Results 2022

December 18th 2022

The Colac Vets had ten riders for their last race of the year.

The two scratchmen revelled in the tough conditions with very strong easterly winds.

They caught the three remaining second scratch riders at the 30Km mark.

Turning into Melrose Road for the second time, they cleared away in the tail wind reaching a speed of 63Km/h.

They then caught the four leaders coming into Alvie with 7Km to go.

Coming into the Cororooke Hall finish Grant Oates took the win ahead of Tony Luppino.

David O’Dwyer came in just over a minute behind clear of the rest after hanging in with the scratch riders for a short while.

After the race the club went out for lunch for their end of year get together where Michael Markham was presented with the Aggregate Shield.

David O’Dwyer was also generous in offering some extra prize money for the last race.

The club will now have a break and resume racing on the 5th of February.

 

Result: 47Km Xmas Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Grant Oates                 1st & Fastest Time     

2 Tony Luppino              2nd             

 

5 Minutes  

3 Heather Hamling           7th

4 Michael Markham         8th 

5 Ralph Iselt                     9th 

6 Luke Rowe                    10th 

 

11 Minutes                   

7 David O’Dwyer            3rd  

8 Paul Brill                        4th 

 

14 Minutes

9 Gerard Hickey               5th 

10 Gavin O’Brien             6th

 

 

December 11th 2022

The Colac Vets had eleven riders for their last monthly medal of the year.

The three bunch field headed out past Beeac, then on to Corangamite Lake Road going past Cundare and finishing in Baynes Road along the Corangamite Lake foreshore.

The scratch foursome was boosted by the return of Tony Luppino who was having his first race in two years.

Scratch rounded up their 5 minute gap to the second scratch trio by the 36Km mark.

Coming up the hill to the Alvie school corner with 4Km to go, only three scratch riders and one second scratch rider remained as they were about to catch the four leaders.

At this point, scratchmen Tony Luppino and Grant Oates broke clear to finish first and second respectively.

Peter Theodore led the next four riders in to take third place.

This was the last race for aggregate points.

Michael Markham led from the beginning after the first of his six wins throughout the year and went into the last race 2 points clear.

But Heather Hamling had made a late charge with her six second placings in the second half of the year.

The end result was that they both finished on 98 points with Markham winning on a count back with more wins.

Ralph Iselt finished third on 79 points.

 

 Result: 54Km Monthly Medal

 

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino              1st & Fastest Time     

2 Grant Oates                 2nd    

3 Ralph Iselt                     4th 

4 Michael Markham         

 

5 Minutes  

5 Heather Hamling           5th 

6 Luke Rowe

7 Paul Brill

 

13 Minutes                   

8 Peter Theodore            3rd  

9 David O’Dwyer             6th 

10 Gerard Hickey             7th 

11 Peter Neal                    8th

 

 

 

December 4th 2022

 

Riders competed in the warmest conditions since March.

The scratch foursome was down to three riders at the 26Km mark.

Scratch maintained their pace and then caught the two remaining second scratch riders at the 34Km mark.

These five backmarkers then caught the three middle markers and the lone front marker with 7Km to go.

Coming into the Factory Road finish line, Grant Oates started off the sprint with Ralph Iselt coming off his wheel to take his third win for the year and also taking fastest time.

Andrew Pownceby was further back in third place.

 

 Result: 48Km Club Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Ralph Iselt                   1st & Fastest Time     

2 Grant Oates                 2nd    

3 Andrew Pownceby      3rd

4 Michael Markham         8th 

 

4 Minutes  

5 Heather Hamling

6 Luke Rowe

7 Tony Prytz

 

10 Minutes 30 Seconds   

8 Gerard Hickey               4th 

9 Peter Theodore              5th 

10 Peter Neal                    6th 

 

22 Minutes

11 Murray Matthews        7th

 

 

November 27th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had nine riders for their monthly medal.

Riders once again raced with strong westerly winds.

The 12 minute group was given an extra minute start just before they were due to start due to a late withdrawal.

This proved to be a deciding factor in the close outcome of the result.

Heading up and over Lineen’s hill to the finish line, 13 minute rider Peter Theodore broke away from his co-marker.

At the same point, second scratch rider Heather Hamling broke away from her co-marker to go after Theodore.

