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JUNE 15, 2018
Fieldays is here
Louie the pony took quite a liking to 2-year-old Braden Beker, pictured with his dad Rob. By Sophie Iremonger Fieldays© is back for 2018 out at Mystery Creek Events Centre this week, proving to be a special event in more ways than one this year, with a record number of exhibitors taking part as well as celebrations to mark the 50th
anniversary of the event. Organisers expect well over 130,000 people will attend throughout the four-day affair, possibly beating last year’s record of 133,588 visitors. Tens of thousands are coming from around the country, as well as thousands
from around the globe, including 34 countries contributing to the 1400-plus exhibitor sites. The first two Fieldays were held at Te Rapa Race course in 1969 and 1970, before the event moved out to Mystery Creek. “The first one was really small,”
Kingsley Field told Cambridge News at Fieldays this week. “There were something like 85 exhibitors, and I think they had a crowd of 18,000. The whole idea of it was that it would get rural and urban people together… it was pretty uncomplicated.” Continued on page 2
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