Results 2023

December 17th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of fourteen riders for their last club race for the year.

Riders competed in sunny conditions with light winds.

The field was split into seven small groups with lone scratchman Tony Luppino starting 17 minutes behind the lone limit rider Tom McBroom.

The second scratch trio caught the next three riders early at the 14Km mark.

With the help of Heather Hamling, it then took them another 20Km to reel in the next three riders.

The remaining four front riders were then caught in the next two kilometres with 11Km remaining.

Heading up and over Lineen’s hill, after three small attacks from three different riders, Steve Hamling led out before the sprint to the line.

Michael Markham then came off Hamling’s wheel, but he was unable to hold off Ralph Iselt in the sprint.

Iselt claimed his second win for the year and his seventeenth all time monthly medal.

Paul Brill finished in third place.

Scratchman Tony Luppino finished one minute and nineteen seconds behind to save fastest time by one minute and eleven seconds.

 

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

 

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino             Fastest Time    

2 Minutes 30 Seconds   

2 Ralph Iselt                   1st                     

3 Michael Markham      2nd  

4 Paul Brill                      3rd 

4 Minutes             

5 Heather Hamling           5th         

6 Larry Nocera                  9th      

7 Gavin O’Brien  

    

5 Minutes 30 Second 

8 Mark Flett                      4th 

9 Dave Coventry               7th 

10 Steve Hamling              8th 

9 Minutes         

11 Bec Luppino                6th     

12 Gary Legg                   10th 

11 Minutes

13 Peter Theodore

17 Minutes

14 Tom McBroom 

 

December 10th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of fourteen riders for their second last club race for the year.

Riders competed in good conditions with light winds.

Limit rider Tom McBroom made his return and was sent off the 20 minute mark with Bruce Roberts.

Larry Nocera also made a return and was put with the winning 9 minute bunch.

Gavin O’Brien claimed his second win for the year ahead of co markers Heather Hamling and Nocera.

The scratch pair had caught second scratch and finished one and a half minutes behind the winner with Tony Luppino taking fastest time over Grant Oates.

This was the last race for aggregate points with Michael Markham claiming the shield for the second year in a row.

Markham finished on 84 points ahead of Ralph Iselt on 79 points and Gerard Hickey on 71 points.

Result: 46Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino             7th & Fastest Time    

2 Grant Oates                   8th

                     

5 Minutes

3 Michael Markham         9th   

4 Ralph Iselt                     10th

5 Steve Hamling         

6 Dave Coventry

9 Minutes

7 Gavin O’Brien             1st              

8 Heather Hamling         2nd        

9 Larry Nocera                3rd        

10 Mark Flett                    6th          

13 Minutes

11 Gary Legg                    4th

12 Bec Luppino                 5th 

20 Minutes         

13 Tom McBroom

14 Bruce Roberts     

 

 

December 3rd 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of twelve riders for their club race.

Riders competed in light easterly winds.

The middle marker trio caught the second limit pair early.

But coming back onto the Ballarat Road at the 27Km mark a mishap saw Gerard Hickey coming off his bike.

While the other four riders waited to see if he was okay, they lost 3 minutes, allowing the second scratch trio to catch up to them.

Meanwhile the two front markers still had a big lead but split up toward the finish with Murray Matthews cramping.

Co marker Peter Neal continued to come in two minutes ahead of Matthews and take his first win for the year.

The scratch pair had caught the rest of the riders with 6Km to go.

Tony Luppino led this group in 25 seconds behind Matthews to take third place and fastest time over co marker Grant Oates.

Result: 51Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino              3rd & Fastest Time    

2 Grant Oates                   5th

                         

4 Minutes 30 Seconds

3 Ralph Iselt                     4th   

4 Paul Brill                       6th

5 Steve Hamling              10th 

9 Minutes 30 Seconds

6 Heather Hamling           7th              

7 Gavin O’Brien               9th      

8 Bec Luppino                  11th                

13 Minutes

9 Gary Legg                      8th

10 Gerard Hickey              Fell

26 Minutes         

11 Peter Neal                   1st

12 Murray Matthews      2nd      

 

November 26th 2023

 

The Colac Vetfield of thirteen riders for their monthly medal.

