Racing 27 June 2024 Lucrative synthetic target in crosshairs for Mathews duo “They have both won two races on the synthetic, so I am hoping to get them into some sort of fitness shape and a little bit of form to get them to Cambridge to go at that 2000m $100,000 race." Racing 09 August 2023 Mathews hoping to come up roses at Awapuni Howie Mathews is hoping he can come up roses at Awapuni on Friday when he takes three runners to the Palmerston North synthetic meeting.