The Country 12/12/25: Hamish McKay talks to Jamie Mackay

It’s McKay on Sport as we head to the Feilding stock sale yards to ponder Hamish’s 2025 Ag Sports Person of the Year.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mckaye on sport with farm Lands, prevent Paris on outbreaks
and score a win this summer.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
So it's MacKaye on Mackay and one of them knows
a whole lot more about sport than the other one.
Hamish Mackay joins us from where are you today, PALMEI
north or Fielding Hamish.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
The building Livestock Center for fifteen kilogram live weight sale day.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Jeez, I know it's it's amazing and no doubt you've
had the cup of tea in the sky.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
On yes, indeed yep, stocks kfo no brilliant yet no,
we'll good beautiful day at the Battle for two too.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, I thought there was another wicket gone on the
cricket but they've gone backwards on that one. Maybe they've
appealed that. Let me just have a quick look, sorry Hamish. Yeah,
I thought there was another one gone. Someone's obviously appealed
and they haven't gone anyhow. That's going to be over
very very shortly. I want to talk to you. You
want to talk about your egg Sports Person of the

(00:58):
Year and I don't want to take the work it's
out of your mouth. But I bet you, I bet
you you're going to go with Jack Jordan.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh or look I know, I well, I'm actually not cool.
I'm sort of so foreseeing the next five years now
that he's finally cracked through Toy Henderson, there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, well he's And the amazing thing about him is
I think it's his dad who drives them everywhere around
the country, especially in the North Island. He drives in
the middle of the night to get to these sharing
comps and he cleaned up both of them last year
and did very well with Jack Fagan representing us in Europe.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, exactly, and I reckon it will benefit hugely from
that time in Europe. I think when you might have
been in Perth and might have had him on the
show and yeah, I just like the cut of his
jib and just like what he had to say and
what he'd learned. And yeah, but hard to go past
Jack actually, to be fair, because he is a bahemo,
didn't he?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I mean, hell yeah, those are They're the absolute peak
of athleticism. Those sharers, especially the ones who are attempting
some of the sharing records, and we've got some of those.
I think Sarah here and his brother Simon Goss he's
in your neck of the woods. I think he's attempting one,
isn't he.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
I think he will because I know he's done over
eight hundred, which just seems ridiculous, doesn't it. He's already
done an eight hundred. I think that wasnt a two
stand sort of attempt. So yeah, I'm not sure what
his next one is, but he goes real good.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, okay, unlike you at business House Golf at Fielding
last night where you hit one all of three inches
off the t Hamish McKay. That would cost you a
stiff whiskey if you were playing at Bell McEwan. But
I want to move on. You want to talk about,
because I know you've done a lot of sports commentary
in your career. How good is this Sam Ruth, this
kid from Talonger. I think he is, isn't he?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah? Well, look he has to be. I mean he
defies all kinds of logic when it comes to a
fifteen sixteen, sixteen year old that he is now running,
you know, just dropping in a one forty eight four
hundred at that age and then to just to trot
home in three thirty eight by himself in the fifteen
hundred meters. How good is he? How if you were

(03:14):
going to put if the TA B were going to
offer odds on him winning an Olympic medal, it'd be
about a dollar five. I would have thought it all
goes well as long as injury doesn't get in the way.
He's an absolute freak show.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, he's running faster than John Walker, Nick Willis any
of it, any of any of our great middle distance runners.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, And you know I'm a bit of I mean
track and field. You know, the door used to get
shut on me when it used to come up for
the Olympics, in common with games and things in the
old days at three. But track and field has always
probably been my deepest passion, which relates to you know,
to Quax Walker, you know Dixon in that era. But this,
this is really special. It's just it's just quite quite

(03:58):
unbelievable what he's doing, and he does it with such ease,
and he seems so unaffected by it. You know, That's
what I like about it. Yeah, I hear pritty more
about him, and he's just going to fly that flag
for track and field too. Hopefully they haven't been great
at cashing in on that in the past, hopefully they do.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Okay, well, look we've got to go. We've got to
go to Barry Soaper. But I want you to think
we're going to talk about that all black schedule for
twenty twenty six next week. And I also want you
to think of you've given us your ag sports Person
of the Air. Next Friday, I want your ag Person
of the Air. Okay, Hamish, can you do that.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
I'll do that.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Put on your mate, you enjoy the rest of your
day at the field and so yeah,