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28 October 2013 INDEX Football 2–11 Results, tables 2 Rugby union 12–15 Local results 16 Racing 17–19 Formula One 20 Golf 20

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Yeovil Town players celebrate the opening goal from Ed Upson during the dramatic 3-1 win over Nottingham Forest in the Sky Bet Championship at Huish Park PICTURE: PA

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Zetters: 3 = Score Draws, 2= No Score Draw or Void 1= Home or Away

Aston Villa ............... (0) 0 everton ....................(0) 2Att 35,154 Lukaku 68 Osman 81crystal Palace ......... (0) 0 Arsenal ....................(0) 2Att 20,050 Arteta 47 (pen) Giroud 87liverpool ................. (2) 4 West brom ..............(0) 1Suarez 12, 17, 55 Morrison 66 (pen)Sturridge 77 Att 44,747Man Utd ................... (1) 3 Stoke .......................(2) 2van Persie 43 Crouch 4Rooney 78 Arnautovic 45Hernandez 80 Att 75,274Norwich ................... (0) 0 cardiff ......................(0) 0Att 26,846Southamptn ............. (2) 2 Fulham ....................(0) 0Lambert 20Rodriguez 43 Att 28,631

Yesterday chelsea .................... (1) 2 Man city ..................(0) 1Schurrle 33 Aguero 49Torres 90 Att 41,495Spurs ....................... (0) 1 hull ..........................(0) 0Soldado 80 (pen) Att 36,080Sunderland .............. (1) 2 Newcastle ................(0) 1Fletcher 5 Debuchy 57Borini 84 Att 46,313Swansea .................. (0) 0 West ham ................(0) 0Att 20,455

hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsArsenal ..............9 3 0 1 9 5 4 1 0 11 4 22Chelsea .............9 5 0 0 12 3 1 2 1 4 3 20Liverpool ............9 4 0 1 9 3 2 2 0 8 5 20Spurs .................9 3 1 1 5 4 3 0 1 4 1 19Southamptn .......9 3 2 0 7 1 2 1 1 3 2 18Everton ..............9 3 1 0 6 3 2 2 1 8 7 18Man City ............9 4 0 0 13 2 1 1 3 8 9 16Man Utd .............9 2 2 1 7 5 2 0 2 7 7 14Swansea ............9 1 2 2 8 8 2 0 2 4 3 11Hull ....................9 2 2 0 3 1 1 0 4 4 9 11Newcastle ..........9 1 2 1 5 5 2 0 3 7 11 11West Brom .........9 1 1 2 4 4 1 3 1 4 6 10Aston Villa..........9 1 0 4 4 9 2 1 1 5 3 10Fulham...............9 1 1 2 4 6 2 0 3 5 6 10West Ham ..........9 1 0 3 5 7 1 3 1 3 1 9Cardiff ................9 1 1 2 4 5 1 2 2 4 8 9Stoke .................9 1 2 1 2 2 1 0 4 4 8 8Norwich..............9 1 2 2 4 6 1 0 3 2 7 8Sunderland ........9 1 0 4 5 10 0 1 3 2 11 4Crystal Pal .........9 1 0 4 4 10 0 0 4 2 9 3

hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsBurnley ............13 5 2 0 14 3 5 0 1 10 4 32Leicester ..........13 6 1 0 13 6 3 1 2 8 7 29QPR .................12 5 1 0 8 1 3 2 1 6 5 27Blackpool .........13 4 3 0 8 4 2 3 1 8 7 24Reading ...........13 4 3 0 13 6 2 2 2 7 6 23Nottm For ........13 4 2 0 11 5 2 3 2 10 10 23Watford ............12 3 2 1 13 7 3 1 2 11 7 21Derby ...............13 1 3 3 10 14 4 1 1 15 7 19Huddersfld ......13 3 3 1 13 8 1 2 3 4 6 17Leeds ...............13 3 1 2 10 6 2 1 4 6 10 17Bournemth .......13 4 0 2 11 8 1 2 4 9 19 17Blackburn.........13 3 1 2 10 5 1 3 3 9 11 16Ipswich.............13 4 0 2 11 5 0 4 3 8 12 16Wigan ..............11 3 2 0 10 6 1 1 4 4 5 15Middlesbro’ ......13 2 4 1 15 9 1 2 3 8 12 15Brighton ...........12 2 2 2 9 8 1 3 2 2 4 14Millwall .............13 2 1 3 8 10 1 3 3 7 16 13Doncaster ........12 2 1 3 6 8 1 2 3 5 12 12Charlton ...........12 1 3 2 3 4 1 2 3 6 10 11Birmingham .....13 2 1 3 10 6 1 1 5 4 14 11Bolton ..............13 0 5 2 6 8 1 2 3 5 12 10Yeovil ...............13 1 1 5 4 9 1 2 3 5 10 9Barnsley...........13 2 3 2 10 16 0 0 6 5 14 9Sheff Wed ........12 0 3 2 5 7 0 5 2 7 11 8

bradford .................. (1) 1 Wolves .....................(2) 2De Vita 14 Henry 28Att 18,044 Stearman 33brentford ................. (1) 1 Shrewsbury .............(0) 0Trotta 16 Att 9,783carlisle..................... (1) 2 bristol city ..............(0) 4O’Hanlon 24 Emmanuel-Thomas 51, 52, 84Noble 80 Wagstaff 72Att 4,672colchester ............... (0) 1 Peterboro ................(0) 0Bonne 70 Att 4,149leyton Orient .......... (1) 1 rotherham ..............(0) 0Lisbie 29 Att 5,609Notts county ........... (0) 0 Preston ....................(0) 1Att 4,956 Hume 74Oldham .................... (1) 2 Swindon ..................(0) 1Winchester 32 Tarkowski 56 (og)Philliskirk 77 Att 3,837Port Vale .................. (0) 2 Gillingham ...............(1) 1Robertson 47 Kedwell 13Pope 63 Att 5,690Sheff Utd ................. (2) 3 crewe ......................(0) 1Maguire 18, 29 Clayton 78Flynn 55Att 18,784Stevenage................ (1) 2 crawley town .........(0) 0Hartley 8Doughty 90Att 2,804tranmere ................. (1) 3 Mk Dons ..................(1) 2Lowe 7, 66 (pen) Powell 39Rowe 84 Banton 49Att 4,100Walsall ..................... (0) 0 coventry ..................(0) 1 Moussa 54Att 6,519 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsL Orient ............14 6 1 0 17 5 5 1 1 16 6 35Wolves .............13 5 1 1 14 5 5 1 0 11 3 32Peterboro ........14 5 1 1 8 4 5 1 1 16 5 32Preston ............14 3 3 1 11 8 4 2 1 11 7 26Brentford ..........14 4 1 2 8 5 3 2 2 11 12 24Bradford ...........14 4 1 2 15 6 2 3 2 9 8 22Walsall .............14 2 2 3 7 10 4 2 1 10 4 22Swindon ...........14 5 1 1 15 7 1 1 5 9 11 20Port Vale ..........14 3 2 2 10 10 3 0 4 9 9 20Rotherham .......14 2 3 2 9 11 3 2 2 10 9 20MK Dons ..........14 4 2 1 14 8 1 2 4 9 12 19Crawley Town ..13 4 1 2 10 10 1 3 2 8 9 19Coventry ..........14 5 1 1 19 14 3 2 2 12 8 17Colchester .......14 2 3 2 6 8 1 4 2 7 10 16Carlisle.............13 2 0 4 6 15 2 3 2 7 9 15Oldham ............13 3 2 2 8 6 1 0 5 8 13 14Stevenage .......14 2 1 4 9 11 2 1 4 6 10 14Shrewsbury......14 2 4 1 8 5 0 3 4 5 11 13Gillingham........14 2 2 3 8 9 1 1 5 9 15 12Sheff Utd..........14 3 2 2 9 7 0 1 6 4 14 12Tranmere .........14 1 2 4 9 19 2 1 4 5 9 12Crewe ..............14 2 2 3 8 15 1 1 5 4 16 12Bristol City .......13 0 3 3 6 11 1 3 3 14 15 9Notts Co ..........13 2 0 4 8 7 0 1 6 6 17 7*Coventry deducted 10 points for entering administration

AFc Wimbledon ...... (0) 0 Oxford Utd ..............(1) 2Att 4,685 Constable 6 Smalley 82 (pen)bristol rovers ......... (0) 0 chesterfield ............(0) 0Att 5,667Dag & red ............... (1) 3 rochdale .................(0) 1Murphy 9 Dicker 64Elito 52, 90 Att 1,742exeter....................... (0) 0 burton Albion .........(0) 1Att 3,658 Edwards 89Mansfield ................. (0) 0 Plymouth .................(0) 1Att 3,379 Trotman 90Morecambe.............. (0) 1 Accrington Stanley (1) 2Sampson 50 Webber 19 (pen)Att 2,175 Murphy 90Newport county ...... (2) 3 Southend .................(1) 1Washington 23 Coker 41A Hughes 45Yakubu 53 Att 3,652Northampton ........... (1) 1 cheltenham .............(1) 1Norris 44 Harrison 10Att 4,033Scunthorpe .............. (0) 1 hartlepool ...............(0) 0Winnall 76 Att 3,613torquay .................... (1) 1 Portsmouth .............(0) 1Chapell 1 Bird 81Att 3,843Wycombe ................. (1) 1 bury .........................(0) 2Stewart 16 Soares 69Att 3,350 Edjenguele 88York .......................... (0) 0 Fleetwood town .....(1) 2Att 3,523 Evans 24 Matt 66 hOMe AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A PtsOxford Utd .......14 2 3 2 7 7 5 2 0 16 5 26Rochdale .........14 6 1 0 16 6 2 1 4 6 11 26Fleetwood T .....14 3 1 3 13 10 5 0 2 9 5 25Chesterfield .....14 4 1 2 9 6 3 3 1 11 7 25Exeter ..............14 4 0 3 9 9 3 3 1 9 5 24Burton Albion ...14 2 2 3 8 9 5 1 1 12 8 24Newport C .......14 5 1 1 16 7 1 4 2 5 8 23Dag & Red .......14 4 2 1 12 6 2 3 2 9 12 23Scunthorpe ......13 4 2 1 8 6 2 3 1 7 6 23Morecambe......14 3 3 1 13 10 3 1 3 8 10 22Mansfield .........14 2 3 2 10 8 3 3 1 5 4 21Wycombe .........13 3 1 3 9 9 3 1 2 10 7 20Southend .........14 3 1 3 7 6 3 1 3 8 8 20Hartlepool ........14 3 0 4 8 9 2 3 2 9 7 18Wimbledon.......14 4 1 2 10 8 1 2 4 5 10 18Portsmouth ......13 3 0 3 8 7 1 5 1 12 13 17Cheltenham .....14 2 3 2 12 11 2 1 4 7 14 16Plymouth..........14 2 3 2 3 6 2 0 5 6 9 15Bury .................14 2 3 2 8 6 1 1 5 7 11 13York .................13 2 1 3 6 8 1 2 4 9 13 12Bristol Rvrs ......14 2 3 2 7 8 0 2 5 4 10 11Torquay ............14 1 4 2 7 10 1 1 5 7 14 11Northamptn ......14 1 4 2 9 9 1 0 6 4 12 10Accrington S ....14 1 2 4 6 9 1 2 4 5 12 10

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1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 3 3 1 2 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49

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AFc totton ..........................2 Arlesey .............................. 2bashley ................................2 banbury ............................. 3bideford ...............................3 St Neots town .................. 2chesham .............................3 redditch ............................ 1hitchin .................................1 burnham ........................... 1truro city ............................0 cambridge city ................ 1

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtHemel Hmpstd .....12 6 0 0 24 2 4 1 1 15 5 31Chesham .............13 5 1 0 17 6 5 0 2 18 7 31Bideford ...............12 5 2 0 19 6 2 3 0 9 6 26Cambridge City ....12 3 1 1 9 5 4 2 1 9 5 24Poole Town .......... 11 2 3 0 9 7 4 1 1 13 10 22Stourbridge .......... 11 4 0 2 13 8 3 0 2 12 6 21Banbury ...............12 3 0 3 9 9 4 0 2 14 12 21St Albans .............12 3 1 2 9 7 2 2 2 16 11 18Hungerford T .......10 3 0 2 7 5 3 0 2 9 4 18Arlesey.................12 1 3 1 9 9 3 1 3 11 10 16Biggleswade T .....10 2 2 1 7 4 1 3 1 8 8 14Weymouth .............9 3 1 1 8 5 1 1 2 6 6 14Burnham ..............12 1 1 3 8 12 2 4 1 10 7 14Hitchin.................. 11 3 3 1 12 6 0 1 3 2 6 13Redditch ..............13 1 1 4 7 19 3 0 4 10 24 13Chippenham ........12 2 0 4 8 11 2 0 4 9 12 12Frome Town ......... 11 0 2 4 5 15 3 1 1 7 5 12Bedford Town.......12 2 1 3 8 13 1 2 3 12 21 12Corby ...................10 3 0 1 6 5 0 2 4 4 15 11Truro City .............12 0 2 5 6 17 2 1 2 9 11 9AFC Totton........... 11 1 1 4 11 18 1 0 4 5 13 7St Neots Town .....12 1 0 4 5 12 1 0 6 6 14 6Bashley ................10 0 1 5 7 17 0 1 3 3 10 2

Dorchester...........................0 basingstoke ...................... 4Gosport borough ...............2 chelmsford ....................... 1havant and W ......................1 eastbourne borough ....... 1Maidenhead Utd ..................0 bromley ............................. 1tonbridge Angels ...............3 Whitehawk ........................ 1Weston-S-Mare ...................0 hayes & Yeading .............. 3

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtEastleigh ..............12 5 2 0 8 2 3 0 2 8 6 26Bromley ...............12 5 0 0 17 4 3 1 3 8 7 25Bishop’s Stortford 11 4 0 1 11 5 3 2 1 13 12 23Sutton Utd ........... 11 5 1 1 16 6 1 2 1 6 2 21Hayes & Yeading .12 1 0 3 6 6 6 0 2 13 6 21Weston-S-Mare ...12 3 1 3 9 10 3 1 1 7 4 20Dover ...................12 2 1 3 4 5 4 0 2 8 2 19Basingstoke .........12 4 1 1 9 5 2 0 4 9 10 19Ebbsfleet United ..13 2 4 1 7 6 2 2 2 15 9 18Eastbourne Boro .13 3 2 1 12 9 2 1 4 4 12 18Havant and W......13 3 1 3 11 12 1 4 1 6 5 17Farnboro ..............10 4 0 1 8 2 1 1 3 11 14 16Staines Town ....... 11 5 0 0 10 4 0 1 5 5 14 16Concord Rangers 11 2 1 2 8 6 1 3 2 5 11 13Chelmsford ..........12 3 1 2 10 8 1 0 5 4 12 13Maidenhead Utd .. 11 1 1 4 7 13 2 2 1 7 5 12Tonbridge Angels . 11 2 2 2 8 9 1 1 3 6 12 12Whitehawk ...........12 1 3 2 5 8 2 0 4 9 13 12Bath City ..............10 1 2 2 6 7 1 2 2 5 6 10Boreham Wood.... 11 1 2 2 6 9 1 1 4 3 9 9Gosport Borough . 11 2 1 2 5 5 0 1 5 4 13 8Dorchester ........... 11 1 0 5 6 19 1 1 3 4 5 7

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barnsley .................. (1) 1 Sheff Wed ................(0) 1Pedersen 16 Fryatt 60Att 13,268blackpool ................ (2) 2 blackburn ................(1) 2Ince 13 (pen) Rhodes 21 (pen)Gosling 39 Davies 90 (og)Att 15,901bolton ...................... (0) 1 ipswich ....................(0) 1Medo 65 McGoldrick 73Att 15,222burnley .................... (0) 2 QPr .........................(0) 0Ings 65, 88 (pen) Att 16,074Derby ....................... (1) 1 birmingham ............(0) 1Ward 39 Novak 66Att 27,141huddersfld ............... (1) 3 leeds .......................(1) 2Ward 10 Smith 2Lees 63 (og) Blackstock 73Stead 77leicester .................. (1) 2 bournemouth ..........(1) 1Nugent 18 Pugh 38Vardy 64 Att 23,357reading ................... (1) 1 Millwall ....................(0) 1Morrison 9 Trotter 90 (pen)Att 18,245Yeovil ....................... (3) 3 Nottm For ................(1) 1Upson 8, 40 Chalobah 42Webster 43 Att 7,612

Yesterday charlton ................... (0) 0 Wigan.......................(0) 0Att 23,600

AFc hornchurch .................0 hereford ............................ 1barnet ..................................3 concord rangers ............. 0bath city ..............................0 Salisbury ........................... 1biggleswade town .............1 canvey island ................... 0boreham Wood ...................1 heybridge .......................... 0brackley...............................0 barrow ............................... 0brislington ...........................0 Welling .............................. 1chatham town ....................0 St Albans ........................... 2chester Fc ..........................0 Gateshead ......................... 1colwyn bay .........................1 corby ................................. 3Dover ...................................3 Oxford city ....................... 0ebbsfleet United .................1 Dartford ............................. 1Forest Green .......................0 bishop’s Stortford ........... 1Gloucester ...........................3 hampton & rich’d ............ 1Grimsby ...............................3 rushall Olympic ............... 0hartley Wintney ..................1 Daventry town.................. 6hemel hempstead ..............3 Sutton Utd ......................... 3Macclesfield ........................7 Vauxhall Motors ............... 0Needham Market .................0 cambridge Utd ................. 1North Ferriby Utd ................1 Alfreton town ................... 3Nuneaton .............................0 Fc halifax ......................... 2Shortwood Utd ....................1 Aldershot .......................... 1Southport ............................6 Marske Utd ........................ 2Staines town.......................0 Poole town ....................... 0Stamford ..............................0 hednesford ....................... 2tamworth .............................4 Solihull Moors .................. 1Weymouth ...........................1 braintree town ................. 2Woking .................................0 luton ................................. 1Worcester ............................1 lincoln city ...................... 1Workington ..........................1 Stourbridge ....................... 3Wrexham .............................2 hyde .................................. 0

Yesterday bradford P A .......................1 kidderminster ................... 1

bishops cleeve ...................0 clevedon town ................. 5bridgwater town.................0 Mangotsfield ..................... 3cirencester ..........................4 Wimborne town ............... 3Didcot town ........................1 Fleet town......................... 0Merthyr town ......................1 taunton ............................. 0North leigh .........................2 evesham ........................... 0Paulton ................................3 cinderford ......................... 1Stratford town ....................4 Guildford city ................... 0Swindon Super ...................1 tiverton ............................. 2Yate ......................................2 thatcham town ................ 1

hOMe AWAY P W D l F A W D l F A PtNorth Leigh ..........12 6 0 0 23 3 4 0 2 10 6 30Paulton ................12 5 1 1 23 10 3 1 1 16 9 26Merthyr Town ....... 11 5 1 0 15 6 3 0 2 12 11 25Swindon Super ....13 5 0 1 15 6 2 3 2 11 11 24Tiverton ................12 4 0 2 12 9 3 2 1 14 12 23Cirencester ............9 4 0 1 12 10 3 0 1 8 5 21Bridgwater Town ....9 2 2 1 9 6 4 0 0 11 3 20Wimborne Town ...13 4 2 0 26 9 1 2 4 8 11 19Stratford Town ..... 11 2 1 2 8 9 2 2 2 17 15 15Mangotsfield ........10 2 1 2 9 8 2 1 2 8 8 14Yate .....................10 3 0 3 11 12 1 2 1 7 8 14Taunton ................13 2 3 2 11 10 1 1 4 9 13 13Godalming Town .. 11 2 1 2 6 9 2 0 4 7 15 13Cinderford ............12 2 0 4 8 10 1 3 2 9 11 12Thatcham Town ... 11 1 2 2 3 7 2 1 3 9 10 12Bishops Cleeve ...12 2 0 4 11 20 2 0 4 11 16 12Evesham.............. 11 1 3 1 12 11 1 1 4 6 15 10Shortwood Utd .......8 1 2 1 11 11 1 1 2 7 5 9Clevedon Town ......9 1 1 2 4 8 1 1 3 7 8 8Didcot Town ......... 11 2 1 3 7 11 0 1 4 5 15 8Fleet Town ...........12 1 2 2 5 7 0 2 5 5 17 7Guildford City .......12 2 1 3 11 16 0 0 6 5 28 7

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WESTERN DAILY PRESS MONDAY OCTOBER 28 2013 FOOTBALL 3WDP-E01-S3

YEOVIL TN 3N FOREST 1

BY CHRIS SWEET

Upson and Hennessey inspire Yeovilto a first home victory of the season

Wayne Hennessey and EdUpson inspired Yeovil to amemorable first home Sky BetChampionship victory overNottingham Forest.

The goalkeeper proved im-perious throughout the win,including saving a penalty,while midfielder Upson nettedwith two stunning strikesbefore setting up a third in adominant first half.

It was arguably the Glovers’most rounded performance ofthe season to date as the di-v i s i o n’s bottom club beliedtheir position with a vibrantopening 45 minutes and res-olute second period.

Gary Johnson made twochanges to the side that heldBrighton & Hove Albion to agoalless draw, Joel Grant re-placing James Hayter in attackand Joe Ralls coming in for theinjured Fraser Fyvie.

The Glovers manager said:“Everything Wayne did wasclass today and he’s a top goal-keeper. We’re just pleased tohave him in while Marek(Stech, broken hand) is rehab-i l i t at i n g .

“Ed scored two great goals.They played a big part, as didthe other nine out there, ingetting that result against atop team.”

The Glovers broke the dead-lock in stunning style on eightminutes, Upson emphatically

Byron Webster, right, powers a header into the Nottingham Forest net to restore Yeovil Town’s two-goal cushion shortly before half-time PICTURE: GARY DAY/PINNACLE

Win is great forour confidence,says JohnsonBY CHRIS SWEET

Beating the Championship’sbig guns will boost Yeovil’sconfidence for their bottomhalf ‘cup finals’, according tomanager Gary Johnson.

The Glovers won their firstgame since the opening day ofthe season and their first atHuish Park when they beatNottingham Forest.

Ed Upson gave the hosts atwo-goal lead before taking thecorner for Byron Webster’sthird, just moments afterNathan Chalobah had pulledone back for the PremierLeague hopefuls.

Victory took Gary Johnson’smen off the foot of the table,with the boss quick to stressthe importance of the pointswhen they lock horns withtheir rivals trying to climbclear of the bottom three.

“Three points against Not-tingham Forest is alwaysm a s s ive, ” he said.

“I was just really pleasedthat we were a lot more as-sured than we have been pre-viously in the season andt h at ’s what you have got to be.

“You have got to be assuredand play your part in a good

YeovilTownmanagerGaryJohnsoncelebrates

volleying home from 20 yards,aided by a slight deflection.

On 11 minutes, Forest goal-keeper Karl Darlow was leftyelling at his defence as KevinDawson went close.

Five minutes later, ShaneDuffy brought down SimonCox in the area, referee MickRussell checking with his as-sistant before pointing to thespot.

However, Cox was denied byWelsh international Hennes-sey, the stopper saving both thepenalty and follow up.

Jamaal Lascelles almostheaded into his own net on 34

minutes before Darlow acro-batically palmed away Duffy’sheader from the corner.

On 35 minutes, Cox brokeinto the Yeovil box but wasagain thwarted by Hennesseye xc e l l e n c e.

Upson doubled his and theG l ove r s ’ tally five minutesbefore the break, again hittingthe net with a trademark 20-yard drive.

But Forest took just twominutes to halve the deficitwhen Dawson fouled formerHuish Park favourite ChrisCohen on the edge of the area.

Yeovil failed to deal with the

subsequent set piece andNathan Chalobah profitedfrom the second unchallengedheader to nod in.

Webster restored the two-goal buffer two minutes beforethe break as his toweringheader from Upson’s cornercleared the line.

Switching to a 3-5-2 gaveForest added bite and broughtthem increasingly into thecl a s h .

On 54 minutes, Hennesseykept out Cox at the far post.

Eight minutes later, a cornerreached Jack Hobbs in a sim-ilar position, but the youngster

wastefully sliced high andwide. Substitute Jamie Mackiedrove into the box after 65minutes, but again found Hen-nessey at his best at fulls t re t ch .

Hoskins broke for theGlovers on 70 minutes, self-lessly laying off for LiamDavis, who rifled into the ad-vertising hoardings behindthe goal.

A minute later, Hennesseybeat away Cohen’s sharp drivewith Yeovil a pace behind atthe back, replacement JamiePaterson missing the target.

With seconds of normal timeremaining, Forest squeezed aright wing cross across goal,but Henderson fluffed hisl i n e s.

Lascelles then raced clear,but was frustrated by Hennes-sey at the near post, then head-ing unmarked at the glovemanfrom four yards out.

There was still time forDarlow to have the final say,parrying a rasping Upsoneffort as he attempted to com-plete his hat-trick.Yeovil: Hennessey, Edwards, Duffy, Webster,McAllister, Dawson, Upson, Ralls, Davis,Hoskins, Grant. Not Used: Ayling, Hayter, Foley,Madden, Fontaine, Dunn, Williams.Booked: Upson, Dawson, Ralls, Hoskins.Goals: Upson 8, 40, Webster 43.Forest: Darlow, Lichaj, Hobbs, Lascelles,Cohen, Jara, Chalobah (Harding 46), Majewski(Paterson 69), Reid, Henderson, Cox (Mackie63). Not Used: Halford, Derbyshire, Al-Rashidi,Abdoun.Booked: Chalobah, Lascelles, Reid.Goals: Chalobah 42.Attendance: 7,612.Referee: Mick Russell (Hertfordshire).

On-loan Yeovil Town goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey saves Simon Cox’s penalty at Huish Park on Saturday

Championship match – and wedefinitely did that.

“We will strive to get into thetop half (of the table), but at themoment we will look at thoseteams (near the bottom).

“We have some big cup finalscoming up against Barnsley,Sheffield Wednesday and Don-caster. But if we can takepoints off the big boys, that’sgreat for confidence.”

