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number of competitors in all Bob Minting on 109 points The event generated over
races was never lower than each. However in that last £450.00 of profit and all the
23, with an average of 30 race Bob secured a ten second proceeds were donated to The
competitors per race. advantage over Zoe and House and Social Committee
This was the second season gained the necessary points to to be used for the benefit of
that my wife Sheila and I had win the 2015 series. Second us all.
organized the event and we was Zoe Kingsmell with
have to say a huge thank you Dave Carton in third place. One of the big highlights
to our regular volunteers, Bob won the Parris shield of the 2015 event were
Time Keepers Terri Shotton with a combination of solid the barbeques that Deniz
and Mike Peel and Recorders results including four top five Mehmet and Gareth
Denise King, Peter Lovell placings, and net times just Griffin arranged for every
and Steve Hollingdale, either side of 20 minutes to Wednesday night of The
without their help every remind us of his pedigree. Parris Handicap. These
month it would be impossible His best performance was barbeques proved to be
to stage this event. achieved in August with a enormously successful and
As to the race winners the time of 19.40 to claim third attracted not only the runners
April race was won by Chris place his best position. but also non-runners and
Tuck followed over the guests alike. They have
next 5 months by wins for already indicated that they
Daniel Avila, Bernie Bater, will continue to run these
Gerry Alger, Dave Leal and events again this year so
James Neylon. The winning many thanks as not only is
margins ranged from over the catering first class but
1 minute 10 seconds in the our bar profits increase
last race in September to 15 considerably on these nights!
seconds in July. The first barbeque will be on
However there was no Wednesday, 18th May.
shortage of fast times during
the summer. The fastest man The first race of the 2016
over the course was Chris series will be on Wednesday
Tuck in a time of 17.59 (in 6th April at 7.15pm.
April) and the fastest lady
was Sophie Kelleher in 18.57 Richard Griffin
in the August race. A special
mention must go to young
Amy Leach who scorched
around the course in 20.03 on
the 17th of June.
Going into the last race Dave
Leal had a slender lead of
one point over joint second
placers Zoe Kingsmill and
