Tour organiser Nathen, declared that the whole peloton must be working for Kerry who has managed to clean up most of the sprints and all of the finishes apart from the prologue. He may not be far wrong with the Magpie team chipping in to help Printshop with Neil Evans leading out many of the sprints. David Younquest had a strong stage 4 breaking away for 15km's and taking out his first stage sprint. Ian Fraser finished best of the Magpies after a 90km climb to St Arnaud with this years tail wind conditions producing some fast times (2:22:01). Stage 3 finished with lots of drama Steve Watson blowing a front tyre winding up to compete in the stage finish causing mayhem with a rider behind having lunch at the hospital but rejoining the race for the next stage.
Great food and scenery at the Nelson lakes area continues to make this an enjoyable tour to compete in.