Forest manager Billy Daviesbemoaned a “bad day at theof fice” – and rued Cox’s pen-alty miss.

He said: “I was surprisedthat was Yeovil’s first homewin because in the first 45minutes their appetite wasgood, their attitude was goodand we quite simply didn’tturn up.

“Having said that, at 1-0 youc a n’t afford to miss penaltiesand that was without doubt abig turning point.

“I think they deserved to bein front at half-time and,second half, I thought Hennes-sey was excellent and deservedhis man of the match.

“In the Championship, theblue sky doesn’t exist everyweekend, there are dark cloudsand there will be difficult daysahead with ups and downs,bumps and bruises.

“There is no easy game inthis league and you have torespect every team.

“Your attitude has to be right– and ours wasn’t in the firsth a l f.

“On another day thingscould have been different, butHennessey was excellent.”

Yeovil travel to Leeds Unitednext weekend.


We will get itright here –PembertonBY ANDY STOCKHAUSEN

John Pemberton insists thatBristol City head coach SeanO’Driscoll will “get it right”providing he is given time.

Under mounting pressurefollowing a winless sequenceof 21 League games, the Mid-lander knew another defeat atCarlisle would have furtherundermined his position.

But a hat-trick from Jay Em-manuel-Thomas and a ScottWagstaff wonder strike de-livered a much-needed 4-2 winat Brunton Park to lift theRobins off the foot of the tableand buy the head coach somebreathing space.

O’Driscoll received publicbacking from his assistantmanager after plotting a firstLeague victory in nearly eightm o n t h s.

“We were bottom of theleague and you expect it (pres-sure) when you are in thatposition,” said Pemberton.

“I know there has been a lotof talk outside of the club, butwe are all fully behind Seanand what he is trying to do.

“This is a club in transitionand it is going to be hard, but

Bristol Cityassistantboss JohnPembertonEmmanuel-Thomas demonstrates

his class to earn City their first win

Bristol City’s talisman frontman Jay Emmanuel-Thomasfrustrates and delights inequal measure.

As if to prove the point, hemissed an open goal andturned in a performance waybeneath his own high stand-ards in defeat at Crewe lastweek, prompting some Robinsfans to question his presencein head coach SeanO’Driscoll’s starting line-up.

Seven days later and theformer Arsenal man producesthe kind of emphatic responsethat really ought to silence hisdoubters for some consider-able time to come – but thenthose are the inconsistenciesthat define a player who hasdivided opinion throughouthis career.

When Emmanuel-Thomas isgood, he can be very good. Justask Carlisle, who were blownaway by his hat-trick and agreat strike from Scott Wag-staff, all four goals deliveredwithin a 34-minute spell in thesecond-half that could yet re-define City’s season.

Trailing to Sean O’H a n l o n’s24th-minute header and onegoal down at the break, thevisitors were forced to con-front the unpalatable prospect

of being cut adrift at the foot ofthe League One table, poten-tially five points from safety.

Tentative at times on theopening 45 minutes, the Robinsfailed to win enough secondballs to deter a Carlisle sidethat enjoyed the upper handand deserved to be in front.

Encouraged by O’Driscolland his assistant, John Pem-berton, City’s players emergedfor the second half with analtogether more positive mind-set and set about imposingthemselves on proceedings forthe first time.

The results were almost in-stantaneous, Emmanuel-Thomas stooping to conquerfrom a close-range header laidon a proverbial plate for himby right-back Brendan Molo-ney, who worked wonders tokeep the ball in play and thendeliver a telling centre.

Proving the old adage thatgoals change games, Carlislereacted badly and the Robins,their tails up, scored anothergoal within two minutes to fun-damentally alter the complex-ion of the game and effect adramatic swing in the balanceof power.

Deployed in an attackingrole behind the strikers, BobbyReid powered forward andslipped an astute pass inside toEmmanuel-Thomas, whoseown particular version of thesoft-shoe shuffle carried himclear of the covering defence

Jay Emmanuel-Thomas slots in his second goal as Bristol City clinch their first three points of the season against Carlisle United at Brunton Park PICTURES: DOUGIE ALLWARD/JMP

CARLISLE UTD 2BRISTOL CITY 4BY ANDYSTOCKHAUSEN

and invited him to beat MarkGillespie from 15 yards out.

Confidence now coursingthrough their veins, City’syoung players refused to sitback and protect their lead,something they attemptedwithout success in previousgames at Port Vale and MKDons. Instead, they kept theirfoot on the pedal, continued toforce the home side onto the

back foot and were rewardedwhen Wagstaff controlled alofted pass from the increas-ingly influential Emmanuel-Thomas on his chest and foundthe far top corner of the netwith a breath-taking halfvolley that owed as much torenewed belief as it did tosound technique.

Even when Liam Noblepulled a goal back 11 minutesfrom time, the visitors keptgoing forward and Emmanuel-Thomas completed his firstsenior treble to put the seal ona first League win in 22 gamesdating as far back as March 9.

Having already scored with

ScottWagstaffnetted agreat goalfor City

his head and right foot, henetted with his left foot afterbeing set-up by substitute JoeBryan. His was the completes t r i ke r ’s hat-trick and provedbeyond doubt that a teamseemingly incapable of keep-ing clean sheets desperatelyneeds a maverick influencewithin its ranks.

This long-overdue result notonly lifts City off the foot of thetable and to within threepoints of safety ahead of back-to-back home games againstOldham and Crawley, it alsorelieves some of the pressureon O’Driscoll and City’s boardof directors, who have contin-ued to back him in the face ofpoor results.

One win does not make aseason, but it is at least a startand offers a young teamsomething to build on now thatthey have shed the stigma ofthe longest winless run in theentire Football League.

Although they celebratedwildly at the final whistle,City’s fans have suffered forlong enough to realise the im-portance of keeping their feeton terra-firma this week.

How can they do otherwisewhen the defensive frailtiesthat have done so much to un-dermine their team thisseason still persist?

O’Driscoll has sought to per-fect the balance between de-fence and attack, yet his teamcontinues to concede soft

goals. Without a clean sheet inLeague One this term, theRobins were again found want-ing when confronted by set-piece routines.

This persistent failing re-emerged with calamitous res-ults when James Berrettswung over a corner andO’Hanlon rose unchallenged tohead in at the far post.

And Carlisle’s second goalwas also the product of a mo-mentary loss of concentration,Noble being allowed time andspace to pick his spot from 22yards out after the visitorsfailed to clear a free-kick.

But then this was one ofthose occasions when theresult was more importantthan the performance and Citycan be forgiven their short-comings in defence this once.

If nothing else, this resultsuggests that attack may, fornow at least, represent the bestform of defence for a team intransition.Carlisle: Gillespie, Potts (Buaben 71),O’Hanlon, Chimbonda, Townsend, Noble,Thirlwell, Berrett (Symington 61), Amoo, Guy(Miller 60), Robson. Not Used: Livesey, Gillies,Fleming, Eccleston.Booked: Potts, Townsend, Chimbonda.Goals: O’Hanlon 24, Noble 80.City: Parish, Moloney, Dunk (Flint 40),Williams, Shorey, Pack, Reid (Bryan 78), Elliott,Wagstaff, Emmanuel-Thomas (Harewood 88),Taylor. Not Used: Fielding, Baldock,Cunningham, McLaughlin.Goals: Emmanuel-Thomas 51,52, Wagstaff72, Emmanuel-Thomas 84.Attendance: 4,672.Referee: Scott Duncan (Tyne & Wear).

everybody is working hard andwe want to get it right.

“I suppose the biggest emo-tion after a result like this isrelief. Believe me, it has beenreally difficult. But I can saywith hand on heart that every-body has done all that they canand we have not left a singlestone unturned.

“We ’re determined to get itright and we’re giving it a realgood go.”

O’Driscoll stayed in thedressing room with his playersafter the final whistle, leavingPemberton to attend the post-match press conference.

And the former NottinghamForest coach made a point ofthanking the 364 City fans whomade the 600-mile round trip toCumbria.

He said: “It is nice that allthe hard work has come off foronce and people can enjoy awin. This result set us up fortwo home games (againstOldham on Saturday andCrawley on Tuesday, Novem-ber 5) and, hopefully, the fanswill get behind us. We really doneed them.

“I thought the fans that cameup to Carlisle were brilliant.They got behind us from thestart and I’m just reallypleased we’ve given themsomething to shout about.

“I would like to thank themon behalf of all the players andthe management.”

Of City’s match-winner, headded: “It’s well documentedwhat he can’t do. What he cando is score goals and changegames and he’s got the perfecthat-trick, one with his head,one with his left foot and onewith his right.”


OLDHAM ATH 2SWINDON TN 1

BY NEILGOULDING

Danny Philliskirk, on the ground, in blue, watches his effort beat Swindon Town goalkeeper Wes Foderingham for the winning goal at Boundary Park PICTURE: ROB NOYES

Swindon left to rue missed chancesas they fall to second defeat in a row

O’Keefe marks return from injury with last-gasp winner for Foyle’s men

Swindon boss Mark Cooperwas left to rue a number ofmissed chances as his sideslipped to a second straightdefeat at Oldham.

Following the midweekhumbling at home by Walsall,the Robins failed to performduring a dismal first half atBoundary Park in which theyfailed to create a singlegoalscoring opportunity.

They equalised after thebreak through a JamesTarkowski own goal beforegoing on to miss a number ofopportunities as they went insearch of a winner.

The Robins’ profligacy was

HELLENIC LEAGUE

TJ Bohane hit a hat-trick asHighworth thumped Holyport7-0 in the Premier Divisionwith Tony Joyce, Aaron Maxi-men, Ryan King and LewisPage also on the mark.

Brimscombe won 2-0 at New-bury thanks to goals from JoeyTustain and Karl Nash, butWootton Bassett lost 2-1 at top-of-the-table Reading Town.

Fairford beat North LeighUnited 4-0 in Division OneWest with Alex Rudd, DanBailey, Callum Parsons andHenry Traas all on target.

In round two of the BluefinSports Challenge Cup, Purtonwon 3-1 at Beversbrook withtwo goals from Scott Campbelland one from Nick McCrae.

Cirencester Developmentran out 5-1 winners at Let-combe with Tom Luce scoringtwice and Dan Roberts, DanJones and Oliver Pitt claimingone each. Tytherington won4-2 at Highmoor with Tom An-drews netting twice and JustinBishop and Luke Sperringscoring one each.

Cheltenham Saracens wentout 7-6 on penalties after a 1-1draw at Milton, while Tuffleywere beaten 3-2 at home byWanta g e.

TJ’s hat-tricklifts Highworth

Chris Kiwomya has left hispost as manager of NottsCounty “by mutual consent”.

Kiwomya joined County inFebruary 2012 as their devel-opment squad manager andhas been in charge of the firstteam since February this yearfollowing the departure ofKeith Curle.

On their website, the clubsaid “despite playing an at-tractive and exciting style offo o t b a l l ” it was decided thatthe two parties would “par tc o m p a ny ”.

County lost 1-0 at home toPreston on Saturday, leavingthem bottom of League One,with just two wins from theiropening 13 matches.

“I cannot express how dif-ficult a decision that this hasbeen for the board of direct-o r s, ” chief executive Jim Rod-well said.

“We would like to state, forthe record, that we continue tohold Chris in high regard.”

Development squad man-ager Steve Hodge will takecharge of the first team fortomor row’s league gameagainst Oldham.

AFC HORNCHURCH 0HEREFORD UNITED 1

Hereford boss Martin Foylewas relieved to see his Bullsside progress to the first roundof the FA Cup after a toughbattle at Hornchurch.

However, United couldhardly have left it any laterwith Josh O’Ke e f e ’s decisivegoal coming in the thirdminute of injury-time.

O’Keefe, Hereford’s secondtop-scorer, has been out for two

months since breaking an armat Alfreton on August BankHoliday Monday.

“It’s no coincidence thatJosh O’Keefe comes back intothe side and we get a goal liket h at , ” said Foyle. “We ’ve notreally had anyone with the legsto come from midfield andhave erred on the safe side – ittakes a brave man to get intothe box at that stage.

“He deserves it, he’s had along eight weeks out.”

Foyle acknowledged that it

could have been three ahead atthe break.

Eric Odhiambo saw an earlyeffort brilliantly saved byhome goalkeeper Inigo Echep-are and then fired anothergood chance wide.

Michael Rankine shouldhave done better when hefound himself one-on-one withthe goalkeeper.

After Styles’ dismissal,Hereford dominated play butwere rarely able to open upshooting opportunities

against a determined homere a r g u a rd .

But then, just when an EdgarStreet replay looked certain,O’Keefe struck.

Rankine and Rob Purdiecombined to send Dan Walkeraway on the right and his crosswas bundled in at the far postby the former Lincoln Citym i d f i e l d e r.

“I know there is a lot of workto be done and I do get frus-t r at e d , ” said Foyle.

“But I’m delighted to go

through, it’s been tough thisseason, but this is a littlesweetener for the club.

“The supporters were fant-astic today. They’ve travelledall this way and really gotbehind us.

“It was a needed win for thechanging room and for me. Imight be able to relax a littlen ow.

“This is a start for us again –it has been a bit dour, but now awin like this could spark us offag ain.”

punished as teenager DannyPhilliskirk struck the winninggoal 13 minutes from time.

A disappointed Cooper said:“We were a bit flat in the firsthalf. We didn’t really get goingand we found ourselvesbehind.

“The second half perform-ance was better, we createdquite a few chances and wedefinitely had the momentumwith us. We needed to convertone of those chances, though.

“If we’d have gone in frontthen I think we would havehung on, but fair play toOldham, they scored a decentsecond goal and we were forcedto chase the game.”

Neither side created much inthe first half, one which was litup by a wonder strike fromOldham’s young right-backCarl Winchester. Thirty-three

minutes had passed when theNorthern Ireland under-21 in-ternational picked up the ballon the right flank before un-leashing a superb drive from 30yards which flew past Wes Fo-deringham and nestled in thetop corner of the net.

James Dayton had earlierglanced a header narrowlywide for the hosts, but that hadbeen the closest either side hadcome to breaking the deadlockbefore Winchester’s screamer.

Alex Pritchard finally forcedOldham goalkeeper MarkOxley into a save just after therestart, before the Robins lev-elled in the 56th minute.

Jack Barthram played in alow cross from the right andthe ball flicked up off the bootof the lunging Tarkowskibefore looping over Oxley andinto the gaping goal. The piece

of good fortune certainly liftedthe visitors.

Ryan Mason found space justinside the box and curled ashot inches wide, while NileRanger should have donebetter when leapt well butcould not direct a header.

There was chances at theother end too. Foderinghamgot down smartly to saveJames Wesolowski’s well-struck shot, while last season’sRobins loan-man AdamRooney fired in an effort whichfizzed narrowly wide.

Substitute Dany N’Guessandrilled a shot into the side-netting as the Robins pushedagain, but they were to beundone by a brave finish fromyoung Philliskirk with timerunning out.

The former Chelsea young-ster dived in superbly to meet

Jonathan Grounds’ cross as heconverted at the far post.

Cooper added: “We sorted afew things at half-time and gotback into the game.

“We should have got backinto it, but we didn’t defendp ro p e rly.

“We know where we’regoing, but we really have to getback on track quickly.”Oldham: Oxley, Winchester, Kusunga,Tarkowski, Grounds, Philliskirk, Wesolowski,Smith, Dayton (Schmeltz 75), Millar (Clarke-Harris 62), Rooney. Not Used: Montano, Mellor,Rodgers, Joksts, Rachubka.Booked: Tarkowski.Goals: Winchester 32, Philliskirk 77.Swindon: Foderingham, N Thompson, Hall,Ward, Barthram, Luongo, Mason, Kasim, Byrne,Ranger,Pritchard (N’Guessan 75). Not Used:Waldon, L Thompson, Belford, Branco, Ajose,El-Gabbas.Booked: Kasim, Pritchard.Goals: Tarkowski 56 og.Attendance: 3,837.Referee: Jeremy Simpson (Lancashire).

had been a tough battle, eventhough the Ryman Leaguehosts were reduced to ten menfive minutes after the breakwhen skipper Elliott Styleswas sent off for a foul on ChrisBush.

“Both sides struggled to puttwo or three passes together onwhat was a very difficultp i t ch , ” said Foyle. “The char-acter was there, but the qualitywas hard to find today.”

Hereford had the betterchances in the first half and

Kiwomya leavesjob at County


BRISTOL ROVERS 0CHESTERFIELD 0

BY RICHARDLATHAM

Sibbick firesLarkhall clearat the summitTOOLSTATION LEAGUE

Larkhall moved six pointsclear at the top of the PremierDivision after a 5-0 home winover Hengrove with all of thegoals coming after half-time.

Nat Auckland put the leagueleaders in front before TylerSibbick hit a quick-fire hat-trick and Jamie Lyons roun-ded things off.

Cadbury Heath went fourthwith a 4-0 victory at Radstock,Sam Winfield scoring twicewith Matt Huxley and LeonBentley also on target.

Bristol Manor Farm beathigh-flying Street 1-0 with PeteSheppard getting the goal.

Craig Wilson scored a lateequaliser as Bitton claimed a1-1 draw at home to Hallen,Tom Collett having given thevisitors the lead on the hour.

Willand defeated BishopSutton 1-0 thanks to a DavidSteele penalty, while FrankPaxton scored both goals asIlfracombe triumphed 2-0 overvisiting Sherborne.

The biggest winners of theday in the First Division wereWestbury, who won 6-0 at hometo Corsham as the visitors fin-ished with just eight men.

Anthony Brown converted abrace of penalties, whileSimon Millard also claimed adouble with Joe Murray andMark Young also on the mark.

With leaders Bradford in cupaction, Wellington closed thegap to seven points with a 4-2home victory over Cheddar.

Shepton Mallet edged outCalne 3-2 with Lucas Ward net-ting the winner after AshWilmott and Joe Morgan hadeach cancelled-out Glenn Arm-strong goals for the visitors.

Wincanton defeated Portis-head 3-0 with Lee Gale scoringtwice and Rob Turnock once,while Chippenham Park lost2-1 at home to Barnstaple.

Cribbs drew 1-1 at Wells withDave Gilroy quickly levellingafter Francis Rolli opened thescoring for the hosts, whileChard and Almondsbury UWEfinished 2-2, Keynsham andDevizes also drew 2-2 andAshton & Backwell drew 1-1with Oldland.� In the preliminary round ofthe Les Phillips League Cup,Premier Division strugglersWinterbourne battled to a 4-3triumph at First Divisiontable-toppers Bradford.

Ash Knight twice put thevisitors in front, but JoshBrigham and Dan King eachlevelled matters before SamJordan put the home sideahead for the first time.

However, Karim Rendallequalised for Winterbourneand Ben Dowdell thensnatched a winner.

Slimbridge progressed witha 2-1 home win over Warmin-ster, Liam Harding and JamieMartin scoring before LouisSparey replied.

Odd Down beat LongwellGreen 3-2 on penalties follow-ing a 0-0 draw, while Phil Or-merod and a Steve Smithpenalty gave Gillingham a 2-0win at Welton.

Darren Watts and an Ian Jef-frey own goal saw Bridport to a2-0 victory at Melksham, whileBuckland thrashed RomanGlass St George 6-1.

Bristol Rovers’ Alefe Santos, left, goes shoulder-to-shoulder with Ritchie Humphreys PICTURE: NEIL BROOKMAN

Alefe Santos provided somestrong evidence that BristolRovers are building the rightmentality into their youngplayers as well as nurturingsome exciting talent.

Known as Alfie within theclub, the 18-year-old wingerfound himself up against a vet-eran of more than 600 Leaguegames in 35-year-old left-backRitchie Humphreys.

The ex-Hartlepool stalwartis still a formidable player atLeague Two level and emergedfrom an intriguing duel withplenty of credit.

What impressed aboutSantos was that he never gotdisappointed if his end productwas less than threatening andremained ready to take on anopponent nearly twice his ageat every opportunity right upto the final whistle.

It would have been easy toshirk that responsibility andtake the option of more safepasses. Instead, Santos fol-lowed to the letter the advice ofmanager John Ward justbefore kick off.

“I told Alfie not to worry ifhis first cross flew behind thegoal or got blocked, but to justkeep on trying to get balls intothe box,” said the Rovers boss.“He is a quiet kid, but a verygood listener and he showed hehad something about himt o d ay. ”

Ward was sufficiently im-pressed to leave Santos on forthe whole of the game when itwould have been easy to sub-stitute him in the effort to pro-tect a point in the closingsta g es.

Faith in his youngsters ispart of the experienced man-a g er’s make-up and he is asconcerned about developingthe right attitudes as improv-ing the skills of his rookie pro-f e s s i o n a l s.

There was no questioningthe commitment of any Rovers

Santos showsmaturity infine display

player in this game. What thecurrent team lack in qualitythey make up for in effort and aclean sheet against high-flyingChesterfield was a justrew a rd .

The visitors looked the morelikely to break the deadlock,particularly in the second halfwhen Eoin Doyle spurned thebest chance of the game andSteve Mildenhall’s long out-stretched left leg kept out agoal-bound shot from GaryRober ts.

But, with Tom Parkes andWill Packwood strong at theheart of the defence and OllieClarke aiding his back-fourfrom a deep midfield role,Rovers had enough about themto resist.

They might even havenicked all three points at theend. Clarke’s 20-yard shot waswell struck and brought adecent save from Tommy Lee,diving to his right, as the fansat the Blackthorn End pre-pared to celebrate. Those sup-porters had again played theirpart in remaining patient andbehind their team, despite alack of cutting edge up front.

C l a rke ’s shot was his side’sonly effort on target. Yet theywere applauded off that theend in a manner that musthave given the younger mem-bers of the team a huge lift.

It might have been a differ-ent story had Doyle not un-accountably elected to try tolob the tall Mildenhall whenbreaking clear onto ArmandGnanduillet’s 48th minutepass. The striker got horriblyunderneath the ball and sent itsailing over the crossbar.

It was not Doyle’s day as asecond caution for a foul onSantos in the closing stagessaw him dismissed by refereeIain Williamson.

Rovers must improve as anattacking force if they are tomove clear of the League Twodrop zone. Ryan Brunt andEliot Richards have both hadtheir injury problems thisseason and not surprisinglylooked rusty as a partnership.

Both need a run of games.

Ward hails chairman Higgs as all at Rovers stick together

Bristol Rovers boss John Wardmakes a point to the bench

BY RICHARD LATHAM

John Ward paid tribute toRovers chairman Nick Higgsafter seeing his young sidehold high-riding Chesterfieldto a goalless draw at theMemorial Stadium.

Asked whether setbacksover the plan to move to a newground had led to frustrationand affected the team thisseason, the manager said: “N o,simply because my chairmanhas been excellent.

“He has kept me in touchwith the new stadium busi-ness, without giving me detailsof every meeting, and has left

me to get on with the footballside of the club.

“When he has had a disap-pointment with the ground, Ihave pulled him through andencouraged him to keep going.And when we have had dis-appointments on the pitch, hehas done the same for me.

“I can’t do much about theground, but it is a big incentiveto me to keep pushing myyoung players.

“Imagine Alfie Santos run-ning out at a new ground withperhaps 12,000 or 15,000 peoplewatching. If he wanted to go onand play for ManchesterUnited, what a fantastic stage

it would be to keep practisingon. I know my place and I amtrying to get football team towhere the chairman wouldlike it to be because he’s a greatsuppor ter.”

Eighteen-year-old wingerSantos caught the eye with apromising display againstChesterfield, giving a vastlyexperienced left-back inRitchie Humphreys all theproblems he could handle.

Ward said: “Ritchie is a gen-tleman footballer. Coming offthe field he told me ‘your right-winger is a good kid and he’sgoing to be a good player’.

“When you hear things like

that from a fellow professional,t h at ’s respect. Alfie has not yetgot what I call Football Leaguestrength, with 50 or 60 gamesunder his belt, but he haslasted a good 90 minutes andexcited the home fans.

“D o n’t expect too much orfor him to play like that all thetime. We have to bear with ourkids when their form dips, butAlfie is a talent we will nurtureas best we can for our club.

“He is used to playing atyouth team level in front of 30people and it’s a huge leap toplay in League games thatmatter big-time to 5,000 or 6,000s p e c t at o r s. ”

The hosts failed to fashion aclear chance, their midfieldplayers often too preoccupiedwith winning the ball, ratherthan using it creatively.

But there were plenty of pos-itives to take into the toughtrip to Oxford next Saturday,

not least the spirit of togeth-erness that appears to existbetween the fans and their en-thusiastic young guns.Rovers: Mildenhall, Smith, Packwood, Parkes,Lockyer, Santos, Clarke, Clucas, O’Toole,Richards, Brunt. Not Used: Norburn, Henshall,Harrison, Harding, Gough, Keary, Southway.

Chesterfield: Lee, Darikwa, Evatt (Hird 74),Cooper, Humphreys, Devitt (Richards 62), Morsy(Banks 28), Doyle, Roberts, Ryan, Gnanduillet.Not Used: Smith, Chapman, McSheffrey,Edwards.Sent Off: Doyle (87).Booked: Doyle.Attendance: 5,667.Referee: Iain Williamson (Berkshire).


NORTHAMTPON 1CHELTENHAM 1

BY JON PALMER

Cheltenham Town were left towonder how they did not winthis one-sided contest – but thesigns are highly-encouraging.

After plenty of tinkeringwith formations and person-nel, boss Mark Yates is makingclear strides towards extract-ing the best out of a talentedsquad and there is still plentyof time for them to make animpression this season.

The diamond midfield hasresulted in Cheltenham’s bestperformances and they fol-lowed-up their comfortablehome victory over Morecambewith another accomplishedd i s p l ay.

It should have resulted inthree more points and, with amore clinical edge, Chelten-ham could have won by anemphatic margin.

A combination of fine goal-

York game is now a ‘must-win’ for Robins, says boss Yates

Turl turns thetide as Tigersmake progressGLOUCESTER CITY 3HAMPTON & RICHMOND 1

Gloucester secured their placein the FA Cup first round for asecond consecutive seasonwith two late goals.