Then scratchmen Grant Oates broke away from his co-markers to go after both Theodore and Hamling.

The result was Theodore holding on by just 30 metres, to win his second monthly medal in a row, from Hamling who also held on by a few bike lengths to take second place from Oates in third.

After the race the club welcomed new rider Paul Brill.

 

Result: 43Km Monthly Medal

 

Scratch                          

1 Grant Oates                3rd & Fastest Time     

2 Michael Markham        6th    

3 Ralph Iselt                    7th 

 

4 Minutes 30 Seconds  

4 Heather Hamling        2nd   

5 David Coventry            5th 

6 Paul Brill                       8th 

 

13 Minutes  

7 Peter Theodore            1st   

8 Peter Neal                      4th

 

20 Minutes

9 Murray Matthews          9th

 

November 20th 2022

The Colac Vets had eleven riders competing in their toughest club race for the year.

Riders were lucky to have a break in the atrocious weather on Sunday morning, or so they thought.

The race started in fine conditions albeit the very strong westerly winds.

At the 25Km mark heading up and over Lineen’s hill the first time with scratchman Grant Oates on the front of scratch, he topped the speed out at 59.6Km/h in the tail wind.

But then 5Km later heading up and over the Alvie hill into a headwind the four scratchmen’s speed dropped to the low 20’s.

At this point as scratch was about to catch the rest of the field, riders were hit with a mini storm including hail stones.

A few hundred metres later officials instructed that the race would be cut 5Km short and finish up and over Lineen’s hill instead of going back up the Alvie hill.

Coming over Lineen’s hill only six riders remained to contest the finish.

After a long lead out from Michael Markham, Ralph Iselt powered to the line to take his second win for the year with Grant Oates hot on his tail for second.

Markham held on for third place.

 

Result: 38Km Club Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Ralph Iselt                   1st & Fastest Time 

2 Grant Oates                 2nd    

3 Michael Markham      3rd 

4 Arno van der Schans     5th 

 

3 Minutes  

5 Heather Hamling           4th    

6 Luke Rowe                    6th 

7 David Coventry             10th 

 

11 Minutes                    

8 Peter Theodore              7th 

9 Gerard Hickey               8th 

10 Peter Neal                    9th

11 Darren Smith

 

November 13th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had a field of nine riders competing a two lap course with moderate north easterly winds.

The three scratchmen gave a 24 minute start out to lone limit rider Murray Matthews.

The two second scratch riders caught their four minute gap to the next three riders on the second lap.

With 6Km to, go coming into Alvie, Heather Hamling broke away from this group of five.

But Matthews was already holding on to a big lead to come in three and a quarter minutes ahead of Hamling and take his third win for the year.

Glenn Paton led the next four riders in to take third place.

Michael Markham led the scratchmen in 20 seconds later to take fastest time.

 

Result: 47Km Club Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Michael Markham        7th & Fastest Time 

2 Ralph Iselt                    8th    

3 Arno van der Schans    9th 

 

3 Minutes 30 Seconds  

4 Heather Hamling        2nd 

5 David Coventry             5th 

 

7 Minutes 30 Seconds

6 Glenn Paton                 3rd    

7 Gerard Hickey               4th 

8 Peter Theodore               6th 

 

24 Minutes

9 Murray Matthews        1st 

 

November 6th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had their best field and weather conditions since April for the Red Rock Classic.

Fourteen riders split into six small groups completed a 3 and a half lap course going 3 times up Lineen’s hill and four times up Alvie hill before climbing the 1100 metres to the top of Red Rock.

The three scratchmen caught the two second scratch riders at the 26Km mark.

But coming over Lineen’s hill the third time the scratchmen went clear.

Meanwhile the two remaining riders from third scratch were catching and passing the rest of the field hitting the lead in the final two kilometres.

Luke Rowe claimed the coveted trophy ahead of co marker David O’Dwyer with limit rider Bruce Roberts coming in third place ahead of Peter Neal.

Scratchman Grant Oates broke clear of his co markers 300 metres into the final climb to come in next, one and a half minutes behind the winner, and take fastest time.

