Saturday turned out to be a typical Heffron Park race day.....windy! A strong southerly blowing in and blowing the respective grades to bits.

A Grade started with a healthy number of participants but ended with a somewhat unhealthy looking bunch of riders, all except the strong men of the bunch; Andrew Crawley and Angus Gale.

The pair broke away early and remained ahead of the chasing bunch to cross the line. It was a huge effort given the windy condition and the quality of the chasing riders of Robbie Cater and Sam Rutherford. Keeping Sam and Robbie in check and defending a team mate in Angus Gale was Andrew Herrmann and Antony Dimitrovsk, waiting to attack if the group came together.

B Grade usually being the largest bunch at Heffron, was no different today, the only difference being was that only a handful finished the race at the front end of the field. The wind left its mark in B grade as number of the usual strong men were reduced to the spectator bench. Congratulations to Dave Watkinson for a fine win.

C Grade was the only bunch that seemed to handle the conditions as a group and most riders toughed out the conditions and finished in the bunch sprint. The sprint to the line was a tough fought out affair into the strong head win. The riders with enough in the tank, maintained their sprinting legs with Martin Barry just taking it from Jon Clark.

D Grade was also reduced to the ones who could tough out the conditions. There seemed to be a few attacks, but it was hard to gauge, it may have been the windy conditions had some riders struggling in the head wind, but managing to get back onto the main bunch when out of the wind.