Matamata Racing Club
The Matamata Racing Club, located at the Matamata Racecourse, two kilometres south of the eastern Waikato township of Matamata, is a centre of racing and training excellence.
Welcome to Matamata Racing Club
As well as Matamata’s own racing schedule, the South Waikato Racing Club conducts its popular annual race meeting at the Matamata course.
The MRC also operates a highly successful training centre, with an average of more than 700 horses prepared on the course in any month of the year.
In recent years the MRC has undertaken an extensive programme to construct five on-site stable barns, with 152 horses now accommodated there.
Facilities are available for non-raceday activities, ranging from indoor functions such as weddings and funerals, as well as outdoor gatherings.
Next Race Meeting!
Fairview Motors Matamata Raceday
Monday 25th January
First Race 12.11pm
Trackwork
Trackwork 15th December
Landry and Extortion underlined their weekend prospects at Te Rapa with smart work at Matamata on Tuesday morning, where most gallops took place on the plough. The Cody Cole-trained pair Landry (Donoghue) and Extortion (Newman) worked over 1200m, setting off steadily...
Trackwork 8th December
Savy Yong Blonk confirmed favouritism for Saturday’s Waikato Cup with impressive work at Matamata on Tuesday morning. Galloping on a dead plough, Savy Yong Blonk (D Johnson) strode boldly over 1200m in 1:19, finishing off with 600m in 36.6. Savy Yong Blonk has trained...
News
Clubs conference call delivers further clarity
A Tuesday morning conference call involving NZ Thoroughbred Racing personnel and some 50 club representatives provided further clarity of the path towards the resumption of racing. NZTR CEO Bernard Saundry (pictured) chaired the conference call, repeating earlier...
Matamata RC Training Facility Status
Further to the March 25 Matamata Racing Club notification to training track permit-holders that the MRC training facility would be closed for the next 14 days, the MRC has extended that closure to continue indefinitely. With another two weeks minimum for the...
Fashions in the Field
The Joy of Race day Fashion
True race wear is unique.
It should be fashionable but feminine and elegant, and most importantly it is day wear, not evening wear. If you’d wear it to a evening event and it’s covered in bling it’s most likely the wrong choice.
The big days of racing call for hats, heels and handbags. Go all out and enjoy the fun of dressing up and stepping out with your friends for a day. Race wear can be fun, flirty and glamorous but it should still have an element of elegance for the big days and don’t forget to make the most of gorgeous matching accessories.
Track Records
