Following on from my story some weeks back about sheep racing and wondering if there was ever likely to be any alpaca racing I just had to share this story with you.

I was doing some internet research on the alpaca market in Australia and discovered Rory Mathews. Rugby-mad youngster, Rory Matthews likes to train every day. Unfortunately, he lives on an alpaca farm in Australia and does not have anyone his own age to play with.

But he's not worried - because he's got Chicky the alpaca. Chicky, a fellow resident at the Children's Animal Farm near Melbourne, has proved a formidable sparring partner for eight-year-old Rory.

So here is is with Chicky:










Not quite sure what Marty McGee of Camelid Dynamics fame would make of this...I must ask her sometime....

Adrian Stewart