Results 2024

December 15th 

The Colac Vets had ten starters for their last race of the year.
Riders raced in warm conditions with easterly winds.
The scratch bunch was down to three riders with 10Km to go.
The two remaining 11 minute riders had caught the lone limit rider,
Heading up and over Lineen’s hill and down to the finish line it was the two 11 minute
riders holding off the three scratchmen by just 13 seconds.
Gary Legg claimed his third win for the year but first monthly medal since 2017 ahead of
co marker Gerard Hickey.
Darren Allan took third place and fastest time over Mark Flett and Larry Nocera.

Result: 46Km Monthly Medal
Scratch
1 Darren Allan 3rd & Fastest Time
2 Mark Flett 4th
3 Larry Nocera 5th
4 Steve Hamling 6th
5 Heather Hamling 7th
6 Ralph Iselt Punctured

11 Minutes
7 Gary Legg 1st
8 Gerard Hickey 2nd
9 Gavin O’Brien Dnf

25 Minutes
10 Murray Matthews 8th

December 8th

The Colac Vets had just seven riders for their club race after three late withdrawals.
Riders raced in reasonably strong south westerly winds.
Lone scratchmen Tony Luppino put in a strong performance riding through the field,
hitting the lead with 6km to go and coming in just over a minute ahead of Gary Legg and
Ralph Iselt.
This was the last race for Aggregate points after 28 races with 34 riders receiving points.
Heather Hamling finished first on 102 points from 25 races.
Gary Legg was second on 93 points from 25 races.
And Ralph Iselt was third on 82 points from 19 races. 

Result: 46Km Club Race

Scratch
1 Tony Luppino 1st & Fastest Time

2 Minutes
2 Larry Nocera 4th
3 Heather Hamling 5th
4 Steve Hamling 6th

10 Minutes
5 Gary Legg 2nd
6 Ralph Iselt 3rd

12 Minutes
7 Gavin O’Brien 7th

 

November 17th 

The Colac Vets had fifteen starters for their Monthly Medal which was brought forward
one week due to no racing next week.
Riders competed over a four lap course with riders copping strong winds and rain on the
first lap, leaving eight riders to abandon the race by the end of that lap.
The next two laps saw the weather ease up with only seven riders from the two back
marker bunches remaining.
At the start of the last lap the remaining three scratch riders were within 30 seconds of
catching the four second scratch riders.
Then an even stronger burst of wind and rain belted riders again half way around the last
lap.
With 800 metres to go, two of the scratchmen caught three of the second scratch riders by
surprise.
Scratchmen Andrew Pownceby then burst past with 600 metres to go, with Grant Oates
chasing him down and getting past him to take his third win and second monthly medal
for the year.
Heather Hamling came in a little further back in third place.

Result: 46Km Monthly Medal
Scratch
1 Grant Oates 1st & Fastest Time
2 Andrew Pownceby 2nd
3 Mark Flett 6th
4 Michael Markham Dnf

3 Minutes
5 Heather Hamling 3rd
6 Steve Hamling 4th
7 Larry Nocera 5th
8 Paul Brill 7th

10 Minutes
9 Gary Legg Dnf
10 Gerard Hickey Dnf
11 Tom McBroom Dnf

13 Minutes
12 Gavin O’Brien Dnf
13 Peter Theodore Dnf
14 Glenn Paton Dnf

28 Minutes
15 Murray Mattews Dnf

 

November 10th

The Colac Vets had eleven riders competing in good conditions with light winds for their
club race.
The three front markers had a four minute start on last weeks first and second place
getters and ended up racing nearly the same time as them.
Therefore, the front markers came in with a big lead of about four minutes over the two
middle markers with Tom McBroom collecting his fifth win for the year ahead of Gavin
O’Brien and Peter Neal.
The second scratch trio came in one and a half minutes behind the middle markers with
the scratch trio hot on their heels just nine seconds later.
Steve Hamling led in co markers Michael Markham and Paul Brill across the line to take
fastest time.

