What a week! last week at Murraylands our league racing teams excelled themselves by winning the div four by a fair margin followed closely by a hastily re shuffled div one side who went down by only a couple of points , but impressed enough to hold hope for the future rounds.

Everyone was fired up at training during the week ,especially at league practise on Thursday night , where only six 26" riders fronted but it was as good a hitout I have seen at the track for some time.

It was a savage , take no prisoners affair where one bike was ritten off another damaged and spokes went missing at will.This is all in readiness for the looming State Titles at LeFevre on May 3rd. with a 11.20am sign in.There shouldn't be any Salisbury riders shirking the issue then.

Now for some club racing , and let me tell you these older riders kept the hard charging and racing going throughout some of the latter races in the day.

To start the meet off some people were accosted to help run the meeting and Charlie Debattista put his hand up to refferee the racing, and did a good job of it too, except I think along the same lines as his wife Sue ,who did the scoring and handicapping today , that his feeble whistle blowing needed a bit of refining. Blow Charlie , dont suck!

I called the racing today and it's strange how soon you can get out of sync when a half a dozen new riders distribute themselves amongst the different grades and i humbly appologize to any rider I called wrong on the day,still , I managed to stumble my way along and didn't really offend anyone,Ihope.

The Parade lap got things rolling , where riders were chosen for dressage points and todays winners were,for the Hornets Mathew Hurley , the Orions was a tie between Austin McDonald and Plymouth christian (bebuting his new ride) and for the Blackhawks Tiana Debattista.

Only one Tinytot raced today,little Emily Makepeace , who raced well as she competed with a couple of div seven riders and showed some pace.

The div seven pair of Mathew Snowden and Michael Ratcliff put on some spirited racing with Ratcliff taking the points todat (19) to Snowdens (16).

Division six saw Mathew Hurley pick up a (maximum 20) with Joshua coming back after a nasty spill to pick up five seconds for (15) over Jake Kerley on (8) and Whitney Jones on (5), new rider Phoebe McDonald was injured early in the first race which took the wind out of her sails , but returned for the rest of the meet.

Division five was dominated by the rider of the week , Braden Makepeace (maximum 20) over Tiana Debattista (11) with a draw for 
third between Plymouth Christian and Jake Mathews , both on (9).

Division four and the gentleman came out in "Mr Smooth" Josh Debattista in the last gate star of the day when he let the new rider , Lauren Winder, win the last race. His mum Sue ,who was sitting next to me scoring was almost overcome with feelings as she was saying "isn't that sweet"!Well done Josh youre a star.

The division was taken out by Josh without raising a sweat on (19) from Austin McDonald (14) Marc "The Scar" Mastrodomenico (12) over Angus Elliot on (8).

Moving on to division three and the wins were distributed between four riders and the end result shows nothing between the four riders who contested this division , Dean Jolly picked up the win on (14) followed closely by Jay Walters on (13) Anthony Daniels on (12) and Nathan condo-Evans on (11) Michael Bouhalis is out 5/6 weeks with a broken arm.

In the seniors over 30's race there were only two racers , Darren Mathews won on (18) over a fast improving Frank jones on "Goldenrod" who lived up to his reputation of having a the odd crash ,unaided, and didn't let his fans down  by having another today.Frank scored (14).

Division two is where they were butting heads today and it was virtually "last man standing"stuff as they banged and barged their way through five heats today.Bikes off the track and still racing a couple at a time was par and some hefty shoulders were metered out between both the chadwick boys ,Cody and Joel.

Ryan Edson loves this sort of stuff and was in his element today.Tony Bax is no stranger to all this carrying on and had a smile on his dial that a plastic surgeon couldn't remove.Tyrone Walters was the only one with the brains to stay out of all this.It made very entertaining racing and the ref let em go which was good to see and they all had a ball.

The div was eventually taken out by Joel Chadwick (19) from his brother Cody on (15) over Ryan Edson (9) and Tony Bax on (5).