by Glenys Taylor | Dec 2, 2010 | Event Reports
Track Cycling Feilding
An excellent nights racing between the 23 riders that rolled up tonight. It was a stellar night for weather and the by the time the four riders went for their respective flying one lap records the wind had dropped completely. The highlight of the night was the breaking of three track records. First was to Lachie Ferguson who shaved 0.07 seconds off his own under 17 boys record by travelling the distance in 27.33sec. Second up was Kate Stewart who took 0.18sec off her under 15 girls record, riding 32.54sec and then Megan Blatchford completely smashed Catherine Cheatley’s senior women’s record, taking off a massive 1.8 seconds to record 27.92 sec. Well done to all 3 riders!!!
In the under 17 and under 15 grade races three riders stood out on the night, Liam Barber showed improvement and used his good handicaps well to record a 1st and a 2nd Kate Stewart rode well to record two 2nds and sprinted particularly strong to sprint the bunch home for second in the long 7 lap handicap. Josh Kendall rode well off the scratch mark on his own to pull the field in the 4 lap and 7 lap handicap races showing his strength and will be a rider to watch in the future.
In the A and B grade the feature race of the night Matiu Kaihau showed his class, just recently returned from Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Australia, to ride from scratch and to win ever so comfortably. Damien Lardner, who gave his finest performance ever on the Feilding track, being the only rider to go with Matiu for 3 laps only to be dropped with just over 2 to go, but managed to hold on for 2nd: while Megan Blatchford capped off a fine night by sprinting the bunch home for third.
These are the results:
Rider of the night as selected by John Stewart was Lachie Ferguson for his effort to break his flying lap record.
A Grade 7 Lap points race
1st Matiu Kaihau 10 points
2nd Jaycob Humphreys 6 points
3rd Megan Blatchford 4 points
4th Sean Whitehouse 2 points
B Grade 6 lap race
1st George Roberts
2nd Jonty Hapeta
3rd James Hutton
4th Damian Lardner
Under 17/ under 15 6 lap scratch race
1st Josh Kendall
2nd Kate Stewart
3rd Kelsi Eccles
4th Ruby Perry
Flying Quarter Mile
Lachie Ferguson 27.33 Under 17 record old mark 27.40
Megan Blatchford 27.92 Senior womens record old mark 29.73
Jonty Hapeta 29.67
Kate Stewart 32.54 Under 15 girls record old mark 32.72
A Grade 4 Lap Handicap
1st Sean Whitehouse
2nd Jaycob Humphreys
3rd Matiu Kaihau
4th Marcel Hollenstein
B Grade 4 Lap Handicap
1st George Roberts
2nd Brent Zimmerman
3rd Damian Lardner
4th Barry Gilliland
Under 17 / 15 4 Lap Handicap
1st Catherine Young
2nd Liam Barber
3rd Brittany Ingram
4th Josh Kendall
3 Lap Olympic Team Sprint
1st Jaycob’s team 1.35.54
2nd Matiu’s team 1.35.58
3rd Brent’s team 1.38.42
4th Lachie’s team 1.38.95
A team of Sean Whiehouse, Jaycob Humphreys and Matiu Kaihau completed the 3 laps in 1.29.36
U17 / 15 7 Lap Handicap
1st Liam Barber
2nd Kate Stewart
3rd Josh Kendall
4th Campbell Stewart
A & B Grade 16 Lap Handicap
1st Matiu Kaihau
2nd Damien Lardner
3rd Megan Blatchford
4th Jonty Hapeta
by Matthijs van Wagtendonk | Dec 2, 2010 | Event Reports
A windy evening. Storming towards the turn and hard work going back. No Pb’s with this kind of weather conditions. Next week round 9. no points but with prize giving at Kairanga hall afterwards. Details to come
results and final standings
by Glenys Taylor | Dec 1, 2010 | Event Reports

Rider of the night Bryce Hirschberg won a water bottle price from Pedal Pushers
2 lap Scratch Race A Grade
1. Bryce Hirschberg
2. Cameron Worboys
3. Brittany Ingram
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by Matthijs van Wagtendonk | Nov 25, 2010 | Event Reports
Last week in round 6 Jocelyn Goodwin like many others rode a personal best. In her case though this PB was also a new course record for women. Well done Jocelyn. This week it was harder to break PB’s maybe due to the weather and fitness levels are back on high. Next week round 8 the last round to collect points. Round 9 will be the prizegiving round.
