With Fine weather mid 20's and slight winds conditions were ideal for good racing.
The Glen cook held on saturday the 13th of March saw a field of 57 starters.
The field was divided into 5 large bunches and a smaller bunch of 3 on limit.
The course Framlingham Forrest then 4 laps of the falls circuit.
in the early stages of the race it looked as though the fourth scratch bunch or the 3rd scratch bunch would get up.
Both Bunches were working well and holding good speeds, as were the back markers.
Third Scratch caught the 4th scratch bunch and held the rest of the field off for the win.
Matt Lane (WRN) took line honours closely followed by Richard Schilling (MTG)
Scratch crossed the line soon after with David tozer (PTF) taking fastest time.
final placings; 1 Matt Lane wrn, 2 Richard Schilling mtg, 3 Roland Evans ham, 4Larry McArthy wrn, 5 Wayne hately cpd, 6 Mark Hyland wrn, 7 Nick Lee, 8 Clive Coomber wrn, 9 Laurie paltridge ptf, 10 Geoff Mclaren wrn. Fastest David tozer ptf.
Greg Gleeson
Sunday March 14th the "Greg Gleeson" was held once again with favourable conditions.
41 riders turned out for this event and the field was divided once again into 6 bunches.
The course Wangoom-Warrumyea-Falls-Wurrumyea-Wangoom.
Things looked very similar to theprevious days racing with the exception of the 4th scratch bunch gaining strength with the inclusion of Scot Noonan.
once again the 4th scratch bunch & 3rd scratch bunch looked like the two most likely bunches to get up.
3rd scratch picked up the next bunch about the same time second scartch and 3rd scratch came together, however the outmarkers had held enough time to take the win.
Cris Jehu from colac was the form sprinter in this bunch and took line honours.
Placings, 1 Cris Jehu clc, 2 wayne collins wrn, 3 Scot noonan Mt Gambier, 4 Laurie paltridge ptf, 5 Robert Boydel wrn, 6 Darren earl mtg, 7 Goeff Mclaren wrn, 8 clive coomber cpd, 9 darren Sheldon ham, 10 Barry Warren wrn
fastest time went to Brian mcnamara from warrnambool.
Results for the junior races:
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It was a day for the limit rider, with James Duncan of Port Fairy racing 7km and taking 1st place in the J11/13 category, followed by
2nd Trent Glennen, Terang.
3rd Bailey Belleville, Port Fairy.
4th Brady Scouller, Camperdown.
5th & fastest time went to Camperdowns Ashleigh Hocking in a time of 13:44.
The J15/17 division raced 14 km and saw a win from Terangs Nathan Glennen, he was followd by,
2nd Cadelle Stewart, Port Fairy.
3rd Hugh Clancey, Port Fairy.
4th Otto Opperman, Port Fairy.
5th Sam Lane, Port Fairy.
Fastest time went to Colacs Hamish Middleton in a time of 22:51