Result: 41Km Club Race
Scratch
1 Steve Hamling 8th & Fastest Time
2 Michael Markham 10th
3 Paul Brill 11th

2 Minutes 30 Seconds
4 Mark Flett 6th
5 Larry Nocera 7th
6 Heather Hamling 8th

11 Minutes
7 Gary Legg 4th
8 Gerard Hickey 5th

15 Minutes
9 Tom McBroom 1st
10 Gavin O’Brien 2nd
11 Peter Neal 3rd

 

November 3rd

The Colac Vets had eleven riders competing in reasonably strong north westerly winds
for their club race.
Riders raced out to Beeac, then doing two 9km laps before returning to Cororooke.
The two front limit riders were caught coming back through Warrion with 11Km to go by
the four middle markers.
But within the next kilometre, two of the middle markers dropped off the pace.
This left the other two middle markers to do most of the turns of pace with the two front
markers dropping off with a few kilometres to go.
Heading into the Cororooke Hall finish, Gerard Hickey was able to get past Gary Legg to
take his second win from the last three races.
The two front markers, Peter Neal and Gavin O’Brien, held on for third and fourth place
before the scratch bunch of five came in to finish one minute and twenty seconds behind
the winner.
Michael Markham held off Steve Hamling to take fastest time.

Result: 46Km Club Race
Scratch
1 Michael Markham 5th & Fastest Time
2 Steve Hamling 6th
3 Larry Nocera 7th
4 Paul Brill 8th
5 Heather Hamling 9th

13 Minutes
6 Gerard Hickey 1st
7 Gary Legg 2nd
8 Tom McBroom 10th
9 Peter Theodore 11th

17 Minutes
10 Peter Neal 3rd
11 Gavin O’Brien 4th

 

October 27th

The Colac Vets had eleven starters for their Red Rock Classic.
Riders raced in good conditions with light winds.
The course headed out to Warrion and back to the Alvie school, then completing three
laps going three times up Lineen’s hill and three times up the Alvie hill before the final
one kilometre climb to the top of Red Rock.
The scratch trio had picked up half their chase gap of 2.30 minutes to the second scratch
trio when scratchman Michael Markham punctured.
The remaining two scratchmen then got within 30 seconds of second scratch with a lap to
go, but then began to lose time.
Meanwhile the remaining two middle markers had caught the two front markers on the
last lap.
Heading up the Alvie hill for the last time, Larry Nocera broke clear to then climb to the
top of Red Rock to take the win by 46 seconds over Gerard Hickey with Gary Legg a
further 16 seconds back in third place.
Heather Hamling led the second scratch trio in 34 seconds later.
Scratchman Grant Oates then came in 50 seconds later to take fastest time.

Larry Nocera & Gary Legg

Result: 55Km Red Rock Classic
Scratch
1 Grant Oates 8th & Fastest Time
2 Arno van der Schans 9th
3 Michael Markham Punctured

2 Minutes 30 Seconds
4 Heather Hamling 4th
5 Steve Hamling 5th
6 Mark Flett 6th

14 Minutes
7 Larry Nocera 1st
8 Gary Legg 3rd
9 Tom McBroom Dnf

19 Minutes
10 Gerard Hickey 2nd
11 Peter Neal 7th

 

October 20th

The Colac Vets had nine riders for their monthly medal.
Riders raced in perfect conditions with a light southerly wind which got a little bit
stronger on the second of two laps.
The field was split into four groups of two with the second scratch bunch having three
riders.
The scratch pair had made up 30 seconds on second scratch trio at the 10Km mark, but
were unable to gain any more ground after that.
With 7Km to go scratch was holding on to a five second buffer over second scratch for
fastest time.
Meanwhile at this same point the front marker duo were still two minutes ahead of the
second scratch bunch.
Heading up and over Lineen’s hill second scratch caught the two middle markers and
were closing in on the leaders.
In a close finish, Gerard Hickey made up for last months monthly medal heartbreak being
caught 100 metres from the finish, to this time holding on by just 14 seconds to take the
win with co marker Peter Neal also holding on for second place.
Larry Nocera then led in the next five riders to take third place.
Second scratch rider Heather Hamling claimed fastest time with the scratch pair falling
just 6 seconds short of getting the time.

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal
Scratch
1 Grant Oates 8th
2 Michael Markham 9th

2 Minutes
3 Heather Hamling 4th & Fastest Time
4 Steve Hamling 5th
5 Mark Flett 6th

10 Minutes
6 Larry Nocera 3rd
7 Gary Legg 7th

16 Minutes

8 Gerard Hickey 1st 
9 Peter Neal 2nd

                                                                                                                                                                                       

  Evential Winner Gerard Hickey and Peter Neal

 

October 13th

The Colac Vets had ten riders for their club race.
Riders started in moderate north easterly winds which picked up in strength as it swung
around to be north westerly, which suited the back markers.
The second scratch trio were down to two riders at the half way mark allowing them to
pick up speed and keep the scratch trio from gaining any further ground.
They caught and passed the two front bunches and went on to beat scratch in by two and
a half minutes.
Mark Flett led in co marker Steve Hamling to take his second win from eight starts this
year.
Michael Markham came in third place to take fastest time over co markers Heather
Hamling and Paul Brill.