 

Result: 42Km Red Rock Classic

 

Scratch                          

1 Grant Oates                5th & Fastest Time 

2 Ralph Iselt                  6th    

3 Michael Markham      7th 

 

3 Minutes  

4 David Coventry          8th

5 Tony Prytz                  9th 

 

6 Minutes

6 Luke Rowe                1st   

7 David O’Dwyer        2nd     

8 Glenn Paton

 

9 Minutes

9 Gerard Hickey            10th 

10 Peter Theodore

 

12 Minutes

11 Peter Neal                 4th 

12 Darren Smith

 

23 Minutes

13 Bruce Roberts          3rd 

14 Murray Matthews

 

October 30th 2022

 

After the recent bout of bad weather, the Colac Vets were lucky to get in some fine weather for their club race with ten starters competing.

The scratch foursome was down to three riders after 7Km.

But Andrew Pownceby compensated with some long turns of pace.

Lone limit rider Murray Matthews was caught and passed by the next three riders at the halfway mark.

Heading back to Cororooke the two second scratch riders were caught by the remaining three scratch riders at Warrion.

But the three leaders, led by Glenn Paton, came in with a big four minute lead over the back markers.

Paton claimed his second win from two starts this year, ahead of Peter Theodore and Peter Neal.

After a lead out from Luke Rowe and Andrew Pownceby, Ralph Iselt led the next group in to take fastest time,

After the race the club held their AGM with Wayne Burnett being made a life member.

 

Result: 46Km Club Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Ralph Iselt                  4th & Fastest Time 

2 Heather Hamling        5th    

3 Andrew Pownceby     6th       

4 Michael Markham      Dnf

 

5 Minutes  

5 Luke Rowe                 7th

6 David O’Dwyer          8th 

 

12 Minutes

7 Glenn Paton              1st                      

8 Peter Theodore         2nd     

9 Peter Neal                  3rd 

 

21 Minutes

10 Murray Matthews     Dnf

 

 

October 23rd 2022

 

The Colac Vets had nine starters for their monthly medal.

Riders raced a reasonably tough course having to go over the Alvie hill, over Lineen’s hill and then back over the Alvie hill in the opposite direction before finishing with a 400 metre sprint up Red Rock hill to the toilet block.

The five scratch riders were down to four at the 15Km mark.

Heading up the Alvie hill the last time, scratchman Grant Oates upped the pace with the two middle markers being caught.

But the two front markers held on to win by just under a minute.

Peter Theodore claimed his second ever monthly medal ahead of co marker Gerard Hickey.

Oates came in third place and took fastest time.

 

Result: 51Km Monthly Medal

 

Scratch                          

1 Grant Oates              3rd & Fastest Time 

2 Heather Hamling        4th    

3 Michael Markham      5th       

4 Ralph Iselt                  7th 

5 Darren Allan               Dnf

 

7 Minutes  

6 David O’Dwyer          6th

7 Luke Rowe                 8th 

 

16 Minutes

8 Peter Theodore         1st                      

9 Gerard Hickey          2nd     

 

 

October 16th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had just six starters for their club race.

Riders raced in cool south westerly winds.

The remaining two scratch riders caught the lone middle marker at the 32Km mark.

These three then caught the last of the two front markers with 3Km to go.

Michael Markham continued his winning streak by taking his sixth win of the year ahead of co marker Heather Hamling.

A tyre blow out with 200 metres to go by David Coventry allowed Peter Neal to take third place.

 

Result: 48Km Club Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Michael Markham     1st & Fastest Time 

2 Heather Hamling       2nd       

3 Ralph Iselt                    Dnf

 

5 Minutes  

4 David Coventry            4th

 

15 Minutes

5 Peter Neal                    3rd                     

6 Murray Matthews         5th   

 

October 9th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had nine riders for their club race.

Riders completed laps going past the Cororooke Hall three times before heading out past Lake Corangamite to Alvie and finishing at the top of Red Rock.

The four scratchmen caught the next two riders at the 30km mark.

Meanwhile the two middle markers had caught the lone front marker at the 36Km mark.

With 3km to go the back markers caught the two leading middle markers.

Heading up the Red Rock hill Grant Oates broke clear to cross the line a clear winner and take fastest time.

The next three riders had a close battle for the minor placings with Heather Hamling coming in second ahead of Michael Markham in third place.

