Cumberland Classic

[Ron Butler 0]

I see this meeting is to run over the delightfully traditional format of the highest scoring rider over a set number of heats [in this instance twenty] being declared the winner. There will be no semi-finals or a final.

 

Could it be that someone has realised that the old way may the best one on occasion. I certainly hope so. Could it even be that the day will dawn when we see the abolition of the pernicious...........but no; that's probably too much to expect - at least in my pre-Horizontal Hilton period.

 

Good night, sweet friends, may angels guard your dreams (E.E.Vella)

 

Ron.

[Ricky Bobby 0]

Get well soon David!

 

As everyone expected, Simon Stead was brilliant to watch and thoroughly deserved his victory.

 

Earlier on in the meeting it looked like Doolan might have gave him a run for his money but it turned out that Ostergaard was on the gas instead.

 

i would have liked to have seen another race with Simon and Ulrich at the end because ulrich had just recorded the fastest time of the night and looked really fast.

 

Well done Simon, nice to hear him say he wished he could ride at DP every week!