Result: 46Km Club Race
Scratch
1 Michael Markham 3rd & Fastest Time
2 Heather Hamling 4th
3 Paul Brill 6th  

     
4 Minutes
4 Mark Flett 1st
5 Steve Hamling 2nd
6 Larry Nocera 5th 

8 Minutes
7 Gary Legg 7th
8 Gerard Hickey 10th

14 Minutes
9 Peter Neal 8th
10 Gavin O’Brien 9th 

 

October 6th   

The Colac Vets had just seven riders for their only gravel race for the year.
Riders raced in very tough conditions with strong westerly winds and having to ride over
six gravel sections of road totalling 14Km.
The two remaining front markers held off the back markers by a big margin of just under
5 minutes.
Gary Legg showed his liking for this event taking the win ahead of co marker Gerard
Hickey after having won this race at the same time last year.
Heather Hamling led in the back markers for third place with Arno van der Schans taking
fastest time over com marker Steve Hamling.

Result: 42Km Gravel Race
Scratch
1 Arno van der Schans 4th & Fastest Time
2 Steve Hamling

3 Minutes
3 Heather Hamling 3rd
4 Mark Flett 6th

11 Minutes
5 Gary Legg 1st
6 Gerard Hickey 2nd
7 Gavin O’Brien Dnf

 

September 22nd

The Colac Vets had eleven starters for their monthly medal.
Riders raced in tough and cold north westerly winds.
Middle marker Peter Theodore was out just after leaving the start line, with a puncture,
leaving Gary Legg on his own
The three scratchmen caught the second scratch foursome way sooner than expected, at
the 15Km mark.
Then the remaining five back markers picked up Legg with 17Km to go.
Heading home with 9Km to go, the two front markers were spotted in the distance.
On the final climb up Lineen’s hill, front marker Paul Allen told Gerard Hickey to go it
alone and try to hold off the fast finishing back markers with a tail wind.
After some surges from Heather Hamling and then Michael Markham, Hickey was
unlucky to be caught just 50 metres from the line while the back markers were sprinting.
Ralph Iselt got there first to take the win and fastest time followed by Paul Brill and
Michael Markham.

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

Scratch
1 Ralph Iselt 1st & Fastest Time
2 Paul Brill 2nd
3 Michael Markham 3rd

2 Minutes
4 Heather Hamling 4th
5 Steve Hamling 5th
6 Mark Flett 9th
7 Larry Nocera 10th

12 Minutes
8 Gary Legg 8th
9 Peter Theodore Punctured

16 Minutes
10 Gerard Hickey 6th
11 Paul Allen 7th

 

September 8th

The Colac Vets had eleven riders for their club race.
Riders raced in strong north westerly winds.
The scratch foursome had caught the 4 minute second scratch pair at the half way mark.
But they did not see the front markers until 7Km to go.
Coming around the last corner into Factory Road and into a strong headwind, the
remaining three front markers were splitting up.
Scratch reeled in two of them, but Mark Flett was able to hold scratch off by just 16
seconds to take the win.
Tony Luppino then just edged out Ralph Iselt to come in second and take fastest time.

Result: 46Km Club Race
Scratch
1 Tony Luppino 2nd & Fastest Time
2 Ralph Iselt 3rd
3 Grant Oates 4th
4 Andrew Pownceby 5th

4 Minutes
5 Heather Hamling 8th
6 Steve Hamling 10th

11 Minutes
7 Mark Flett 1st
8 Gary Legg 7th

15 Minutes
9 Gerard Hickey 6th
10 Paul Allen 9th
11 Gavin O’Brien Dnf

 

Saturday24th August at Cororooke

The Colac Vets and Colac Cycling Clubs had their sixth combine race with eighteen
riders competing including four from Geelong.
Riders raced in warm conditions with reasonably strong north westerly winds.
The second scratch bunch of five riders coped well in the conditions and had reeled in the
third scratch bunch before the half way mark.
Turning into Melrose Road at the Warrion Pub for the second time, this group could see
the front markers in the distance and they were caught with 7Km to go
Heading up and over Lineen’s hill, Heather Hamling and then Steve Hamling increased
the pace setting up for a fast tail wind finish.
In the sprint to the line, Daryl Suter was rewarded for a strong ride to take the win ahead
of Andrew Cox and Ralph Iselt.
The Geelong scratch duo put in a good ride to come in one and three quarter minutes
behind to take fastest time by two and a quarter minutes with Michael Papiernik leading
in co marker David Linden.