 

Result: 45Km Club Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Grant Oates                1st & Fastest Time 

2 Michael Markham     3rd   

3 Arno van der Schans    4th 

4 Ralph Iselt                    5th 

 

3 Minutes 30 Seconds

5 Heather Hamling        2nd   

6 David Coventry             8th

 

13 Minutes

7 Peter Theodore              6th 

8 Gerard Hickey               7th  

 

25 Minutes                 

9 Murray Matthews          9th   

 

October 2nd 2022

 

The Colac Vets had just seven riders for their club race.

Riders started the two lap course in the fog but ended up finishing in sunny conditions.

Lone limit rider Murray Matthews held on to win by just ten metres from Gerard Hickey with Peter Theodore coming in third place.

Ralph Iselt led the four scratchmen in three minutes later to take fastest time.

 

Result: 42Km Club Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Ralph Iselt                   4th & Fastest Time 

2 Grant Oates                 5th 

3 Michael Markham       6th 

4 Arno van er Schans     7th 

 

13 Minutes

5 Gerard Hickey            2nd   

6 Peter Theodore           3rd 

 

25 Minutes                 

7 Murray Matthews       1st 

 

September 25th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had ten riders for their monthly medal.

 

Riders started in sunny conditions with moderate winds.

The four scratchmen caught second scratch two thirds of the way in to the race.

With the two limit riders caught and passed a few kilometres later.

Heading up and over Lineen’s hill, Grant Oates attacked and had a 50 metre lead as he crested the hill.

But in the slight down hill run to the finish line the remaining riders gave chase, with Oates being caught just before the finish line by Michael Markham and Heather Hamling.

Michael Markham continued his dominance this year by picking up his fifth win from fifteen starts and also taking fastest time.

This was his first monthly medal since 2013.

 

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

 

Scratch                          

1 Michael Markham       1st & Fastest Time 

2 Grant Oates                  3rd    

3 Arno van er Schans        4th 

4 Andrew Pownceby         5th 

 

3 Minute 30 Seconds

5 Heather Hamling          2nd   

6 David Coventry              7th   

7 Tony Prytz                      dnf

 

6 Minutes                 

8 David O’Dwyer              6th 

 

11 Minutes

9 Peter Theodore               8th 

10 Gerard Hickey              9th 

 

September 4th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had eight riders for their club race.

Riders raced in cool conditions with little wind.

The three riders from the 7 minute bunch caught the 5 minute gap to the lone limit rider before the half way mark.

They went on to a comfortable win by over two minutes from the second scratch duo.

Glenn Paton having his first race with the Vets for the year took first place ahead of Peter Theodore and Steve Hamling.

The scratch duo had a tight tussle with the second scratch duo for fastest time honours.

Scratchmen Michael Markham prevailed by 13 seconds to take fastest time.

 

Result: 41Km Club Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Michael Markham          6th & Fastest Time 

2 Ralph Iselt                      7th 

 

1 Minute 30 Seconds

3 Heather Hamling            4th   

4 David Coventry              5th   

 

7 Minutes                 

5 Glenn Paton                   1st 

6 Peter Theodore              2nd

7 Steve Hamling                3rd 

 

12 Minutes

8 Darren Smith                   8th 

 

August 21st 2022

 

The Colac Vets had twelve riders for their Monthly Medal.

Riders started in cool overcast conditions.

But as the raced progressed the north west winds picked up with clear skies.

The four scratchmen gave a 21 minute head start to lone limit rider Murray Matthews.

The three bunches in between scratch and limit had all come together with 8Km to go.

Coming in to the Cororooke Hall finish seven riders contested the finish for the win.

Darren Allan timed his return to the Vets after having last raced with them five years ago to take the win for the monthly medal ahead of Luke Rowe and Tony Prytz.

The scratchmen came in just 23 seconds later with Michael Markham finishing with a strong long lead out to hold off his co markers to take fastest time.

 

Result: 42Km Monthly Medal

 

Scratch                          

1 Michael Markham          8th & Fastest Time 

2 Grant Oates                     9th 

3 Arno van der Schans      10th

4 Ralph Iselt

 

3 Minutes

5 Tony Prytz                    3rd 

6 Heather Hamling            4th   

7 David Coventry              5th   

 

5 Minutes                 

8 Darren Allan                 1st 

9 Luke Rowe                    2nd

 

9 Minutes

10 Gerard Hickey             6th 

11 Steve Hamling             7th 

 

21 Minutes

12 Murray Matthews

 

August 7th 2022

 

The Colac Vets held their July Monthly Medal over from last week due to race cancellation.