Darren Mullings had struckan early second-half equaliserand, with City on top, 18-year-old Sam Turl scrambled theball home with ten minutesremaining before stalwartTom Webb got a late third.

Charlie Moone had scored ashock goal for the RymanPremier League outfit, seeingthe Beavers head into half-timein the lead.

But superb and savvy sub-stitutions from City managerDave Mehew saw the Tigersequalise with Scott Wilsonplaying his part, before Turland Webb’s late heroics.

Despite City looking themore dangerous, Hamptontook a shock lead.

A poorly taken free-kick wascleared away, but the followingpump into the area fromDarren Powell found hot-shotMoone, who manoeuvred toscore a looping header overMike Green for the lead.

The second half became adifferent proposition for theTigers. Looking at defeat, bossMehew chopped and changedand brought on Wilson.

The results were immediateas the striker played Mullingsthrough and he smashed hometo equalise.

With ten minutes remainingin the game, Gloucester tookthe lead as teenager Turlknocked home his first-evergoal for the club afterMullings’ original shot wassaved by goalkeeper RodneyC h i we s h e.

The tie was sealed in thefinal minute with the Tigersrecord appearance holderWebb heading home afterWilson had broken away on thecounter-attack to seal City’sspot in the FA Cup firstro u n d .� Gloucester host Solihull inthe Skrill North tomorrow(7.45pm).

Cheltenham Town striker Byron Harrison turns away to celebrate after putting his side in front against Northampton at Sixfields on Saturday PICTURE: ANTONY THOMPSON/TWM

Cheltenham have to settle for a drawbut all the signs remain encouraging

Cheltenham Town boss Mark Yates

Cheltenham must learn tofinish teams off if they are tothrust themselves into the pro-motion shake-up this term,admits boss Mark Yates.

They dominated Saturday’smatch against Northampton,but failed to turn their superi-ority into three points as thematch at Sixfields was drawn.

After their worst start to aLeague Two campaign, Chel-tenham have now won threeand drawn one of their last six

matches, but Yates knowsCheltenham should have beencelebrating back-to-back winsfor the first time this season.

“We should have had allthree points because we werebrilliant, but when we were 1-0up in the first half and dom-inant without ever gettingabove 65-70 per cent, the lessonis to put our foot on theirthroats and kill them off,”Yates said. “There is muchmore to come from us and at

times on Saturday we werefinding it almost too easy.

“I wanted us to really grabthe game by the scruff of theneck because it was too easy atone stage and I don’t mean thatdisrespectfully, but we werecoping and there was no threatfrom them. They had one shoton target all game so it’s dis-appointing not to win, butthere were a lot of positives.”

Yates said that the two pointsdropped at Northampton has

made next Saturday’s homematch against York a “mustwin” g ame.

“Our supporters weresuperb behind the goal and Ithought we showed a lot oftogetherness and a lot of qual-i t y, ” Yates said.

“We have to beat York athome next week now and Ihave said that to the boys – it’sabsolutely must win becausewe want to get up the tableq u i ck ly. ”

keeping and tame finishingleft them frustrated, but thereis no doubt that if Cheltenhamcontinue to perform as well asthis they are capable of roaringup the table.

A hamstring injury to Jer-maine McGlashan meant RussPenn returned to the narrowmidfield four.

The skipper and JasonTaylor put in tireless shifts,with David Noble and SamDeering providing the creativ-ity and it was Cheltenham’smost fluid passing displaysince last season.

Up front, Byron Harrisonwas picked ahead of JamieCureton and the Robins’ lead-ing scorer took only tenminutes to justify his recall.

Following up his late strikeagainst Morecambe aftergoing on as a substitute, Har-rison applied a confidentfinish after Deering’s perfectp u l l - b a ck .

The move was initiated byright-back Sido Jombati and

Northampton struggled tocope with Cheltenham formuch of the first half.

The Cobblers could not con-tain seven-goal Harrison, whodirected a diving header wideafter a measured cross fromthe unlikely source of defenderTroy Brown in the 17thm i nu t e.

Home goalkeeper Matt Dukewas not called into action oftenenough, however, and ScottBrown had to pluck a fierceshot from ex-Robins mid-fielder Darren Carter out ofthe air.

Clearly lacking in confid-ence, second from bottomNorthampton were gifted anequaliser as Cheltenham’shabit of conceding at the worstpossible times continued.

A gifted ball player, Noblewas punished for trying to beclever in the wrong area as hispass towards Keith Lowe andTroy Brown dissected the cent-ral defenders.

On-loan striker Luke Norris

skipped past Scott Brown andapplied a neat finish to deflateCheltenham in the 44thm i nu t e.

The second half was farmore open, with Cheltenhamalways looking the more likelyto regain the lead they hadthrown away so carelessly.

Northampton looked threat-ening on the break on occa-sions, but Cheltenham had asuccession of gilt-edgedchances to wrap up maximump o i n t s.

After some slick passing andtwo step overs, Harrison at-tempted an acrobatic overheadkick from Penn’s cross, but thecontact was poor in the 52ndm i nu t e.

Left-back Matt Richardsthumped a free-kick just overthe bar and Duke smothered atTroy Brown’s feet before frus-trating Cheltenham with threemore alert saves.

Noble should have donebetter in the 67th minute afterbeing set up by the excellent

Deering, who revelled in hisattacking midfield role. Pennand Deering combined to setup Terry Gornell in the 76thminute, but Duke was onceagain equal to it and threeminutes later Duke deniedGornell again after a pass fromsubstitute Jamie Cureton.

The travelling fans were ingood voice throughout andthey headed home disappoin-ted not to have witnessed anaway triumph, but Chelten-ham are slowly beginning tolook like an effective team.Northampton: Duke, Collins, Reid, Kouo-Doumbe, Widdowson, Hackett, Carter, Deegan(Tozer 61), Morris, Dallas, Norris (Demontagnac83). Not Used: Emerton, McNamara, Toney,Harriott.Booked: Deegan, Demontagnac.Goals: Norris 44.Cheltenham: S Brown, Jombati, T Brown,Lowe, Richards, Noble (Cureton 75), Penn,Taylor, Deering, Harrison, Gornell. Not Used:Roberts, Hanks, Kotwica, Braham-Barrett, HWilliams.Booked: Taylor.Goals: Harrison 10.Attendance: 4,033.Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire).

Milton Keynes Dons v FC Halifax ......................... .Oldham v Wolves ................................................ .Oxford Utd v Gateshead ..................................... .Brentford v Staines/Poole .................................... .Bristol City v Dag & Red ..................................... .Bristol Rovers v York ........................................... .Bury v Cambridge Utd ......................................... .Leyton Orient v Southport ................................... .Preston v Barnet ................................................. .Rotherham v Bradford ......................................... .Walsall v Shrewsbury .......................................... .Chesterfield v Daventry ....................................... .Colchester v Sheff Utd ........................................ .Gillingham v Brackley/Barrow .............................. .Grimsby v Scunthorpe ......................................... .Hartlepool v Notts County ................................... .Peterborough v Exeter ......................................... .Torquay v Rochdale ............................................ .Wrexham v Alfreton ............................................ .Macclesfield v Swindon ....................................... .Welling v Luton .................................................. .Wycombe v Crewe .............................................. .St Albans v Mansfield ......................................... .Burton Albion v Hereford .................................... .Morecambe v Southend ...................................... .Salisbury v Ebbsfleet/Dartford .............................. .Stourbridge v Biggleswade .................................. .Hednesford v Crawley ......................................... .Stevenage v Portsmouth ..................................... .Accrington Stanley v Tranmere ............................ .Bishop’s Stortford v Northampton ....................... .Tamworth v Cheltenham ..................................... .Braintree v Newport ............................................ .Corby v Dover ..................................................... .Boreham Wood v Carlisle .................................... .Gloucester v Fleetwood ....................................... .AFC Wimbledon v Coventry ................................ .Bradford PA/Kidderminster v HemelHempstead/Sutton .Shortwood/Aldershot v Port Vale ........................ .Worcester/Lincoln v Plymouth ............................. .Ties to be played November 9-10.

FA CUP 1ST ROUND DRAW


Shortwood United goalscorer Sean Lawson is mobbed by his team-mates after netting a late equaliser against Aldershot PICTURE: SIMON PIZZEY

Lawson’s dream strike earns Shortwood a replay

Rovers stunned by Stortfordas miserable run continuesWood winner

proves crucialCIRENCESTER TOWN 4WIMBORNE TOWN 3

Sean Wood snatched a latewinner for Cirencester afterWimborne had come from twogoals down to level in DivisionOne South & West of the CalorSouthern League.

The Centurions led throughSteve Davies’ early penalty anddoubled the lead soon after thebreak thanks to Lee Smith.

Mark Gamble halved the de-ficit on 66 minutes, but ShaneBumphrey restored the two-goal cushion with quarter ofan hour remaining.

However, James Stokoeimmediately responded andGamble tied the scores withseven minutes left.

This time, though, it was thehosts that hit back as Woodgrabbed the vital goal fiveminutes from time.� Cirencester play away toGodalming tomorrow evening(7.45pm).

FOREST GREEN ROVERS 0BISHOP’S STORTFORD 1

Dream job or otherwise, thevacant managerial post atForest Green might just needfilling sooner rather than laterto arrest a hideous spiral ofd e cl i n e.

Defeat at the hands of part-time opposition was not thescripted response to DaveH o ck a d ay ’s departure, partic-ularly given Gary Seward’s ap-parent determination to ditchthe caretaker tag and stamphis own mark on a misfiringteam.

Yet there was a crushingfeeling of familiarity as ReecePrestedg e’s 52nd-minute strikesent the part-timers through tothe FA Cup first round – a fifthstraight reverse for Rovers inall competitions.

S ew a rd ’s bold team selectionsaid much about the failings of

the previous regime, with 4-4-2replacing the usual 4-3-3 form-ation at home and the previ-ously unfavoured Paul Greenrecalled at right-back.

Riding high in Skrill South,the visitors began in confident

fashion and defender SeanFrancis forced Green into alast-ditch clearance after get-ting on the end of a corner.

Lax home defending fromanother corner presented achance to Prestedge, who metMatt Johnson’s delivery with a

Lenihan leavesit late for YateYATE TOWN 2THATCHAM TOWN 1

Heavy pressure during thesecond half finally paid offwhen Yate grabbed a stoppage-time winner through MartinLenihan in this Calor South-ern League Division OneSouth & West game.

After a mediocre first half, itwas Thatcham who went infront on the hour-mark whenTom Gooding scored.

Yate equalised in the 65thminute when a fierce shot fromJake Cox was not held byThatcham goalkeeper AaronCarter and Lewis Haldanescored from the rebound.

Jordan Rogers then headedover the crossbar as Yatepressed for the winner.

It finally arrived when Leni-han hammered the ball homeafter Carter had failed to dealwith a cross from Cox andlifted Yate into 11th place inthe table.

Bridgwater loseunbeaten runBRIDGWATER TOWN 0MANGOTSFIELD UNITED 3

Bridgwater lost their eight-match unbeaten record inDivision One South & West ofthe Calor Southern Leagueand slipped back to ninth placein the table as Mangotsfieldran out comfortable winners.

United could not have got offto a better start as the un-marked Matt Sysum headedhome from a free-kick afteronly two minutes.

Ben Hunt made up for squan-dering an earlier chance whenhe headed in a cross from RyanBath at the far post to make ittwo on 40 minutes.

Adnan Hiroli made sure ofthe points for the visitors,claiming a freakish goal in the82nd minute.� B r i d g w at e r ’s scheduledleague game at Shortwood to-morrow has been postponeddue to the hosts’ FA Cup replaywith Aldershot.

McNab bagsterrific trebleBISHOP’S CLEEVE 0CLEVEDON TOWN 5

Ross McNab fired a hat-trick asClevedon thumped five goalspast Bishop’s Cleeve in Divi-sion One South & West of theCalor Southern League.

Playing with a strong windat their backs on a very unevensurface, the home side settledslightly quicker than the vis-itors, but both defences wereable to thwart early chances.

The visitors took the lead inthe 33rd minute when JoeFlurry and Adie Adamsworked the ball out to Ollie

Taunton are hitby penalty woeMERTHYR TOWN 1TAUNTON TOWN 0

Taunton put up a spirited fightbefore losing out by the onlygoal to high-riding Merthyr inDivision One South & West ofthe Calor Southern League.

In fact, the goal came fromthe penalty spot in the 56thminute, converted by man ofthe match Kerry Morgan.

It was awarded after KayneMcLaggon had been broughtdown in the box.

The lively Morgan also hitthe crossbar twice as Merthyrenjoyed more possession thanTaunton, who were able tofield a stronger side than inrecent weeks.

The closest Taunton came toscoring before a 500-plus crowdwas a header by Jamie Price inthe second half, which sailedover the crossbar.

Taunton gave a debut to goal-keeper Joe Perry, who spenttwo seasons with Merthyr,signed the previous day afterthe release of ex-Dorchestergoalkeeper Tim Sandercombe.

RossMcNabhit a hat-trick forClevedon

Barnes, who sent in the finalcross for McNab, who crashedthe ball in to the back of theBishop’s Cleeve net.

Less than ten minutes later,the visitors went two goalsahead when Barnes took a free-kick just inside of the Clevedonhalf and the ball found McNab,who nodded back to MattThorne on the edge of the boxand he slotted the ball justinside of the upright.

On the hour, Bishop’s Cleevehad Alex Hoyle sent off forbringing down McNab in thepenalty area and Thorne madeit a three-goal cushion fromthe resulting spot-kick.

Four minutes later, LouisFeeley crossed from the leftand the ball somehow slippedright through the defence toMcNab, who had the simple jobof tapping in to make it four.

Two minutes from time,McNab completed his hat-trickwhen pouncing on an error.� Clevedon visit Tiverton inthe Red Insure Cup tomorrowevening (7.45pm).

sweet volley and forced SamRussell into a flying save.

Yan Klukowski sent a free-kick wide for the hosts beforeRussell came to Rovers’ re s c u eagain, producing a doubleblock to keep out powerfuldrives from Prestedge and An-thony Church.

Johnson floated a free-kickover the wall on 29 minutes,but could only locate Russell,and Stortford goalkeeper JoeWright was finally called intomeaningful action to keep outa Danny Wright effort.

That seemed to lift Seward’smen and they came close tobreaking the deadlock whenKlukowski latched ontoMagno Vieira’s clever pass andwas foiled by the feet of goal-keeper Wright.

Danny Wright was denied byhis namesake after surgingclear before half-time.

Forest Green’s hopes of

maintaining their momentumwere quashed six minutes intothe second period, as anothercorner was not properlycleared and Prestedge reactedquickest to swivel and drillhome the opening goal.

It was almost two whenStor tford’s top scorer Kyle Vas-sell pounced on a mistake atthe back and fired inches wideof the far post.

Rovers substitute MatthewBarnes-Homer saw an effortblocked on the line after ascramble from a corner and,moments later, pounced on aweak back-pass by CallumMcNaughton, but could onlylift the ball over the bar.

The only consolation for thehome fans was the appearanceof Reece Styche from the bench12 minutes from time – thes t r i ke r ’s first competitiveouting for eight months fol-lowing knee surgery.

ReeceStychereturnedto actionfor ForestGreenRovers

SHORTWOOD UNITED 1ALDERSHOT TOWN 1

John Evans was given a fewquizzical looks by his coachingstaff when he decided to throwSean Lawson into the fray latein Shortwood’s FA Cup fourthqualifying round clash withAldershot.

The nippy striker may nothave even been available hadanother Gloucestershire clubnot done the Meadowbankoutfit a favour.

Available he was, though,and a hero he became asL aw s o n’s last-minute leveller

earned Shortwood a replay atAldershot tomorrow (7.45pm).

Lawson was due to play forShor twood’s reserve side in aHellenic League Division OneWest clash with Lydney – bu tthe game was moved to Fridayto allow the whole club to focuson the Aldershot tie beforebeing postponed due to heavyrain anyway.

Not that joint-manager AlexSykes and coach Andy Hoskinswere immediately on boardwith Evans’ thinking.

“When I said to Sykesy andHoskey that I was going tobring Sean on they looked at

me as if I was being funny,”Evans said. “But he’s a busyplayer and has done really wellfor our reserves this season.

“Sean told me he was anAldershot fan when the drawwas made and it’s a great storythat he’s gone on and scored.

“But it was no more than wedeserved. Their manager cameover at the end and told us thatwe had deserved it.”

Lawson was left to reflect onwhat he described as the bestfootballing moment of his life.

“I grew up in Aldershot asI’m from an army backgroundand I moved up here one or two

years ago, but still have a lot ofmates down there who go to theg ames,” Lawson said.

“We were due to play Lydneyon Friday, but that was calledoff at the last minute .To gofrom that to scoring againstAldershot, it’s incredible.”

Brett Williams had givenAldershot a first-half lead fromthe penalty spot, but they weredenied victory at the death.

Adam Mann’s cross was de-flected into the six-yard boxand Lawson threw himself atthe ball amid a flurry of flyingboots and somehow turned theball into the net.


Brislington substitute Omari Simms attempts to make progress down the wing during his side’s FA Cup fourth qualifying round tie at home to Welling on Saturday PICTURE: MICHAEL LLOYD

Lewis header puts Salisbury through

Weston madeto pay for nottaking chances

while midfielder Ben Adels-bury was also back after miss-ing last week’s draw atW h i t e h aw k .

Ross Stearn had to make dowith a place on the bench asBath elected to field four cent-ral midfielders, with Joe Bur-nell playing just in front of thedefence in a 4-1-3-2 formation.

Josh Low was due to be onthe bench only to pull a calfmuscle in the warm-up.

Salisbury forward DanFitchett had a sight of goal inthe third minute, but theWhites striker’s angled driveflew over the near post.

Lewis also curled an effortjust over from the edge of thebox but, apart from that and aWatkins cross which was justtoo high for strike partnerDave Pratt, the openingquarter was nondescript.

The first goal almost arrivedjust before the half-hour mark

when Fitchett managed to getto the Bath byline and chip theball back towards midfielderClovis Kamdjo, who rattled aheader against the bar fromsix yards.

There was a lucky escape for

home goalkeeper Jason Mellora couple of minutes later whenhe started to go for an ElliottFrear corner, but then changedhis mind and was relieved tosee the ball fly across the boxwithout anyone touching it.

However, he was beaten a

couple of minutes before half-time as Salisbury broke thedeadlock, Lewis powering aclose-range header into the netafter charging 20 yards toensure he beat the flat-footeddefence to Frear’s loopingc ro s s.

It was a blow to the hosts,who needed a bright start tothe second half.

Watkins almost provided itfollowing a quick break bySekani Simpson from a Salis-bury corner, but the striker’swell-hit shot was straight atformer Bath goalkeeper WillP u d dy.

Watkins was replaced by El-liott Chamberlain in the 56thminute and Stearn was intro-duced for Chris Allen just afterthe hour, the winger greeted bya big cheer from the four-figurec rowd .

Salisbury also made theirfirst change in the 64th minute,

with Angus MacDonaldcoming on for Frear, and thesubstitutions contributed to ascrappy, disjointed showingfrom both teams.

The visitors had a chance todouble their lead when Lewishad a shot blocked by Dan Ballbut cleverly back-heeled the re-bound to Chris McPhee, whoshowed rather less composureas he blazed his angled driveover the bar.

B at h ’s final change was tosend on youngster DanBowman for Simpson with tenminutes to go.

However, the hosts were stillstruggling to create clear-cutchances, although Puddy wasforced into a low save by Ad-e l s bu r y ’s strike from the edgeof the box.� The lack of a replay meansBath will visit Farnborough inthe Skrill South tomorrow(7.45pm).

Meacham proud as Brislington bow out with heads held highcaught his 82nd-minute left-foot volley sweetly, but unfor-tunately for Brislington, itwent straight into the arms ofgoalkeeper Luke Butcher.

Few would argue thatWelling deserved their win,but only just. Brislington’s de-fensive discipline and hardgraft was such that a sidestanding ninth in the SkrillPremier were restricted to ahandful of chances.

Much of the credit for thatmust go to an excellent backfour, with skipper JasonHughes a commanding pres-ence at centre-back.

Mike Rimmer showed goodcomposure on the ball in adeep-lying central midfieldrole, while substitute OmariSimms impressed out wide

after replacing hamstring-victim Alex Lambert.

In the end, Brislington couldnot pull off another upset, to goalongside the wins over Truroand Weston-super-Mare, butMeacham was understandablyproud of his side’s display.

“I was very pleased andproud about the way the ladswent about it,” said the formerBristol Rovers striker. “To playa team that are four leaguesabove us and to give them areal scare, and the way wewent about it, was very good.

“We were a little unfortunatewith the goal, but we couldhave pinched one at the end.Tom Godsell caught his volleya little too well, if anything. Ialso thought the free-kick thatled to their goal was a little

harsh. The ball’s been blastedat our player and it’s hit hishand, but he didn’t stick hishand out.”

B r i s l i n g t o n’s fans in a club-record attendance of 700-strong crowd played their partin creating a good atmosphereat Ironmould Lane, althoughthe throwing of four flares onto the pitch in the second halftook enthusiasm too far.

Welling had lots of cornersin the first half, but all of themwere well defended by thehosts. The nearest the visitorscame to scoring in the first 45minutes was when centre-halfBlaine Hudson fired a shot justover the crossbar.

On a couple of other occa-sions, Brislington were in-debted to goal-saving tackles

from Danny Barwood andHughes. At the other end, Bris-l i n g t o n’s only clear opening ofthe first half fell to Frank Gin-gell, whose shot was blocked.

After the Welling goal,Simms had a shot saved, thenGingell fired wide and Godsellsaw his volley saved.

Brislington had enjoyedstoppage-time winners in theprevious two rounds, but therewas no fairytale ending thist i m e.

Tomorrow it will be back toToolstation League PremierDivision business with thevisit of Hallen to IronmouldLane. “T hey’ll be about 33people here for that one,” saidMeacham, “but the fans knowour level of football and they’llenjoy that one as well.”

BATH CITY 0SALISBURY CITY 1

A thumping header from TheoLewis two minutes before half-time was enough for Salisburyto end Bath’s hopes of a placein the first round proper of theFA Cup.

The hosts perhaps paid theprice for giving too much re-spect to the Skrill Premierside, with the starting XI look-ing set up to play a containinggame rather than take the tieto their visitors.

It worked to an extent, withSalisbury offering only asporadic threat, but Bathstruggled to create anychances of their own and weregenerally restricted to long-range shots.

Bath were boosted by thereturn of striker AndyWatkins to the starting line-upafter a lengthy injury absence,

BRISLINGTON 0WELLING UNITED 1

For 67 minutes, Brislington’splayers dared to dream ofreaching the FA Cup firstround for the first time in thecl u b ’s history.

However, a miscued punchfrom otherwise immaculategoalkeeper Chris Humphrieswas nodded into the net from afew yards out by Welling’s LeeClarke and the dreams startedto fade.

Still, Jeff Meacham’s sidecontinued to defy the four-division gap between theteams and came close to put-ting their name in the hat forthe first round draw whenright-back Tom Godsell swiv-elled in the penalty area and

Salisbury’sTheo Lewisscored theonly goalat Bath

WESTON-SUPER-MARE 0HAYES & YEADING 3

Weston were given a lesson inclinical finishing by threesecond-half substitutes, whohad hands in all three goals ofan entertaining game in theSkrill South.

The home side gave a debutto new signing from Bridg-water, Bradley Middleton, whoslotted in well to the defence inplace of the suspended JamieL a i rd .

The Seagulls made a brightstart, Ashley Kington goingclose in the first minute, whileChas Hemmings’ d e fl e c t e deffort on 12 minutes was bril-liantly turned over his cross-bar by goalkeeper MikhaelJaimez-Ruiz for Weston’ssecond corner.

Later, Hemmings twice wentclose, as did Dayle Grubb,while Martin Slocombe had adangerous low cross cut out bythe goalkeeper.

The introduction of formerBath, Salisbury and Newportforward Tom Bird completelychanged the game, though,with Jake Reid burstingthrough the defence androunding goalkeeper LukePurnell, who had come off hisline following Bird’s pass on 52m i nu t e s.

As Weston tried to get intothe game, Naby Diallo forced afull-length save from Jaimez-Ruiz and Kington had a strongeffort beaten out by the vis-iting goalkeeper.

However, Hayes struck againon 67 minutes when LukeWi l l i a m s ’ pace beat the de-fence to fire past Purnell.

Three minutes from time,Reid struck once again, turn-ing substitute Allen Bossman’slow cross past Purnell from acouple of yards.

Paulton backup to secondPAULTON ROVERS 3CINDERFORD TOWN 1

Paulton claimed a hard-foughtvictory to move up into secondplace in Division One South &West of the Calor SouthernLea gue.

Rovers dominated the firsthalf, but had to wait until the43rd minute to take the leadwhen Brandon Barnes’ c ro s swas handled by Andy Lewisand Nick McCootie tuckedaway the penalty.

The lead was doubled in the48th minute when Mike Per-rott scored following goodwork by Josh Klein-Davies.

C i n d e r fo rd ’s Kieran Thomashad a shot blocked by MikeReaney, before the home sidemade it three in the 61stm i nu t e.

Player-coach Josh Jeffrieslaid the ball off to Barnes, whocut in from the left and foundMcCootie. He took the ball tothe byline and cut it back forKlein-Davies to rifle the ballpast Alex Harris.

The visitors pulled a goalback when Lewis Sommersslipped the ball through toThomas, who fired home, butthe Foresters were unable tomount a comeback.

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Torres turns it round to leave Mourinho jumping for joy

Newcastle United’s Hatem Ben Arfa and Sunderland’s Sebastian Larssonbattle for the ball during yesterday’s Barclays Premier League match

Derby day liftcheers Poyet

CHELSEA 2 MAN CITY 1

Jose Mourinho hailedFernando Torres after a Jekylland Hyde performance de-livered a 2-1 victory overBarclays Premier League titlerivals Manchester City atStamford Bridge.