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal
Scratch
1 Michael Papiernik (G) 11th &; Fastest Time
2 David Linden (G) 12th

4 Minutes
3 Daryl Suter (G) 1st
4 Andrew Cox 2nd
5 Ralph Iselt 3rd
6 Brad McDermott (G) 4th
7 Paul Brill 7th

6 Minutes 30 Seconds
8 Heather Hamling 5th
9 Steve Hamling 6th
10 Mark Flett 15th
11 Tony Prytz Dnf

13 Minutes
12 Dave O’Dwyer 8th
13 Gary Legg 9th
14 Peter Theodore 10th
15 Tom McBroom 13th

19 Minutes
16 Gerard Hickey 14th
17 Jack Barclay 16th

26 Minutes
18 Sally Cox Dnf

 

August 17th 2023 at Beeac

Result: 44Km 2 Lap Warrion Course
Scratch
1 Michael Markham 10th
2 Ralph Iselt 11th

3 Minutes
3 Paul Brill 6th & Fastest Time
4 Xavier Coppock (Geelong) 7th
5 Heather Hamling 8th

7 Minutes
6 Andrew Cox 4th
7 Steve Hamling 5th
8 Tony Prytz 9th

16 Minutes
9 Peter Theodore 1st
10 Gary Legg 2nd
11 Tom McBroom 3rd

 

Saturday10th August

The Colac Vets had just eight riders for their club race.
Riders raced in mild conditions with a moderate north westerly wind,
The scratch foursome were chasing ten minutes to the next two riders and 19 minutes out
to the two front markers.
The first time scratch could see the leaders was coming back through Warrion with 9Km
to go.
Scratch hit the lead with 4Km remaining.
Coming into the Cororooke Hall finish, Steve Hamling did a long lead out, with Ralph
Iselt sprinting to the line to take the win ahead of Heather Hamling.

Result: 46Km Club Race
Scratch
1 Ralph Iselt 1st & Fastest Time
2 Heather Hamling 2nd
3 Steve Hamling 3rd
4 Paul Brill 4th

10 Minutes
5 Gary Legg 5th
6 Peter Theodore 6th

19 Minutes
7 Peter Neal 7th
8 Murray Matthews 8th

 

August 3rd 2023

Colac Vets and Colac Cycling Clubs Combine Race 4
at Beeac
Result: 52Km 2 Lap Eurack Course

Scratch
1 David Linden 1st & Fastest Time
2 Michael Papiernik 9th

4 Minutes
3 Ralph Iselt 4th
4 Heather Hamling 5th
5 Steve Hamling 7th

7 Minutes
6 Andrew Cox 2nd
7 Mark Flett 3rd

9 Minutes
8 Tony Prytz 8th
9 Mark Oppenheim 11th

11 Minutes
10 Gary Legg 6th
11 Peter Theodore 12th
12 Tom McBroom 14th

13 Minutes
13 Gerard Hickey 10th
14 Jack Barclay 13th

25 Minutes
15 Murray Matthews Dnf

 

July 27th 2024

The Colac Vets and Colac Cycling clubs held their third combined race at Cororooke.
After last weeks washed out event at Beeac, and with rain threatening the race again,
officials decided to proceed with the race.
After three scratchings, fourteen riders fronted up for the monthly medal and were very
lucky to avoid any rain fall for the duration of the race.
But did have reasonably strong cold south westerly winds to contend with.
The two Cox siblings in Sally and Nathaniel started off with a 19 minute head start on the
scratch trio and 10 minutes to the trio behind them.
The scratch trio had picked up 70 seconds on the second scratch trio when they reached
Alvie at the 20Km mark.
But when second and third scratch came together, scratch could not make up any more
ground.
Heading up Lineen’s hill before the finish, second scratch rider Heather Hamling tried to
break clear, but was unable to shake off third scratch riders Andrew Cox and Mark Flett.
In the run to the finish Cox out sprinted Hamling to take the win with Flett in third place.
Michael Markham powered away from his co markers up Lineen’s hill to take fastest
time.
Result: 47Km Monthly Medal
Scratch
1 Michael Markham 7th & Fastest Time
2 Ralph Iselt 8th
3 Dayne Pearce (Ballarat) 10th

2 Minutes 30 Seconds
4 Heather Hamling 2nd
5 Steve Hamling 4th
6 Paul Brill 5th

5 Minutes 30 Seconds
7 Andrew Cox 1st
8 Mark Flett 3rd
9 Tom McBroom 13th

9 Minutes
10 Gary Legg 6th
11 Peter Theodore 9th
12 Tom Maloney 11th

14 Minutes
13 Paul Allen DNS
14 Peter Neal DNS

19 Minutes
15 Nathaniel Cox 12th
16 Sally Cox DNF

 

Saturday 6th and 13th July

The Colac Vets and the Colac Cycling clubs have held the first two of their nine race
combined series taking in turns to race at Cororooke and Beeac.
With the first race at Beeac having 18 competing and the second race at Cororooke with
16 riders including some riders from Geelong at both races.

