Newport are the new British Open Club champions, after a cool performance in Horspath, Oxfordshire, saw them pull away, as their closest rivals made costly errors. Poole scooped the overall Club Championship trophy, with victories in U16 boys and U16 girls categories along the way. Newport, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Birmingham, Poole and East Park came through their semi finals unscathed to […]
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This Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend welcomes the 2017 Cycle Speedway Club Championships – a feast of racing across the South West and Wales region at Newport, Poole and Horspath. The CS Little League kicks this off on Saturday morning at 10am in Newport, with the first Little League U10 Club Championships, after a centralised youth policy was trickled down to all […]
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A well prepared circuit, excellent catering facilities in addition to an informative match day magazine and the scene was set for the eagerly awaited event. Two evenly balanced teams contested the elite junior class, with neither side gaining a maximum heat advantage prior to the interval stage, which saw the host region holding a slender two point margin. However with the visitors unbeaten “trump […]
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Swindon Robins hosted local rivals Horspath Hammers in their second home meeting of the season. Both teams looked fairly even on paper but a late withdrawal for the Robins tilted the tie probably in the visiting teams favour, which ended 85-91. The meeting started with multiple drawn heats, until Swindon did find the edge to lead by a point at […]
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The deadline for the 2017 British Club Championships is 30th April. After a successful trial of having all categories on one weekend last year in the Midlands, this year the competition moves to the South West and Wales region, where Horspath, Newport and Poole will be hosting proceedings. The U12, U14 and Junior (U18) are on Saturday 27th May at […]
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Graham Robins was on hand once again in Poole to deliver some more fantastic photos of the South West and Wales Spring Cup. Poole won on the day ahead of Newport and Horspath, but Newport did enough to take the crown on aggregate, with Poole second and Horspath third. Round Three Result Poole 100, Newport 89, Horspath 78 Spring Cup […]
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The second round of the South West and Wales Spring Cup produced some great racing on a perfect sunny spring day. Newport ran out very narrow winners with 93.5 points to Horspaths 92 and Poole on 82.5. Many youngsters were on show, along with the more experienced heads, which resulted in some cracking racing and plenty of racing incidents. A race between Newport’s Chris […]
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Newport cycle speedway team were victorious in round 1 of the regional spring cup beating Horspath and Poole. Scores: Newport 95pts Ben Mould 22+2, Dan Bock 15+1, Adam Bennett 10+2, Mark Carmichael 20, Chris Davies 12, Sean Bennett 11, Callum Goward 3+1, Dan Wright 2+1. Horspath 86pts Zac Payne 21+1, Alice Neighbour 9, Jake Neighbour 16+2, Will Jeffrey 16+2, Jack […]
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Hethersett Hawks/Myhill Decorators kicked off their 2017 season at the memorial Playing Field with an entertaining inter-regional challenge against Horspath. The visitors called up their former Elite League rider Lewis Osborne, now with Great Blakenham, to make up their side and the former British No.2 was unbeaten. Also in the side was 2015 British Champion Zac Payne, so it promised to […]
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Horspath Hammers have signed Swindon’s sibling duo, Jake and Alice Neighbour for the 2017 season, while Lewis and Chris Osborne head back to their hometown club, Great Blakenham. Welcoming the Neighbours to Horspath, team Manager, Zac Payne said: “Jake has been in exceptional form the last season, coming 2nd in Europe in the junior category and riding every week for […]
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Saturday’s re-scheduled SSW league fixture between Exeter Aces and Horspath Hammers has been cancelled. Unfortunately, Horspath are unable to raise a team for this fixture and, this week, the Oxford club regretfully informed Exeter of their unavailability to travel to Devon on Saturday afternoon. This is a disappointment for the Devon club, who enjoyed a visit to Horspath earlier this […]
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The final Elite League fixture of 2016 lived up to all pre-match expectations, with nail biting tension in each race at Ashmore Park, where Horspath needed just one more win or a draw to take the title once again. The first two heats were drawn 5-5, with the away team notching the first heat advantage in race 3, with a 6-4 […]
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This Sunday welcomes the concluding Round 10 of the British Cycling CS Elite League series. Come 4pm, will the champions be crowned or will it be heading for a play off? League leaders Horspath travel to Wolverhampton, where they face closest rivals, Wednesfield Aces at Ashmore Park. If you have no plans on Sunday, this is where you want to be heading, as an […]
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With 5 members of their championship winning BYJL squad in their side, Poole completed the double over the Hammers at the village after a closely fought encounter. The home side led by Zac Payne held a 46-43 half-time lead but with Mark Boaler and Wayne Hutt failing to show up as planned, Poole capitalised and staged a second half recovery […]
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Newport and Poole are neck and neck with two matches left in the South and South Wales League. Swindon will be hoping they can once again qualify for the play-off final, but will be looking over their shoulder for an Exeter challenge. The top 3 clubs have a 3-way play-off at neutral venue on 23rd October 2016. Poole have all but wrapped […]
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Reigning Elite League champions, Wednesfield Aces’ title hopes were dealt a significant blow this weekend, after losing out to bottom of the table Poole at Harbourside Park. The home side secured their second win of the season, after initially falling behind to the champions. Youngsters, Jay Briggs and Wil Bristowe, turned the tide against strong opposition to pull the scores back, […]
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Paul Devine made the short trip to Oxford for the round 9 Elite League clash between Horspath and Coventry. Here are a selection of his shots that he has sent in to us:
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Horspath Hammers completed their home Elite League programme with a 112 -87 win over Coventry Sabres, who did not have Michal Sassek as expected, whilst Hammers tracked newly crowned Polish Champion Szymon Kowalczyk, who flew in from his previous days exploits in the Polish Championships at Torun. Hammers were dealt a blow prior to the match, when Mark Boaler arrived […]
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