Hello everyone, a busy weekend for some of us.
The Ladies National Trials Championship had a Round run by the Richmond Club up at Reeth. Craig Talbot was on duty minding for current Champion, Becky Cooke. The Paynes had a long trip as well with both ‘our’ young ladies Victoria & Maisie riding. Did think about going up but I’d agreed to put some flyers round at the Kingswood H&H on Saturday afternoon to advertise the West Wilts H&H at Farleigh Castle in October. One or two people asked if Phyllis was with me but no she was at home finishing off, printing out & posting Centre Board Minutes. Matt Ridgway was best Expert & Andy Frost R/up. Ben Shuttleworth was best in his class.Rain midway through the event made it quite slippy & slidey for a while but it dried again & a little bit of dust was being raised by the finish.
Talking of Farleigh, we hope that Bill Douglas, the man you need to talk to if you want to run at Farleigh, & a WWMC VP, is soon out of RUH & recovers soon after an emergency op. last week. Sunday we went to Farleigh Castle for a falconry display [really interesting & well worth while] in the Castle & bumped into WWMC member Paul Robinson & Judith who works for English Heritage but at Stonehenge, not Farleigh. We parked where the GP Pits were in the good old days & the West Devon Club’s Ladies were doing a brilliant [white] job painting the track posts. Don’t forget the Maxxis MX Champ Round is on Sunday.
Back to Ladies Trials: I’m fairly certain that Maisie Payne has wrapped up the “C” class Championship with 2 Round to go, so we send our congratulations to her it’s never easy to win in Yorkshire but a clean last lap did the job. Victoria is still pegging away having moved up to “B” class this year, I suspect she’ll get a lot more Championship points next year.
In the Ladies Championship we’re hearing that Joanne Coles is rather upset that she has been Runner Up [to Becky Cooke] in both the last two rounds. They have admittedly been very close with equal marks lost at the finish of the event, but Joanne has lost both on the tie break! At the end of the day it’s what is recorded by those judges of Fact, the Observers, on their Observer cards that is important, not what other parties, or parties having an interest in a particular riders performance, thought they saw. I expect you will all remember seeing an England goal in the Worl Cup, I did, except it wasn’t a goal because the Ref & his Assistant didn’t see it. A video replay confirmed to me what I saw [I was an party with an interest in that decision] but it still wasn’t a goal was it?
Oh yes, those newly posted Regs & Entry Form? North Somerset are running their RT Keedwell Timed Trial on 5th September
See you soon: Frank