Result: 44Km Beeac Race
Scratch
1 David Linden 1st & Fastest Time
2 Stephane Vander Bruggen 4th
3 Michael Papiernik 7th
4 Michael Markham Dnf

4 Minutes
5 Daryl Suter 6th
6 Darren Allan 11th
7 Jeffrey Beer 13th
8 Darryl Brown 14th

6 Minutes
9 Neil Maurer 3rd
10 Heather Hamling 8th
11 Paul Brill 9th
12 Neil Brewster 16th

9 Minutes
13 Steve Hamling 2nd
14 Tony Prytz 5th
15 Tom McBroom 12th
15 Minutes
16 Peter Theodore 10th
17 Murray Matthews Dnf

25 Minutes
18 Dawn Fraser 15th

Result 48Km Cororooke Race
Scratch

1 David Linden 8th &; Fastest Time

3 Minutes
2 Daryl Suter 4th
3 Michael Markham 5th

5 Minutes 30 Seconds
4 Heather Hamling 6th
5 Darren Allan 7th
6 Paul Brill 10th
7 Andrew Cox 15th

8 Minutes
8 Steve Hamling 9th
9 Tony Prytz 11th

12 Minutes
10 Tom McBroom 1st
11 Gary Legg 2nd
12 Peter Theodore 3rd
13 Tom Malone Broken Chain

20 Minutes
14 Nathaniel Cox 12th
15 Peter Neal 13th
16 Sally Cox 14th

July 6th 2024

Geelong rider Dave Linden powered to  a solo victory in the first of the combined races being conducted by the Colac Veteran Cycling Club and Colac Amateur Cycling club.

The two clubs have decided to combine their calendars during  July and August to maximise rider numbers.

The first race was well supported with 17 starters including several visiting riders. Sole limit rider Dawn Fraser (no relation) had a 25 minute start over the backmarkers and there were 4 other bunches all with groups of 3 or 4 riders.

Linden on the scratch mark with Michael Markham, Michael Papiernik and Stephane Van Der Bruggen rode away from his co-markers and  rode though the field taking no prisoners.

His biggest challenge was whether he would catch Colac vet Steve Hamling who looked like he could take the  win as he was still 500 metres ahead of Linden as he topped Featherstones hill on the run to the finish line in Beeac.

But Linden was  fired up and managed to catch and pass Hamling metres before the finish line.

Consistent performer Neil Maurer from  Geelong was third, Van Der Bruggen fourth and Tony Prytz fifth.

Both clubs were very pleased with the first race and hope it will continue.

 

June 30th 2024

The Colac Vets had nine riders racing in cold south westerly winds.
The three middle markers caught the lone front marker with 8Km to go.
Meanwhile the scratch trio caught the second scratch pair a few kilometres into the start
of the second of two laps.
The leading four riders were unlucky to be caught into a head wind with 2Km to go.
At this point scratchman Grant Oates attacked to break clear.
After a few attempts by Michael Markham, Heather Hamling and Mark Flett to reel
Oates back in, he was able to hold on to take his second win for the year.
Ralph Iselt came in for second ahead of Markham in third place.

Result: 48Km Club Race
Scratch
1 Grant Oates 1st &; Fastest Time
2 Ralph Iselt 2nd
3 Michael Markham 3rd
3 Minutes
4 Heather Hamling 4th
5 Steve Hamling 9th
8 Minutes
6 Mark Flett 5th
7 Peter Theodore 6th
8 Tom McBroom 7th
14 Minutes
9 Peter Neal 8th

 

June 23rd 2024

The Colac Vets had a few riders away but still decided to run their monthly medal with
just six riders competing.
Riders raced in sunny conditions with moderate north easterly winds.
The three front markers were given a nine minute head start on the three back markers.
Turning left out of Warrion the second time around the backmarkers could see the leaders
in the distance and knew they were a chance of catching them
Heading up Lineen’s hill before the finish, Gary Legg’s co markers convinced him to go
it alone in an attempt to hold off the scratch trio.
At this point scratch rider Steve Hamling dropped off the pace after having put in a strong
ride.
This left Heather Hamling and Ralph Iselt to chase down Gary Legg.
In the closest finish so far this year Iselt and Hamling caught Legg just 100 metres from
the finish line with Iselt claiming his second win for the year.

