Streets’ donation raises $100,000 for charity and Timmy could be a supermarket special

Lincoln Farms owners John and Lynne Street have once again helped raise $100,000 for charity by donating 50% ownership of one of their most promising rising two-year-olds.

Just as they did in 2022 with Lincoln River, the Streets put up a share in Timmy Lincoln at Foodstuffs’ auction to raise money for the Foodies Foundation.

And when the gavel came down at $100,000, it was to a group of 17 North Island PAK’nSAVE supermarket owners, much to the delight of Foodstuffs North Island CEO Chris Quin.

Ten of the group, known as the Yellow Barn Syndicate, previously bid the same price for half of Lincoln River who, when he was sold to Australia in February, 2024, had won five races and $70,000.

The group, which also has a share in the unraced two-year-old Lincoln Dealer, can now look forward with their enlarged numbers to racing what co-trainer Ray Green describes as the pick of Lincoln Farms’ current yearlings.

“If I was to choose one from the 14 yearlings we have, it would be him. Everything about him is what you look for in a horse.

“He’s a really nice type, not overly big but strong, and he’s a good clean-gaited pacer with the right nature, he’s a real gentleman.

“He’s been broken in and gaited and is just jogging up.”

Timmy Lincoln’s full brother Tommy Lincoln won 16 races. PHOTO: Trish Dunell.By Green’s favourite sire, the late American Ideal, Timmy Lincoln cost $35,000 as a weanling and is out of the good producing broodmare Tania Tandias. That makes him a full brother to one of Lincoln Farms’ most successful horses of recent years in Tommy Lincoln who won eight races here and another eight in Queensland, for stakes of $220,691, before a tendon tear ended his career in December, 2023.

Tania Tandias also left good Lincoln Farms performers Lincoln’s Girl (30 wins, including 23 in the States) and Lincoln Road (14 wins).

“He’s a bit more refined than Tommy, who was a big slab-sided horse, and I’m picking he’ll be a good replacement for Lincoln River,” Green said.

The Streets’ generosity at the charity lunch, part of PAK’nSAVE’s 40 year celebrations since its first store opened in Kaitaia in 1985, helped boost the coffers of a foundation which is particularly dear to the heart of John Street. When he owned the big West Auckland PAK’nSAVE supermarket in Lincoln Road, he paid for life-saving operations for some of his workers and helped other families in trouble.

The Foodies Foundation, set up in 2018 to similarly help 25,000 team members and their families when times get really rough, has raised more than $2 million and helped more than 230 families.