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Carnegie Caulfield Cycling Club
Sonny Barnes Memorial Handicap - Victoria, August 20, 2005
By Mal Sawford
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The second of Carnegie Caulfield's $1000 Handicaps, the Sonny Barnes Memorial, saw another impressive result for the back markers, with reigning Club Champion and 2002 World Masters Games Gold Medalist Justin Davis (O'Mara Cycles) racing home to take first and fastest honours.
Despite the forecast of rain throughout the day, the skies were bluish for
the 1.30pm kick off. All seven bunches were on the small side, with the state
junior titles and the Tour of Tasmania attracting many riders. Under 17 rider
Dale Reith made his debut in the senior event, held over two laps of the hilly
Modella circuit, and rode from Limit with Louisa Judd (Hampton Cycles), Christine
Ervin (CBD Cycles), a reluctant Brooke Condon and bunch captain Mike Goldie.
With seven minutes advantage to the next bunch, and twenty-five to the scratch-men,
Goldie had the group working well very quickly. Reith had no problem following
Judd and Condon through the hills, while Ervin and Goldie lost contact, but
continued to chase hard.
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The big move came from the third bunch away. Former runner Gary Simondson,
Shannon Hall and Darren Sayers flew up the climb to Heath Hill, chasing twelve
minutes, and by the end of the first lap were only three minutes in arrears.
At the other end of the field, the Scratch bunch were working well and picked
up the two minute bunch on the descent off Ripplebrook, and had reduced the
leaders' advantage to nine minutes at the end of the lap.
The headwind drag back from the finish line towards Bayles saw the back markers
pick up the rest of the middle markers, leaving only three small groups out
front. Simondson's trio hit the lead in the tough cross wind straight approaching
the hills: but once the road turned upwards Simondson surged away from his companions,
leaving himself a twenty kilometer time trial to the line.
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The scratch bunch unloaded all their passengers once they hit the cross wind,
with the group exploding under the pressure set by Davis, Murray Spink (Giant),
Matt Jensen (Kathy Watt's Personal Training) and Vaughan Bowman (Le Tour). So
quick and sustained was their acceleration, that by the Heath Hill summit they
had blown straight past the limit bunch, and Hall and Sayers, and went on to
pick up Simondson at the base of the descent.
Simondson did well to hold onto the quartet as they tackled the rolling hills
on the run to the steep Ripplebrook climb, before Spink and Bowman launched
a succession of attacks. At the summit, all five riders were a few seconds apart
with Spink leading, but Bowman and Davis clawed their way onto his wheel, and
worked well enough together to put Jensen and Simondson out of contention.
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Attacks before the final corner had Davis in trouble, but he recovered well
enough to launch an attack of his own out of the corner - and in a move eerily
similar to his win at the World Masters, held off the chase by a few metres
after a gut emptying two kilometer charge to the line. Spink outsprinted Bowman
for second, while Jensen dug deep to hold off a late charge from Luke Hanley
who had shot out of the chasing group to come within a few seconds of the tiring
Scratchman.
Judd took the Women's prize after opening a gap on Condon on the Heath Hill
climb, while Reith earned the Goldie Junior Development prize as the first junior
home.
As usual, racing would not have been possible without the support of volunteers:
including Traffic Control Manager Frank Cipriano; Corner Marshals Mark Howard,
Dennis Toce, James Shepherdson, Ken Ford, and Andrew Dorman; and support drivers
Wayne Flint and Trish Judd.
Full details of the CCCC and South East Regional winter fixture can be seen
at www.carnegiecycling.com.au.
Photography
For a thumbnail gallery of these images, click here
Images by Mal Sawford
- Dale Reith sets the pace on the Ripplebrook climb
- Roger Lancaster leads Leigh Rebbeck and Hari Gupi from the 18 minute bunch
- The 8 minute bunch dance up Ripplebrook on the first lap
- All smiles from a confident Scratch bunch as Spink sets the pace
- Tim Guille leads the 8 minute bunch over the bridge at Modella
- Bowman takes the scratchies through significantly faster
- The Limit riders led for close to 60km
- Gary Simondson tackles Heath Hill after dropping the rest of the 13 minute bunch
- Louisa Judd rides away to claim the Women’s prize
- Davis wins the 2005 Sonny Barnes Memorial
Results
1 Justin Davis (Carnegie Caulfield) 2.26.00 2 Murray Spink (Dirt Riders) 3 Vaughan Bowman (Blackburn) 4 Matt Jensen (Carnegie Caulfield) 1.20 5 Luke Hanley (Warragul) 1.26 6 Gary Simondson (Carnegie Caulfield) 2.24 7 Alex Smyth (Carnegie Caulfield) 2.56 8 Wayne Evans (Blackburn) 9 Scott Jensen (Carnegie Caulfield) 10 Geoff Thompson (Warragul) 3.01 11 Paul Logan (Coburg) 12 Darren Sayers (Carnegie Caulfield) 4.18 13 Trevor Cameron (Blackburn) 4.56 14 Richard Cormick (Carnegie Caulfield) 15 Shannon Hall (Carnegie Caulfield) 16 Rob Pagey (Carnegie Caulfield) 4.59 17 Rick Jones (Carnegie Caulfield) 5.06 18 Boon Chia (Carnegie Caulfield) 19 Leigh Rebbeck (Mornington) 6.59 20 Tim Guille (Carnegie Caulfield) 7.55 21 Phillip McNeill (St Kilda) 22 Louisa Judd (Carnegie Caulfield) 8.37 23 Brooke Condon (Coburg) 11.26 24 Darren Weir (Carnegie Caulfield) 25 Daniel Oldfield (Blackburn) 13.04 26 Steve Morrow (Carnegie Caulfield) 14.24 27 Mike Goldie (Carnegie Caulfield) 28 Hari Gupi (Carnegie Caulfield) 15.35 29 Mark Kelly (Carnegie Caulfield) 17.06 30 Nick Palecek (Carnegie Caulfield) 20.51 31 Dale Reith (Blackburn) 24.07 32 Roger Lancaster (Carnegie Caulfield) 26.12