results round 7
by Glenys Taylor | Nov 24, 2010 | Event Reports
1 km time trial
- Cameron Worboys 1:43.98
- Jayden Bond 1:57.89
- Fergus Bryan 1:58.32
- Sarah Humphrey 2:35.29
- Levi Bryan 2:56.45
6 lap handicap race
- Cameron Worboys
- Jayden Bond
- Fergus Bryan
- Sarah Humphrey
- Levi Bryan
3 lap handicap race
- Fergus Bryan
- Jayden Bond
2 lap handicap race
- Sarah Humphrey
- Levi Bryan
Rider of the night Fergus Bryan with a water bottle prize from Pedal Pushers

by Glenys Taylor | Nov 24, 2010 | Event Reports
Track Cycling Feilding
Another dry clear sky greeted the riders but the cool South-westerly ensured the bikinis and board shorts stayed out of sight. The stellar appearance tonight was left to a restored war plane humming away in the sky above resplendent in camouflage livery and red nose cone. While the wind was a factor in preventing Lachie Ferguson’s gutsy effort to break his own under 17 flying lap record it was not enough to impact significantly of the nights results.
We had another good turn out of 22 riders with a few being new for the season but not new to the track and still we had riders away, so we certainly do have a solid core of riders and potential to move into the 30 plus category. If this line sounds familiar, you are right as it was the same in last weeks report but still valid.
The racing started with graded warm up races of 4 to 6 laps followed by Lachie’s record attempt that came up a second short on the time he set last season, but with the right conditions or an indoor velodrome Lachie has the ability to set a very challenging record. The warm up races are used to give the handicapper, Ian Gray a guide in estimating the respective handicaps for the nights handicap races. The riders competed in 2 to 3 lap and 1 lap handicap races in their grades followed by longer 10 to 12 lap handicap races. The handicapper performed the magic required to treat the spectators to some superb tight finishes with riders spread 4 and 5 wide across the narrow track dragging all power and speed from their tiring legs and warming the spirits of the cold and hypothermic spectators.
These are the results:
Rider of the night was Sean Whitehouse with a strong and dominant performance with 3 wins and a third, all from the scratch mark. The third was in the best race of the night when he finished within a wheel width to the winner Cameron Gibbons.
Under 15 girls/ under 13 4 laps
1st Campbell Stewart
2nd Kate Stewart
3rd Robert Stannard
4th Liam Barber
Under 17 5 Laps
1st Damien Lardner
2nd Jonty Hapeta
3rd George Roberts
4th James Hutton
A & B Grade 6 Laps
1st Sean Whitehouse
2nd Megan Blatchford
3rd Lachie Ferguson
4th Barry Gilliland
Under 17 flying lap record attempt
Lachie Ferguson 28.53 sec (current record 27.40sec)
Under 15 girls/ under 13 2 Laps handicap
1st Liam Barber
2nd Kate Stewart
3rd Campbell Stewart
Under 17 3 Laps
1st Jonty Hapeta
2nd Damien Lardner
3rd George Roberts
4th Kelsi Eccles
A & B Grade 5 Laps
1st Sean Whitehouse
2nd Brent Zimmerman
3rd Megan Blatchford
4th Lachie Ferguson
1 Lap Handicap races
Under 15 girls
1st Kate Stewart
2nd Elizabeth Stannard
3rd Brittany Ingram
4th Ruby Perry
Under 15 boys
1st Robert Stannard
2nd Liam Barber
3rd Campbell Stewart
4th Takumi Clarke
Under 17
1st James Hutton
2nd Mike McMinn
3rd Kelsi Eccles
4th Catherine Young
A & B Grade
1st Cameron Gibbons
2nd Lachie Ferguson
3rd Sean Whitehouse
4th Peter Wenborn
Under 13 5 Lap handicap
1st Campbell Stewart
2nd Elizabeth Stannard
3rd Robert Stannard
4th Liam Barber
B Grade 10 Lap handicap
1st George Roberts
2nd Barry Gilliland
3rd Megan Blatchford
4th Mike McMinn
A Grade 12 Lap handicap
1st Sean Whitehouse
2nd Jonty Hapeta
3rd Lachie Ferguson
4th Damien Lardner