MEDIA RELEASE
14 June 2008
Fieldays winds up for 2008
The Fieldays Dog Trial
A further 31,080 visitors took the chance to see Fieldays today, on the final day, bringing the event attendance total
to 131,629.
The Fieldays National Tractor Pull competition also wound up with three days of rumbling races culminating in a grand
final at 1.30 today. In the standard Tractor Pull competition, Mark Bining took first place, followed by tough
competitors Luke Houghton (second) and Roger White (third). In the Weight Transfer class, Mike Reymer took the honours,
followed by Richard Waldon, Marcus Horner and Sid Smith. Townsend took out the Teams competition with Gavin Grain and
Austins following in second and third respectively.
Judging at the AgTrader Sculpture Contest was completed today also. Tamahere Country School took away the prize in the
Schools class for their creation ‘Jerry the Farm Horse’ and ‘HMS Regal’ by Murray Matushka won the People’s Choice
Award. ‘HMS Regal’ was also a judges favourite, taking out first prize in the open class.
Fieldays is over for another year, but organisers are already looking forward to 2009 with the Premier Feature for next
year to be ‘My Farm, Our Environment’, sponsored by AgResearch. Fieldays 2009 will be held 10 – 13 June 2009.
(Ends)