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Sonny Barnes Memorial Handicap - Victoria, August 20, 2005

By Mal Sawford

Davis wins
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The second of Carnegie Caulfield's $1000 Handicaps, the Sonny Barnes Memorial, saw another impressive result for the back markers, with reigning Club Champion and 2002 World Masters Games Gold Medalist Justin Davis (O'Mara Cycles) racing home to take first and fastest honours.

Despite the forecast of rain throughout the day, the skies were bluish for the 1.30pm kick off. All seven bunches were on the small side, with the state junior titles and the Tour of Tasmania attracting many riders. Under 17 rider Dale Reith made his debut in the senior event, held over two laps of the hilly Modella circuit, and rode from Limit with Louisa Judd (Hampton Cycles), Christine Ervin (CBD Cycles), a reluctant Brooke Condon and bunch captain Mike Goldie.
With seven minutes advantage to the next bunch, and twenty-five to the scratch-men, Goldie had the group working well very quickly. Reith had no problem following Judd and Condon through the hills, while Ervin and Goldie lost contact, but continued to chase hard.

The Limit riders
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The big move came from the third bunch away. Former runner Gary Simondson, Shannon Hall and Darren Sayers flew up the climb to Heath Hill, chasing twelve minutes, and by the end of the first lap were only three minutes in arrears. At the other end of the field, the Scratch bunch were working well and picked up the two minute bunch on the descent off Ripplebrook, and had reduced the leaders' advantage to nine minutes at the end of the lap.
The headwind drag back from the finish line towards Bayles saw the back markers pick up the rest of the middle markers, leaving only three small groups out front. Simondson's trio hit the lead in the tough cross wind straight approaching the hills: but once the road turned upwards Simondson surged away from his companions, leaving himself a twenty kilometer time trial to the line.

Tim Guille leads
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The scratch bunch unloaded all their passengers once they hit the cross wind, with the group exploding under the pressure set by Davis, Murray Spink (Giant), Matt Jensen (Kathy Watt's Personal Training) and Vaughan Bowman (Le Tour). So quick and sustained was their acceleration, that by the Heath Hill summit they had blown straight past the limit bunch, and Hall and Sayers, and went on to pick up Simondson at the base of the descent.
Simondson did well to hold onto the quartet as they tackled the rolling hills on the run to the steep Ripplebrook climb, before Spink and Bowman launched a succession of attacks. At the summit, all five riders were a few seconds apart with Spink leading, but Bowman and Davis clawed their way onto his wheel, and worked well enough together to put Jensen and Simondson out of contention.

All smiles
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Attacks before the final corner had Davis in trouble, but he recovered well enough to launch an attack of his own out of the corner - and in a move eerily similar to his win at the World Masters, held off the chase by a few metres after a gut emptying two kilometer charge to the line. Spink outsprinted Bowman for second, while Jensen dug deep to hold off a late charge from Luke Hanley who had shot out of the chasing group to come within a few seconds of the tiring Scratchman.
Judd took the Women's prize after opening a gap on Condon on the Heath Hill climb, while Reith earned the Goldie Junior Development prize as the first junior home.

As usual, racing would not have been possible without the support of volunteers: including Traffic Control Manager Frank Cipriano; Corner Marshals Mark Howard, Dennis Toce, James Shepherdson, Ken Ford, and Andrew Dorman; and support drivers Wayne Flint and Trish Judd.
Full details of the CCCC and South East Regional winter fixture can be seen at www.carnegiecycling.com.au.

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Results

1 Justin Davis (Carnegie Caulfield)    2.26.00
2 Murray Spink (Dirt Riders)                  
3 Vaughan Bowman (Blackburn)                  
4 Matt Jensen (Carnegie Caulfield)        1.20
5 Luke Hanley (Warragul)                  1.26
6 Gary Simondson (Carnegie Caulfield)     2.24
7 Alex Smyth (Carnegie Caulfield)         2.56
8 Wayne Evans (Blackburn)                     
9 Scott Jensen (Carnegie Caulfield)           
10 Geoff Thompson (Warragul)              3.01
11 Paul Logan (Coburg)                        
12 Darren Sayers (Carnegie Caulfield)     4.18
13 Trevor Cameron (Blackburn)             4.56
14 Richard Cormick (Carnegie Caulfield)       
15 Shannon Hall (Carnegie Caulfield)          
16 Rob Pagey (Carnegie Caulfield)         4.59
17 Rick Jones (Carnegie Caulfield)        5.06
18 Boon Chia (Carnegie Caulfield)             
19 Leigh Rebbeck (Mornington)             6.59
20 Tim Guille (Carnegie Caulfield)        7.55
21 Phillip McNeill (St Kilda)                 
22 Louisa Judd (Carnegie Caulfield)       8.37
23 Brooke Condon (Coburg)                11.26
24 Darren Weir (Carnegie Caulfield)           
25 Daniel Oldfield (Blackburn)           13.04
26 Steve Morrow (Carnegie Caulfield)     14.24
27 Mike Goldie (Carnegie Caulfield)           
28 Hari Gupi (Carnegie Caulfield)        15.35
29 Mark Kelly (Carnegie Caulfield)       17.06
30 Nick Palecek (Carnegie Caulfield)     20.51
31 Dale Reith (Blackburn)                24.07
32 Roger Lancaster (Carnegie Caulfield)  26.12

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