Matamata

Lucy, first of all, just tell us a little bit about who you are, where you live, what you're doing, what school you're attending to, and what subjects sort of thing, and what's life for you like at school at the moment?

Um, I'm from a farm just outside of Matamata.

I've grown up on a farm my whole life, and right now I'm year 12 at school at St. Paul's Collegiate in Hamilton.

So one more year left there, and I'm looking to go into uni and do like ag sci or vet sci at Massey.

Now, that's the end of the pure ginies tournaments.

Matamata 3A Restricted, Brian Sullivan and Brian Gallagher, the B- two Brians from Waikato won that.

Aaron Starr and Rob Davies got second.

And Paraparaumu had a Kenakena Rest Home Restricted Tournament, and that was won by Bill Gardner and Graeme Strike, both from Wellington.

Uncle Max had gone and bought his own farm and then Uncle Ted bought a farm.

They'd gone from Te Amuru over to Matamata to Whitehall.

So he used to go to Uncle Ted's a little bit, but it was mainly Uncle Max.

He was my godfather and, yeah, I spent a lot of time there.

She says, my first Dion Mayer book was 13 hours.

Bought it immediately after getting home from Matamata in the Kalakadi.

There was another man in the pool who was willing to go back into the heat of his caravan to finish his copy of that book and could not put it down.

I'd never read him, but I went straight home and bought the copy, and I haven't stopped since.

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they look like maiden races to follow out of Matamata last weekend.

Yeah, you had the trust stable.

There was, as you say, a decent reputation as a three-year-old.

Uh, she looks like she's come back as a big, strong four-year-old mare.

Has the pedigree behind her.

Not too many horses won coming from that far back on the weekend at Matamata.

Yeah, horses were making ground- But weren't winning, and she bucked that trend, uh, to a degree of seven and a half lengths off the lead at the 600 meter mark.