The Spain striker demon-strated his best and worst at-tributes and responded frommissing a sitter to hit the cross-bar and then net a 90th minutew i n n e r.

In a pulsating contest whichsaw a stunning Sergio Aguerostrike cancel out AndreSchur rle’s opener, set up byTorres, a rush of blood saw JoeHart add to his recent cata-logue of errors.

Torres exploited the mix-upbetween England stopper Hartand Matija Nastasic to scorehis first Premier League goalof the season and second of2013 to seal a dramatic win.

“The goal comes in a veryintelligent action byFer nando,” Mourinho said.

“(A) misunderstanding byJoe and Nastasic, butFernando was very clever theway he believed. Fantastic per-formance (by Torres) and evenbetter because it was after aneasy goal missed. That makesit even more valuable.

“When a striker misses aneasy early chance, many timeshe’s affected for the rest of thegame. It looks like thatmoment was the momentwhere Fernando thought ‘Iwill be the man of the match’.

“He’s sharp, he’s powerful,

ticket for my son and they givea season ticket for my sonbehind the opponents’ dugout.They have to give my kid tick-ets behind my dugout.

“I promise that I went forhim. But this is the drama ofthe last minute. Last year Ibeat Man City in the lastminute in Madrid, I slid on myknees, I destroyed my trousers.I lost in the last minute againstBayern Munich, somebody puta knife in my back.

“This is emotion of the game.If they believe that my son isthere, great. If they don’t be-lieve, I apologise if they feelthat I did something wrong.”

City boss Manuel Pellegriniwas incensed and refused toshake hands with Mourinho atthe final whistle.

Mourinho had no com-p l a i n t s.

“I don’t feel it is a lack ofre s p e c t , ” Mourinho said. “If hewas sad because of the result. Iunderstand. If he was sadthinking that I was doingsomething wrong by going tocelebrate there, I accept thattoo. No problem.”

Pellegrini said: “I didn’tshake hands. I didn’t want toshake hands.”

The Chilean was left to ruethe further loss of “stupidpoints” away from home afterdefeats at Cardiff and AstonVi l l a .

He said: “We repeat the story.We had absolutely the controlof the game, we played very,very well in the second half.

“We didn’t have any problemwith Chelsea but finally in thelast minute we lost. We arelosing stupid points from thebeginning. The three defeatsthat we have away, we did notdeserve one of them.

“The reality is that we have.We have time to (respond). I’mvery happy with how the teamis playing everywhere, at homeor away. Today in a very dif-ficult stadium here against agreat team we had the controland we did a very goodg ame.”

Pellegrini refused to openlydiscuss the errors which res-ulted in Torres’ winner, withHar t’s worrying list of mis-takes growing.

“I do it privately with thep l aye r s, ” added Pellegrini,who declined to answer ques-tions specifically related toHar t.

If Hart’s confidence is low,Mourinho felt Chelsea had asimilar mental block with re-gards to City after studyingevery meeting between thesides in the 2012/13 season,including the post-seasonfriendlies in St Louis and NewYork, in the build-up to yes-t e rd ay ’s match.

Mourinho was overjoyedwith the first half perform-ance, in particular.

“(Chelsea were) afraid to say‘we want to win, we can win’,”Mourinho added.

“We played very, very well. Ifwe can play like this againstMan City, why can’t we playlike this in every match in thePremier League? That is theself-esteem we need.

“We played fantastic againsta fantastic team. And that’s noteasy. We were better thanthem. And that’s not easy.”

SUNDERLAND 2 NEWCASTLE 1

Sunderland boss Gus Poyeturged his players to use theirderby victory over Newcastleas a platform from which tolaunch a drive for BarclaysPremier League safety.

Substitute Fabio Borini’s85th-minute piledriver se-cured a 2-1 win at the Stadiumof Light, the Black Cats’ first inthe league this season, andlifted them from the foot of thet abl e.

However, Poyet’s menremain six points adrift of 17thplace despite ending a run ofsix successive defeats, and theUruguayan is looking for moreof the same after matching pre-decessor Paolo Di Canio’s featof beating the Magpies in justhis second game at the helm.

The 45-year-old said: “Look, Id i d n’t like to see the table.When you are bottom, it’s notnice. We are off the bottom –t h at ’s something; we beat thebiggest rivals – t h at ’s evenbig g er.

“Now we need to keep going.We need to start passing theball better, we need to keepbelieving and we need to dodifferent things. This is whatwe needed so, from now on,there are no excuses becausewe needed a lift and there is nobetter lift than this one, so I amvery happy for the players andabsolutely delighted for thef ans.”

Borini, a 69th-minute re-placement for Adam Johnson,won the game in thrilling stylewhen he smashed an unstop-

pable shot past Tim Krul fromJozy Altidore’s lay-off to fi-nally kick-start Sunderland’sseason. His decisive goal camewith Newcastle looking themore likely victors after Math-ieu Debuchy had cancelled outSteven Fletcher’s fifth-minuteopener 12 minutes after therestar t.

But with derby specialistShola Ameobi, who has sevengoals against the Black Cats tohis name, having been throwninto the fray, it was fellow re-placement Borini who stole theh e a d l i n e s.

Poyet said: “Fabio was soclose to playing, the way he hasbeen training, his attitude,how positive he is. But some-times you can’t play forwhatever reasons, because ofthe shape, because of the team,because of the time. If someonedeserved to score today, it wasFabio Borini.”

Opposite number AlanPardew, however, was con-vinced his side should haveemerged victorious, and wasunhappy with a free-kick awar-ded by referee Lee Probert forCheick Tiote’s challenge onFletcher in the lead-up to thegoal.

Pardew, who is the first New-castle manager to lose back-to-back derbies since 1966-67,said: “When we got the equal-iser, the more the game wenton the more control we got.

“We had two or three goodchances, I thought, at 1-1 and ifwe got the second goal, thegame was over because theywould have been dead.”

the belief is high. We are happyfor him, but we are all happybecause it’s a very importantvictory against a team wec o u l d n’t beat last year.

“We played against them lotsof times; even in friendlies wec o u l d n’t beat them.”

Mourinho celebrated thegoal and the extension of hisunbeaten Premier League runat Stamford Bridge to 65 gamesby leaping into the crowd,where he finished the priorhome match with Cardiff fol-lowing his touchline dis-missal.

The Portuguese entered thesection of support behind theaway dugout, where his sonhas a season ticket.

He said: “Chelsea is guiltybecause I want to buy a season

Bruce fumes at penalty

Tottenham’s Roberto Soldado, centre, with Hull City’s Tom Huddlestone, right

TOTTENHAM 1 HULL CITY 0

Hull manager Steve Bruceblasted Tottenham’s late pen-alty in their match at WhiteHart Lane on Sunday after-noon as a “joke decision”.

The Tigers had performedwell in stifling Spurs’ at t a ck -ing threat for much of thegame before referee MichaelOliver awarded a penalty to thehosts ten minutes from timewhich was duly converted byRoberto Soldado to give AndreVi l l a s - B o a s ’ side a 1-0 victory.

The controversial spot-kickcame after Jan Vertonghen’scross was adjudged to havebeen handled by Ahmed El-mohamady, but Bruce was leftfuming at the call.

“It is an absolute joke de-cision,” he said.

“It hits his leg for a start andthen goes up and hits his arm,

how do you give a penalty inthat situation?

“We have more directivesand meetings and all this non-sense, they are all getting as-sessed up in the stands butthen they give decisions likethat which just baffles me and Ihave to ask the question, wouldwe have got it?

“The disappointment I haveis that I have lads playing todaywho are desperate to play inthe Premier League.

“They are desperate to makea fist of it and they are nowquestioning themselves afterEverton last week, where wegot some decisions against usand today where, in my opin-ion, he couldn’t wait to giveit.”

Bruce was seen remonstrat-ing with Oliver at full-time butadmitted any argument wasf u t i l e.

SWANSEA 0 WEST HAM 0

Swansea manager MichaelLaudrup felt his side weredenied a clear penalty duringtheir 0-0 draw with West Hamat the Liberty Stadium.

In a turgid game of few clearchances the Hammers’ dead-ball threat troubled their hostsall afternoon, with AngelRangel hooking a long RazvanRat free-kick off the line, whileGuy Demel and Kevin Nolanalso spurned sights of goal.

Jussi Jaaskelainen madetwo point-blank stops to denyChico Flores and WilfriedBony at the other end, but thehosts were most aggrieved ref-eree Phil Dowd’s decision toturn down a stoppage-timeappeal for handball againstJoe Cole.

The West Ham sub had hisarm raised as he leapt to block

a Nathan Dyer cross, andLaudrup had no doubt his sideshould have had a spot-kick.

“I think we deserved more,but on the other handJaaskelainen had made two orthree fantastic saves, so youc a n’t do anything about that,”he said.

“There was a lot of emotionin the end which was about thepenalty which was not given.

“I know I always say that areferee or a linesman only hasone second, but I mean it is soclear when you have your armup like that.

“If you have your arm downyou can talk about hand to ballor ball to hand, but when youhave your arm up there and ithits you, normally nine out often times it is a penalty. Whenyou have a case like this in the91st minute, there are a lot ofe m o t i o n s, ”

Hat-trick fromSuarez keepsreds in the raceLuis Suarez scored a brillianthat-trick as Liverpoolthrashed West Brom 4-1 to keepon the coat-tails of BarclaysPremier League leadersArsenal, while ManchesterUnited needed a second-halffightback against Stoke toavoid seeing their season gofrom bad to worse.

Arsenal briefly opened up afive-point lead over nearestchallengers Liverpool andChelsea after beating CrystalPalace 2-0 in Saturday’s earlykick-off, but Brendan Rodgers’men responded in emphaticfashion to cut the gap back totwo and Chelsea did likewiseon Sunday. Suarez scored twicein the opening 17 minutes andthen completed the fourth hat-trick of his Anfield career tenminutes into the second half asthe Uruguayan continued hisrich goalscoring form since re-turning to the Liverpool side.

West Brom pulled a goalback through James Morris-o n’s penalty but Suarez’sstrike partner Daniel Stur-ridge chipped home a brilliantgoal to wrap up the scoring 14minutes from time.

It was nowhere near as com-fortable for stuttering cham-pions Manchester United up

the road at Old Trafford asthey survived a major scare tobeat Stoke 3-2.

Having fallen 11 points adriftof top spot following Arsenal’svictory, United could ill affordanother off-day against a Stokeside without a win in their lastfive league games.

However, David Moyes’ men,who have already lost threetimes in the league this season,suffered a nightmare start asPeter Crouch’s close-rangefinish put the visitors aheadafter just four minutes.

Robin van Persie drew theteams level in the 43rd minute,but Stoke stunned the homeside again by reclaiming thelead on the stroke of half-timethrough Marko Arnautovic’sfine free-kick.

Two goals in the final 12minutes from Wayne Rooneyand Javier Hernandez savedUnited’s blushes though asthey come from behind towin.

Earlier on, Arsenal beatmanagerless Crystal Palacedespite playing the final 25minutes with a man less fol-lowing Mikel Arteta’s sendingof f.

Arteta put the leaders aheadfrom the penalty spot at thestart of the second half but theGunners captain was thenhanded his marching orders.

Referee Chris Foy deemedthe Spanish player had pre-vented a clear goalscoring op-portunity when he tangledwith former Arsenal strikerMarouane Chamakh some 35yards out from goal andshowed him a red card.

Liverpool strikerLuis Suarezcelebratesscoring his thirdgoal of thegame againstWest Brom

Chelsea’s Fernando Torres scores his side’s second goal of the game during the Barclays Premier League match at Stamford Bridge yesterday PICTURE: DOMINIC LIPINSKI/PA

Jose Mourinho hailed FernandoTorres after a Jekyll and Hydeperformance but Manuel Pellegriniwas left incensed

Swansea’s Nathan Dyer takes theball past West Ham’s Razvan Rat

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Torres turns it round to leave Mourinho jumping for joy

Newcastle United’s Hatem Ben Arfa and Sunderland’s Sebastian Larssonbattle for the ball during yesterday’s Barclays Premier League match

Derby day liftcheers Poyet

CHELSEA 2 MAN CITY 1

Jose Mourinho hailedFernando Torres after a Jekylland Hyde performance de-livered a 2-1 victory overBarclays Premier League titlerivals Manchester City atStamford Bridge.

The Spain striker demon-strated his best and worst at-tributes and responded frommissing a sitter to hit the cross-bar and then net a 90th minutew i n n e r.

In a pulsating contest whichsaw a stunning Sergio Aguerostrike cancel out AndreSchur rle’s opener, set up byTorres, a rush of blood saw JoeHart add to his recent cata-logue of errors.

Torres exploited the mix-upbetween England stopper Hartand Matija Nastasic to scorehis first Premier League goalof the season and second of2013 to seal a dramatic win.

“The goal comes in a veryintelligent action byFer nando,” Mourinho said.

“(A) misunderstanding byJoe and Nastasic, butFernando was very clever theway he believed. Fantastic per-formance (by Torres) and evenbetter because it was after aneasy goal missed. That makesit even more valuable.

“When a striker misses aneasy early chance, many timeshe’s affected for the rest of thegame. It looks like thatmoment was the momentwhere Fernando thought ‘Iwill be the man of the match’.

“He’s sharp, he’s powerful,

ticket for my son and they givea season ticket for my sonbehind the opponents’ dugout.They have to give my kid tick-ets behind my dugout.

“I promise that I went forhim. But this is the drama ofthe last minute. Last year Ibeat Man City in the lastminute in Madrid, I slid on myknees, I destroyed my trousers.I lost in the last minute againstBayern Munich, somebody puta knife in my back.

“This is emotion of the game.If they believe that my son isthere, great. If they don’t be-lieve, I apologise if they feelthat I did something wrong.”

City boss Manuel Pellegriniwas incensed and refused toshake hands with Mourinho atthe final whistle.

Mourinho had no com-p l a i n t s.

“I don’t feel it is a lack ofre s p e c t , ” Mourinho said. “If hewas sad because of the result. Iunderstand. If he was sadthinking that I was doingsomething wrong by going tocelebrate there, I accept thattoo. No problem.”

Pellegrini said: “I didn’tshake hands. I didn’t want toshake hands.”

The Chilean was left to ruethe further loss of “stupidpoints” away from home afterdefeats at Cardiff and AstonVi l l a .

He said: “We repeat the story.We had absolutely the controlof the game, we played very,very well in the second half.

“We didn’t have any problemwith Chelsea but finally in thelast minute we lost. We arelosing stupid points from thebeginning. The three defeatsthat we have away, we did notdeserve one of them.

“The reality is that we have.We have time to (respond). I’mvery happy with how the teamis playing everywhere, at homeor away. Today in a very dif-ficult stadium here against agreat team we had the controland we did a very goodg ame.”

Pellegrini refused to openlydiscuss the errors which res-ulted in Torres’ winner, withHar t’s worrying list of mis-takes growing.

“I do it privately with thep l aye r s, ” added Pellegrini,who declined to answer ques-tions specifically related toHar t.

If Hart’s confidence is low,Mourinho felt Chelsea had asimilar mental block with re-gards to City after studyingevery meeting between thesides in the 2012/13 season,including the post-seasonfriendlies in St Louis and NewYork, in the build-up to yes-t e rd ay ’s match.

Mourinho was overjoyedwith the first half perform-ance, in particular.

“(Chelsea were) afraid to say‘we want to win, we can win’,”Mourinho added.

“We played very, very well. Ifwe can play like this againstMan City, why can’t we playlike this in every match in thePremier League? That is theself-esteem we need.

“We played fantastic againsta fantastic team. And that’s noteasy. We were better thanthem. And that’s not easy.”

SUNDERLAND 2 NEWCASTLE 1

Sunderland boss Gus Poyeturged his players to use theirderby victory over Newcastleas a platform from which tolaunch a drive for BarclaysPremier League safety.

Substitute Fabio Borini’s85th-minute piledriver se-cured a 2-1 win at the Stadiumof Light, the Black Cats’ first inthe league this season, andlifted them from the foot of thet abl e.

However, Poyet’s menremain six points adrift of 17thplace despite ending a run ofsix successive defeats, and theUruguayan is looking for moreof the same after matching pre-decessor Paolo Di Canio’s featof beating the Magpies in justhis second game at the helm.

The 45-year-old said: “Look, Id i d n’t like to see the table.When you are bottom, it’s notnice. We are off the bottom –t h at ’s something; we beat thebiggest rivals – t h at ’s evenbig g er.

“Now we need to keep going.We need to start passing theball better, we need to keepbelieving and we need to dodifferent things. This is whatwe needed so, from now on,there are no excuses becausewe needed a lift and there is nobetter lift than this one, so I amvery happy for the players andabsolutely delighted for thef ans.”

Borini, a 69th-minute re-placement for Adam Johnson,won the game in thrilling stylewhen he smashed an unstop-

pable shot past Tim Krul fromJozy Altidore’s lay-off to fi-nally kick-start Sunderland’sseason. His decisive goal camewith Newcastle looking themore likely victors after Math-ieu Debuchy had cancelled outSteven Fletcher’s fifth-minuteopener 12 minutes after therestar t.

But with derby specialistShola Ameobi, who has sevengoals against the Black Cats tohis name, having been throwninto the fray, it was fellow re-placement Borini who stole theh e a d l i n e s.

Poyet said: “Fabio was soclose to playing, the way he hasbeen training, his attitude,how positive he is. But some-times you can’t play forwhatever reasons, because ofthe shape, because of the team,because of the time. If someonedeserved to score today, it wasFabio Borini.”

Opposite number AlanPardew, however, was con-vinced his side should haveemerged victorious, and wasunhappy with a free-kick awar-ded by referee Lee Probert forCheick Tiote’s challenge onFletcher in the lead-up to thegoal.

Pardew, who is the first New-castle manager to lose back-to-back derbies since 1966-67,said: “When we got the equal-iser, the more the game wenton the more control we got.

“We had two or three goodchances, I thought, at 1-1 and ifwe got the second goal, thegame was over because theywould have been dead.”

the belief is high. We are happyfor him, but we are all happybecause it’s a very importantvictory against a team wec o u l d n’t beat last year.

“We played against them lotsof times; even in friendlies wec o u l d n’t beat them.”

Mourinho celebrated thegoal and the extension of hisunbeaten Premier League runat Stamford Bridge to 65 gamesby leaping into the crowd,where he finished the priorhome match with Cardiff fol-lowing his touchline dis-missal.

The Portuguese entered thesection of support behind theaway dugout, where his sonhas a season ticket.

He said: “Chelsea is guiltybecause I want to buy a season

Bruce fumes at penalty

Tottenham’s Roberto Soldado, centre, with Hull City’s Tom Huddlestone, right

TOTTENHAM 1 HULL CITY 0

Hull manager Steve Bruceblasted Tottenham’s late pen-alty in their match at WhiteHart Lane on Sunday after-noon as a “joke decision”.

The Tigers had performedwell in stifling Spurs’ at t a ck -ing threat for much of thegame before referee MichaelOliver awarded a penalty to thehosts ten minutes from timewhich was duly converted byRoberto Soldado to give AndreVi l l a s - B o a s ’ side a 1-0 victory.

The controversial spot-kickcame after Jan Vertonghen’scross was adjudged to havebeen handled by Ahmed El-mohamady, but Bruce was leftfuming at the call.

“It is an absolute joke de-cision,” he said.

“It hits his leg for a start andthen goes up and hits his arm,

how do you give a penalty inthat situation?

“We have more directivesand meetings and all this non-sense, they are all getting as-sessed up in the stands butthen they give decisions likethat which just baffles me and Ihave to ask the question, wouldwe have got it?

“The disappointment I haveis that I have lads playing todaywho are desperate to play inthe Premier League.

“They are desperate to makea fist of it and they are nowquestioning themselves afterEverton last week, where wegot some decisions against usand today where, in my opin-ion, he couldn’t wait to giveit.”

Bruce was seen remonstrat-ing with Oliver at full-time butadmitted any argument wasf u t i l e.

SWANSEA 0 WEST HAM 0

Swansea manager MichaelLaudrup felt his side weredenied a clear penalty duringtheir 0-0 draw with West Hamat the Liberty Stadium.

In a turgid game of few clearchances the Hammers’ dead-ball threat troubled their hostsall afternoon, with AngelRangel hooking a long RazvanRat free-kick off the line, whileGuy Demel and Kevin Nolanalso spurned sights of goal.

Jussi Jaaskelainen madetwo point-blank stops to denyChico Flores and WilfriedBony at the other end, but thehosts were most aggrieved ref-eree Phil Dowd’s decision toturn down a stoppage-timeappeal for handball againstJoe Cole.

The West Ham sub had hisarm raised as he leapt to block

a Nathan Dyer cross, andLaudrup had no doubt his sideshould have had a spot-kick.

“I think we deserved more,but on the other handJaaskelainen had made two orthree fantastic saves, so youc a n’t do anything about that,”he said.

“There was a lot of emotionin the end which was about thepenalty which was not given.

“I know I always say that areferee or a linesman only hasone second, but I mean it is soclear when you have your armup like that.

“If you have your arm downyou can talk about hand to ballor ball to hand, but when youhave your arm up there and ithits you, normally nine out often times it is a penalty. Whenyou have a case like this in the91st minute, there are a lot ofe m o t i o n s, ”

Hat-trick fromSuarez keepsreds in the raceLuis Suarez scored a brillianthat-trick as Liverpoolthrashed West Brom 4-1 to keepon the coat-tails of BarclaysPremier League leadersArsenal, while ManchesterUnited needed a second-halffightback against Stoke toavoid seeing their season gofrom bad to worse.

Arsenal briefly opened up afive-point lead over nearestchallengers Liverpool andChelsea after beating CrystalPalace 2-0 in Saturday’s earlykick-off, but Brendan Rodgers’men responded in emphaticfashion to cut the gap back totwo and Chelsea did likewiseon Sunday. Suarez scored twicein the opening 17 minutes andthen completed the fourth hat-trick of his Anfield career tenminutes into the second half asthe Uruguayan continued hisrich goalscoring form since re-turning to the Liverpool side.

West Brom pulled a goalback through James Morris-o n’s penalty but Suarez’sstrike partner Daniel Stur-ridge chipped home a brilliantgoal to wrap up the scoring 14minutes from time.

It was nowhere near as com-fortable for stuttering cham-pions Manchester United up

the road at Old Trafford asthey survived a major scare tobeat Stoke 3-2.

Having fallen 11 points adriftof top spot following Arsenal’svictory, United could ill affordanother off-day against a Stokeside without a win in their lastfive league games.

However, David Moyes’ men,who have already lost threetimes in the league this season,suffered a nightmare start asPeter Crouch’s close-rangefinish put the visitors aheadafter just four minutes.

Robin van Persie drew theteams level in the 43rd minute,but Stoke stunned the homeside again by reclaiming thelead on the stroke of half-timethrough Marko Arnautovic’sfine free-kick.

Two goals in the final 12minutes from Wayne Rooneyand Javier Hernandez savedUnited’s blushes though asthey come from behind towin.

Earlier on, Arsenal beatmanagerless Crystal Palacedespite playing the final 25minutes with a man less fol-lowing Mikel Arteta’s sendingof f.

Arteta put the leaders aheadfrom the penalty spot at thestart of the second half but theGunners captain was thenhanded his marching orders.

Referee Chris Foy deemedthe Spanish player had pre-vented a clear goalscoring op-portunity when he tangledwith former Arsenal strikerMarouane Chamakh some 35yards out from goal andshowed him a red card.

Liverpool strikerLuis Suarezcelebratesscoring his thirdgoal of thegame againstWest Brom

Chelsea’s Fernando Torres scores his side’s second goal of the game during the Barclays Premier League match at Stamford Bridge yesterday PICTURE: DOMINIC LIPINSKI/PA

Jose Mourinho hailed FernandoTorres after a Jekyll and Hydeperformance but Manuel Pellegriniwas left incensed

Swansea’s Nathan Dyer takes theball past West Ham’s Razvan Rat

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George Ford kicks a penalty for Bath during the win over Gloucester PICTURE: CLARE GREEN

Hartpury lookworthy leadersBOURNEMOUTH 12HARTPURY COLLEGE 50

Hartpury stayed top of SSENational Two South with acrushing victory at fellowhigh-fliers Bournemouth.

The Hartpury forwardswere in an uncompromisingmood from the first whistleand a pushover try from ascrum opened the scoring on11 minutes, No 8 Tom Mac-Donald claiming the points atthe base and Billy Burns con-ver ting.

Bour nemouth’s Andy Spik-ings saw yellow after yet an-other set-piece disintegrated,with the prop subsequently re-placed by Andrew Wiseman atthe end of the sin-bin period.

Jack Hennings burstthrough off a shortened lin-eout to release Ross McGowanfor a Bournemouth try, im-proved by Dan Pollard.

Hartpury led at the breakcourtesy of a Burns penaltyfollowing Ben Stevenson’syellow card for Bournemouth.

Steve Leonard gatheredBur ns’ chip and set Alex Wood-burn free for another sevenpoints for Hartpury.

The Lions, for all their woesup front, refused to submit andcrashed over for a secondthrough the impressive Hen-nings with Woodburn in thesin bin.

But that was as good as it gotfor Bournemouth, who werepreviously unbeaten at home,as Hartpury’s Chris Forteyscored from a catch-and-drivebefore Craig Jackson latchedon to Burns’ superb flat pass toseal it.

Reuben Haile barged hisway over on the short side with10 minutes remaining.

Hartpury inflicted furtherpunishment in the final playwhen Terry Fanolua’s pass loc-ated Woodburn in the corner,with Burns’ conversion rack-ing up the half-century.

TAUNTON TITANS 26AMPTHILL 22

Taunton maintained their 100per cent record at Hyde Parkthis season in National TwoSouth.

Amphill, making their firstever visit to Taunton, led 22-8at one stage in the second halfbefore the home side foughtback to gain their fourth suc-cessive home victory.

Taunton, however, had tosoak up a lot of pressure, par-ticularly towards the end asAmpthill tried to save the game– but were held up by a solidd e f e n c e.

