{"id":42495,"date":"2025-09-25T11:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/42495\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:15:07","slug":"lotto-jackpot-winner-reveals-plan-to-build-emu-racetrack-with-2-3m-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/42495\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto jackpot winner reveals plan to build emu racetrack with $2.3m prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>25 Sep, 2025 03:04 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A Lotto winner in Australia is contemplating using his cash prize to build an emu racetrack. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Queensland man has some \u201cwild\u201d emu-related plans for his recent Lotto win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One of five jackpot winners, he took home A$2 million ($2.3m) in Saturday\u2019s Lotto Gold draw, Nine News reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The man, who has not been named, said he is still in shock after the big win, which<br \/>\n         he \u201cnever expected\u201d would happen to him.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">He is now contemplating building an emu racetrack with the winnings on a property he has between Proserpine and Airlie Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">The man seemingly has not been involved in the competitive sport in the past, which involves jockeys riding emus at speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 25 Sep, 2025 03:04 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11597,3269,36643,38042,38040,10506,111,139,69,2170,2171,10512,3654,38041,8244,1517,544,213,61,15391,6027,10508,102],"class_list":["post-42495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-23m","tag-build","tag-emu","tag-emurelated","tag-jackpot","tag-lotto","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plan","tag-plans","tag-prize","tag-queensland","tag-racetrack","tag-recent","tag-reveals","tag-some","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-wild","tag-win","tag-winner","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}