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Kayne Lamont took out the Senior Feature Race I wasn’t even thinking about the significance of winning this race … Woodville Grand Prix title, but it was also significant in that it meant a Kiwi had won the main trophy after a three-year drought for the New Zealanders – Cooper won it in 2014, but it was Queensland’s Kirk Gibbs who took it in 2015 and fellow Australian Dean Ferris who had won the crown back-to-back, in 2016 and again last year. “I wasn’t even thinking about the significance of winning this race … I was simply concentrating on not making mistakes,” said the 24-year-old Lamont Lamont had qualified fastest – indicating he’d be a serious contender this year – and he was KIWI RIDER 87