Heathersfield Gold Helmet
Posted 28/10/06

With the weather forecast looking favourable, it looks like its all systems go for the Junior riders to take centre stage at Ashfield tomorrow for the last meeting of the year.

A varied 12 man field will take part and it will include Czech youngster Matej Kus who had originally been scheduled to come across for the aborted Ashfield Classic and is keen to get a chance to show UK clubs what he can do. As advised in last weeks comment on the hoped for Classic line up:-

Czech rider Matej Kus was part of the Olymp Praha squad this season which again included Brhel and Tomicek. The seventeen year old youngster rode earlier this month in one of the main Czech meetings of the year, the Lubos Tomicek Memorial, and also made people sit up and take notice when finishing third behind Heffenbrock and Tomicek in the Golden Ribbon event in Pardubice on the 14th October.

However the emphasis of the meeting is as always on youngsters and non PL riders with John McPhail, Gary Beaton, Sean Patterson, Cal McDade, Robert McNeil, Greg Blair and Kieron Morris from Scotland in the line up. Ricky Lee Beecroft - who was one of the riders involved in the horrific looking crash which caused the previous running to be abandoned - will also be riding alongside fellow Englishmen Steve Jones, Simon Lambert and Wayne Dunworth.

Gary Beaton will be amongst the favourites, knowing the track as well as he does, although obviously Matej Kus will be an unknown quantity. Simon Lambert rode for newly crowned champions King's Lynn at the start of the season and is coming back from a serious arm injury that cut his season short in June and resulted in a metal plate being inserted.