Aaron Struminski (2) andJake Childs scored tries forTaunton with Jamie Forresterkicking three penalties and ac o nve r s i o n .

Amphill’s points came fromtries by Dean Adamson, JoeSproston and Elliott Clements-Hill, while Rory Teague landeda penalty and two conver-s i o n s.

Taunton will be looking forthe first away victory of theseason when they go toBishop’s Stortford on Sat-u rd ay.

Fo r d ’s kicks prove just enough on a nervy night at Bath’s place

Bath full-back Anthony Watson goes on a jinking run during the Aviva Premiership match against Gloucester at The Recreation Ground PICTURE: TIM IRELAND/PA

England fly-half hopeful Fred-die Burns gave Bath a hugefright in front of a packed Re-creation Ground with acharge-down try on the hourbut the home side nervouslyclosed out the victory.

Bath relied on the boot ofGeorge Ford for all theirp o i n t s.

The home side utterly dom-inated possession and territ-ory but their misfiringmidfield never really lookedlike creating a try asGloucester scrapped for everyloose ball, at the cost of 19penalties. Burns, Bath-bornand bred, also scored all hisside’s points.

With only Davey Wilson keptback by England, fourth-placed Bath were able to namea strong squad, bringing backlock Dave Attwood after fourweeks out with a rib problemto play against his formercl u b.

Bath had not lost at home inthe Aviva Premiership in 2013,their only defeat in 12 matchesat the Rec in all competitionsbeing to Stade Francais in anAmlin Cup quarter-final onApril 6. Gloucester, by con-trast, had managed just oneaway win in seven matches sofar this season.

Showers swept the groundbefore kick-off and in thesodden conditions Ford neededno invitation to pushGloucester back into thecorners. Within five minutes,he was late-tackled by MattKvesic and the young fly-halfkicked the opening points.

Bath continued to press butlineout frailties underminedtheir efforts even before RobWebber threw too long on hisown 22 and almost presentedprop Dan Murphy with a try atthe other end on 22 minutes.Murphy was injured and hadto be replaced by YannT homas.

Gloucester had already hadtheir problems in the scrum,however, and when the visitingpack again splintered underpressure, Ford kicked hissecond penalty on 27 minutes.

In a stop-start first half, Fordmade it 9-0 on the half-hourwhen Darren Dawidiuk triedto strip the ball from AnthonyPerenise while off his feet.

Almost immediately, Burnspulled back three points when

Jonathan Joseph was guilty ofa deliberate knock-on.

Ford had two more chancesto send Bath in with a two-score lead at half-time but theball drifted wide both times.

The visitors conceded threepenalties in as many minutesat the start of the second halfthough and Ford accepted thechance to make it 12-3 fromwide on the right.

As Bath, now in control ofthe lineout too, pounded awayat the right hand corner,Gloucester continued to leakpenalties. They ignored the in-evitable warning from refereeWayne Barnes and lost RupertHarden to the sin-bin soon af-t e r w a rd s.

Ford missed the relativelystraightforward penaltythough and then agonisinglywatched his opposite number,Burns, hit the post from 45m e t re s.

Worse was to follow as Burnscharged down an attemptedclearance by Ford, picked upthe ball just short of the lineand dived over. The conversionwas a simple affair.

The Bath fly-half steadiedhis nerves to kick his fifth pen-alty but Burns hit back with anexcellent effort on 67 minutesto narrow the scores to 15-13after Watson was yellow-carded for a deliberate knock-on.

As the tension mounted,Ford scuffed an attempteddrop-goal with his left foot andwas off-target again with a dif-ficult penalty.

The home fans crowd wereon their feet, especially sowhen Matt Garvey stole theball from breakawayGloucester captain TomSavage in full flight. With timeup on the clock Garvey’s sup-port was good, and PeterStringer kicked to touch – tothe audible relief and appre-ciation of the home crowd.Bath: Watson, Rokoduguni, Joseph, Eastmond,Banahan, Ford, Stringer, James, Webber,Perenise, Hooper, Attwood, Garvey, Louw,Fearns. Replacements: Agulla for Eastmond(68), Catt for James (71), Batty for Webber(71), Orlandi for Perenise (63). Not Used:Spencer, Faosiliva, Roberts, Henson.Scorer: Pens – Ford 5.Sin Bin: Watson (67).Gloucester: Cook, Simpson-Daniel, Tindall,Mills, May, Burns, Cowan, Murphy, Dawidiuk,Harden, Stooke, Hudson, Savage, Kvesic,Kalamafoni. Replacements: Robson forCowan (56), Y. Thomas for Murphy (30),Edmonds for Dawidiuk (52), James for Hudson(52), Gibbons for Kvesic (58). Not Used: Evans,Sharples, Qera.Scorers: Try – Burns. Cons – Burns. Pens –Burns 2.Sin Bin: Harden (54).Attendance: 11,900.Referee: Wayne Barnes (RFU).

We dominated most facets of the game, says bossBath head coach Mike Fordwas satisfied with a win thatcemented Bath’s place amongthe top four in the AvivaP re m i e r s h i p.

Bath are third after the sixthround of matches and Fordsaid: “I thought we dominatedthe game.

“We put ourselves underpressure, though, missed a fewgoal kicks, conceded a charge-down try. But apart from that, Ithought we were dominant in

most facets. Conditions didn’thelp. But we believe we’ve onlyscratched the surface with thisteam.

“Our front five were reallygood, really dominant. Not justthe front five – the wholeeight.

“There were some pleasingthings. I’m not disappointedabout winning derby games!”

He added: “We kicked ourgoals but Freddie took his trywell and we got a bit jittery

towards the end. There wereplenty of positives though.”

Soaking weather deniedBath the chance to really shinein attack but Ford was quick topraise his side’s discipline in afiery derby clash, with thehosts limiting Gloucester fly-half Freddie Burns to justthree penalty attempts at thep o s t s.

“We talk about taking thereferee out of the equation andI think we did that,” said Ford.

“If you watch our offside lineyou can see clear daylightbetween that and the ruck. Wewant to give referees no reasonto penalise us.

“We got it wrong once ortwice, unluckily I thought, butt h at ’s possibly one of the reas-ons we won the game tonightbecause of our discipline.

“We believe we have onlyjust scratched the surface ofwhat we can achieve inat t a ck . ”

Gloucester’s lack of discipline let rivals off the hook – Davies

Bath head coach Mike Ford

Gloucester director of rugbyNigel Davies believes ill-dis-cipline is costing importantpoints in their push for Premi-ership precision.

The Cherry and Whitescoughed up 19 penalties intheir 15-13 derby defeat toBath. Rupert Harden was sin-binned on 54 minutes during amatch in which Gloucesterspent a lot of the time on theback foot.

And Bath’s front five muscle

Weston race tonine-try haulWESTON-SUPER-MARE 67OLD CENTRALIANS 8

Weston returned to winningways as they ran in nine triesto leave league newcomers OldCentralians rooted at the footof the National three SouthWest table.

Nineteen points from theboot of James Mackay, througheight conversions and a pen-alty, saw the fly-half pass 100points for the season.

The Seasiders had to shuffletheir starting line-up beforethe start after flanker PaulMorrissey pulled-up in the pre-match warm-up. Adam God-frey, 18, was drafted in from the3rd XV match to start on thebench and make his seniordebut late in the game.

Mackay opened the scoringwith a penalty before the vis-itors came back through a tryfor full-back Lewis May butmidway through the half theyhad flanker Dan Knapman sentto the sin bin.

Weston got tries from No 8Tom Main and wing MattWatkins with Mackay convert-ing both. Fly-half Connor Gwil-liam reduced Old Centsarrears with a penalty.

Weston hooker Craig With-ers crossed the line. Mackayadded the extras and thenscrum-half Dan Waldon landeda drop goal for a 27-8 half timelead.

Weston secured a try-scoringbonus point through Witherssecond try of the game, con-verted by Mackay. Old Centshad No 8 Dan Slater sent to thebin as Weston were awarded apenalty try.

Mackay converted and thenadded the extras to the next tryfrom replacement wing MikeBellak. Three more tries in thefinal quarter saw a brace fromfull-back Harvey Skelton andone for wing Harry Jones withMackay converting two.

Chippenhamcan’t win awayBARNSTAPLE 36CHIPPENHAM 13

Chippenham remain without avictory on the road this seasonin National Three South West.

Lock Tom Skelding got thefirst of Barum’s six tries afterfour minutes. Centre TomBoreham landed a penalty forthe visitors before hookerJohn Turner was the first tosee a yellow card.

Five minutes after being re-stored to full strength, theythen had lock Matt Bye sent tothe bin.

Boreham added a secondpenalty just before half time tonudge the visitors ahead homeskipper Winston James ran infrom 20 metres to touch down.Fly-half Matt Down convertedfor a 12-6 lead at the break.

Chippenham struck firstafter the restart with a try fromfull back Jon Squire, convertedby Boreham, before Barumtook a grip on the game scoringthree tries in the final halfh o u r.

Full-back Will Topps scoredunder the posts and Down con-verted. Rob Elliott scored aconverted try and wing TobyWilliamson got the final try.

Gloucester fly-half Freddie Burns is held up during the derby match PICTURE: CLARE GREEN Bath forward Carl Fearns tries to battle his way through PICTURE: CLARE GREEN

Taunton findhome is sweet

BATH 15GLOUCESTER 13

BY ANDREW GWILYM

caused the visitors havoc inthe scrum.

George Ford kicked five pen-alties but he missed a furtherfour that could have put Bathout of reach before Gloucestercame in with a shout of vic-t o r y.

Davies rued his side’s poordecision- making at both thebreakdown and in open play,gifting Bath points from thet e e.

He said: “I thought it was a

poor game of rugby. I was dis-appointed with some areas ofour performance but thebiggest disappointment for mewas our discipline.

“If we remained disciplinedmaybe we could have snuck awin. I feel in the second halfthe momentum changed andwe had more field position andwe wanted to maintain somepressure on Bath. But becauseof our ill-discipline, we didn’tand ultimately, in the context

of this game, it was a huged i s ap p o i n t m e n t . ”

The squad for England’sopening autumn internationalagainst Australia is expectedto be announced on tomorrowand Davies believes Burns wasin fine form.

“Freddie was great,” D av i e scontinued. “I thought he man-aged the game well.

“We managed to get somefield position in the secondhalf but the trouble was we let

them in too easy through ouri l l - d i s c i p l i n e.

“You are not going to controlgames if you don’t have theplatform to work off. Webattled manfully and we dothat but we have got to takemore control of our games.

“Our set-piece needs to bebetter than it is at the momentand our discipline has to be alot better than it is. When youput those two elements to-gether, it is very frustrating.”

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George Ford kicks a penalty for Bath during the win over Gloucester PICTURE: CLARE GREEN

Hartpury lookworthy leadersBOURNEMOUTH 12HARTPURY COLLEGE 50

Hartpury stayed top of SSENational Two South with acrushing victory at fellowhigh-fliers Bournemouth.

The Hartpury forwardswere in an uncompromisingmood from the first whistleand a pushover try from ascrum opened the scoring on11 minutes, No 8 Tom Mac-Donald claiming the points atthe base and Billy Burns con-ver ting.

Bour nemouth’s Andy Spik-ings saw yellow after yet an-other set-piece disintegrated,with the prop subsequently re-placed by Andrew Wiseman atthe end of the sin-bin period.

Jack Hennings burstthrough off a shortened lin-eout to release Ross McGowanfor a Bournemouth try, im-proved by Dan Pollard.

Hartpury led at the breakcourtesy of a Burns penaltyfollowing Ben Stevenson’syellow card for Bournemouth.

Steve Leonard gatheredBur ns’ chip and set Alex Wood-burn free for another sevenpoints for Hartpury.

The Lions, for all their woesup front, refused to submit andcrashed over for a secondthrough the impressive Hen-nings with Woodburn in thesin bin.

But that was as good as it gotfor Bournemouth, who werepreviously unbeaten at home,as Hartpury’s Chris Forteyscored from a catch-and-drivebefore Craig Jackson latchedon to Burns’ superb flat pass toseal it.

Reuben Haile barged hisway over on the short side with10 minutes remaining.

Hartpury inflicted furtherpunishment in the final playwhen Terry Fanolua’s pass loc-ated Woodburn in the corner,with Burns’ conversion rack-ing up the half-century.

TAUNTON TITANS 26AMPTHILL 22

Taunton maintained their 100per cent record at Hyde Parkthis season in National TwoSouth.

Amphill, making their firstever visit to Taunton, led 22-8at one stage in the second halfbefore the home side foughtback to gain their fourth suc-cessive home victory.

Taunton, however, had tosoak up a lot of pressure, par-ticularly towards the end asAmpthill tried to save the game– but were held up by a solidd e f e n c e.

Aaron Struminski (2) andJake Childs scored tries forTaunton with Jamie Forresterkicking three penalties and ac o nve r s i o n .

Amphill’s points came fromtries by Dean Adamson, JoeSproston and Elliott Clements-Hill, while Rory Teague landeda penalty and two conver-s i o n s.

Taunton will be looking forthe first away victory of theseason when they go toBishop’s Stortford on Sat-u rd ay.

Fo r d ’s kicks prove just enough on a nervy night at Bath’s place

Bath full-back Anthony Watson goes on a jinking run during the Aviva Premiership match against Gloucester at The Recreation Ground PICTURE: TIM IRELAND/PA

England fly-half hopeful Fred-die Burns gave Bath a hugefright in front of a packed Re-creation Ground with acharge-down try on the hourbut the home side nervouslyclosed out the victory.

Bath relied on the boot ofGeorge Ford for all theirp o i n t s.

The home side utterly dom-inated possession and territ-ory but their misfiringmidfield never really lookedlike creating a try asGloucester scrapped for everyloose ball, at the cost of 19penalties. Burns, Bath-bornand bred, also scored all hisside’s points.

With only Davey Wilson keptback by England, fourth-placed Bath were able to namea strong squad, bringing backlock Dave Attwood after fourweeks out with a rib problemto play against his formercl u b.

Bath had not lost at home inthe Aviva Premiership in 2013,their only defeat in 12 matchesat the Rec in all competitionsbeing to Stade Francais in anAmlin Cup quarter-final onApril 6. Gloucester, by con-trast, had managed just oneaway win in seven matches sofar this season.

Showers swept the groundbefore kick-off and in thesodden conditions Ford neededno invitation to pushGloucester back into thecorners. Within five minutes,he was late-tackled by MattKvesic and the young fly-halfkicked the opening points.

Bath continued to press butlineout frailties underminedtheir efforts even before RobWebber threw too long on hisown 22 and almost presentedprop Dan Murphy with a try atthe other end on 22 minutes.Murphy was injured and hadto be replaced by YannT homas.

Gloucester had already hadtheir problems in the scrum,however, and when the visitingpack again splintered underpressure, Ford kicked hissecond penalty on 27 minutes.

In a stop-start first half, Fordmade it 9-0 on the half-hourwhen Darren Dawidiuk triedto strip the ball from AnthonyPerenise while off his feet.

Almost immediately, Burnspulled back three points when

Jonathan Joseph was guilty ofa deliberate knock-on.

Ford had two more chancesto send Bath in with a two-score lead at half-time but theball drifted wide both times.

The visitors conceded threepenalties in as many minutesat the start of the second halfthough and Ford accepted thechance to make it 12-3 fromwide on the right.

As Bath, now in control ofthe lineout too, pounded awayat the right hand corner,Gloucester continued to leakpenalties. They ignored the in-evitable warning from refereeWayne Barnes and lost RupertHarden to the sin-bin soon af-t e r w a rd s.

Ford missed the relativelystraightforward penaltythough and then agonisinglywatched his opposite number,Burns, hit the post from 45m e t re s.

Worse was to follow as Burnscharged down an attemptedclearance by Ford, picked upthe ball just short of the lineand dived over. The conversionwas a simple affair.

The Bath fly-half steadiedhis nerves to kick his fifth pen-alty but Burns hit back with anexcellent effort on 67 minutesto narrow the scores to 15-13after Watson was yellow-carded for a deliberate knock-on.

As the tension mounted,Ford scuffed an attempteddrop-goal with his left foot andwas off-target again with a dif-ficult penalty.

The home fans crowd wereon their feet, especially sowhen Matt Garvey stole theball from breakawayGloucester captain TomSavage in full flight. With timeup on the clock Garvey’s sup-port was good, and PeterStringer kicked to touch – tothe audible relief and appre-ciation of the home crowd.Bath: Watson, Rokoduguni, Joseph, Eastmond,Banahan, Ford, Stringer, James, Webber,Perenise, Hooper, Attwood, Garvey, Louw,Fearns. Replacements: Agulla for Eastmond(68), Catt for James (71), Batty for Webber(71), Orlandi for Perenise (63). Not Used:Spencer, Faosiliva, Roberts, Henson.Scorer: Pens – Ford 5.Sin Bin: Watson (67).Gloucester: Cook, Simpson-Daniel, Tindall,Mills, May, Burns, Cowan, Murphy, Dawidiuk,Harden, Stooke, Hudson, Savage, Kvesic,Kalamafoni. Replacements: Robson forCowan (56), Y. Thomas for Murphy (30),Edmonds for Dawidiuk (52), James for Hudson(52), Gibbons for Kvesic (58). Not Used: Evans,Sharples, Qera.Scorers: Try – Burns. Cons – Burns. Pens –Burns 2.Sin Bin: Harden (54).Attendance: 11,900.Referee: Wayne Barnes (RFU).

We dominated most facets of the game, says bossBath head coach Mike Fordwas satisfied with a win thatcemented Bath’s place amongthe top four in the AvivaP re m i e r s h i p.

Bath are third after the sixthround of matches and Fordsaid: “I thought we dominatedthe game.

“We put ourselves underpressure, though, missed a fewgoal kicks, conceded a charge-down try. But apart from that, Ithought we were dominant in

most facets. Conditions didn’thelp. But we believe we’ve onlyscratched the surface with thisteam.

“Our front five were reallygood, really dominant. Not justthe front five – the wholeeight.

“There were some pleasingthings. I’m not disappointedabout winning derby games!”

He added: “We kicked ourgoals but Freddie took his trywell and we got a bit jittery

towards the end. There wereplenty of positives though.”

Soaking weather deniedBath the chance to really shinein attack but Ford was quick topraise his side’s discipline in afiery derby clash, with thehosts limiting Gloucester fly-half Freddie Burns to justthree penalty attempts at thep o s t s.

“We talk about taking thereferee out of the equation andI think we did that,” said Ford.

“If you watch our offside lineyou can see clear daylightbetween that and the ruck. Wewant to give referees no reasonto penalise us.

“We got it wrong once ortwice, unluckily I thought, butt h at ’s possibly one of the reas-ons we won the game tonightbecause of our discipline.

“We believe we have onlyjust scratched the surface ofwhat we can achieve inat t a ck . ”

Gloucester’s lack of discipline let rivals off the hook – Davies

Bath head coach Mike Ford

Gloucester director of rugbyNigel Davies believes ill-dis-cipline is costing importantpoints in their push for Premi-ership precision.

The Cherry and Whitescoughed up 19 penalties intheir 15-13 derby defeat toBath. Rupert Harden was sin-binned on 54 minutes during amatch in which Gloucesterspent a lot of the time on theback foot.

And Bath’s front five muscle

Weston race tonine-try haulWESTON-SUPER-MARE 67OLD CENTRALIANS 8

Weston returned to winningways as they ran in nine triesto leave league newcomers OldCentralians rooted at the footof the National three SouthWest table.

Nineteen points from theboot of James Mackay, througheight conversions and a pen-alty, saw the fly-half pass 100points for the season.

The Seasiders had to shuffletheir starting line-up beforethe start after flanker PaulMorrissey pulled-up in the pre-match warm-up. Adam God-frey, 18, was drafted in from the3rd XV match to start on thebench and make his seniordebut late in the game.

Mackay opened the scoringwith a penalty before the vis-itors came back through a tryfor full-back Lewis May butmidway through the half theyhad flanker Dan Knapman sentto the sin bin.

Weston got tries from No 8Tom Main and wing MattWatkins with Mackay convert-ing both. Fly-half Connor Gwil-liam reduced Old Centsarrears with a penalty.

Weston hooker Craig With-ers crossed the line. Mackayadded the extras and thenscrum-half Dan Waldon landeda drop goal for a 27-8 half timelead.

Weston secured a try-scoringbonus point through Witherssecond try of the game, con-verted by Mackay. Old Centshad No 8 Dan Slater sent to thebin as Weston were awarded apenalty try.

Mackay converted and thenadded the extras to the next tryfrom replacement wing MikeBellak. Three more tries in thefinal quarter saw a brace fromfull-back Harvey Skelton andone for wing Harry Jones withMackay converting two.

Chippenhamcan’t win awayBARNSTAPLE 36CHIPPENHAM 13

Chippenham remain without avictory on the road this seasonin National Three South West.

Lock Tom Skelding got thefirst of Barum’s six tries afterfour minutes. Centre TomBoreham landed a penalty forthe visitors before hookerJohn Turner was the first tosee a yellow card.

Five minutes after being re-stored to full strength, theythen had lock Matt Bye sent tothe bin.

Boreham added a secondpenalty just before half time tonudge the visitors ahead homeskipper Winston James ran infrom 20 metres to touch down.Fly-half Matt Down convertedfor a 12-6 lead at the break.

Chippenham struck firstafter the restart with a try fromfull back Jon Squire, convertedby Boreham, before Barumtook a grip on the game scoringthree tries in the final halfh o u r.

Full-back Will Topps scoredunder the posts and Down con-verted. Rob Elliott scored aconverted try and wing TobyWilliamson got the final try.

Gloucester fly-half Freddie Burns is held up during the derby match PICTURE: CLARE GREEN Bath forward Carl Fearns tries to battle his way through PICTURE: CLARE GREEN

Taunton findhome is sweet

BATH 15GLOUCESTER 13

BY ANDREW GWILYM

caused the visitors havoc inthe scrum.

George Ford kicked five pen-alties but he missed a furtherfour that could have put Bathout of reach before Gloucestercame in with a shout of vic-t o r y.

Davies rued his side’s poordecision- making at both thebreakdown and in open play,gifting Bath points from thet e e.

He said: “I thought it was a

poor game of rugby. I was dis-appointed with some areas ofour performance but thebiggest disappointment for mewas our discipline.

“If we remained disciplinedmaybe we could have snuck awin. I feel in the second halfthe momentum changed andwe had more field position andwe wanted to maintain somepressure on Bath. But becauseof our ill-discipline, we didn’tand ultimately, in the context

of this game, it was a huged i s ap p o i n t m e n t . ”

The squad for England’sopening autumn internationalagainst Australia is expectedto be announced on tomorrowand Davies believes Burns wasin fine form.

“Freddie was great,” D av i e scontinued. “I thought he man-aged the game well.

“We managed to get somefield position in the secondhalf but the trouble was we let

them in too easy through ouri l l - d i s c i p l i n e.

“You are not going to controlgames if you don’t have theplatform to work off. Webattled manfully and we dothat but we have got to takemore control of our games.

“Our set-piece needs to bebetter than it is at the momentand our discipline has to be alot better than it is. When youput those two elements to-gether, it is very frustrating.”

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Clifton fizzleafter the breakSOUTHEND 34 CLIFTON 10

C l i f t o n’s disappointing formon the road continued as theylost their third away game insuccession in National TwoSouth to drop to sixth place.

The Henbury-based sidemade the long journey to Essexshorn of nine squad members,and went down by four tries toone. They have several playersmissing in the pack andstruggled at lineouts as are s u l t .

While Clifton were morethan capable of holding theirown in the back division, theirweakened front line struggledagainst a big and physicalhome pack, and as a result,were unable to establish anyworthwhile possession andfield position.

Southend took the lead inthe fifth minute after pushingClifton off their own scrumbefore feeding wing MarkBillings to score a try conver-ted by stand-off Bradley Bur.

Clifton responded with aCharlie Foley penalty, and tookthe lead when wing AuguySlowik raced in from longrange to dot down under theposts, giving Foley the easiestof conversions. It was Clifton’sonly try.

The visitors continued toprobe for openings, butSouthend’s defence was solid,and their constant heavy tack-ling kept Clifton onto the backfoot. The home side dominatedthe second-half with tries fromJim Callard, Stephen Bailey,Clive Claire and a penalty try.Reg Harrison added two con-versions and a penalty tosecure the win.

DINGS CRUSADERS 14REDRUTH 13

Dings made it two wins on thetrot after edging past Redruthat Landseer Avenue to rise to12th in SSE National TwoSouth.

Wing James Oakley andflanker Matt Lane scored triesfor Crusaders, with full-backMark Woodrow adding thee x t r a s.

Reds wing Dan Bondclaimed a brace of tries, whichwent unconverted by AshleyHoskins, but the fly-half didmanage to slot a first-half pen-a l t y.

Oakley raced in from 35 -metres for the opening try.Woodrow added the touchlinec o nve r s i o n .

Bond scorched in for an un-converted try and Hoskinskicked a 35th-minute penaltyto nudge the visitors ahead.

Redruth went into the in-terval holding a 8-7 advant-a g e.

Bond claimed his second un-converted try on 54 minutes toedge Reds into a 13-7 lead,before Crusaders mounted astirring fight back that res-ulted in Lane touching down,after being sent clear by Plum-mer who had crept unnoticeddown the blind side, four-minutes later. Woodrow wasagain on target with the con-version to secure the one-pointwin for the Bristol side.

BRISTOL 33NOTTINGHAM 18

BY STEVECOTTON

Dings securevital victory

Bristol lost one GKIPA Cham-pionship point last week – ove rwhat the Rugby Football Uniondeemed a breach of regula-tions in their recent win overBedford – but they gained oneback within 33 minutesagainst Nottingham.

Flying out of the blocks –once again – Bristol’s first-halfperformance had everythingthat is good about the wayAndy Robinson and SeanHolley want them to play: pace,speed of thought, invention,movement and finishing.

But the way director ofrugby Robinson spoke afterthe match, his enduringmemory of this – Bristol’sfourth straight bonus-pointvictory in the Championship –is more likely to be of a flat,untidy and error-riddledsecond-half display than thefree-scoring fireworks of theopening 40 minutes.

