Warwick grazier’s $830,431 Lotto win

A LUCKY Warwick grazier has won division one in Saturday’s Gold Lotto.

He declared that winning $830,431 was “better than a poke in the eye”.

The happy winner, who wished to remain anonymous, said he recently had a strange feeling he would win big and discovered his dream-come-true news on Sunday when checking his ticket.

Speaking to a Golden Casket spokesman, the man described the amazing win as “life changing”.

“It was such a shock when I found out, I didn’t really hear it,” he said.

“I’ve had this strange feeling for a couple of months I was going to win something. It’s hard to describe it, but it’s just been a very strong feeling. I don’t know why.”

The man explained he bought his winning entry at Kalbar Newsagency after making a last-minute detour through Kalbar while travelling home from Brisbane.

“It’s ironic really because I was driving home and I thought ‘I won’t go to Kalbar because it’s out of the way’, but then I thought ‘I may as well, what the hell’,” he said.

“I could have easily missed out. It was just meant to be.”

The winner said his Saturday Gold Lotto windfall would help set him up for the future.

“It gives you financial security, that’s the thing financial security I didn’t have a week ago,” he said.

“It will help me to build up

❝ It was such a shock when I found out. I could have easily missed out. It was just meant to be. — Lotto winner

my cattle herd.”

Kalbar Newsagency owner Debra Blair said she was over the moon her outlet had sold a division one winning entry.

“The store had sold three division one winning entries before we took ownership in 2008, but we hadn’t had one,” she said.

“I was saying to my husband the other day we need a division one. We’ve had second and third divisions, but we want a division one.

“It’s been great fun. We’ve put balloons and signs up and people have been very excited.

“I think they’ve been racing home to check their tickets just in case it was them.

“Congratulations to our winner. We’re thrilled and wish them all the best.”

The winning numbers in Gold Lotto draw 3765 on Saturday were 39, 3, 30, 23, 9 and 45 while the supplementary numbers were 7 and 17.

Across Australia there were five division one winning entries, including one from Queensland, two from New South Wales and two from Victoria.