A small field of seven riders raced out to Beeac and back to Cororooke in cool conditions with a light breeze.

The three scratch riders were down to just two at the 7Km mark with an underdone Ralph Iselt dropping off the pace.

Meanwhile the three second scratch riders only had to catch the lone front marker Peter Neal, which they did on the return from Beeac with 12Km to go.

Coming around the church corner with 1500 metres left, David Coventry went to the front and led into the finish winding up the pace even more in the last 300 metres to hold off David O’Dwyer to take the win.

Gerard Hickey was third with Peter Neal fourth.

The two remaining scratch riders came in 48 seconds later with Heather Hamling leading in Mickael Markham to take fastest time.

 

Result: 46Km Monthly Medal

 

Scratch              

1 Heather Hamling            5th & Fastest Time

2 Michael Markham          6th

3 Ralph Iselt

 

4 Minutes

4 David Coventry             1st    

5 David O’Dwyer             2nd 

6 Gerard Hickey              3rd   

 

13 Minutes                 

7 Peter Neal                        4th 

 

 

July 24th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had their first race at Cororooke in four weeks.

With low entry numbers, the last two races have been called off.

It was decided to race this week even with just seven entries.

The three scratch riders caught the next two riders just after the 20Km mark.

But these two were unable to keep up with the three scratch riders.

Lone 11 minute rider Peter Neal was then caught 10 Km later and he was able to stay with them until the finish.

Lone limit rider Murray Matthews was then caught and passed.

Coming into the Factory Road finish, Michael Markham led in Arno van der Schans and Heather Hamling to take his fourth win for the year.

 

Result: 46Km Club Race

 

Scratch              

1 Michael Markham          1st & Fastest Time

2 Arno van der Schans      2nd    

3 Heather Hamling            3rd  

 

4 Minutes

4 Steve Hamling                 5th 

5 Gerard Hickey                 6th 

 

11 Minutes                 

6 Peter Neal                        4th 

 

18 Minutes

7 Murray Matthews

 

June 26th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had nine starters for their monthly medal.

Riders raced in cold south westerly winds.

The scratch and second scratch bunches had each lost one rider on the first of two laps.

Heading up Melrose Road the second time with 15Km to go, the two remaining second scratch riders had caught the next two riders and then lone limit rider Peter Theodore.

This group of five were still together as they reached the bottom of Lineen’s hill with 2Km to go.

Heather Hamling put the pressure on up the hill with only David O’Dwyer staying with her as they crested the hill.

In the run to the finish line O’Dwyer got the better of Hamling to cross the line first and take his win first monthly medal.

David Coventry came in next to take third.

Arno van der Schans came in one minute and fourteen seconds later on his own to take fastest time.

 

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

 

Scratch              

1 Arno van der Schans      6th & Fastest Time

2 Gain O’Brien                 7th   

3 Mark Flett

 

4 Minutes

4 Heather Hamling          2nd

5 David Coventry             3rd               

6 Steve Hamling                 8th 

 

7 Minutes                 

7 David O’Dwyer              1st 

8 Gerard Hickey                 4th 

 

13 Minutes

9 Peter Theodore                5th 

 

June 5th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had just six riders turn up to race on Sunday morning.

After torrential rain during the night, riders ended up racing in clear blue skies.

Although they had to put up with cold and very strong north westerly winds.

The race was a low key affair with no entry fee and no prize money, but still raced for aggregate points.

The three back markers caught the three front markers with 7Km to go.

Four riders remained in the run to the Cororooke Hall finish line.

After a lead out from David Coventry, Arno Van der Schans and Mark Flett fought out the finish with Flett just getting past van der Schans to take win and fastest time.

 

Result: 46Km Club Race

 

Scratch              

1 Mark Flett                     1st & Fastest Time

2 Arno van der Schans    2nd  

3 Ralph Iselt                     3rd   

 

8 Minutes

4 David Coventry              4th 

5 Peter Neal                       5th               

6 Peter Theodore               6th 

 

May 29th 2022

 

The Colac Vets held their monthly medal over from last week after the race was cancelled due to the fog.

This time the twelve rider field raced a different course for the monthly medal, going out and back up Nalangil Road, back through Alvie and towards Warrion before finishing in Factory Road Cororooke.