Riders competed in reasonably strong south westerly winds but did avoid any rain.

The three second limit riders caught the two limit riders at the half way mark.

Meanwhile the four second scratch riders caught the two middle markers at the 33Km mark.

In one of the closest finishes this year, the scratch duo caught second scratch with 800 metres to go with the five leading riders holding on by just 22 seconds at the finish from the back markers.

Rebecca Luppino claimed her second monthly medal, having won her last one in 2016, ahead of Gerard Hickey and Gavin O’Brien.

Grant Oates led the back markers in to take fastest time over co marker Tony Luppino.

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

Scratch                          

1 Grant Oates                 6th & Fastest Time    

2 Tony Luppino               8th

                     

3 Minutes

3 Ralph Iselt                     7th 

4 Michael Markham         9th 

5 Arno van der Schans     10th 

6 Paul Brill

8 Minutes 30 Seconds

7 Heather Hamling              

8 Steve Hamling                  

10 Minutes 30 Seconds

9 Bec Luppino                  1st 

10 Gavin O’Brien             3rd 

11 Gary Legg                     4th

15 Minutes         

12 Gerard Hickey             2nd 

13 Peter Neal                      5th      

 

November 19th 2023 

The Colac Vets had a field of eleven riders for their club race.

Riders competed in light easterly winds.

The three riders from the 13 minute bunch combined well to reel in the two front markers at the end of the third of four laps.

This group of five riders then went on to finish with a big four minutes to spare over the second scratch trio with the scratch trio a further minute back.

Mark Flett claimed his second win for the year ahead of Gerard Hickey and Peter Theodore.

Tony Luppino led co markers Grant Oates and Michael Markham in to take fastest time.

Result: 48Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino              9th & Fastest Time    

2 Grant Oates                   10th

3 Michael Markham         11th                           

7 Minutes

4 Ralph Iselt                      6th 

5 Heather Hamling            7th    

6 Steve Hamling                8th  

13 Minutes

7 Mark Flett                     1st 

8 Gavin O’Brien                4th   

9 Gary Legg                       5th

17 Minutes         

10 Gerard Hickey             2nd 

11 Peter Theodore            3rd 

 

November 12th 2023

The Colac Vet had a field of eleven riders for their club race out to Cundare.

Riders competed in strong south westerly winds.

The two scratchmen rode well in the tough conditions to reel in the second scratch trio with 15Km to go and then the four middle markers with 10Km remaining.

But the two limit riders, who had a 22 minute start on scratch, came in with 3 minutes to spare at the finish.

Peter Theodore claimed his first win for the year ahead of Gerard Hickey.

Tony Luppino led the next group in to take third place and fastest time.

 

Result: 53Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino              3rd & Fastest Time    

2 Michael Markham         4th                           

 

4 Minutes 30 Seconds

3 Ralph Iselt                      5th 

4 Heather Hamling            6th    

5 Paul Brill                        7th  

 

11 Minutes

6 Gary Legg                       8th 

7 Dave Coventry                9th 

8 Mark Flett                       10th

9 Bec Luppino                   11th 

 

22 Minutes

10 Peter Theodore            1st         

11 Gerard Hickey             2nd 

 

November 5th 2023

The Colac Vets had a small feild of 9 for their Red Rock Classic.

Riders competed in strong easterly winds.

The scratch foursome was down to three riders at the 25Km mark, but still managed to reel in the two combined front bunches and go on to take the first three places.

Grant Oates was the first to reach the top of Red Rock, followed by Michael Markham and Arno van der Schans.

