One Vote Remains for Auckland Super Club

The members of the Counties Racing Club voted on Tuesday night in favour of the merger with the Auckland Racing Club (ARC), with the ARC members to vote tonight. “We were very pleased with the result,” Counties Racing Club President Mark Chitty said. “A lot of time and effort had gone into it (proposal) and a lot of consideration, and the result gives you the confidence to go forward. The membership support was overwhelmingly voted in with 90 percent last (Tuesday) night. We have been given a clear mandate and we believe 100 percent in what we are doing, so it’s up to us now to implement it and there will be a number of people involved in that implementation. I think it is a wonderful thing for the industry and great for northern racing.” If the ARC members vote in favour, the formation of the Auckland Thoroughbred Racing Incorporated will commence on 1 August 2021. “The development of the StrathAyr surface at Ellerslie is going to be very important and then at Pukekohe Park it will be the development of the training facility,” Chitty said. “Alongside that it will be the realisation of the surplus land to the benefit of the industry, how that is reinvested, and those returns will benefit the industry by the way of stakes and improved facilities.” Ellerslie has one of the most picturesque and fun setting in the Southern Hemisphere.