Last month’s medal winner Andrew Pownceby was given the tough task of chasing a two minute gap to a bunch five riders.

These five riders caught the next three riders at the 21Km mark.

Six riders continued on and caught the three front markers with 6Km to go.

With 250 Metres to go, Mark Flett started off the sprint for the finish line from the front, with Ralph Iselt coming from fourth wheel to take the win and holding off Gavin O’Brien in second and Michael Markham in third place.

Iselt also took fastest time with Pownceby losing ground on the second scratch bunch.

This was also Iselt’s 16th monthly medal, putting him in second place on the all time Vets Monthly Medal tally, ahead of retired rider John Allen who has 15 medals.

David Lunn heads the list with 21 medals.

 

Scratch   

1 Andrew Pownceby         10th 

 

2 Minutes              

2 Ralph Iselt                     1st & Fastest Time

3 Gavin O’Brien              2nd  

4 Michael Markham        3rd   

5 Mark Flett                       5th  

6 Arno van der Schans       6th

 

5 Minutes

7 Heather Hamling             4th    

8 Steve Hamling              

9 David Coventry

 

10 Minutes

10 Peter Neal                     7th 

11 Gary Legg                     8th              

12 Peter Theodore              9th 

 

 

May 15th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had thirteen riders compete in tough conditions with strong north westerly winds and a couple of showers of rain.

The scratch duo had a four minute gap to try and reel in on the four second scratch riders.

This foursome picked up the two and a half minute gap to the next three riders after just 16Km with Heather Hamling the only one to join in with them.

This group of five riders then caught the four leading riders from the limit and second limit bunches with just 2Km to go.

Heading down to the Cororooke Hall finish line with Gavin O’Brien on the front, Michael Markham took an opening down the left hand side of the road with 300 meters to go and powered to the line to take his third win for the year.

Ralph Iselt came in second with Heather Hamling in third place.

Markham also took a bonus in fastest time, with the scratchmen splitting up and leaving Shaun Thompson to try and make up time on his own for the second half of the race and eventually losing the time by 15 seconds.

 

Result: 42Km Club Race

 

Scratch   

1 Shaun Thompson          10th 

2 Simon Redford

 

4 Minutes              

3 Michael Markham       1st & Fastest Time

4 Ralph Iselt                     2nd  

5 Arno van der Schans      4th

6 Gavin O’Brien                5th  

 

6 Minutes 30 Seconds

7 Heather Hamling          3rd   

8 Steve Hamling              

9 Gerard Hickey

 

13 Minutes

10 Gary Legg                     6th 

11 Peter Neal                     7th 

12 Peter Theodore              8th 

 

18 Minutes

13 Murray Matthews          9th 

 

 

 

April 24th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had fourteen riders competing in moderate south easterly winds for their

The scratch duo had to chase four and a half minutes to the second scratch trio.

The second scratch trio only had a one and a half minute gap to the next two riders which they made up at the 18Km mark.

This group of five riders then caught the next three riders at the 34Km mark.

The front markers were caught with 6Km to go.

Then the scratch duo caught everyone one kilometre later.

Heading up the Alvie hill, riders jostled for position in preparation for the downhill run to the Alvie footy ground finish line.

After a lead out from Michael Markham and Heather Hamling, Andrew Pownceby powered to the line ahead of his co marker Shaun Thompson and Ralph Iselt.

 

Result: 51Km Monthly Medal

 

Scratch   

1 Andrew Pownceby      1st & Fastest Time   

2 Shaun Thompson        2nd    

 

4 Minutes 30 Seconds              

3 Ralph Iselt                    3rd

4 Gavin O’Brien               4th 

5 Michael Markham         5th 

 

6 Minutes

6 Heather Hamling           6th 

7 Steve Hamling               8th 

 

8 Minutes 

8 David O’Dwyer             7th        

9 Luke Rowe                     9th    

10 Gerard Hickey             10th 

 

14 Minutes 30 Seconds

11 Peter Theodore

12 Peter Neal

13 Bruce Roberts

 

22 Minutes

14 Murray Matthews

 

April 10th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had fourteen riders competing in reasonably strong north easterly winds for their club race.

Riders raced out to Beeac and did two 9Km laps before returning back to Cororooke

The five second limit riders had caught lone limit rider Tim O’Sullivan by the time they had reached Beeac the first time.