 

Result: 55Km Red Rock Classic

Scratch                          

1 Grant Oates                  1st & Fastest Time    

2 Michael Markham       2nd                          

3 Arno van der Schans   3rd 

4 Paul Brill                        Dnf

 

11 Minutes

5 Gary Legg                       4th 

6 Dave Coventry                5th    

7 Dave O’Dwyer                6th  

 

16 Minutes

8 Peter Theodore                7th        

9 Peter Neal                        Dnf

 

29th October 2023

The Colac Vets had a feild of 12 riders compete in the Monthly Medal.

Normal lone limit rider Murray Matthews was given some extra help with two co-markers to start with.

Half way into the race only two of the front markers remained to go on and finish with a big lead coming into the finish.

Matthews held off Peter Neal to claim his first win for the year and the Monthly Medal.

The third scratch trio had caught the next two riders, with Darren Allan leading this group of five in to take third place.

The second scratch trio was just another ten seconds back, with Arno van der Schans claiming fastest time over lone scratchman Tony Luppino, who had lost time on second scratch.

Result: 46Km Monthly Medal

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino                  

2 Minutes              

2 Arno van der Schans    8th & Fastest Time 

3 Michael Markham          9th 

4 Paul Brill                        10th

6 Minutes

5 Darren Allan                 3rd 

6 Heather Hamling            4th 

7 Steve Hamling                7th 

10 Minutes

8 Dave Coventry                5th    

9 Bec Luppino                    6th  

29 Minutes

10 Murray Matthews       1st   

11 Peter Neal                     2nd 

12 Bruce Roberts     

 

October 15th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of 10 riders compete with cool westerly winds for their club race.

The two scratchmen caught their two minute gap to the second scratch foursome at the 30Km mark.

Three more riders were then caught over the next 8Km.

Lone limit rider Murray Matthews was then caught with 4Km to go.

Heading into the Factory Road finish at Cororooke only the six back markers remained.

Scratchman Grant Oates crept away to a small six bike length lead before co marker Tony Luppino took off with 400 metres to go with Ralph Iselt on his wheel.

Luppino then eased up in the strong head wind before the final sprint started with 150 metres to go.

In a close finish, with only one and a half bike lengths separating the first three riders, Tony Luppino held off Michael Markham and Ralph Iselt to take the win and fastest time.

Result: 48Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino               1st & Fastest Time    

2 Grant Oates                    5th 

2 Minutes            

3 Michael Markham        2nd 

4 Ralph Iselt                     3rd   

5 Arno van der Schans      4th 

6 Paul Brill                        6th

10 Minutes

7 Gary Legg                      9th

8 Dave Coventry               10th

15 Minutes

9 Peter Theodore               8th    

29 Minutes

10 Murray Matthews         7th 

 

October 8th 2023

The Colac Vets had 12 riders compete in their second gravel race for the year.

Riders competed over a 42Km course of which fourteen kilometres was on gravel roads.

After missing the start, Paul Brill had to start with the scratch duo and then ended up having a puncture.

The scratch duo then caught the second scratch pair at the three quarter mark.

The 9 minute bunch took a wrong turn before getting back on track.

Meanwhile 13 minute rider Gary Legg had left behind his two co-markers and went on to take his third win for the year, coming in two minutes ahead of scratchman Andrew Pownceby in second, and Heather Hamling in third place.

Result: 42Km Gravel Race

Scratch                          

1 Andrew Pownceby         2nd & Fastest Time    

2 Tony Luppino                  5th      

3 Paul Brill                         Punctured    

5 Minutes

4 Heather Hamling            3rd         

5 Steve Hamling                  4th

9 Minutes

6 Dave O’Dwyer                  6th 

7 Bec Luppino                      7th    

8 Dave Coventry                   8th    

13 Minutes

9 Gary Legg                        1st

10 Peter Theodore                9th 

11 Gerard Hickey     

25 Minutes

12 Murray Matthews            10th 

 

September 23 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of nine riders for their monthly medal.

