TLI Moreton Series Rnd 5 17/06/2010

Jay Eastwood took his third consecutive win in the Moreton series from a bunch sprint on a pleasently warm evening at the leafy south Dorset circuit. With riders now settled into the series – newbies and old hands alike now with some race miles in their legs – the field was largely polarised into two groups, with more than twenty one in the scratch ‘red’ group and eighteen in the, easier, ‘green’ group. The greens worked hard, sharing the workload, but the reds worked harder, catching them with four laps to go.

For the next three laps, numerous attempts were made to get away by Rupert Silman, Joe Horton, Eamon Deane and others but all were dragged back and the race finished in a bunch gallop. Jay Eastwood of VC St Raphael won again, ahead of Barry Clewett and Andrew Boyd of CC Weymouth, with Stu Bowers of Hargoves Cycles fourth, Paul Hopkins of Merida UK fifth and Nick Best of Bournemouth Jubilee Wheelers sixth.