Meanwhile the five scratchmen had caught the three second scratch riders just before reaching Beeac the second time.

Heading back to Cororooke only three of the front markers remained in the lead.

They came in just 10 seconds ahead of fast finishing scratch rider Gavin O’Brien.

Gary Legg claimed the win ahead of co markers Peter Theodore and Peter Neal.

 

Result: 46Km Club Race

 

Scratch   

1 Gavin O’Brien              4th & Fastest Time   

2 Michael Markham        5th 

3 Arno van der Schans    6th  

4 Ralph Iselt                    7th  

5 Mark Flett                    10th  

 

3 Minutes              

6 Heather Hamling           8th 

7 Steve Hamling               9th  

8 David Coventry

 

11 Minutes

9 Gary Legg                    1st  

10 Peter Theodore          2nd  

11 Peter Neal                   3rd 

12 Paul Millar

13 Tom McBroom

 

16 Minutes 

14 Tim O’Sullivan       

 

 

April 3rd 2022

 

The Colac Vets had nine riders for their club race.

The third scratch trio only had to reel in lone limit rider Peter Theodore, which they did two thirds the way around in to the second of two laps.

They finished 55 seconds ahead of the second scratch bunch.

Michael Markham has started the year in fine form having two wins and a second place from the first six races.

He led in Steve and Heather Hamling to take the win.

Lone scratchmen Andrew Pownceby finished just under one and a half minutes behind the second scratch bunch to save fastest time by 8 seconds.

 

Result: 42Km Club Race

 

Scratch   

1 Andrew Pownceby        8th & Fastest Time   

 

1 Minute 30 Seconds              

2 Ralph Iselt                     4th 

3 Mark Flett                      5th  

4 Gavin O’Brien               6th 

5 Arno van der Schans      Punctured

 

4 Minutes 30 Seconds

6 Michael Markham       1st  

7 Steve Hamling              2nd  

8 Heather Hamling         3rd 

 

12 Minutes 30 Seconds 

9 Peter Theodore               7th            

 

March 27th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had sixteen riders for their monthly medal.

After the fog had lifted riders raced in perfect conditions.

The four limit riders were boosted by the addition of new rider Darren Smith having his first ride with the Colac Vets.

The four scratchmen had caught the second scratch bunch of five riders at the 30Km mark.

Even with a combined bunch of nine riders, it wasn’t good enough to reel in the leaders.

They finished on the tail end of the middle marker bunch of three riders.

The three remaining limit riders had finished with three and a half minutes to spare.

Peter Neal claimed the monthly medal over Darren Smith and Tom McBroom.

As the backmarkers came to the finish, Gavin O’Brien followed Mark Flett in for a good lead out to be able to take fastest time.

 

Result: 48Km Monthly Medal

 

Scratch   

1 Gavin O’Brien             6th & Fastest Time   

2 Simon Redford             9th 

3 Arno van der Schans

4 Ralph Iselt

 

2 Minutes              

5 Mark Flett                     7th             

6 Heather Hamling          10th   

7 Michael Markham

8 David Coventry

9 Steve Hamling

 

5 Minutes 30 Seconds

10 David O’Dwyer          4th 

11 Luke Rowe                 5th 

12 Gerard Hickey            8th 

 

15 Minutes 30 Seconds 

13 Peter Neal                   1st   

14 Darren Smith             2nd 

15 Tom McBroom           3rd

16 Tim O’Sullivan          

 

 

March 20th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had twelve riders for their club race.

Riders raced in favourable conditions.

The third scratch bunch of four riders dominated the race catching and leaving behind the four front markers.

Mark Flett claimed first place ahead of David Coventry, Heather and Steve Hamling.

Andrew Pownceby riding solo off the scratch mark took fastest time.

 

Result: 47Km Club Race

 

Scratch   

1 Andrew Pownceby       Fastest Time

 

3 Minutes              

2 Arno van der Schans     9th 

3 Gavin O’Brien              10th   

4 Michael Markham            

 

7 Minutes

5 Mark Flett                    1st              

6 David Coventry           2nd 

7 Heather Hamling         3rd 

8 Steve Hamling               4th 

 

18 Minutes

9 Paul Millar                     5th 

10 Peter Neal                    6th 

11 Tim O’Sullivan            8th 

 

20 Minutes

12 Murray Matthews        7th  

 

March 6th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had eleven riders for their club race.