Both the good and the badare important to understand ifBristol are to win promotionback to the Aviva Premiershipnext June – and both were ondisplay at the Memorial Sta-dium.

Bristol have improved dra-matically since suffering theironly defeat of the seasonagainst Cornish Pirates on theopening day – but the stand-ards now in place are such thatmuch more is still expected.

“It’s something we’ve got tolook at, and something we’vegot to address, because it’sright for us to look at ourselveswhen we’ve got a good sco-reline and we’ve got the fivep o i n t s, ” said Robinson.

“We ’ve improved since whatwe did against Cornish Piratesbut at times in that second half,Nottingham made it difficultfor us to play. They stopped themomentum of the game, theyput bodies around the ball, andwe weren’t accurate enough.

“T hat’s what teams aregoing to do against us – andwe ’ve got to be able to deal withit. If that happens in the first

Tipuna leadsway with hightempo start

half, that’s maybe becauseyo u ’re just getting used to thegame. But if it happens in thesecond half, that’s where it be-comes slightly disappoint-ing.”

On the plus side, there wasye s t e rd ay ’s first half. Bristolhave made it clear they want toblow teams away in the open-ing stages – and they againbacked up their words with abarnstorming start.

The bonus point was safelybanked within 33 minutes,with Nottingham pushed ontothe back foot as Ruki Tipunaagain inspired Bristol with adisplay of energy and innov-ation. Bristol’s high-tempogame-plan suits the scrum-halfdown to the ground – and hepulled the strings in brokenp l ay.

An early Matthew Jarvispenalty proved little more thanan inconvenience, as, when thevisitors knocked on from therestart, George Watkins scoredthe first of his two tries. Hewent over after Tipuna andMarco Mama had combinedfrom the scrum.

Watkins, who is now behindonly Sean Marsden and DavidLemi when it comes to leaguetries for Bristol, added asecond a few minutes later –and this time it owedeverything to his own anticip-ation and reading of theg ame.

The winger was in a perfectposition to snaffle a pass fromJarvis, intended for one of theNottingham fly-half ’s outsidebacks, but still had to race infrom 45 metres to complete thescore. Fewer than 60 secondslater, he was almost in for asecond – pouncing to make an-other interception – but playwas brought back for anearlier Bristol knock-on.

Even though Tom Calladinehit back for Nottingham, goingover when the visitors caughtBristol napping with a shortline-out, Bristol’s responsewas urgent and devastating.

From a close-range scrum,after Bristol had kicked a pen-alty to touch and then earned asecond penalty, centre BenMosses went jinking to theline, to open up an eight-point

lead for his side. That became15 points when the quick-thinking of Tipuna and pace ofWatkins led to Tristan Robertsdiving over out to seal thebonus point.

Nottingham lost propCampese Ma’afu to the sin-bin– and then, shortly after half-time, shipped a fifth try whenRoberts struck again. ButMartin Haag’s side, despitelacking the overall qualitythey had last season, showedthey are not bereft of fight andcharacter as they came backinto the game.

The result was never indoubt once Roberts hadcrossed for the bonus-point-clincher – but the stamp of

complete control Bristol hadbeen threatening to put on thegame did not materialisee i t h e r.

Nottingham gnawed away atthe Bristol line for fiveminutes, winning a series ofpenalties and line-outs, beforereplacement Alex Shaw – withhis first touch – bur rowedove r.

Even at that stage, there re-mained 16 minutes plus stop-page time – but the closingstages were unusually un-eventful, leaving Robinsonfrustrated, albeit in a muchdifferent way to how he hadbeen against Pirates back inearly September.

That alone is a mark of Bris-

tol’s progress since – even ifmuch more remains expectedof them.Bristol: A D’Arcy; G Watkins, F Otto (J Tovey46), B Mosses, R Edwards; T Roberts (NRobinson 51), R Tipuna (J Grindal 67); KTraynor, O Hayes (R Johnston 51), J Hall (BDouglas 41), G Townson, M Sorenson (capt), NKoster (B Skirving 46), J Merriman, M Mama(M Eadie 65).Scorers: Tries – Watkins (2), Mosses, Roberts(2). Cons – Roberts (4).Nottingham: R Lynn; A Savage, E Styles, JMunro, T Chapman (R Bower 39-46 & AMalloy 80); M Jarvis, S Romans (H Lee-Everton78); C Ma’afu, J Vickers (A Walker 42), MHolford (R Bower 52), N Keogh (A Shaw 62), DMontagu, R Cooper (J Burton 46), B Wilson(capt), T Calladine. Rep not used: F Barnham.Scorers: Tries – Calladine, Shaw. Con –Jarvis. Pens – Jarvis (2).Sin-binned: Ma’afu (37-47, persistentinfringement).Referee: M Carley. Att: 5,071.

Robinson calls on Bristol to be more ruthless over 80 minutesBY STEVE COTTON

Premiership rugby is whatBristol want – but Andy Robin-son felt his team’s perform-ance fell well short of that leveldespite claiming a bonus-pointvictory over Nottingham at theMemorial Stadium.

Bristol recorded a fourthstraight GKIPA Championshipbonus-point win – but Robin-son was in no mood to cel-e b r at e.

Instead, he cited the drop-offin performance after half-time

as a reason why Bristol mustimprove if they want to be play-ing top-flight rugby this timenext season.

Bristol scored five triesagainst the Green & Whitesyesterday, with four of thosecoming before half-time. Thesecond half was a flat affair,punctuated by errors, and dir-ector of rugby Robinson – wh owants to see his players hittingthe heights – was not amused.

“The first half pleased me –but I’m disappointed by thesecond half,” he said. “We had

an opportunity to put Notting-ham away – and we didn’t dot h at .

“We ’ve got to hold our handsup when we don’t perform aswell as we want to – and Ithought our second-half per-formance dropped off. I’m dis-appointed, because, having gotourselves into the position wegot ourselves into, we’ve got tobe able to kick on and be moreruthless – and we weren’t.

“It’s right to be critical whenwe ’re winning games, and it’sright to look at how we can

improve. We’re pleased withthe five points, but we’ve got tomake sure that we keep im-proving, because we don’twant to be in the Champion-ship next season – we want tobe a Premiership side.

“That was not a Premiershipperformance, and that won’tget us to the Premiership.”

Since losing against CornishPirates on the opening day ofthe season, Bristol have wonfour Championship games in arow – all with bonus points – toopen up a five-point cushion

over fifth-place Pirates.Not that merely being in the

play-offs will satisfy theformer England and Scotlandboss’s ambitions, as his teamchase a place back in Englishr ugby’s big time.

“If I look at where I thoughtwe would be at the beginningof the season, we’re ahead ofwhere I thought we’d be,” hesaid. “In that respect, we’ve gotto be pleased about that, but Ireally want us to drive ourstandards and drive wherewe ’re trying to go.”

George Watkins scored two tries for Bristol against Nottingham in the GKIPA Championship PICTURE: DAN REGAN

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Cinderford prop Will Davies scoring one of his two tries during the National League One match against Old Albanians

Deacon is relieved as Cinderford gain four points

Hannam hat-trick subduesAvonmouth and lifts leaders

Welling boysfire up CleveSOUTH WEST ONE WEST

Cleve stretched their lead atthe top of South West One Westto seven points and main-tained their 100 per cent recordwith a 55-10 home win overC l eve d o n .

Brothers Anton and GreggWelling scored two tries apieceas they took full advantage ofNorth Petherton’s 24-10 defeatat Camborne, who moved up tofourth in the table.

St Austell are now secondafter beating Bridgwater andAlbion 22-17 away despite aspirited fightback by the homeside, while Petherton slip backto third.

Hornets gained a hard-earned 18-16 away win overBideford while Cullomptonpiled up the points againstbottom club Coney Hill, win-ning 62-12. Coney Hill are stillwithout a win this season andare on minus five points.

Thornbury followed up theprevious weekend’s victoryover Chard by winning 26-21 athome to Sidmouth.

AVONMOUTH OLD BOYS 17LYDNEY 35

Twenty-eight unansweredsecond half points at BarracksLane enabled Lydney to main-tain their grip at the top of theNational Three South Westtable by taking maximumpoints against strugglingAvonmouth Old Boys.

This was league leadersLydney's first visit to Avon-mouth for nearly 40 years andthe hosts gave them a hostilereception that they did well tosubdue. The result looked to begoing against the form bookuntil Josh Hannam's secondhalf hat-trick sealed anotherbonus point win for the vis-i t o r s.

It was Avonmouth who tookthe lead after five minutes witha try from full-back ElliotNightingale, followed fiveminutes later by a touchdown

for flanker Phil Dickinsonfrom a catch and drive.

Skipper Matt Belbin, in his100th game in the Mouth col-ours, converted the second butdespite finishing the match

any celebrations were ruledout as he awaited results of ascan yesterday on a suspectedfractured jaw.

After a period of staunch de-fending by the home side, thevisitors were again pressur-ised when Mouth wing BillyReynolds charged down a

clearance kick and thegathered the ball to scoreunder the posts and Belbinconver ted.

This all seemed to springLydney into action, resultingin a period of possession andfield position which led totheir outside centre ChrisHolder ghosting around a drift-ing defensive line for a try justbefore half time. Full-backTony Wicks converted.

Mouth went in to the break17-7 up and the scoreline re-mained unchanged for theopening 15 minutes of thesecond half after which theSevernsiders started to workthe elements, which were nowin their favour.

Wing Josh Hannam brokethe deadlock with a try for thevisitors followed by a touch-down from scrum-half SamArnott. Mouth were forced todefend for large periods, where

the penalty count ran awayfrom them.

No 8 Greg Long paid theprice for the team’s offenceswith ten minutes in the sin-bin. Lydney took advantage ofthe extra man to collect a try-scoring bonus point as propPaul Price crossed for the vis-itors’ fourth try.

Despite Mouth being back tofull strength. Lydney went insearch of another score whichresulted in Hannam claiminghis second touchdown in thefinal minutes. Wicks convertedthe four second half tries.

Lydney are well on coursefor an immediate return to Na-tional Three South, with aseven point cushion at the top,but there are stiffer tasksahead. It could be argued thatif the tries keep coming all willbe well – but their poor startsdo nothing for the supporters’heart rates.

Old Reds slipto super DodgeWORCESTER WANDERERS 13OLD REDCLIFFIANS 8

Old Redcliffians dropped twoplaces to fourth in the NationalThree South West after slip-ping to their second defeat ofthe season.

Centre Mike Dodge claimedall 13 points for the Wanderers,who opened the scoring after aflowing move Kieran Morrisfed Dodge who scored wide onthe right and converted his try.Old Reds broke down the rightand Henry Bird crashed overfor a well-taken try.

Then the home side enjoyedsome possession and Dodgeknocked over a penalty.

The Old Reds hit back, but ayellow card for skipper GarethOwens and a game endinginjury in the same phase ofplay to hooker Richard Levettled to the Wanderers playingwith 14 men and uncontestedscrums for 10 minutes.

Dodge kicked another pen-alty after the break. The Wan-derers were just edging thecontest before the Old Redsmoved upfield and got a pen-alty from fly-half Jack Steer toreduce the arrears to fivep o i n t s.

All the possession and ter-ritory was with the Old Reds,but the Wanderers stuck totheir defensive task. Old Redsallowed their frustration to getthe better of them and con-ceded a couple of penaltieswhich allowed the Wanderersto clear their line.

Cheltenhamseal six-try winCHELTENHAM 39 NEWBURY 19

Cheltenham overcame a set-back before the match to beatNewbury Blues in South WestOne East.

Cheltenham suffered a blowin the warm-up when RyanHill injured an ankle and NickClifford was drafted into there placements.

Newbury Blues took the leadwhen full-back Tommy Martinpicked up the ball from a looseclearance to run in a try andRicky West converted.

Cheltenham captain TommyLait dotting the ball down aftera rolling maul and Ollie Youngslotted the conversion.

Wing Richard Morris scoredan unconverted try after to putCheltenham 12-7 ahead andRichard Athey added a try.

James Milne touched downfor the fourth try and Youngadded the conversion for a 24-7lead. Newbury finally got theiract together with prop PaulSayers scoring a try and Westconverting .

Cheltenham lost TimAcheson to the sin-bin forkilling the ball. Dan Thornescored a Newbury try for a 24-19 deficit at half-time.

In the 54th minute hookerRoss Griffiths grabbed Chel-tenham’s fifth try and Youngkicked the conversion toextend their lead to 31-19.

Acheson grabbed a sixth tryfor Cheltenham.

Just before the end Newburycaptain Graham Stewart wasshown a yellow card and Chel-tenham’s Young kicked a pen-alty to seal the win.

Pats struggle toheavy defeatAMERSHAM & CHILTERN 30OLD PATESIANS 0

Old Patesians were ruthlesslycrushed in their SSE NationalThree South West encounter.

Amersham centre Matt Gil-bert kicked an early penalty.

Pats were playing into astrong breeze but that was noexcuse for missing a number offirst-up tackles, one of whichcreated a simple overlap forcentre Dave Skelton to cutinside for a try improved byGilber t.

Amersham fly-half TomSmalley used the wind to setup attacking platforms in thePats half and from a lineoutprop Stuart Day burst straightthrough the Pats forwards forthe softest of tries.

Pat s ’ scrummaging was theonly part of their game whichgave them some control withassured possession on theirown feed, but when the ballwas released their backs playlacked penetration.

There were a few injectionsof pace and menace fromcentres James Butler, CallumStonier and full-back GeorgeHughes, but they became isol-ated and swallowed up by theAmersham back row maraud-e r s.

Amersham full-back ChrisJack sent in flanker AdamHenderson for a try close to theposts converted by Gilbert.

Pats No 8 James Pettigrewwas sent to the sin-bin for notrolling away from a tackle. Gil-bert kicked the penalty for a25-0 half-time lead.

From the Pats restart drop-out another dash from Jackscaught Pats flat-footed and leftwing Tim Lloyd scored a try.

Pat s ’ bigger pack failed toadapt when the wind droppedwith scarcely a worthwhilepick up and drive and astrangely impotent back row.

Yellow cards were dished outto Dan Pettinger and GeorgeBartlett for Amersham andDarren Moore for Pats, butthere were no further scores.

JoshHannamscoredthree triesfor Lydney

CINDERFORD 15OLD ALBANIANS 10

Cinderford prop Will Davisscored two second-half tries toedge out Old Albanians andgain a much-needed win in aSSE National League One.

The home side had the ad-vantage of a strong windbehind them in the first-halfbut Mike Wilcox was off targetwith two penalty attempts inthe opening ten minutes.

Lawrence Rayner was alsooff target with a kick at goal forthe visitors, before opening thescoring with a penalty after 28m i nu t e s.

Wilcox levelled the scoresjust before half-time, butmissed another penaltychance to give his side an in-terval lead soon afterwards.

Play continued to evenlycontested after the break untilAlbanians prop Sam Staff andsecond-row Billy Johnsonwere shown yellow cards inquick succession and Cinder-ford took advantage to scoretwice while they were off.

First a lineout catch anddrive was finished off by Davisand following a strong run byLance Randall saw the ballquickly recycled and Davistook a pass in mid-field before

crashing over near the posts,with Wilcox converting for a15-3 lead after 65 minutes play.

Restored once again to 15men the visitors were soonputting pressure on the hometry line, but a mixture of solidhome defence and more hand-ling errors meant that therewere only five minutes remain-ing when scrum-half StefanLiebenberg went over to scorefrom a quickly taken penalty,with Rayner converting.

There was plenty of tensionin the closing moments and ayellow card for replacementChris Bundy but Cinderfordheld on for victory. Cinderford

director of rugby Andy Deaconsaid: “There was a lot of pres-sure on us today so we had toget the win. Yes, it was scrappyat times and it was error-strewn but we had to get fourpoints minimum.

“I’m not jumping up anddown about the performance.

“We were pretty resolutewhen we had to be and therewere individual performancesI was very happy with. Ithought the two props wereexcellent. Individually we havea good selection of players, butwe need to be a bit more col-lective and less flat in mid-field.”

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RUGBY UNION

Aviva Premiership: Friday: Bath 15Gloucester 13. Saturday: Exeter 40 Worcester6, Harlequins 24 Sale 3, Northampton 41Saracens 2. Yesterday: Newcastle 13 LondonIrish 11, Wasps 22 Leicester 12.

AVIVA PREMIERSHIPP W D L F A BP Pts

Saracens .............. .... 6 5 0 1 178 114 3 23Northampton ....... .... 6 4 1 1 168 96 4 22Bath .................... .... 6 4 0 2 126 101 2 18Exeter .................. .... 6 4 0 2 148 126 1 17Leicester .............. .... 6 3 1 2 135 98 3 17Harlequins ........... .... 6 3 0 3 108 84 3 15Sale ..................... .... 6 3 0 3 98 123 1 13Newcastle ............ .... 6 3 0 3 66 110 1 13Wasps .................. .... 6 2 0 4 129 119 5 13London Irish......... .... 6 2 0 4 110 148 2 10Gloucester ........... .... 6 2 0 4 101 150 2 10Worcester ............ .... 6 0 0 6 79 177 2 2

Greene King IPA Championship: Friday:London Scottish 23 Rotherham 24. Saturday:Jersey 18 Plymouth Albion 23, London Welsh41 Cornish Pirates 6, Moseley 18 LeedsCarnegie 27. Yesterday: Bedford 31 Ealing14, Bristol 33 Nottingham 18.

THE GKIPA CHAMPIONSHIPP W D L F A BP Pts

London Welsh...... .... 5 5 0 0 182 75 3 23Rotherham ........... .... 5 4 0 1 219 109 5 21Bristol Rugby ....... .... 5 4 0 1 156 103 5 20Leeds ................... .... 5 4 0 1 163 93 3 19Cornish Pirates..... .... 5 3 0 2 108 119 3 15Ldn Scottish ......... .... 5 3 0 2 134 94 2 14Plymouth Alb ....... .... 5 2 1 2 127 141 3 13Bedford Blues ...... .... 5 1 0 4 114 137 4 8Jersey ................... .... 5 2 0 3 110 123 1 7Nottingham ......... .... 5 1 0 4 86 144 1 5Moseley ............... .... 5 0 1 4 110 178 1 3Ealing .................. .... 5 0 0 5 56 249 0 0

SSE National League One: Cinderford 15Old Albanian 10, Coventry 63 Blackheath 21,Esher 27 Fylde 24, Henley 11 Doncaster 10,Hull Ionians 25 Wharfedale 32, Richmond 5Blaydon 24, Rosslyn Park 48 Worthing 17,Tynedale 21 Loughborough Students 24.

SSE National League Two South:Bournemouth 12 Hartpury College 50, Chinnor29 Bishops Stortford 27, Cornish All Blacks 23Cambridge 17, Dings Crusaders 14 Redruth 13,Exmouth 41 Canterbury 51, Shelford 41 LondonIrish Wild Geese 19, Southend 34 Clifton 10,Taunton 26 Ampthill 22.

National League Three South West:Amersham & Chiltern 30 Old Patesians 0,Avonmouth Old Boys 17 Lydney 35, Barnstaple36 Chippenham 13, Bracknell 58 Brixham 0,Redingensians 42 Newton Abbot 10,Weston-super-Mare 67 Old Centralians 8,Worcester Wanderers 13 Old Redcliffians 8.

Tribute South West One West: Bideford16 Hornets 18, Bridgwater & Albion 17 StAustell 22, Camborne 24 North Petherton 10,Cleve 55 Clevedon 10, Cullompton 62 ConeyHill 12, Thornbury 26 Sidmouth 21,Wadebridge Camels 17 Chard 21.

Southern Counties South: Corsham 7Trowbridge 39, Dorchester 18 North Dorset 20,Frome 12 Swanage & Wareham 34, Sherborne46 Ivel Barbarians 11, Walcot 10 Wells 63,Weymouth v Wimborne – match awarded toWimborne.

Tribute Western Counties West: Bude 17St Ives 12, Burnham-on-Sea 33 TorquayAthletic 3, Devonport Services 33 Penryn 12,Ivybridge 77 Paignton Saxons 10, Kingsbridge38 Tavistock 10, Truro 14 Teignmouth 16,Wellington 18 Okehampton 18.Tribute South West One West: Bideford16 Hornets 18, Bridgwater & Alb 17 St Austell22, Camborne 24 N Petherton 10, Cleve 55Clevedon 10, Cullompton 62 Coney Hill 12,Thornbury 26 Sidmouth 21, Wadebridge C 17Chard 21.Western Counties North: Avon 41 OldfieldOB 13, Barton Hill 15 Midsomer Norton 18,Berry Hill 21 Chew Valley 27, Bsl Harlequins 18Cirencester 7, Chosen Hill 17 Keynsham 17,North Bristol 12 Drybrook 13, Old Bristolians29 Matson 33.Gloucester Premier: Bsl Saracens 32Painswick 17, Dursley 9 Frampton Cott 28,Hucclecote 36 Gordon League 15, Newent 40Stroud 8, Tewkesbury 40 St Mary’s OB 3,Whitehall 39 Southmead 24.Gloucester One: Bishopston 0 Gloucester OB33, Bream 33 Chipping Sodbury 12,Brockworth 10 Cheltenham Sarac 19, OldColstonians 28 Ashley Down 18, O Richians 13Longlevens 20, Widden OB 6 Kingswood 10.Gloucester Two: Aretians 10 Cotham Park44, Bredon Star 88 Cheltenham CS 0, BAC 29Broad Plain 7, Spartans 23 O Cryptians 17, StBrendans OB v Gloucester AB (home w/o),Westbury 14 Ross-on-Wye 37.Gloucester Three: Cainscross 3 Smiths 25,Minchinhampton 17 Norton 31.Somerset Premier: Bsl Barbarians 0Stothert & Pitt 25, Gordano 48 St BernadettesOB 3, Keynsham 12 Weston-s-Mare 69, OldReds 10 Nailsea & B 41, Winscombe 5 Tor 5,Wiveliscombe 17 Taunton 41, Yatton 36Minehead Barb 14.Somerset One: Castle Cary 32 Yatton 12,Chard 26 Imperial 45, Clevedon 30 Bridgwater& Alb 7, Midsomer Norton 32 Crewkerne 24, NPetherton 82 Wells 0, O Reds 10 Hornets 26,Wellington 32 O Sulians 17.Somerset Two North: Bsl Harlequins 33Midsomer Norton 23, Chew Valley 27Keynsham 0, Clevedon 23 Gordano 12, OldfieldOB 43 Winscombe 40, Walcot 94 OCulverhaysians 0, Weston-s-Mare 59 Nailsea &B 35.

Somerset Two South: Bridgwater & Alb 38Minehead B 0, Burnham-on-Sea 14 Ivel Barb18, Cheddar Valley 32 Hornets 12, Tor 5Somerton 11, Wiveliscombe 5 Morganians 31,Wyvern 10 Taunton 29.Somerset Three North: Bath OE 25 Yatton10, Bsl Barb 41 Walcot 21, Imperial 29 OldfieldOB 21, Keynsham v O Sulians pp, MidsomerNorton 0 Stothert & Pitt 48.Somerset Three South: Martock 5 Chard28, Minehead Barb 10 Castle Cary 5, NPetherton v Wells (home w/o), Tor v Wellington(home w/o).

RUGBY LEAGUE

Rugby League World Cup: Saturday:Australia 28 England 20 (at MillenniumStadium, Cardiff), Wales 16 Italy 32 (atMillennium Stadium, Cardiff). Yesterday:Papua New Guinea 8 France 9 (at Craven Park,Hull), New Zealand 42 Samoa 24 (atWarrington).

CRICKET

SECOND TEST MATCH (Days 4 & 5 of 5)

Dubai: Pakistan 99 (Imran Tahir 5-32) & 326(Asad Shafiq 130, Misbah-ul-Haq 88), SouthAfrica 517 (G C Smith 234, A B de Villiers 164;Saeed Ajmal 6-151). South Africa beatPakistan by an innings and 92 runs.

FIFTH ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALCuttack: Saturday: India v Australia –match abandoned without a ball bowled.

FOOTBALL

Women’s World Cup qualifier: England 2Wales 0 (Saturday, at The Den, London).

Scottish Premiership: Friday: Ross Countyv Inverness CT – abandoned half-time.Saturday: Dundee Utd 4 St Mirren 0,Hibernian 0 Aberdeen 2, Kilmarnock 2 Hearts0. Yesterday: Partick 1 Celtic 2, St Johnstone2 Motherwell 0.

Scottish Championship: Alloa 0 Queen ofSouth 3, Dumbarton 0 Cowdenbeath 0,Hamilton 2 Falkirk 0, Livingston 2 Dundee 1,Raith 2 Morton 1.

Scottish League One: Airdrieonians 0 Ayr1, Brechin 3 Arbroath 1, East Fife 0 Rangers 4,Stenhousemuir 1 Forfar 1, Stranraer 1Dunfermline 2.

Scottish League Two: Clyde 2 Stirling 1,Elgin 2 Annan Athletic 3, Montrose 2 EastStirling 0, Peterhead 1 Berwick 1, Queen’s Park1 Albion 1.

Skrill North: Boston Utd 3 Altrincham 2,Histon 2 Stockport County 1, Stalybridge 2Leamington 1.

Toolstation Western League PremierDivision: Bitton 1 Hallen 1, Bristol ManorFarm 1 Street 0, Ilfracombe 2 Sherborne 0,Larkhall 5 Hengrove 0, Radstock 0 CadburyHeath 4, Willand Rovers 1 Bishop Sutton 0.

Toolstation Western League FirstDivision: Ashton & Backwell 1 OldlandAbbotonians 1, Chard 2 Almondsbury UWE 2,Chippenham Park 1 Barnstaple Town 2,Keynsham 2 Devizes 2, Shepton Mallet 3 Calne2, Wellington 4 Cheddar 2, Wells 1 Cribbs 1,Westbury 6 Corsham 0, Wincanton 3Portishead 0.

