suit ?

My connections are barely home from the meeting , so in view of this and the fact that media is excluded from meeting it no surprise nothing in 'media' !

The meeting began at 6.03pm Tuesday [ last night].....all the positive news and future plans took well over 2 hours , then the free meal and open bar took part as excited club members and chatted about the encouraging news coming out of the Club and Harness Industry. A quiet celebration overlooking the ribbon of light in the City of Sails , all locked up and nowhere to go other than back to the dessert table and Bar !

Onwards and upwards , 12 races on Friday into Group racing and Golden Gait [$million night] into New years eve Feature.

The ATC is back......form is temporary but class is permanent !

Have to say that the fields for Auckland on Friday are a improvement on recent times, and more importantly  its basically all Northern trained horses, as for Auckland Cup night time will tell if southerners travel.

[Brodie]

2 hours ago, TAB For Ever said:

Sounds like this peter character knows someone very close to the action ! 

But you report nothing he has reported , maybe its too positive and doesn't suit ?

My connections are barely home from the meeting , so in view of this and the fact that media is excluded from meeting it no surprise nothing in 'media' !

The meeting began at 6.03pm Tuesday [ last night].....all the positive news and future plans took well over 2 hours , then the free meal and open bar took part as excited club members and chatted about the encouraging news coming out of the Club and Harness Industry. A quiet celebration overlooking the ribbon of light in the City of Sails , all locked up and nowhere to go other than back to the dessert table and Bar !

Onwards and upwards , 12 races on Friday into Group racing and Golden Gait [$million night] into New years eve Feature.

The ATC is back......form is temporary but class is permanent !

Great that there is some positive news in regards the ATC as they just could not continue the way they currently are.

Do we know what this positive news actually is as we were told that the building of the apartments was going to be this golden egg for harness and we all know how that has ended!

 

[the galah]

4 hours ago, TAB For Ever said:

Sounds like this peter character knows someone very close to the action ! 

But you report nothing he has reported , maybe its too positive and doesn't suit ?

 

peter profit has always had someone close to the action,so to speak,but don't you find it strange we rely on an australian for auckland news.

Too positive and doesn't suit you say. No i can only read his headlines as not a subscriber.As to positive news,i'm always keen to hear such news,but i'm channeling brodie here, when i say i've just been telling it as it is,in the past.

4 hours ago, TAB For Ever said:

My connections are barely home from the meeting , so in view of this and the fact that media is excluded from meeting it no surprise nothing in 'media' !

if thats the case,i'm surpirised the ATC would exclude media,given you decribe members like your friends chatted excitedly.

wouldn't you have thought, even if they didn't want any media there,they would have wanted to control the narrative and would have had a pre prepared media release as soon as the meeting finished.i know things would need to be voted on,but they should still have had one.

4 hours ago, TAB For Ever said:

 

The ATC is back......form is temporary but class is permanent !

gee,your easily excited.

Is aucklands crisis actually over,or has it just gone from looking like pulling the plug on the life support machine, to  back to being in need of critical care?

Anyway,nearly all the comments i've made about the auckland club have been based around how HRNZ is directing financial resources into the auckland clubs survival,when auckland continues to run their race meetings at large losses.

so,until that changes ,which seems highly unlikely,then the decision makers at  HRNZ will continue to be placed under increasing scrutiny,to stop undermining the finacial stability of the industry as a whole,just to prop up certain sectors with the preferential treatment.

the tale of the auckland harness racing has taken another twist in a different direction,maybe,we await more details,but lets not forget that doesn't change the basics.

Edited 23 hours ago by the galah

[Rangatira]

2 hours ago, Brodie said:

Great that there is some positive news in regards the ATC as they just could not continue the way they currently are.

Do we know what this positive news actually is as we were told that the building of the apartments was going to be this golden egg for harness and we all know how that has ended!

 

Have they stumbled upon a philanthropist.

[Brodie]

2 hours ago, Rangatira said:

Have they stumbled upon a philanthropist.

Would need to be s very wealthy one wouldnt it?

Looking forward to knowing what this exciting news is?