Five riders started together off the scratch mark but were down to three after going over the Alvie School hill at the half way mark.

These three then caught the two remaining riders from the next bunch 10Km further on.

Three kilometres later the two second limit riders were caught.

Out in front, lone limit rider Murray Matthews still had a two minute lead 8Km from the finish.

He was caught turning into Factory Road with less than 2Km to go by the four remaining riders.

Gavin O’Brien crossed the line to take first and fastest time ahead of Michael Markham and Heather Hamling.

 

Result: 48Km Club Race

 

Scratch   

1 Gavin O’Brien            1st & Fastest Time

2 Michael Markham    2nd

3 Heather Hamling      3rd 

4 Mark Flett                   8th 

5 Steve Hamling            9th

 

4 Minutes              

6 Gerard Hickey             4th 

7 David Coventry           7th   

8 Peter Theodore            10th             

 

11 Minutes

9 Peter Neal                    6th          

10 Tom McBroom            

 

16 Minutes

11 Murray Matthews      5th  

February 20th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had thirteen riders for their first monthly medal of the year.

Riders raced in good conditions with light south westerly winds.

Lone limit rider Murray Matthews had a 22 minute start back to the four scratchmen.

He rode a good solo race to come in one and a half minutes ahead of the scratch bunch and take the win.

Scratch caught the four second scratch riders at the bottom of the Alvie hill with 9Km to go, with the next four riders being caught a further 5Km on.

Heading up and over Lineen’s hill for the second time, Simon Redford wound up the pace.

After a short lead out from Arno van der Schans, Redford continued to put the pressure on, with Ralph Iselt coming off his wheel to take second place and fastest time.

Redford held on for third place.

 

Result: 45Km Monthly Medal        

 

Scratch   

1 Ralph Iselt                   2nd & Fastest Time

2 Simon Redford            3rd

3 Arno van der Schans     6th 

4 Gavin O’Brien               7th 

 

3 Minutes              

5 Michael Markham         4th 

6 Heather Hamling           5th   

7 Mark Flett                      9th   

8 Steve Hamling           

 

7 Minutes

9 Gerard Hickey                8th          

10 Peter Theodore                

 

13 Minutes

11 Gary Legg                    10th 

12 Tom McBroom

 

22 Minutes

13 Murray Matthews       1st   

 

 

 

 

February 13th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had eleven riders for their club race.

Riders raced with very warm and strong north westerly winds.

Lone scratchman Andrew Pownceby had a tough 3-minute chase to the three second scratch riders.

The second scratch riders were also chasing 3 minutes to the next three riders.

Second scratch, with some strong turns from Arno van der Schans, hit the lead with 11Km to go.

Coming over the Alvie hill for the second time with 5km remaining, five riders were left in the lead to contest the finish.

Michael Markham took advantage of the worn out second scratch riders to take the win ahead of van der Schans and his co marker Gerard Hickey.

Pownceby came in just 16 seconds behind to take fastest time.

 

Result: 47Km Club Race

 

Scratch   

1 Andrew Pownceby        6th & Fastest Time

 

3 Minutes              

2 Arno van der Schans   2nd    

3 Gavin O’Brien               4th   

4 Ralph Iselt                      5th            

 

6 Minutes

5 Michael Markham        1st  

6 Gerard Hickey              3rd         

7 Steve Hamling                7th 

 

13 Minutes

8 Gary Legg                      8th 

9 Peter Neal                       9th 

10 Tom McBroom

 

21 Minutes

11 Murray Matthews        10th 

 

February 6th 2022

 

The Colac Vets had their first race for the year.

A field of twelve riders competed in graded scratch races.

Riders race with warm north easterly winds.

A and B Grade raced over 46K with C Grade doing 37Km.

 

Result: A Grade          

Gavin O’Brien          1st           

Simon Redford         2nd

Ralph Iselt                3rd 

Heather Hamling

Steve Hamling

 

Result: B Grade

Michael Markham     1st 

Mark Flett                  2nd 

Gerard Hickey            3rd 

Glenn Paton

Peter Theodore

 

Result: C Grade

Gary Legg                   1st

Tom McBroom           2nd