Also receiving his King\u2019s Birthday honour this week was enormously popular Waikato harness racing personality Dr Luk Chin.<\/p>\n
He became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to harness racing and health.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe co-led the development of the Anglesea Medical Centre in Hamilton, Waikato\u2019s first same-day surgical unit. He has since helped establish private healthcare facilities in Tauranga and Cambridge, as well as the Franklin Day Hospital in Pukekohe,\u201d his citation read. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe created a fund to provide financial assistance for future registrars wanting to advance their studies of anaesthetics. <\/p>\n
\u201cDr Chin is New Zealand\u2019s oldest licensed harness racing trainer and driver. He has trained horses to win more than 200 races, and has been a winning driver over 100 times.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another racing industry leader who received his King\u2019s Birthday honour on Wednesday was Auckland Thoroughbred Racing chairman Doug Alderslade. <\/p>\n
A member of the Auckland Racing Club board since 2003, Alderslade became chairman of the club in 2017, and he played a key part in the amalgamation of the Auckland Racing Club and Counties Racing Club into Auckland Thoroughbred Racing (ATR) in 2021 and was subsequently appointed chairman of the joint venture.<\/p>\n
In his tenure as ATR chairman, Alderslade has overseen arguably the most transformative years in the club\u2019s history, with Ellerslie becoming a world-class racecourse with the construction of its StrathAyr track and new stabling area, as well as securing the club\u2019s financial future with the sale of the Ellerslie Hill.<\/p>\n
Alderslade has been associated with the Auckland club for more than 50 years, and said he is proud of what his team has achieved in his time at the helm.<\/p>\n
Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald\u2019s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Also receiving his King\u2019s Birthday honour this week was enormously popular Waikato harness racing personality Dr Luk Chin.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[93875,806,51,682,145439,6284,56136,293,7568,14568,13635,111,10511,139,69,59966,3512,36061,14901,8485,213,102],"class_list":["post-616838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arise","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-being","tag-bestowed","tag-david","tag-ellis","tag-his","tag-honour","tag-horse","tag-knight","tag-new-zealand","tag-newest","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officially","tag-racing","tag-racings","tag-receives","tag-sir","tag-sports","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}