[the galah]

3 hours ago, Brodie said:

 

Looking forward to knowing what this exciting news is?

we've tried to find out brodie.

seemingly the news is so exciting, no one can put it into words.

we first asked Tabforever,who told us his mates attended,but apparently they over indulged on the free drinks that were available after the meeting,and tabforever hasn't yet been able to interpret the slurring hes hearing.

then we asked mick guerin,but as he was excluded because hes from the media,hes only been able to report he heard mumbling from the glass he held against the wall.

Then we were told aaron white will tell us on friday when he calls the races,but apparently he won't be there on friday as hes having eyesight trouble after steering too much at the ribbon of light.

then we turned to peter profit,he knows ,but he told us,mate,fair suck of the sav, we'd have to pay $20 to subscribe for a month,and the punting hasn't been that good lately.

then we put a call into jamie mackinnon,but for some reason he thought we supported the auckland harness museum and told us to p... off and that he would see us in court.

so,getting desperate we turned to a young chinese chinese friend, to intepret what the chinese buyers had said,but he told us he didn't know mandarin ,but did say he knew te reo,if some sort of treaty has been signed.

so,for the moment we still don't actually know much,other than its supposed to be exciting.

Edited 18 hours ago by the galah

[Rangatira]

12 hours ago, the galah said:

peter profit also reporting a well known australian trainer coming to auckland.

surely not ben yole

[mikeynz]

5 minutes ago, Rangatira said:

surely not ben yole

Would certainly boost numbers.

[Gammalite]

30 minutes ago, Rangatira said:

surely not ben yole

you wouldn't dare. The Sunday sound of chain saws ringing through the suburbs ?  People like to sleep in there don't they? 

[TAB For Ever]

3 hours ago, the galah said:

we've tried to find out brodie.

seemingly the news is so exciting, no one can put it into words.

we first asked Tabforever,who told us his mates attended,but apparently they over indulged on the free drinks that were available after the meeting,and tabforever hasn't yet been able to interpret the slurring hes hearing.

then we asked mick guerin,but as he was excluded because hes from the media,hes only been able to report he heard mumbling from the glass he held against the wall.

Then we were told aaron white will tell us on friday when he calls the races,but apparently he won't be there on friday as hes having eyesight trouble after steering too much at the ribbon of light.

then we turned to peter profit,he knows ,but he told us,mate,fair suck of the sav, we'd have to pay $20 to subscribe for a month,and the punting hasn't been that good lately.

then we put a call into jamie mackinnon,but for some reason he thought we supported the auckland harness museum and told us to p... off and that he would see us in court.

so,getting desperate we turned to a young chinese chinese friend, to intepret what the chinese buyers had said,but he told us he didn't know mandarin ,but did say he knew te reo,if some sort of treaty has been signed.

so,for the moment we still don't actually know much,other than its supposed to be exciting.

Quite amusing summary from you Galah ,I'm not sure why you so keep going on about one of NZ's top Harness Clubs ,trying to drum up negativity and set off Brodie with his repeated drivel of same ole ,same ole.

And Aucklanders have more things to do than to frequent chat sites worrying about things outside their control.

It must be 7-8 years since the horse-trainer and breeder based ATC Board saw their investment dream turn to custard and their club basically bankrupt.

Well they have battled thru that ,Covid and many issues worsened by a lack of cash flow and more recently a lack of horses and demotion to a second tier club with poor dates from HRNZ and they not only have survived but have a plan to rediscover their mojo .

This peter prophet character apparently gives the worst case scenario with much cynicism , while the ATC President and Board gives an extremely positive outlook ...the  current situation or truth is somewhere in between. The glass half empty type will scoff at the liquidity issue of Current Liabilities exceeding Current Assets by $55m , while the half full club will point to the overall equity of the Club being $95m . Closedown Auckland Harness and have $100m plus in bank !

And some cry about the Chinese buyer defaulting but the Club will say we have banked the $10 mill and still own the land which is increasing in value .

The Clubs various departments are Trading well and they are looking to continue this and prosper into the immediate future.

12 races this week , the first such programme since 2017.

The guys trying to battle thru this are showing real resilience and despite the challenges ,are doing pretty well...they weren't the ones who created the mess with the disastrous building development !