Riders raced in sunny conditions with north easterly winds.

The two back marker bunches had to contend with herd of cows at the 18Km mark costing them valuable time.

Scratch caught second scratch a few kilometres later.

But the time loss would not have made any difference to the result, with the middle marker bunch of three riders combining well to reel in lone front marker Murray Matthews with 11Km remaining and going on to finish three and a half minutes ahead of the back markers.

Dave O’Dwyer sprinted in Gary Legg to take the win with Gerard Hickey further back in third place.

Michael Markham led the back markers in to take fastest time.

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

Scratch                          

1 Michael Markham         4th & Fastest Time    

2 Ralph Iselt                        5th     

3 Paul Brill                          8th     

 

3 Minutes

4 Heather Hamling              6th       

5 Steve Hamling                  7th

 

10 Minutes

6 Dave O’Dwyer                  1st

7 Gary Legg                         2nd 

8 Gerard Hickey                  3rd 

 

24 Minutes

9 Murray Matthews               9th 

 

September 10th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of just six riders for their club race after three late withdrawals.

Riders raced with a cool westerly breeze.

The two front markers were given an extra minute out to 11 minutes over the scratch bunch.

But the scratch foursome set a good steady pace to reel them in with 11Km still remaining.

Coming into the Factory Road finish at Cororooke, Arno van der Schans found himself on the front with a small gap with the other three scratchmen reluctant to chase him down.

By the time the other three started their sprint, van der Schans had enough to spare to take the win and fastest time.

Ralph Iselt came in second ahead of Michael Markham in third.

Result: 48Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Arno van der Schans     1st & Fastest Time    

2 Ralph Iselt                      2nd     

3 Michael Markham         3rd   

4 Grant Oates                      4th 

11 Minutes

5 Gerard Hickey                 5th       

6 Peter Theodore                6th

 

September 3rd 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of eight riders for their club race.

Riders raced in sunny conditions with an easterly head wind out to Beeac, retuning along Colac-Ballarat Road back to a Factory Road finish at Cororooke.

After being caught by scratch last week, the second scratch trio lifted a notch this week to hold off scratch by just under a minute at the finish.

They reeled in the two front markers with 10Km to go.

Paul Brill was having his 10th start with the Vets having joined last year and claimed his first win ahead of Heather Hamling and Dave O’Dwyer.

Ralph Iselt led in co markers Michael Markham and Grant Oates to take fastest time.

Result: 41Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Ralph Iselt                    5th & Fastest Time 

2 Michael Markham         6th 

3 Grant Oates                   7th 

3 Minutes            

4 Paul Brill                       1st 

5 Heather Hamling          2nd

6 Steve Hamling                4th 

9 Minutes

7 Dave O’Dwyer              3rd

8 Peter Theodore               8th

 

August 27th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of eleven riders for their monthly medal.

Riders raced with an easterly wind which gained in strength on the second of two laps.

The scratch foursome was down to three riders coming through Alvie at the 20Km mark.

But they still managed to catch the second scratch trio 7Km later.

With no help from second scratch with turns of pace, the three remaining scratch riders continued to finally reel in the leaders with just 3Km to go.

Heading up and over Lineen’s hill, Grant Oates had to attack three times into a strong headwind to leave behind his co markers to cross the line a clear winner and take fastest time.

Michael Markham came in second with Heather Hamling getting past Ralph Iselt to take third place.

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

Scratch                          

1 Grant Oates              1st & Fastest Time 

2 Michael Markham   2nd 

3 Ralph Iselt                  4th 

4 Darren Allan               11th 

 2 Minutes 30Seconds            

5 Heather Hamling      3rd 

6 Steve Hamling            5th 

7 Paul Brill                     6th 

10 Minutes

8 Gerard Hickey           7th  

9 Tony Prytz                 8th 

10 Gary Legg                9th 

22 Minutes

11 Murray Matthews     10th 

 

August 20th 2023

The Colac Vets had their first club race in two months with nine riders competing in reasonably strong westerly winds.Husband and Wife duo Steve and Heather Hamling had a four minute head start on the four scratchmen and were chasing a seven minute gap to the three front markers.