Les Phillips Western League Cuppreliminary round: Bradford Town 3Winterbourne 4, Buckland Athletic 6 RomanGlass St George 2, Longwell Green 0 OddDown 0 (aet. Odd Down won 3-2 onpenalties), Melksham 0 Bridport 2, Slimbridge 2Warminster 1, Welton Rovers 0 GillinghamTown 2.Uhlsport Hellenic, Bluefin SportsChallenge Cup 1st Rd: Bracknell Tn 2Binfield 2 (aet, Binfield won 5-4 on pens). 2ndRd: AFC Hinksey v Burnham, Ascot Utd 4Kidlington 0, Beversbrook 1 Purton 3,Easington Spts 3 Abingdon Tn 1,Finchampstead 3 Flackwell Heath 5 (aet),Highmoor Ibis 2 Tytherington Rocks 4,Letcombe 1 Cirencester Tn 5, Milton Utd 1Cheltenham Saracens 1 (aet), Tuffley Rov 2Wantage Tn 3 (aet). Div I West: Clanfield 6Old Woodstock Tn 3, Fairford Tn 4 North LeighUtd 0, Hook Norton 3 Carterton 1.David Wilson Homes GloucestershireCounty: Ellwood 2 Southmead CS Ath 1, GalaWilton 0 Frampton Utd 0, Henbury 2 HanhamAth 3, Kings Stanley 2 Chipping Sodbury Tn 0,Longlevens 2 Kingswood 1, Patchway Tn 4Bristol Telephones 0, Rockleaze Rgrs 1 BishopsCleeve Res 2, Thornbury Tn 4 Bristol Acad 1.Somerset County, Premier Div/DivisionI Cup: Clutton 4 Bridgwater Tn 1, Nailsea Utd6 Purnell Sports 1. Premier Div: BishopsLydeard 1 Stockwood Green 2, Ilminster Tn 0Langford Rov 2000 4, Minehead 1 Fry Club 2,Odd Down Res 1 Cutters Friday 6,Shirehampton 3 Nailsea Tn 2, Watchet Tn 2Yatton Ath 1, Weston St Johns 3 Berrow 5.Div I: St George(EIG) 1 Brislington Res 5,Banwell 1 Frome Coll 6, Burnham Utd 1 BroadPlain House 5, Congresbury 3 Dundry Ath 5,Middlezoy Rov 4 Shepton Mallet Res 0, Saltford1 Larkhall Ath Res 4, Westfield 1 Clevedon Utd2, Wrington Redhill 5 Castle Cary 1. Div IIEast: Chilcompton Spts 2 Bishop Sutton Res 2,Cutters Friday Res 1 Imperial 2, FarringtonGurney 0 Radstock Tn Res 0, Hengrove Ath Res1 Ashton & Backwell Utd Res 0, Long Ashton 0Fry Club Res 1, Stockwood Green Res 0Timsbury Ath 2, Tunley 2 Peasedown Ath 5.

Div II West: Portishead Tn Res 2 ChurchillClub 70 0, Cheddar Res 4 Weston St Johns Res0, North Curry 1 Glastonbury 1, Uphill Castle 0Cleeve West Tn 2, Winscombe 2 Staplegrove 2,Worle 3 Combe St Nicholas 3.

Gloucestershire FA Senior AmateurCup 2nd Rd: Patchway Tn 2 LawrenceWeston at Lawrence Weston 3, Hallen Res 2Highridge Utd 2 (Hallen won 3-2 on pens),Torpedo 3 Totterdown Utd 3 (Totterdown won4-2 on pens), Longwell Green Spts Res 12Lawrence Rov 1, Made For Ever 2 Wick 1, SeaMills Park 5 Old Sodbury 2, Sneyd Park 2 LittleStoke 3, Mendip Utd 5 Stoke Gifford Utd 0,Seymour Utd 2 Olveston Utd 1, Roman Glass StGeorge Res 2 Sporting Greyhound 3, FramptonAth 0 Clifton St Vinc 1, Easton Cowboys Sub 2Severn Beach 2 (Severn Beach won 7-6 onpens), Bristol Manor Farm Res 1 CAB OlympicSC 0, AEK Boco 4 Lebeq Saturday 1, Cribbs Res1 AFC Mangotsfield 0, Fishponds OB 4Shaftesbury Crus 1.

Gloucestershire FA Minor Cup, 2nd Rd:Thornbury Baptist 2 Torpedo A 0, TalbotKnowle Res 0 Wick A 2, Winford PH 2 BradleyStoke Tn A 2 (Bradley Stoke won 10-9 onpens), Fishponds Ath 7 Oasis Cairns Rd 1, OldElizabethans 3 Shaftesbury Crusade Res 1,Mendip Utd A 2 Sea Mills Park Res 0, RetainersRes 0 Sneyd Park A 1, Lawrence Rov Res 1Easton Cowboys Res 6, Cesson 4 Clifton StVinc A 2, Woodland Rgrs 4 Staple Hill Orient 1,AFC Mangotsfield A 3 Brislington Cktrs Res 3(Mangotsfield won 6-5 on pens), Bengal Tigers4 Old Sodbury Res 3, Severnside 2 SoundwellVic Res 1, Wellington Wdrs 2 Westerleigh Spts8, AEK Boco Colts 0 VCF Santos 3.

Gloucestershire FA Primary Cup 2ndRd: Real St George 4 West Town Utd 2,Fishponds OB 1 Stapleton Res 3, WesterleighSpts Res 2 Lockleaze Comm 3, North BristolUtd 4 Little Stoke Utd 2, Bradley Stoke Tn B 0Yate Ath Res 2, De Veys Res 5 Iron Acton B 2,Stoke Lane Ath 2 Sartan Utd Res 2 (Sartan won6-5 on pens), Greyfriars B 6 Wanderers Res 1,Bristol Sports 4 Sea Mills A 2, AFCMangotsfield B 0 Hanham Ath B 2, AvonmouthA 4 Winford PH Res 4 (Avonmouth won 5-4 onpens), Conham Rangers 3 Brimsham Green Res4, Cribbs B 1 Sneyd Park B 3, Bsl Revolutions 1TC Sports 3, Wessex Wdrs A 4 LawrenceWeston A 4.

Weston-S-Mare & District, AtwellShield 1st Rd: AFC Nailsea 0 Cleeve West TnRes 1, Axbridge Tn 4 Kewstoke Lions Res 2,Clapton-in-Gordano 5 Uphill Castle Res 6,Hutton 8 Portishead Tn A 2, Banwell Res 3Berrow Res 0, Locking Park 2 Langford Rov Res5 (aet), Pill Utd 0 Congresbury Res 4, PrioryRgrs 1v Tickenham Utd 0, Shipham 3Portishead CT 7, Wedmore 0 Burnham Utd A 0(aet, Wedmore won 4-3 on pens), Westend 4Dolphin Ath 3, Yatton Ath Res 8 Cheddar A 4.Div I: Clevedon Utd Res 6 Churchill Cub 70Res 1, Winscombe 2 Nailsea Utd 4. Div II:Draycott 7 Clevedon Utd A 1, Nailsea Utd 2 StGeorge(EIG) 5. Div III: Portishead Tn B 3Winscombe A 4. Div IV: Cleeve West Tn A 4Hutton Res 0, Nailsea Utd Colts 5 King AlfredSC 0, KVFC 7 St George(EIG)A 0. Div V:Portishead Tn Colts 2 Congresbury A 0. DivVI: Berrow A 2 AFC Nailsea Res 1, BurnhamUtd B 1 Wedmore Res 1, Clevedon Utd B 0Banwell A 0, Westend Res 1 Worle Rgrs Res 3.

Mid-Somerset Football League,sponsored by Trophies of Radstock –Tony Baxter Memorial Shield 2nd rd:Purnell Sports ‘A’ 1 Timsbury Athletic Res 4;Frome Town Sports Res 1 Westhill Sports 4;Chew Magna Res 0 Mells & Vobster Utd Res 4.Dimmock Green KO Cup 1st Rd: Pensford6 Glastonbury FC Res 0. 2nd Rd: Pilton United4 Meadow Rangers 1; Coleford Athletic 2Temple Cloud 1; Mells & Vobster v SheptonMallet Town ‘A’ home win.Prem Div: Wells City ‘A’ 3 Interhound 4. DivOne: Evercreech 1 Clutton Res 4; FromeCollegians Res 11 Coleford Athletic Res 0;Westfield ‘A’ 9 Purnell Sports Res 0. Div Two:Meadow Rangers Res 3 Farrington Gurney Res6; Peasedown Athletic Res 2 Tunley AthleticRes 5; Radstock Town ‘A’ 3 Chilcompton SportsRes 2. Div Three: Chilcompton Sports ‘A ‘2Chilcompton Utd 1; Temple Cloud Res 1 SomerValley 7; Wells City ‘B’ 3 Pensford Res 4;Westhill Sports Res 1 Baltonsborough 2.Yeovil & District – Prem Div: AFC Huish 2Victoria Sp 4; Milborne Port 2 Brhoden 3;Somerton 2 Normalair 3. Div One: Ashcott 4Normalair 3; Butleigh Dynamos 1 BradfordAbbas 2; Castle Cary 2 Barton Leverkusen 3;Stoke 1 Martock 0. Div Two: East Coker 2Manor Ath 2; Pen Mill 0 AFC Huish 0;Somerton 4 Bruton 1; Waggy Ath 2 Montacute1. Div Three: Odcombe 1 Ashcott 6.Taunton & District League – Row Cup:Ash Rangers 2 Dulverton 2 (Dulverton won 5-4on pens). Seward Cup 2nd Rd: BridgwaterWolves 1 Staplegrove 9; Milverton Rangers 5Bridgwater Grasshoppers 1.Div One: Bridgwater Sp 2 Sampford Blues 2;Hamilton Hawks 1 Locomotives 3; Porlock 3Alcomb Rov 2; Staplegrove 2 Middlezoy Rov 0.Div Two: Appletree Tone Youth 1 NetherStowey 0; Westonzoyland 1 Wembdon 5;Wyvern Rgs 3 Watchet 0. Div Three: Alcombe0 Wyvern Rgs Guns 6; Highbridge 1Morganians 1; Sydenham 1 Bridgwater Sp 2;The Gallery 4 Redgate 2. Div Four: NetherStowey 2 Porlock 5; North Petherton 3 Williton3; Sampford Blues 3 Norton Fitzwarren 1; ToneYouth 5 Rhode Island Wdrs 1; Woolavington 5Exmoor Rgs 0. Div Five: East Bower 3Wiveliscombe 5; Galmington Dragons 4Morganians 0; Norton Fitzwarren 0 CreechCougars 5.Wiltshire League – Corsham PrintSenior Cup: Corsham 2 Wroughton 2;Marlborough 1 Supermarine SC 2.Prem Div: Devizes 5 Vale Of Pewsey 0;Ludgershall 0 Trowbridge 4; Shrewton 8 FCChippenham Yth 2; SKS Blyskawica 4 Purton 2.Fountain Trophies Junior Cup: Intel 3Marlborough Tn 2.Div One: Blunsdon 5 Malmesbury Vic 1; WBassett Dev 0 Melksham 5.Trowbridge League, sponsored byTrowbridge Windows & Conservatories– Div One: Freshford 4, Steeple Ashton 0;Div Two: Bradford United Res 1, TrowbridgeWanderers Res 6. Div Three: The Lamb Res0, White Horse 6.A & B Cup (sponsored by BrikenMotors & AM Print and Copy) 1st Rd:Bratton v Polenez pp; Heytesbury 11 BradfordUnited 10 after aet and pens; Holt 2, WestburyUnited Res 6; Lacock 2, Castle Combe 0;Marshfield 3, Trowbridge Town Res 4 aet;North Bradley v The Stiffs pp; The Fleece 2, TheLamb 4; Trowbridge Rangers 8, Drummer Boy0; Semington Magpies 4, Zeals 0; United FC 6,Westbury Town 0; Warminster Res 2, CalneEagles 1; Westwood v Worton & Ch H/W.Bristol Premier, Div I: Oldland Abbots Res2 Greyfriars Ath 1.Bristol & District, Senior Div: Hallen A 1Henbury Res 4, Iron Acton 1 De Veys 0,Nicholas Wdrs Res 1 Bristol Barcelona 4,Portville Warriors 5 Pucklechurch Spts 2,Warmley Saints 0 Crosscourt Utd 4. Div I:Bradley Stoke Tn 3 St Pancras 2, ChippingSodbury Tn Res v Lebeq Res aban, Hambrook 4Soundwell Vic 1, Mendip Utd Res 1 TalbotKnowle Utd 1, Miners 5 Stanton Drew 5,Totterdown Utd Res 4 Seymour Utd Res 2,Winterbourne Utd A 3 Rangeworthy 1. Div II:Cribbs A 4 Hanham Ath Res 0, DRG FrenchayRes 5 Hartcliffe 1, Frys Club A 3 Greyfriars AthRes 5, Iron Acton Res 2 Chipping Sodbury Tn A0, Nicholas Wdrs A 2 Lloydy Coalpit Heath 0,Real Thornbury 3 Frampton Ath Res 1. Div III:Bristol Barcelona Res 0 Hillfields OB 3, MadeFor Ever Res 0 Henbury A 3, Patchway NE 5Olveston Utd Res 3, Pucklechurch Spts Res 0South Bristol Central 0, Roman Glass St GeorgeA 6 Hambrook Res 2, Stapleton 0 Horfield Utd0, Yate Ath 2 Hallen B 1. Div IV: Bendix Res 0Highridge Utd Res 1. Div V: Stanton Drew Res1 Crosscourt Utd Res 1, Oldland Abbots 7 IronActon 0. Div VI: Saltford Res 9 Bristol Deaf 0,Seymour Utd A 4 Cutters Friday 1.Bristol Suburban, Norman GouldingCup, Round I: Broadwalk Community 8Coupland Insulation 1. Premier Div I:Mangotsfield Spts 3 Avonmouth 3, TytheringtonRocks Res 1 Ridings High 1. Premier Div II:Cadbury Heath Res 4 Glenside 5 OB 0, WessexWdrs 1 Lebeq Utd 9. Div I: AFC Hartcliffe 2 StAldhelms Res 1, Avonmouth Res 6 Ashton &Backwell Colts 4, Broad Plain House Res 0Filton Ath 3, Parson Street OB 3 Cleeve Colts10, Stoke Gifford Utd Res 4 Kellaway Rgrs 3,Stoke Rgrs 3 Tyndalls Park Rgrs 0. Div II: AFCMangotsfield Res v Bristol Telephones Res pp,Almondsbury UWE A 3 Lawrence Weston Res4, Fry’s Club OB 4 St Annes Tn 1, Hanham AthSub 3 Ashton Utd Res 1, Wanderers 1 OldCothamians 3. Div III: AFC Whitchurch 4Fishponds OB Res 3, Bristol Bilbao 5 DownendForesters Res 2, Long Ashton Res 5 CorinthianSpts 7, Rockleaze Rgrs A 5 Severn Beach Res 1.

Papua New Guinea celebrate a tryat the Rugby League World Cup

2008Tony Adams was named the new manager ofPortsmouth. He parted company with the clubthe following February.

Snooker’s Dennis Taylor, world champion in1985, 1949. Golf’s Mark James, five-timeRyder Cup European team member and formercaptain, 1953. Football’s Erik Thorstvedt,former Tottenham and Norway goalkeeper,1962.

1 In which year did Matt Prior make his Testdebut?2 Yeovil Town play their home games at whichfootball ground?3 Next year’s Ryder Cup will be held where?4 Pat Cash won how many grand slam tennissingles titles?5 Which two teams are competing in baseball’sWorld Series?

Answers: 1 2007, 2Huish Park, 3Gleneagles, 4One, 5St Louis Cardinals andBoston Red Sox.

Div IV: Brandon Sports 4 Old Georgians 3,Park Knowle 5 Glenside 5 OB 1. Div V:Wessex Wdrs Res 8 Parson Street OB Res 0,Whitchurch Spts v Lawrence Weston A pp. DivVI: Brandon Spts Res 2 Bsl Spartak 4.Bristol & Avon: Dodington 1 Broad Pln A 3.Bristol Downs, Div I: AFC Bohemia 2 LawesJrs 0, Ashley 4 Jersey Rgrs 2, Cotswool 3 DACBeachcroft 5, Portland OB 3 Retainers 0, Saints1 Jamaica Bell 2. Div II: Ashley Res 1 OldCliftonians 1, Clifton Rockets 3 Lion 4, CliftonSt Vinc Res 0 Hare On The Hill 2, Corinthians 0Easton Cowboys 5, St Andrews 1 Sneyd ParkRes 4, Tebby 0 Sporting Greyhound Res 1,Torpedo Res 4 Saints OB Res 0. Div III:Cotham OB 1 Green Park Rgrs 2, LuccombeGarage 0 Helios 4, Portland OB Res 1Evergreen 7. Div IV: Clifton St Vinc B 3 LionFC Res 0, Tebby Res 3 Cosmos UK 2, RetainersA 2 Clifton Rockets Res 5, Torpedo B 1 NCSFUtd 2.Taunton Youth League – Under 12, DivOne: VPR 2 Wellington Town 1, GalmingtonDragons A 6 Watchet Town 0, Minehead Milan1 Minehead Inter 3. Div Two: Holway 2Wembdon Dragons 7, North Petherton 0Ruishton 4, Wellington 1 Taunton North 0.Under 11, Div A: Bishops Lydeard 4Wellington Town 3, Galmington DragonsRaiders 2 Staplegrove 1, Heathfield 3 ToneYouth Hornets 2, Wembdon Saints 1Bridgwater Wanderers 1. Div B: Rhode LaneWanderers 1 Galmington Dragons Hawks 2,Minehead Town 1 Ruishton 1, Tone YouthWasps 5 VPR 1.S.K. Fruits Limited, ChippenhamSunday League – Prem Div: SemingtonRovers v FC Colerne pp; Steeple AshtonRangers v AFC Melksham pp; WestburyRangers v Bradford Renegades pp. Div One:Chippenham West End 0, Prestige Bodyworks5; Corsham Wildcats 6, North Star A 0; KingsArms 2, Bromham (Sunday) 6; Somerford 4,Staverton 1; White Horse (Sunday) A vGoatacre pp. Div Two: Miller Sports A 2, FCBuscots 2; Potterne v GRFC pp; Sutton Bengerv AFC Avellinos pp; Talbot 1, Fortune Inn 6.Div Three: Crossblades 0, Pig & WhistleUnited 8; Melksham Cosmos 0, ChristianMalford 0; North Star B 1, Sportzcoach 6;Trowbridge Town S C v Worton & Cheverell(Sunday) pp; Wren 2, FC North Wiltshire 0.Keyline Taunton Sunday League – DivOne: Ash Rangers 6 Black Rileys 2, Bathpool 1Old Inn 0, Tone Youth 6 Princess Royal 4. DivTwo: Churchinford 4 PCUK 4, Cotford Saints 1North Curry 0, DB United 4 Ash RangersReserves 1, Watchet Blue Waves 6 Hamilton 1.Div Three: Blue Park Rangers 2 Pegasus 0,White Hart Albion 1 Spaxton Rangers 3,Williton Rockets 0 Wellington Warriors Res 4.Taunton Sunday Youth League – Under15, Div One: Galmington Dragons 4 BishopsLydeard 1, Holway 6 Tone Youth 0. Div Two:Nether Stowey 0 Victoria Park Rangers 9,Westonzoyland Zebras 2 Twyford Spartans 1.

BASKETBALL

BBL Championship: Friday: NewcastleEagles 71 Worcester Wolves 80, London Lions100 Plymouth Raiders 92, Sheffield Sharks 81Durham Wildcats 67. Saturday: LeicesterRiders 81 Glasgow Rocks 72 (OT). Yesterday:Cheshire Phoenix 99 Surrey United 70, LondonLions 80 Glasgow Rocks 77, Manchester Giants101 Birmingham Knights 83, Plymouth Raiders85 Durham Wildcats 73.

GOLF

European Tour BMW Masters,Shanghai, China, Leading final scores(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72): 277 GFdez-Castano (Spa) 71 71 67 68, 278 FMolinari (Ita) 72 71 71 64, T Jaidee (Tha) 7070 72 66, 279 L Guthrie (USA) 65 71 72 71,280 P Uihlein (USA) 69 75 69 67, T Bjorn(Den) 73 72 69 66, P Larrazabal (Spa) 70 7369 68, 281 P Casey 70 70 71 70, P Hanson(Swe) 79 68 71 63, R Cabrera Bello (Spa) 7368 67 73, S Jamieson 72 68 71 70, 282 MFraser (Aus) 73 70 70 69, 283 G Bourdy (Fra)70 73 67 73, M Kaymer (Ger) 75 71 70 67,284 B Rumford (Aus) 73 69 75 67, I Poulter74 69 72 69.

USPGA Tour CIMB Classic, KualaLumpur, Malaysia, Leading final scores(USA unless stated, par 72 – play suspendeddue to darkness): 274 G Woodland 68 70 6769, R Moore 63 72 69 70, 275 C Stroud 6769 68 71, K Aphibarnrat (Tha) 67 69 69 70,276 A Baddeley (Aus) 73 67 70 66, 277Jimmy Walker 74 68 67 68, 278 G Delaet(Can) 72 67 68 71, H English 71 67 71 69, CHowell III 69 72 69 68.

HOCKEY

NOW: Pensions EHL Men’s PremierDivision: Canterbury 5 Surbiton 1, EastGrinstead 4 Cannock 2, Hampstead andWestminster 3 Beeston 6, LoughboroughStudents 1 Wimbledon 2.

NOW: Pensions EHL Men’s ConferenceWest: Fareham 2 Cardiff & Met 2, Guildford 2Havant 0, Indian Gymkhana 1 Team BathBuccaneers 3, University of Birmingham 6Cheltenham 2. Yesterday: Isca 2 University ofExeter 3.

Investec EHL Women’s PremierDivision: Beeston 1 Leicester 2, Canterbury 2Surbiton 1, Clifton 1 Reading 1, SuttonColdfield 2 Bowdon Hightown 3, University ofBirmingham 6 Olton & West Warwicks 0.

Action from Brislington versusWelling, in yellow, in the FA Cup

Investec EHL Women’s ConferenceWest: Barnes 2 Bristol Firebrands 1, GloucesterCity 2 Trojans 4, Isca University 6 Exe 2, Slough4 Oxford Hawks 0, Swansea City 1Buckingham 0.

ICE HOCKEY

Elite League: Friday: Belfast 4 GiantsNottingham Panthers 3. Saturday: EdinburghCapitals 3 Hull Stingrays 4, Sheffield Steelers 2Fife Flyers 3, Nottingham Panthers 4 CoventryBlaze 5 (SO). Yesterday: Coventry Blaze LSheffield Steelers L, Cardiff Devils L Fife Flyers L,Hull Stingrays L Edinburgh Capitals L, DundeeStars L Braehead Clan L.

Challenge Cup: Saturday: Braehead Clan2 Belfast Giants 5.

SPEEDWAY

Premier League Grand Final first leg:Friday: Edinburgh 45 (C Cook 14) Somerset43 (J Grajczonek 12).

National League: Stoke v Kent, Stoke vMildenhall – both postponed.

Midland Fours (Saturday, at Leicester): 1King’s Lynn 36 (R Worrall 11), 2 Leicester 25 (KDoolan 9), 3 Sheffield 21 (J Auty 8), 4 PremierLeague Select 14 (R Lawson 12).

TENNIS

ATP Swiss Indoors, Basle, Switzerland,Quarter-finals: (1) J M Del Potro (Arg) btP-H Mathieu (Fra) 6-4 6-4, (3) R Federer (Swi)bt (8) G Dimitrov (Bul) 6-3 7-6 (7-2).Semi-finals: Del Potro bt E Roger-Vasselin(Fra) 6-4 4-6 6-2, Federerbt bt V Pospisil (Can)6-3 6-7 (3-7) 7-5. Final: Del Potro bt Federer7-6 (7-3) 2-6 6-4.

ATP Valencia Open 500, Valencia,Spain, Quarter-finals: (3) N Almagro (Spa)bt (7) F Fognini (Ita) 7-6 (8-6) 6-2. Semi-finals:M Youzhny (Rus) bt D Tursunov (Rus) 6-2 6-4,(1) D Ferrer (Spa) bt Almagro 6-2 6-3. Final:Youzhny bt Ferrer 6-3 7-5.

WTA Championships, Istanbul, Turkey:(5) P Kvitova (Cze) bt (8) A Kerber (Ger) 6-7(3-7) 6-2 6-3, (6) S Errani (Ita) bt (7) J Jankovic(Ser) 6-4 6-4. Semi-finals: (4) Na Li (Chn) btKvitova 6-4 6-2, (1) S Williams (USA) btJankovic 6-4 2-6 6-4. Final: Williams bt Li 2-66-3 6-0.

AEGON GB Pro-Series Men’s Event,Tipton, Final: L Grigelis (Lit) bt J De Loore(Bel) 6-3 6-3.

TODAY

FOOTBALL

(7.45pm unless stated)

Sky Bet Championship: Brighton vWatford.

Skrill South: Boreham Wood v Maidenhead.

Calor Southern League PremierDivision: St Albans v Hitchin.

RUGBY LEAGUE

Rugby League World Cup: Fiji v Ireland(8pm, at Rochdale).

SPEEDWAY

Premier League Grand Final secondleg: Somerset v Edinburgh (7.30pm).

SPORT ON TELEVISION

FOOTBALL: Championship, Brighton vWatford – Sky Sports 1, 7.30pm.

TENNIS: Paris Masters – Sky Sports 3, 10am.

WESTERN DAILY PRESS MONDAY OCTOBER 28 2013 SPORT 17WDP-E01-S3

ATHLETICS

BY KEVIN FAHEY

Frank Tickner made a gallantbut ultimately unsuccessfulbid to regain his title at theopening event of the BritishCross Challenge in Bristol.

A later summer wedding andhoneymoon meant that theWells City Harrier arrived atAshton Court short of tip-topshape and he could not handlethe early pace set by defendingchampion Dewi Griffiths.

