Becky comes top of the Wood' pile
By TMX Archives on 13th Aug 09
The big names in British female trialing locked horns this weekend for round six of the British Ladies and Girls Trials Championship at The Woodyard, Reeth, and there were a record 33 starters. At the top of the pile was Becky Cook who put her MRS Sherco in the top spot after the three laps of a dozen sections. Joanne Coles, Danielle Whitham and Hannah Richardson all wrapped up their respective class titles.
Meanwhile in the Ladies Inter, Emma Morphett is on a drop score, already having missed Cheadle in June, and on Sunday she went head to head against Lianda Dabill and Niki Wraight leaving her just one point behind Lianda in the Championship ready for the final round at Shorwell in October.
The results suggest otherwise, but Becky Cook had a bad start. The 23-year-old had ten marks on her punch card after just five sections. Richie Sunter awarded her a failure when she could not get the MRS Sherco driving up the grassy bank at the top of the fourth section where Donna Fox took a single dab.
Foxy' started badly with nervous marks in the river at the first and second sections so that was five marks to pull back. Emma Bristow fought her JST round the awkward turn with minder Andy Chilton quietly calling the moves while Katy Sunter did the same with Dan Thorpe right on hand. The spectators waited for Joanne Coles and Hannah Styles, and it was worth the wait. Coles was just brilliant and posted the only clean along with Cook's third lap ride.
It went from bad to worse for Cook when the Sherco died in the middle of the rocky fifth section. That was ten down in five sections, and Becky was the first to mention her appalling start. but Becky did what she usually does, she got her head down and rode. When the punch cards were changed after the first lap Cook and Bristow were level with Foxy on 21 and Coles on a round dozen.
ACU LADIES TRIALS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 6 The Woodyard, Reeth, Yorks (Richmond MC (Yorks) Ltd)
LADIES CLASS (Route A): Becky Cook (250 Sherco) 25 marks lost, Emma Bristow (250 Gas Gas) 36, Donna Fox (225 Gas Gas) 59, Katy Sunter (250 Gas Gas) 68, Rebecca Rennison (Beta) 99, Kathryn Wardle (Sherco) 115.
SERIES STANDINGS after 6 (of 7) rounds: 1 Becky Cook 120 points (CHAMPION), 2 Bristow 96, 3 Fox 96, 4 Sunter 39, 5 Rennison 11, 6 Wardle 10.
YOUTH A (Route A): Joanne Coles (Sherco) 29 marks lost, Hannah Styles (Sherco) 61, Harriet Peacock (Gas Gas) 105, Robyn Alderson (Gas Gas) 118.
SERIES STANDINGS after 6 (of 8) rounds: 1 Joanne Coles points (CHAMPION), 2 Styles 102, 3 Peacock 15, 4 Alderson 13.
YOUTH B (Route B): Danielle Whitham (125 Beta) 25 marks lost, Chloe Richardson (125 Sherco) 41, Nikita Smith (80 Beta) 44, Catherine Alford (125 Gas Gas) 65, Kate Hunter (125 Sherco) 82, Simone Wallis (125 Sherco) 94.
SERIES STANDINGS after 6 (of 7) rounds: 1 Danielle Whitham 117 points (CHAMPION), 2 Richardson 103, 3 Smith 92, 4 Alford 76, 5 Hunter 68, 6 Wallis 60.
LADIES INTER (Route B): Emma Morphett (125 Beta) 47 marks lost, Lianda Dabill (250 Gas Gas) 68, Niki Wraight (250 Scorpa) 72, Vicky Ellis (250 Beta) 79, Michelle Hanlon (Gas Gas) 81.
SERIES STANDINGS after 6 (of 7) rounds: 1 Dabill 95 points, 2 Morphett 94, 3 Wraight 90, 4 Ellis 85, 5 Lang 47, 6 Hanlon 11, 7 Colwell 11.
YOUTH C (Route C): Hannah Richardson (80 Beta) 30 marks lost, Louise Alford (80 Beta) 60, Victoria Payne (80 Beta) 65, Maisie Payne (80 Beta) 80, Beth Waite (50 Beta) 109, Kelsey Williamson (80 Sherco) 140.
SERIES STANDINGS after 6 (of 7) rounds: 1 Richardson 120 points (CHAMPION), 2 Alford 98, 3 Payne 92, 4 Payne 80, 5 Waite 55, 6 Williamson 30, 7 Peirson 10.
NON-CHAMPIONSHIP CLASSES
YOUTH NEWCOMER (Route C): Ellie Braithwaite (125 Gas Gas) 61 marks lost, Jennifer Stephen (125 Sherco) 86, Lucy Ridley (Sherco) 98.
LADIES NEWCOMER (Route C): Jennifer Crabtree (Sherco) 92 marks lost.
FINAL ROUND: October 3 Shorwell Chalkpit, Shorwell, Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight MCC).
FOR FULL REPORT, RESULTS AND PICTURES SEE T+MX NEWS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009
Becky Cooke made an appalling start but pulled herself together to take top spot.