The Hamlings hit the lead with 5Km to go with the scratch bunch within 45 seconds.

They went on to hold off scratch by 27 seconds with Steve taking the win over Heather and Gerard Hickey holding on to them to take third place.

After a long lead out from Michael Markham, Ralph Iselt led in the scratch bunch to take fastest time.

Result: 48Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Ralph Iselt                 4th & Fastest Time 

2 Michael Markham      5th  

3 Arno van der Schans   6th 

4 Paul Brill                     7th             

 4 Minutes   

5 Steve Hamling            1st   

6 Heather Hamling       2nd

11 Minutes

7 Gerard Hickey          3rd      

8 Peter Theodore            8th

9 Gary Legg                   9th 

 

June 18th 2023

The Colac Vets had nine starters for their club race competing over a four lap course.

Riders raced in clear but cool conditions with reasonably strong north westerly winds.

The four front markers had time on their side after every lap and went on to finish with 2 minutes and 25 seconds to spare over the back markers.

Gary Legg claimed his second win for the year over Gerard Hickey and Paul Allen.

The scratch duo had caught the second scratch pair at the beginning of the fourth lap.

Tony Luppino led in co marker Andrew Pownceby to take fastest time.

Result: 48Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino          5th & Fastest Time 

2 Andrew Pownceby    6th  

 3 Minutes   

3 Grant Oates               7th           

4 Michael Markham     8th    

9 Minutes

5 Gavin O’Brien           Dnf 

16 Minutes

6 Gary Legg                 1st  

7 Gerard Hickey          2nd 

8 Paul Allen                  3rd   

9 Peter Theodore            4th

 

June 4th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of ten riders for their club race.

Riders raced one of their harder courses with strong easterly winds.

The front markers were boosted by the return of Paul Allen who was having his first race in three years.

Lone scratchman Tony Luppino put in a huge effort in the tough conditions to catch the second scratch trio by the 35Km mark.

He then continued to do most of the pace setting to then reel in the next two riders with 8Km to go and then the four front markers with 4Km to go.

Finishing with a final 400 metre climb into Red Rock Reserve Road, Luppino claimed his second win for the year ahead of Michael Markham and Ralph Iselt.

Result: 51Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino          1st & Fastest Time 

 2 Minutes 30Seconds            

2 Michael Markham   2nd 

3 Ralph Iselt                3rd 

4 Dave Coventry           9th 

5 Minutes 30 Seconds

5 Heather Hamling       4th  

6 Steve Hamling           5th 

12 Minutes

7 Gerard Hickey            6th 

8 Gary Legg                   7th 

9 Paul Allen                   8th 

10 Peter Neal                 10th

 

 

May 21st 2023

The Colac Vets had only field of six riders for their monthly medal with a few riders away at another event.

Riders raced in cold conditions with moderately strong south westerly winds.

The field was split into three groups of two riders, with the second scratch duo catching the two front markers with 12km to go.

Heading up and over Lineen’s hill the two second scratch riders pulled away.

Mark Flett led in co marker Gavin O’Brien to claim his first monthly medal since joining the Vets in 2021.

Gerard Hickey led in Peter Neal for third place.

Michael Markham led in co marker Ralph Iselt to take fastest time, with them coming in one minute and eighteen seconds later and save fastest time by 42 seconds.

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

Scratch                          

1 Michael Markham       5th & Fastest Time 

2 Ralph Iselt                      6th 

2 Minutes            

3 Mark Flett                     1st 

4 Gavin O’Brien              2nd

10 Minutes

5 Gerard Hickey              3rd

6 Peter Neal                       4th

 

May 14th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of eleven riders for their club race.