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal
Scratch
1 Ralph Iselt 1st &; Fastest Time
2 Heather Hamling 2nd
3 Steve Hamling 4th

9 Minutes
4 Gary Legg 3rd
5 Paul Allen 5th
6 Peter Neal 6th

 

June 16th 2024

The Colac Vets raced a four lap circuit in cool south westerly winds, starting and
finishing in front of the Cororooke Hall.
The two second limit riders caught the two front limit riders at the start of the fourth lap.
These four riders went on to hold off the back markers by 69 seconds at the finish.
Peter Theodore claimed his second win for the year ahead of Mark Flett and Paul Allen
with Tom McBroom in fourth place.
Meanwhile the scratch trio only caught the second scratch trio with 4Km to go.
Coming into Cororooke, Heather Hamling led out before the sprint.
With Ralph Iselt just getting past Michael Markham to take fastest time.

Result: 48Km Club Race
Scratch
1 Ralph Iselt 5th &; Fastest Time
2 Michael Markham 6th
3 Grant Oates 8th

2 Minutes
4 Paul Brill 7th
5 Heather Hamling 9th
6 Steve Hamling 10th

10 Minutes
7 Mark Flett 2nd
8 Tom McBroom 4th

13 Minutes
9 Peter Theodore 1st
10 Paul Allen 3rd

 

June 2nd 2024

The Colac Vets were glad to get a race in after having to postpone their May monthly
medal the last two weeks due to adverse weather conditions.
This time eleven riders raced in cold southerly winds.
The second scratch trio combined well to reel in the three middle markers before the
halfway mark.
They then caught the two front markers with 17km still to go.
With one kilometre to go, Heather Hamling broke away from her co markers at the
bottom of the Alvie hill to finish first up the final 400 metres into Red Rock Reserve
Road.
Steve Hamling was second ahead of Paul Brill in third place.
The scratch trio only rode 55 seconds faster than the second scratch trio, with Michael
Markham taking fastest time.

Result: 51Km May Monthly Medal
Scratch
1 Michael Markham 6th and; Fastest Time
2 Arno van der Schans 7th
3 Ralph Iselt 8th

3 Minutes 30 Seconds
4 Heather Hamling 1st
5 Steve Hamling 2nd
6 Paul Brill 3rd

8 Minutes
7 Gary Legg 4th
8 Gerard Hickey 10th
9 Peter Theodore 11th

14 Minutes
10 Peter Neal 5th
11 Paul Allen 9th

 

May 12th 2024

The Colac Vets had eleven riders for their club race.
Riders competed in light easterly winds.
The scratch bunch got up for their second win of the year.
The second scratch trio caught the middle marker foursome with 15Km to go.
The scratch trio then caught this group with 9Km to go.
Lone limit rider Peter Neal was then caught with 7Km to go.
Coming into the Cororooke Hall finish, Arno van der Schans led out with Ralph Iselt
sprinting off his wheel and holding off Michael Markham and Larry Nocera to take the
win and fastest time.

Result: 46Km Club Race

Scratch
1 Ralph Iselt 1st & Fastest Time
2 Michael Markham 2nd
3 Arno van der Schans 5th

3 Minutes
4 Larry Nocera 3rd
5 Heather Hamling 4th
6 Steve Hamling 8th

6 Minutes
7 Gary Legg 6th
8 Gerard Hickey 7th
9 Tom McBroom 10th
10 Peter Theodore 11th

15 Minutes
11 Peter Neal 9th

 

May 5th 2024

The Colac Vets had nine riders for their club race.
Riders competed in favourable conditions for the third week in a row.
This also allowed the middle markers to win their third race in a row as well.
This time they held the scratch bunch off by 62 seconds at the finish.
Tom McBroom has had an impressive start to the year after claiming his third win from
seven starts out of the nine races held so far.
Peter Theodore came in second with Gerard Hickey in third place.
As the four scratchmen turned into Factory Road, Grant Oates did a long turn before
Michael Markham took over in the lead up to the sprint, with Ralph Iselt getting past to
take fastest time.

