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DAVE ROPER MEMORIAL YOUTH HARE & HOUNDS Report Roger Chaplin Part two of the Dave Roper Memorial Event was the Youth Hare & Hounds organised by the Sudbury Motor Cycle Club. This is the third one staged this year and was on the historic Tye Farm Great Cornard where World and British Champions have ridden and is always a test of rider’s skills on the tricky adverse cambers. The event was in doubt as the required minimum entries had not been received, three of the regular riders entered into the Adult Two Man Contest with Max Day riding with his Dad, they finished 21st while Joe Phillips and Archie Gunton teamed up together and finished 10th scoring Class points.
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ten riders lined up and when Chairman Gavin Hockey
raised the start flag they all ran to their
machines to start the one hour session. Jake Roper
was first away closely followed by Georgia Potter
and Louis Dutton then there was a gap before Will
Belton and Jemma Sargeant got started. At the end
of lap one it was Roper with a good lead followed
by Dutton, Potter, Belton, Evan Herbert, Morgan
Plaskett, Evan Brown, Lola Jane Miller, and Maisey
Hockney. Roper was soon completing his second lap
having passed Sargeant who had fallen on her first
lap. These youngsters just do not give up they all
battled through the hour session catching each
other up exchanging positions fighting tooth and
nail. Stamina was needed but towards the end
tiredness set in where the riders made silly
mistakes and let others pass them. However Roper
was in top form seem to go even faster and at the
end he was the winner on 38 laps. Belton moved up
the field to secure second place on 34 laps, with
Potter holding off Dutton for third place both on
33 laps. Herbert who turned 16 four days after the
event was 5th on 32 laps, 6th Brown 31 laps, 7th
Sargeant 31 laps, 8th Miller 27 laps, 9th Hockney
26 laps and 10th Plaskett 25 laps.