Riders raced in foggy conditions between Cororooke and Beeac with the fog clearing in the second half of the race.

The four scratchmen only caught the four second scratch riders with 5Km to go,

At this point the three front markers were one and a half minutes away.

This trio came into the Cororooke Hall finish with one minute to spare with Gary Legg taking the win over Peter Neal and Gerard Hickey.

Having done some long turns of pace, Andrew Pownceby then led the back markers into the finish, with Michael Markham coming from fourth wheel to take fastest time.

Result: 46Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Michael Markham       4th &Fastest Time 

2 Ralph Iselt                      5th 

3 Arno van der Schans      6th

4 Andrew Pownceby         9th 

4 Minutes             

5 Gavin O’Brien               7th 

6 Mark Flett                      8th 

7 Steve Hamling               10th 

8 Heather Hamling            11th 

13 Minutes

9 Gary Legg                      1st   

10 Peter Neal                    2nd

11 Gerard Hickey            3rd

 

April 30th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of eleven riders for their monthly medal.

Riders raced in perfect conditions with very light winds.

With the good conditions the back three bunches failed to catch each other.

Only the 11 minute duo and the 16 minute duo came together with 15Km to go.

These four riders came in with one and a half minutes to spare over the next three riders.

Dave Coventry claimed his fourth monthly medal since joining the Vets, ahead of Gerard Hickey and Steve Hamling.

The second scratch trio came in two minutes behind the winner.

Lone scratchman Tony Luppino was a further two minutes back but did take fastest time by 52 seconds.

Result: 46Km Monthly Medal

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino              Fastest Time      

3 Minutes

2 Michael Markham         8th  

3 Arno van der Schans     9th

4 Ralph Iselt                     10th 

6 Minutes          

5 Heather Hamling           5th   

6 Gavin O’Brien               6th 

7 Mark Flett                      7th 

11 Minutes

8 Dave Coventry             1st   

9 Steve Hamling              3rd

16 Minutes

10 Gerard Hickey           2nd 

11 Peter Neal                    4th   

 

April 16th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of eleven riders for their club race.

Riders had a tough ride starting off in wet conditions heading out towards Beeac.

Then continuing out through Cundare in dry conditions but with strong south westerly winds all the way back to the finish at the Lake Corangamite Foreshore Reserve in Bayne’s Road.

The second scratch trio caught the third scratch pair after the half way mark.

These five riders were then caught by the four scratchmen some ten kilometres later.

With 9Km to go the two front markers were caught.

Coming around the Alvie school corner with 4Km to go, riders were hit with a small hail storm.

Then coming around the last bend and into the finish straight, Michael Markham led out the remaining seven riders with Heather Hamling on his wheel.

Ralph Iselt then came from third wheel with Grant Oates on his wheel to go past and take the win and fastest time.

Markham held on for third place.

Result: 54Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Ralph Iselt                   1st & Fastest Time        

2 Grant Oates                 2nd    

3 Michael Markham       3rd 

4 Arno van der Schans     4th 

4 Minutes          

5 Heather Hamling           5th   

6 Gavin O’Brien               6th 

7 Mark Flett                      9th 

8 Minutes

8 Dave Coventry               8th  

9 Steve Hamling               10th

16 Minutes

10 Gerard Hickey             7th 

11 Peter Neal                    11th 

 

 

April 2nd 2023

The Colac Vets had a small field of seven riders compete in their inaugural gravel race.
The 42Km course consisted of sections of gravel totalling 14Km.
Riders were split into A and B grades with A grade giving B Grade a 4 minute head start.
Just after the halfway mark the two grades came together and continued on as one group until the finish back to Cororooke.

