John and Lynne Street … generous with their charity and attracting new well-heeled owners.
Streets’ donation raises $100,000 for charity and Timmy could be a supermarket special
By Barry Lichter • 23 September 2025
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.
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Ray’s comments
Friday night at Cambridge
Race 1: Spirited Belle
4.46pm
Delany: “I saw she’d been punted but somebody must know something we don’t as I’ve been working her myself and, while she feels all right and hasn’t put the boot in like at Auckland, I think she’ll need the run. She hasn’t got any high speed but feels like she will stay. She has improved a bit but I’d be surprised if she won.”
Race 1: Lincoln Maree
4.46pm
“It’s always hard from these draws but she’s a tough mare who will make her own luck at some stage. She’s going well enough - her drivers have all been happy - and she’s a little warrior who tries like hell.”
Race 2: Major Copy
5.12pm
“He’s only two and very inexperienced but he feels like a good colt and there’s a lot of improvement in him. He certainly caught a lot of people’s attention last time. I don’t know how good he is yet but he’ll be right there.”
Race 2: Prince Lincoln
5.12pm
“If he can lead without having to do too much work I can’t see anything beating him. I thought he went great last start. He pressed the winner hard ’til the corner then just flattened out in the run home, but he had every reason to do that after all the work he’d done.”
Race 4: Spirit Of God
6.12pm
“She’s been undone by bad draws. If she led easily from three she’d be hard to beat as she’s a good front-runner.”
Race 4: Spirited Peggy
6.12pm
“We’ve had her for only two weeks but she’s seven now and has had her chance to win one. She has a bit of speed but I think she gets pulling so we’ve got the Hidez (compression) hood on her and plugged her ears up.”
Race 6: Copy N Paste
7.10pm
“We won’t see the best of him for another six months. He’s been a slow developing horse but is improving all the time and getting stronger.”
Race 6: Jessie Lincoln
7.10pm
“If I was having a bet on one of them in the race it would be her. She deserves to win one. Her last two have been really good - she just ran into one who was a bit slicker last time in Major Copy.”
Race 6: Lincoln Dealer
7.10pm
“He’s a bit one-dimensional - you’ve got to feed him track and let him run - so the second row draw is a big handicap. To his credit I was surprised he finished so close last time after all the work he did. When he gets a decent draw and crosses them they’ll know they’re at the races. He’s got a big motor and tries hard.”
Race 8: Rivergirl Bella
8.08pm
“She clawed her way to the front last time but had nothing left at the finish. That won’t happen this time and she should lead easily from one.”
Race 8: Angelic Copy
8.08pm
“She’s had terrible draws but has been going good races. The others last time were just better than her but this is a big drop in class. With the right trip she could get some of it at huge odds.”
Race 9: Sugar Ray Lincoln
8.35pm
“He’s not quick away from a stand but he won’t muff it completely. He steps from the front line and Peter Ferguson was quite happy with his last run.”
Race 9: Lincoln Wave
8.35pm
“He bombed the stand the first time but to be fair all those horses were rushing up at him from the back and that panicked him a bit. He’s on 10 metres this time so that won’t happen.”