Result: 51Km Club Race
Scratch
1 Ralph Iselt 6th & Fastest Time
2 Michael Markham 7th
3 Larry Nocera 8th
4 Grant Oates 9th

8 Minutes
5 Tom McBroom 1st
6 Gerard Hickey 3rd
7 Gary Legg 4th
16 Minutes

8 Peter Theodore 2nd
9 Peter Neal 5th

 

April 28th 2024

The Colac Vets had ten riders for their club race.
Riders competed in light north easterly winds.
The winning bunch from last week was dragged back quite a few minutes.
The handicapper decided that an 8 minute 30 second head start on the scratch bunch of
five riders would suffice.
However, with the addition of Gerard Hickey, they were still able to hold scratch off by
28 seconds at the finish.
Gary Legg reversed last week’s placings to take the win ahead of Tom McBroom with
Hickey coming in third place.
As the scratchmen came in to the finish, Paul Brill and then Arno van der Schans slipped
off the front.
With van der Schans getting past Brill to go on and hold on to take fastest time.
Result: 46Km Club Race

Scratch
1 Arno van der Schans 5th & Fastest Time
2 Michael Markham 6th
3 Ralph Iselt 7th
4 Paul Brill 8th
5 Larry Nocera 9th

8 Minutes 30 Seconds
6 Gary Legg 1st
7 Tom McBroom 2nd
8 Gerard Hickey 3rd

15 Minutes
9 Peter Neal 4th

20 Minutes
10 Murray Matthews 10th

 

April 21st 2024

The Colac Vets had ten riders for their monthly medal.
Riders competed in cool and calm conditions.
The three front markers caught the handicapper off guard with them combining very well
in the favourable conditions to come in with over 5 minutes to spare.
The much improved Tom McBroom was able to collect his second monthly medal this
year, edging out Gary Legg, with Peter Neal further back in third place.
The three scratchmen caught the two second scratch riders and then the two third scratch
riders, with Ralph Iselt leading this group of seven riders in to take fastest time.

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

Scratch
1 Ralph Iselt 4th &; Fastest Time
2 Michael Markham 5th
3 Arno van der Schans 10th

2 Minutes
4 Paul Brill 7th
5 Larry Nocera 9th

4 Minutes
6 Heather Hamling 6th
7 Steve Hamling 8th

15 Minutes
8 Tom McBroom 1st
9 Gary Legg 2nd
10 Peter Neal 3rd

 

April 14th 2024
The Colac Vets had just eight riders for their club race out around Cundare.
Riders competed in good conditions with light south westerly winds.
Husband and Wife duo Steve and Heather Hamling caught the two front markers about
two thirds the way through the race.
Heather claimed her first win in three years ahead of Gary Legg and Steve.
The four scratchmen came in one and a half minutes later.
After a couple of attacks with in the last kilometre, Michael Markham was able to take
his first fastest time for the year.

Result: 53Km Club Race

Scratch
1 Michael Markham 4th &; Fastest Time
2 Larry Nocera 5th
3 Ralph Iselt 6th
4 Paul Brill 7th

6 Minutes
5 Heather Hamling 1st
6 Steve Hamling 3rd

13 Minutes
7 Gary Legg 2nd
8 Peter Neal 8th

 

March 24th 2024

The Colac Vets had twelve riders for their monthly medal.

Riders competed in cool and strong westerly winds.

The conditions suited the scratch trio with them catching the second scratch pair before the halfway mark.

But they only started to catch the remaining leading riders in the final 4Km, with Heather and Steve Hamling unlucky to be caught on the climb up Lineen’s hill with just over a one kilometre to go.

At this point Scratchmen Grant Oates attacked and went on to finish 200 metres clear to take the win and fastest time.

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

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

Scratch                          

1 Grant Oates                  1st & Fastest Time            

2 Ralph Iselt                     2nd                                

3 Michael Markham        3rd   

 

2 Minutes 30 Seconds               

4 Larry Nocera                  4th       

5 Paul Brill                        9th   

        

4 Minutes 30 Seconds

6 Heather Hamling            5th

7 Steve Hamling                6th

8 Tony Prytz                      7th  

 

12 Minutes         

9 Gary Legg                       8th         

10 Gerard Hickey              10th     

 

15 Minutes

11 Tom McBroom             

12 Peter Neal

 

 

March 17th 2024
The Colac Vets had eleven riders for their club race competing in warm conditions
The second scratch trio caught the middle and front markers and went on to finish with
over a minute to spare over the two scratchmen.
Larry Nocera claimed the win over Heather and Steve Hamling.
Tony Luppino took fastest time over co marker Michael Markham.
Result: 44Km Club Race
Scratch
1 Tony Luppino 4th ; Fastest Time
2 Michael Markham 5th