Result: A Grade  
1st Heather Hamling        
2nd Tony Luppino                    
3rd Gavin O’Brien

Result: B Grade 
1st Mark Flett   
2nd Luke Rowe  
3rd Steve Hamling
4th Dave Coventry

                                                                                                            

                                
  March 26th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of fifteen riders for their monthly medal. 
After last weeks win the scratch duo were made to chase a big seven minute gap to the next five riders.
The second scratch bunch of five caught the third scratch bunch foursome coming into Warrion for the second time with 18Km still remaining.
This group then caught the four leaders 4Km to go.
Coming up and over Lineen’s hill, Michael Markham came over Arno Van der Schans and wound up the pace before the sprint for the finish line.
Ralph Iselt then came along side Markham and the two had a close battle in the sprint with Markham prevailing by the width of a wheel rim to take his second win for the year.
Heather Hamling was further back in third place.
The scratch duo came in a few minutes behind with Tony Luppino Taking fastest time over co marker Andrew Pownceby.

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

Scratch                          
1 Tony Luppino             Fastest Time        
2 Andrew Pownceby   

7 Minutes     
3 Michael Markham       1st   
4 Ralph Iselt                    2nd       
5 Gavin O’Brien               4th   
6 Arno van der Schans      5th  
7 Paul Brill

10 Minutes
8 Heather Hamling         3rd 
9 Steve Hamling               6th  
10 Luke Rowe                  7th  
11 David Coventry           8th  

16 Minutes
12 Gerard Hickey             9th  
13 Gary Legg                   10th  
14 Peter Theodore
15 Peter Neal
  
  

 

 

March 19th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of twelve riders for their club race.

The scratch duo set a fast pace to reel in their five minute gap to second scratch by the 37Km mark.

Coming over Lineen’s hill with 6Km to go, only one of the second scratch riders being Arno van der Schans was able to hang in with the scratch duo.

Two kilometres later the third scratch foursome were caught, along with lone limit rider Gary Legg.

Riders then had one more climb up the Alvie hill before finishing with a 400 metre finish into Red Rock Reserve Road.

Tony Luppino led out for the finish with Andrew Pownceby taking the win.

Heather Hamling came in third place.

 

Result: 51Km Club Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Andrew Pownceby      1st & Fastest Time        

2 Tony Luppino             2nd    

 

5 Minutes     

3 Arno van der Schans     5th 

4 Ralph Iselt                     8th       

5 Gavin O’Brien               9th   

6 Paul Brill                       10th 

7 Luke Rowe

 

8 Minutes 30 Seconds

8 Heather Hamling         3rd

9 Mark Flett                      4th 

10 David Coventry           6th 

11 Steve Hamling             7th 

 

17 Minutes

12 Gary Legg

 

 

March 5th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of thirteen riders for their club race.

The race started in fog which soon dissipated to have sunny conditions with light westerly winds.

The three second limit riders were making good time to reel in the lone limit rider with 13km to go.

Meanwhile the second scratch foursome took until 7Km to go to catch the third scratch trio.

Turning into Factory Road for the finish, the four leaders had a lead of one and a half minutes.

Gerard Hickey claimed the win ahead of Gary Legg and Peter Neal with Murray Matthews further back in fourth.

Ralph Iselt led the next group in with the scratch duo one minute further back.

Tony Luppino took fastest time over co marker Andrew Pownceby.

 

Result: 48Km Club Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino             10th & Fastest Time        

2 Andrew Pownceby                         

 

6 Minutes     

3 Ralph Iselt                     5th       

4 Michael Markham         6th   

5 Gavin O’Brien               8th 

6 Arno van der Schans      9th

 

9 Minutes

7 Heather Hamling           7th 

8 David Coventry

9 Steve Hamling

 

17 Minutes

10 Gerard Hickey           1st 

11 Gary Legg                  2nd 

12 Peter Neal                   3rd 

 

26 Minutes

13 Murray Matthews        4th 

 

 

February 26th 2023

The Colac Vets had a small field of seven riders for their club race competing in south westerly winds with a couple of small showers of rain.
The two scratchmen had already halved their four minute gap to the second scratch trio by the 13Km Wool Wool turn around point.
The scratch duo then caught the second scratch trio at the 26Km mark.
But turning into Melrose Road to head back to Warrion, only two of the second scratch riders were able to hang in with scratchman Tony Luppino as he stayed on the front for the remaining 20Km of the race.
The two front markers were rounded up at the 36Km mark on Ondit Road as riders turned right to head back to Cororooke.
Coming in to the Factory Road finish Luppino was rewarded for a dominant ride to take the win ahead of Ralph Iselt and Gavin O’Brien.

