A whopping 11,000 people passed through the gates on the last day of the Northland Agricultural Field Days boosting overall attendance for the three day event to 25,000.
A slow start on Thursday saw only 6500 (revised from an estimated 5000 previously reported), followed by 7500 on Friday, but the large crowd on Saturday was well above the 8867 recorded last year and beefed up the total attendance to only a couple of hundred short of the last year's record crowd of 25,278.
Organisers say the 27th annual event ran as smoothly as clockwork.
Two that did feel the heat from the soaring temperatures were the two Clydesdale horses, Bert a 17.3hh gelding and six -year-old stallion Lochie who spent the three days ferrying patrons around the site in a dray.