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.
Trackwork
Tuesday Trackwork – 14 June 2022
Shoshone and Myrtle Creek looked on target for their Te Rapa weekend engagements when they turned in a smart gallop in company at Matamata on Tuesday morning. Galloping right-handed 25 metres out on the heavy course proper, Shoshone (Lammas) and Myrtle Creek...
Trackwork – Tuesday, 07 June 2022
With a large number of locally-trained horses in action at Wednesday’s race meeting and minimal representation over the weekend, there was little fast work at Matamata on Tuesday, with fog also preventing the timing of some gallops. Time honours went to Kantra...
News
Matamata Racing Club adds famous training facility to its holding
The Matamata Racing Club has made a significant addition to its racing and training facility with the purchase of one of the region’s most successful training establishments. Originally known as Wexford Stables when founded in the early 1970s by iconic trainer Dave...
Emotions high ahead of ultimate tribute to Toby Autridge
Emotions were running high at Hastings racecourse on Monday when Tommyra lined up in the K S Browne Hurdle just a day after the death of his trainer and part-owner Toby Autridge. At age 60, Autridge passed away at his Matamata home on Sunday morning. His death, after...
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