Result: 46Km Club Race

Scratch                          
1 Tony Luppino             1st & Fastest Time        
2 Michael Markham        6th                  

4 Minutes     
3 Ralph Iselt                   2nd     
4 Gavin O’Brien             3rd  
5 David Coventry             7th 

13 Minutes
6 Peter Theodore              5th  
7 Peter Neal                      
  

 

February 19th 2023

The Colac Vets had a field of fourteen riders for their first monthly medal of the year competing in light westerly winds.

The middle marker 10 minute bunch foursome combined well to keep the back markers out of contention.

They caught the next bunch of three riders with 6Km to go and then the lone front marker with 2Km to go.

Gavin O’Brien, who first began racing with the Colac Vets in 2017, was very happy to claim his first monthly medal ahead of co markers David Coventry and Steve Hamling.

The back markers were well of the pace coming in over three minutes behind.

Lone scratchman Tony Luppino put in a huge effort to nearly catch his four minute gap to the second scratch bunch of five riders to take fastest time.

 

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

 

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino             Fastest Time                        

 

4 Minutes     

2 Ralph Iselt                     9th 

3 Heather Hamling          10th 

4 Luke Rowe

5 Paul Brill

6 Darren Allan

 

10 Minutes    

7 Gavin O’Brien             1st    

8 David Coventry           2nd 

9 Steve Hamling             3rd   

10 Mark Flett                   4th 

 

16 Minutes

11 Peter Theodore            5th 

12 Gerard Hickey             6th    

13 Gary Legg                    7th 

 

28 Minutes

14 Murray Matthews         8th 

 

February 12th 2023

The Colac Vets had a good field of seventeen riders for their first handicap race of the year competing in reasonably strong south westerly winds.

The second scratch bunch caught the third scratch bunch with 7.5Km to go.

This combined group then caught the two leaders with just 1.5Km to go.

After a long lead out from Luke Rowe, Michael Markham powered to the finish line to take the win ahead of Mark Flett and Paul Brill.

Scratchman Tony Luppino led his co markers, Grant Oates and Andrew Pownceby, in one minute and 43 seconds later to take fastest time.

 

Result: 45Km Club Race

 

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino               Fastest Time     

2 Grant Oates    

3 Andrew Pownceby                   

 

7 Minutes  

4 Michael Markham       1st

5 Paul Brill                      3rd   

6 Heather Hamling           4th 

7 Ralph Iselt                     5th 

8 Luke Rowe                    8th 

9 Gavin O’Brien               Dnf

 

13 Minutes                   

10 Mark Flett                  2nd   

11 Steve Hamling             6th 

12 Gerard Hickey             9th 

13 Peter Theodore

14 Glenn Paton

 

19 Minutes

15 Gary Legg                    7th 

16 Peter Neal                    10th

 

25 Minutes

17 Murray Matthews

 

February 5th 2023

 

The Colac Vets had their first race for the year.

A field of ten riders competed in graded scratch races.

 

Result: A Grade          

Tony Luppino          1st           

Grant Oates              2nd

 

Result: B Grade

Michael Markham     1st 

Heather Hamling       2nd 

Gavin O’Brien           3rd

 

Result: C Grade

Mark Flett                   1st

Steve Hamling            2nd 

Gerard Hickey             3rd 

 

Result: D Grade

Gary Legg                    1st

Peter Neal                    2nd