6 Minutes 30 Seconds
3 Larry Nocera 1st
4 Heather Hamling 2nd
5 Steve Hamling 3rd

10 Minute
6 Gary Legg 8th
7 Gerard Hickey 9th
8 Gavin O’Brien Dnf

15 Minutes
9 Peter Neal 7th
10 Tom McBroom 6th

22 Minutes
11 Murray Matthews Dnf

 

March 3rd 2024

The Colac Vets had thirteen riders for their club race competing in cool and moderately strong south westerly winds.
The middle marker bunch of four riders was down to three after a few kilometres with Tom McBroom dropping off the pace.
Meanwhile the scratch foursome were riding well in the windy conditions and looked like they may have gotten up for the win, but they lost Michael Markham              coming over the first of the two hills through Alvie.

Then just after catching the second scratch trio, Tony Luppino succumbed to a bee wedged in his helmet and had to pull over.

This left the remaining two scratchmen and second scratch rider Larry Nocera falling 39 seconds short of catching the four leaders.
In the sprint for first, Gavin O’Brien led out, with Gerard Hickey coming of Gary Legg’s wheel to take the win.
Ralph Iselt then led in co marker Grant Oates to take fastest time.

Result: 48Km Club Race
Scratch
1 Ralph Iselt 5th; Fastest Time
2 Grant Oates 6th
3 Tony Luppino 9th
4 Michael Markham 10th

5 Minutes
5 Larry Nocera 7th
6 Heather Hamling 8th
7 Steve Hamling

12 Minutes
8 Gerard Hickey 1st
9 Gary Legg 2nd
10 Gavin O’Brien 3rd
11 Tom McBroom

20 Minutes
12 Peter Neal 4th
13 Murray Matthews

 

February 25th 2024

The Colac Vets had just nine riders for their club race with some members competing at Forrest and a couple of other late scratchings.

Riders competed in good conditions with a light breeze.

The second limit pair caught the lone limit rider and went on to finish with a minute to spare from the back markers.

Peter Theodore claimed the win over co marker Gerard Hickey.

Murray Matthews was unlucky to be caught in the final few hundred metres by the back markers with Tony Luppino taking third place and fastest time.

Result: 46Km Club Race

Scratch                          

1 Tony Luppino                3rd & Fastest Time                         

2 Ralph Iselt                       5th         

3 Michael Markham           6th                    

5 Minutes               

4 Larry Nocera                   4th      

    

10 Minutes  

5 Gavin O’Brien                 8th   

6 Bec Luppino                    9th  

13 Minutes         

7 Peter Theodore              1st    

8 Gerard Hickey               2nd  

  

22 Minutes

9 Murray Matthews            7th

 

 

February 18th 2024

The Colac Vets had their first handicap race for the year which also was the monthly medal.

A field of fifteen riders raced in overcast conditions before the sky cleared to produce a warm day.

The two limit front markers had a 23 minute start on the strong five man scratch bunch.

But limit rider Tom McBroom was too strong for his co marker Murray Matthews.

He finished 2 minutes and 40 seconds ahead of Matthews to take the win.

Tony Prytz led in Heather and Steve Hamling to take third place, 30 seconds after Matthews had crossed the line for second place.

The scratch fivesome came in a further one minute and 50 seconds behind with Ralph Iselt winning the battle for fastest time.

 

Result: 47Km Monthly Medal

Scratch

1 Ralph Iselt Fastest Time

2 Michael Markham

3 Paul Brill

4 Grant Oates

5 Andrew Pownceby

 

5 Minutes

6 Heather Hamling 4th

7 Steve Hamling 5th

8 Larry Nocera 6th

 

7 Minutes 30 Second

9 Tony Prytz 3rd

10 Gavin O’Brien 8th

12 Minutes

11 Peter Theodore 7th

12 Gary Legg 9th

13 Gerard Hickey 10th

 

23 Minutes

14 Tom McBroom 1st

15 Murray Matthews 2nd

 

 

February 11th 2024

 

The Colac Vets had a good turnout of 15 riders for their first race of the year.

Riders competed in graded scratch races in warm and sunny conditions with a northerly wind.

 

Result: A Grade 46Km

1st Grant Oates

2nd Michael Markham

3rd Paul Brill

4th Darren Allan

5th Ralph Iselt

 

Result: B Grade 46Km

1st Larry Nocera

2nd Heather Hamling

3rd Steve Hamling

4th Mark Flett

 

Result: C Grade 46Km

1st Peter Theodore

2nd Gerard Hickey

3rd Gary Legg

4th Gavin O’Brien

 

Result: D Grade 37Km

1st Peter Neal

2nd Murray Matthews