“That first lap a was ashocker for me as I was so farback but, after that, I graduallyworked my way through, butthere is a lot of work to bed o n e, ” said Tickner, who even-tually claimed fifth spot.

Welshman Griffiths ranaway from the field on the finallap for a superb victory fromAdam Hick and Jonny Hay in atop-class domestic field.

In the women’s race, KatieBrough was rewarded formaking the long trip southfrom her home in the NorthEast with an impressive win.

“I had a stomach injury twomonths ago, so I’m still playingcatch up, but I felt really strongt o d ay, ” said Brough.

Top West woman was Bristol& West AC’s Kate Goodhead inninth place just ahead of club-mate Anna Burton.

In the young athletes’ r a c e,there were podium finishesfrom Team Bath’s Will Stockeyand Swindon Harriers’ Wi l lCrisp, who finished second andthird respectively in the under-15 boys’ age group plus abronze for North Somerset’sEllie Wallace in the under-15g i rl s ’ r a c e.� It was another Kenyandouble at the sharp end of theStroud half marathon withwins for Peter Emase (65:24)and Purity Kangogo Kimetto(74:17), who was easily topwoman and 12th overall of the1,262 finishers

Top West man was Chelten-ham & County Harriers’ Jo h nParker in sixth overall andfirst veteran over-40 and therewas further success for theCheltenham club with MartinFord placing a superb 54thoverall and top veteran over-70. Gloucester’s Dave Spack-man won the over-60s prize.

Two-time Olympian DanRobinson marked hiscomeback with a creditable71:06 for eighth place and de-clared himself delighted.

Tickner finds ittough going atAshton Court

Varian may add KingstonHill to 2000 Guineas field

49ers stroll toWembley winAMERICAN FOOTBALL

The San Francisco 49erscondemned the JacksonvilleJaguars to their eighthsuccessive defeat at Wembleyin the latest NFL InternationalSeries game.

The 49ers scored six touch-downs in a 42-10 victory, theirfifth in a row.

The Jaguars are scheduledto play four games in Londonbetween 2013 and 2016, but aone-sided defeat will have wonthem few new fans in theirsecond home.

Kingston Hill and jockey Andrea Atzeni, right, go on to win the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster on Saturday PICTURE: ANNA GOWTHORPE/PA

No consolation in defeat for Tomkins as Australia fight back

BOXING

Kell Brook bolstered his worldtitle credentials with an eye-catching fourth-round winover Ricky Hatton’s conquerorVyacheslav Senchenko in hisnative Sheffield.

The unbeaten welterweighthas been in the frame for a titleshot for over a year, but saw afight with IBF championDevon Alexander fall throughthree times due to injuries toboth men.

Brook now hopes to secure afight with the winner of Al-exander’s November 30 de-fence against Shawn Porterafter an exciting performancewhich saw him knockSenchenko down twice – bu tget hurt himself too – at theMotorpoint Arena.

The Sheffield fighter, whoserecord now reads 31-0 with 21early wins, said: “I believe I’vemade a statement here. When Ihurt him I knew I could takemy time. I nearly got lacka-daisical and I got caughtmyself, but I thought ‘I’m goingto get you back for that’.

“I wasn’t really hurt, it wasjust a bit of a buzz. But I’m fitand healthy and felt great to-night. I’m glad to have got re-venge for Ricky.”

On the undercard, Olympicsuper-heavyweight championAnthony Joshua continued hisprofessional apprenticeshipwith a destructive second-round stoppage win over jour-neyman Paul Butlin.

The Londoner beatEmanuele Leo comfortablywith a first-round stoppageearlier this month and was ob-viously expected to make it twowins from two against MeltonM ow b r ay ’s Butlin.

He did that in style, dom-inating the first round beforeforcing the technical knockoutby putting Butlin down in thesecond and prompting the ref-eree to end it.� Veteran Bernard Hopkinskept hold of his IBF light-heavyweight crown with a un-animous points victory overKaro Murat in Atlantic City.

The 48-year-old came intohis own in the heart of the fightto take the contest 119-108, 119-108 and 117-110.

The German showed his re-silience in the later rounds,but roared on by a supportiveAtlantic City crowd, Hopkinswas a comfortable winner.

HORSE RACING

Trainer Roger Varian says hewill have “a good eye” on sup-plementing Kingston Hill intonext season’s 2000 Guineas fol-lowing his exemplary victoryin the Racing Post Trophy atDoncaster on Saturday.

The Mastercraftsman coltonly made his debut five weeksago and after he won the GroupThree Autumn Stakes at New-market, Varian and ownerPaul Smith took the decision tosupplement the colt at a cost of£17,500 on Monday.

It was a brave move bySmith, who is the son of Cool-m o re ’s Derrick Smith, co-owner of Johann Strauss, whoended up the four-and-a-halflengths runner-up behind the7-2 favourite.

Newmarket-based Varian

said: “He’s always looked goodand been a good mover. If youlook at him he’s a greatmodel.

“We ’ll have to see how hewinters and what he’s like inthe spring. People have said ishe a ten-furlong, mile-and-a-half horse, but he has the pacefor a mile and travels so well.

“He has good accelerationand will be in everything andwe ’ll have a good eye on theG u i n e a s. ”

Varian also saddled SoaringSpirits (7-1) to take the Uni-versal Recycling ApprenticeHandicap and complete a 390-1treble for Oisin Murphy.

The star claimer also struckon Dungannon and HighlandColori for his boss AndrewBalding, taking the stable’stally for the year past 100.

Night Of Thunder staked his

claim to be in RichardH a n n o n’s 2000 Guineas teamwith an impressive victory inthe Scott Dobson MemorialDoncaster Stakes.

“That was very impressive.On that performance he couldbe a Guineas horse,” saidchampion jockey RichardH u g h e s.

The John Gosden-trainedThomas Hobson (9-2) couldwell return to the course in twowe e k s ’ time for the NovemberHandicap after winning theDownload The Racing PostMobile App Handicap.

Ralph Beckett would likeowner Kirsten Rausing toallow Cubanita to run for an-other season after she againproved her ability to pop uplate in the year in the Wor-t h i n g t o n’s Champion Shield &Victoria Club (St Simon)

Stakes at Newbury. The 9-2chance was covered up by JimCrowley but was carried to-wards the stand rail, where shegot the better of a determinedNichols Canyon by a lengthand three-quarters.

Beckett said: “Sadly she hasrun out of races, but hopefullyMiss Rausing will keep her intraining. We’ll have to talkabout it.”

The Worthington’s WhizzKids (Horris Hill) Stakes sawthe unbeaten Piping Rock (3-1)ended the equally spotlessrecord of Andre Fabre’sFrench visitor Galiway.

Steve Gollings could con-sider a trip to the Paddy PowerGold Cup for Conquisto afterhis career-defining victory inthe Betfred Monet’s GardenOld Roan Chase at Aintree onS at u rd ay.

Brook makes astatement withsuper triumph

RUGBY LEAGUE

BY IAN LAYBOURN

Sam Tomkins refused to takeany satisfaction from an en-couraging England display intheir 28-20 defeat by tourna-ment favourites Australia inS at u rd ay ’s World Cup opener.

Humiliated by minnowsItaly and dogged by off-fielddisciplinary issues, Steve Mc-Namara’s men defied all ex-pectations by pushing theKangaroos all the way in anaction-packed start to the 14thRugby League World Cup.

England made a dream start,

catching the Aussies cold bystorming into a 10-0 leadthanks to tries from Ryan Halland Leroy Cudjoe, as theythreatened to re-produce theirstunning win in the openingmatch of the 1995 World Cup.

It was too good to last but,even after the visitors struckback with four tries in a dev-astating 18-minute spell, Mc-Namara’s men stayed in thecontest to play a full part in arousing tournament opening.

England should still reachthe quarter-finals, but thedefeat means holders New Zea-land will almost certainlystand in their way of earning a

re-match with Australia in thefinal at Old Trafford.

It was a performance toinstil belief that England couldyet overcome the Kangaroos inthe competition but Tomkins,who was a double winner withWigan this year, was not con-soled by the manner of defeat.

“It’s disappointing,” he said.“We ’ve a lot to improve on,t h at ’s the main thing to comeout of it.

“You can’t be happy with aloss, can you? You’ve got to bedisappointed with a loss.

“We probably gave them a bittoo much ball. They’re a qual-ity side, probably the best in

the world, and they’re going topunish you.”

Tomkins was at the heart ofa promising display and, hadhe scored on the stroke of half-time, England might have beencelebrating a famous victory.

But he was brought back fora forward pass and the lethalKangaroos scored straightfrom the resulting scrumthrough Tomkins’ oppositenumber Billy Slater.

They had already edged infront thanks to quick-fire triesfrom Johnathan Thurston andGreg Bird, while Brett Morristouched down for his 13th tryin as many Tests.Sam Tomkins applauds the fans

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1.20 LADY MOSTYN MEMORIAL RED CROSS JUVENILE HURDLE (Class 4) 2m 1f 3yo Only Winner £3,249

1 1 DISPOUR (25) (CD) D McCain 11-5 J Maguire2 CARAMACK (F102) R Lee 10-12 R Johnson3 33 KEYCHAIN (17) (BF) B Powell 10-12 B J Powell4 4 MAXI MAC (19) T Wall 10-12 J Wall(7)2012: Tidal Way 3-10-12, N Fehily 2-1 Fav (C Longsdon), 5 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 2-5 Dispour, 11-2 Keychain, 6 Caramack, 12 Maxi Mac. Form DISPOUR 8-15fav (10-12) Made all, not fluent 4 out, hard ridden after

next, strongly challenged 2 out, stayed on well under pressure, won at Bangor 2m 1f 3yo hdl (4) gd beating Herod The Great (10-12) by 1 3/4l, 5 ran. KEYCHAIN 6-5fav (10-12) Led, headed after 4th, tracked leader, led again after 3 out, headed before 2 out, soon ridden weakened and lost 2nd place and not fluent last, 3rd of 7, 18l behind Harristown (10-9) at Newton Abbot 2m 1f 3yo hdl (4) gd. CARAMACK 15-8fav (9-7) Tracked leaders, lost place over 4f out, ridden 3f out, no impression, 5th of 7, 11l behind Hunting Rights (9-4) at Epsom Downs 1m 3yo hcp 0-75 (5) gf in Jul (flat). MAXI MAC 66-1 (10-5) Held up in rear, pushed along and outpaced before 3 out, went modest 4th next, stumbled last, 4th of 7, 15l behind Ballyglasheen (10-12) at Ludlow 2m 3yo mdn hdl (4) gd.

1.50 CORBETTSPORTS MAIDEN HURDLE(4) 2m 4f 4yo plus Winner £3,249

1 R57-3 CHASE THE SPUD (13) F O’Brien 5-11-0 P Brennan2 9/2-21 HUNKY DOREY (163) Marc Barber 7-11-0 N Scholfield3 6-U OVER MY HEAD (163) Miss C Dyson 5-11-0 Gerald Quinn(7)4 P36-10 ROCKY ISLAND (12) Jennie Candlish 5-11-0 S Quinlan5 34- ROYAL PALLADIUM (231) Miss V Williams 5-11-0 A Coleman6 321- SEALOUS SCOUT (243) (C) D McCain 5-11-0 J Maguire2012: Hollow Penny 4-11-0, R Thornton 7-2 Fav (A King), 12 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 8-13 Sealous Scout, 4 Royal Palladium, 5 Chase The Spud, 12 Rocky Island, 33 Hunky Dorey, Over My Head. Form SEALOUS SCOUT 1-1fav (11-3) Led, headed 12f out, led again 5f

out, edged left over 2f out, ridden out, won at Bangor 2m 1f NH flat (6) sft in Feb beating Spencer Lea (10-10) by 2 1/4l, 9 ran. ROYAL PALLADIUM 5-2 (11-1) Led until over 3f out, chased winner until inside final 3f, weakened well over 1f out, 4th of 7, 18l behind Gallic Warrior (11-1) at Taunton 2m 1f NH flat (6) sft in Mar. CHASE THE SPUD 33-1 (11-0) Prominent, ridden and every chance 2f out, one pace final furlong, 3rd of 10, 8l behind Wadswick Court (10-11) at Huntingdon 2m NH flat (6) sft. ROCKY ISLAND 25-1 (10-12) Tracked leaders in 3rd, weakened before 3 out, 11th of 13, well behind Three Kingdoms (10-12) at Wetherby 2m 4f nh nov hdl (4) gs. HUNKY DOREY 2-1 (12-0) A.p; led 11; r.o wl, won at Gelligaer Farmers 3m ptp gf in May beating Danny Mags (12-0) by 4l, 15 ran. OVER MY HEAD 50-1 (10-7) Towards rear, jumped badly left and unseated rider 2nd, in a race won by Just Cameron (11-0) at Bangor 2m 1f NH mdn hdl (4) gd in May, 11 ran.

2.20 FANWAZE NOVICES’ HANDICAP CHASE(4) 2m 4f 110yds 4yo plus Winner £3,899

1 233136 POLARBROOK (24) (P;D) D McCain 6-11-12 J Maguire2 2376- BEAUBOREEN (214) Jennie Candlish 6-11-12 S Quinlan3 4210-4 CHICKLEMIX (19) (D) Mrs P Sly 7-11-11 Miss G Andrews(5)4 44P42- BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL (214) (BF) R Lee 5-11-11 M G Nolan(3)5 9740-1 BEFOREALL (163) (CD) O Sherwood 5-11-7 L Aspell6 2-6367 MONBEG (16) (P) M Todhunter 6-10-3 K Renwick2012: No corresponding race.BETTING FORECAST: 2 Polarbrook, 5-2 Black Is Beautiful, Beforeall, 10 Beauboreen, Chicklemix, 25 Monbeg. Form POLARBROOK 7-2 (10-8) Always in rear, weakened after 4 out,

tailed off, last of 6, 45l behind Rudemeister (10-13) at Hexham 2m 4f nov hcp chs 0-125 (3) gd. BEFOREALL 9-2 (11-9) Made all, ridden before last, kept on well run-in, won at Bangor 2m 4f nov hcp hdl 0-100 (5) gd in May beating Feast Of Fire (11-12) by 1 1/4l, 9 ran. BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL 3-1fav (11-0) Chased leaders, outpaced 5 out, rallied and every chance 2 out, kept on under pressure, 2nd of 8, 4l behind Pension Plan (11-2) at Ffos Las 3m hcp hdl 0-115 (4) sft in Mar. BEAUBOREEN 15-2 (11-10) Tracked leaders, took keen hold, no extra from 3 out, 6th of 13, 20l behind Market Option (10-13) at Ludlow 2m 5f hcp hdl 0-115 (4) gs in Mar. CHICKLEMIX 22-1 (10-10) In rear, went remote 4th before 2 out, never dangerous, 4th of 7, 36l behind Claret Cloak (11-3) at Towcester 2m nov chs (4) gf.

2.50 RACING UK NOVICES’ HURDLE(4) 2m 1f 4yo plus Winner £3,249

1 1 FRANCISCAN (63) (CD) D McCain 5-11-5 J Maguire2 44-47 CLOUDY DEAL (17) (T) M Todhunter 6-10-12 K Renwick3 1-5 SPOOKYDOOKY (16) (T) Jonjo O’Neill 5-10-12 R McLernon4 1-33 VUJIYAMA (22) Jonjo O’Neill 4-10-12 A P McCoy5 52208- ZAMDY MAN (207) Miss V Williams 4-10-12 A Coleman2012: Tominator 5-10-12, A P McCoy 1-2 Fav (Jonjo O’Neill), 10 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 5-4 Franciscan, 7-4 Zamdy Man, 5 Vujiyama, 8 Spookydooky, 50 Cloudy Deal. Form FRANCISCAN 4-9fav (10-12) Led to 2nd, ridden to lead again 2 out,

not fluent last, ridden out, won at Bangor 2m 1f nh nov hdl (4) gd in Aug beating Saint Thomas (10-12) by 4l, 3 ran. ZAMDY MAN 80-1 (11-0) With leader, weakened after 4 out, 8th of 10, 23l behind L’unique (10-7) at Aintree 2m 4yo hdl Grade 1 (1) gd in Apr. VUJIYAMA 7-1 (11-0) Mid-division, headway after 4 out, chased leaders next, left moderate 3rd when hampered 2 out, never on terms, 3rd of 14, 20l behind Ballyalton (11-0) at Uttoxeter 2m mdn hdl (5) gd. SPOOKYDOOKY 16-1 (10-12) Tracked leading pair, went 2nd after 4th, mistake 6th, ridden approach-ing 4 out, lost 2nd approaching 2 out, weakened before last, 5th of 11, 10l behind Tijori (10-7) at Chepstow 2m 4f nh nov hdl (4) gd. CLOUDY DEAL 66-1 (10-12) Held up in rear, headway 5 out, weakened 3 out, last of 7, well behind Drop Out Joe (11-5) at Carlisle 2m 4f nh nov hdl (4) gd.

3.20 MALISE NICOLSON HANDICAP CHASE (4) 3m 110yds 4yo plus Winner £5,064

1 52P-10 POWER PACK JACK (99) (V;D) N Twiston-Davies 10-11-12 S Twiston-Davies2 6PP1-4 MOHI RAHRERE (166) (B;CD) B Leavy 10-11-10 L Heard3 53F6-0 THE MAGIC BISHOP (173) (D) J Jefferson 8-11-6 B Hughes4 227685 WHISKEY AND RED (37) (T;D) C Bowe (IRE) 8-11-4 J Maguire5 66764- RAVENS BROOK (191) (D) R Lee 7-11-4 J Moore6 1214P- GORGEHOUS LLIEGE (224) (D) Miss V Williams 7-11-2 A Coleman7 83-3PF KILCOMMON PRIDE (28) (T;D) P W Flynn (IRE) 8-11-1 A P McCoy2012: Incentivise 9-11-7, M G Nolan(7) 5-1 (R Lee), 6 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 5-2 Gorgehous Lliege, 3 Power Pack Jack, 7-2 Kilcommon Pride, 5 Mohi Rahrere, 8 Whiskey And Red, 16 Ravens Brook, 20 Others. Form GORGEHOUS LLIEGE 11-4 (11-2) Led, headed 6th, led again after 8th,

headed 13th, ridden after 3 out, soon weakened and pulled up, in a race won by Categorical (11-4) at Southwell 3m hcp chs 0-115 (4) sft in Mar, 6 ran. POWER PACK JACK 10-1 (10-8) Mid-division, ridden and lost place after 5th, jumped slowly 6th and 8th, well behind from 9th, tailed off, 10th of 11, well behind Mostly Bob (11-7) at Stratford 2m 7f hcp chs 0-125 (3) gf in Jul. KILCOMMON PRIDE 7-1 (9-12) Disputed lead early, soon prominent in chasing group, improved to be on terms before 4 out, headed approaching straight, under pressure in 3rd when fell 2 out, in a race won by Gudnis Gracious Me (11-1) at Roscommon 2m 5f hcp chs gf in Sep, 11 ran.

3.50 DARLANDS MARES’ HANDICAP HURDLE(5) 2m 4f 4yo plus Winner £2,274

1 4/1-72 DEFINITE LADY (136) (D) M Rimell 7-11-12 T Scudamore2 322348 KIMORA (15) (T) Marc Barber 7-11-11 Mr M Barber(7)3 -32252 JE T’AIME (65) (P) D McCain 4-11-10 J Maguire4 0670-9 BORN TO BENEFIT (11) (T) F O’Brien 7-11-8 P Brennan5 4500-U MY NOSY ROSY (11) (T) B Case 5-11-4 D Jacob6 630-98 MAGGIE BLUE (22) Mrs H Graham 5-11-2 C Bewley(7)7 6007-4 BLUE SEA OF IBROX (17) A Brown 5-10-4 R Johnson8 69-76F WHEELAVHER (148) (T) Miss C Dyson 7-10-3 Gerald Quinn(7)9 /31P-7 MORELLO MIST (16) R Drake 8-10-0 Samantha Drake(5)2012: No corresponding race.BETTING FORECAST: 7-4 Definite Lady, 11-4 Je T’aime, 7 Blue Sea Of Ibrox, 8 Kimora, 14 Wheelavher, Maggie Blue, Morello Mist, 16 Others.

4.20 STANDARD OPEN NH FLAT RACE(6) 2m 1f 4yo to 6yo Winner £1,624

1 2-F3 BALLYBOLLEY (149) N Twiston-Davies 4-11-0 S Twiston-Davies2 13- CLASSIC MOVE (188) D McCain 4-11-0 J Maguire3 COOZAN GEORGE J Jefferson 4-11-0 B Hughes4 3- RHAPANDO (210) P Webber 4-11-0 A P McCoy5 4- SECURE INVESTMENT (191) O Sherwood 5-11-0 L Aspell2012: Karazhan 4-11-0, D Bass 3-1 (N Henderson), 12 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 4-6 Classic Move, 4 Ballybolley, 6 Rhapando, 10 Secure Investment, 14 Coozan George. Form CLASSIC MOVE 10-1 (10-13) Unruly before start, mid-division,

slightly hampered 5f out, headway into close 5th entering straight, soon ridden, disputed close 2nd 1 1/2f out, kept on well final furlong, no extra close home, 3rd of 25, 1 1/2l behind Moyle Park (12-0) at Punchestown 2m nhf sft in Apr. BALLYBOLLEY 2-1 (11-7) Tr ldrs, chall ldr 2out, not qckn bef last, ko onepce, 3rd of 9, 4l behind Great Choice (11-7) at Necarne 3m ire ptp sft in Jun. RHAPANDO 12-1 (10-12) Tracked leaders, pushed along, slightly hampered and lost place over 3f out, stayed on inside final furlong, went 3rd towards fin-ish, no threat to front pair, 3rd of 14, 5l behind Joanne One (11-1) at Huntingdon 2m NH flat (6) gs in Apr.

CAPTAIN WESSEX 1.20 — Dispour 1.50 — Royal Palladium 2.20 — Black Is Beautiful 2.50 — Franciscan 3.20 — The Magic Bishop 3.50 — Definite Lady 4.20 — Ballybolley

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abc index To Today’s MeetingsB - Bangor, L - Leicester,

R - Redcar.Abbotsfield .................... R 3.10Ad Vitam ........................ R 3.40Adiator ........................... R 4.10Adroitly ...........................L 3.30Ainmire ...........................L 1.30All Yours .........................L 1.30An Chulainn ................... R 12.40Angel Flores ...................L 2.00Anna’s Pearl ...................L 2.30Annie’s Rose ................. R 1.10Armada Bay ................... R 2.10Ash Cape ....................... R 3.10Bajan Beauty ..................L 2.00Ballybolley..................... B 4.20Battalion .........................L 3.30Beauboreen ................... B 2.20Beforeall ........................ B 2.20Belle Intrigue ................. R 3.40Big Storm Coming ......... R 4.10Black Is Beautiful .......... B 2.20Blue Sea Of Ibrox .......... B 3.50Bold And Free ................ R 2.40Bold Captain .................. R 1.40Born To Benefit ............. B 3.50Botteen .......................... R 3.40Boucher Garcon ............ R 4.10Bountiful Forest ............ R 1.10Breezolini ...................... R 4.10Bunce............................. R 4.10Cadeaux Power ..............L 2.00Capitol Gain ....................L 4.30Caramack ...................... B 1.20Cedar Glory ................... R 2.10Charles De Mille ............ R 3.10Chase The Spud ............ B 1.50Chellalla ..........................L 4.30Chicklemix..................... B 2.20Classic Move ................. B 4.20Classical Diva ................ R 1.10Clock On Tom .................L 4.30Cloudy Deal ................... B 2.50Clumber Place ................L 4.30Compton Heights .......... R 4.10Coozan George ............. B 4.20Copper To Gold ............. R 4.10Cottam Stella ................. R 2.10Crossley ........................ R 3.10Dansili Dutch ................. R 2.10Dear Maurice ................. R 4.10Definite Lady ................. B 3.50Desert Skies .................. R 3.10Dispour .......................... B 1.20

Drinkuptrig .....................L 1.30Dutch Lady .....................L 1.30Dutiful Son ..................... R 3.40Dynamo Walt ................. R 1.10Echo Of Lightning ......... R 3.10El Mcglynn ..................... R 4.10Errigal Lad ..................... R 4.10Ever Fortune ...................L 4.00Excellent View ............... R 12.40Fair Bunny ..................... R 3.40Fattsota ...........................L 3.30Franciscan..................... B 2.50Frontier Fighter ..............L 2.30George Benjamin ...........L 4.30Gorgehous Lliege ......... B 3.20Hamble............................L 4.30Handwoven ....................L 3.00Hazzaat .......................... R 2.40Hellbender ......................L 4.30Henry Morgan ................ R 4.10Hidden Talent .................L 4.00Hunky Dorey .................. B 1.50I’ll Be Good .................... R 4.10Iceblast .......................... R 4.10Imperial Bond ................ R 3.10Insolenceofoffice .......... R 3.40Ismaali ........................... R 3.10Jackaddock ................... R 2.40Jacquotte Delahaye ...... R 12.40Jazz .................................L 3.00Je T’aime ....................... B 3.50Jessie’s Spirit ................ R 4.10Justcallmehandsome ....L 4.30Justonefortheroad .........L 2.30Keychain........................ B 1.20Kilcommon Pride .......... B 3.20Kimora ........................... B 3.50Lady Montenegro .......... R 1.10Lady Of Yue ................... R 2.40Lady Poppy ................... R 4.10Layla’s Hero .................. R 4.10Legal Bond .................... R 4.10Lesha ............................. R 1.40Lincolnrose ................... R 2.10Little Briar Rose ............ R 1.10Maggie Blue ................... B 3.50Mambo Rhythm ............. R 1.40Man In The Arena ............L 4.00Maxi Mac ........................ B 1.20Maxie T ........................... R 1.40McCool Bannanas ..........L 4.30Mestizo ...........................L 1.30Midnight Rambler ..........L 1.30

Mishnah ..........................L 2.00Mission Impossible ....... R 3.40Mitchell .......................... R 2.40Mitchum ......................... R 3.40Modify ............................ R 1.10Mohi Rahrere ................. B 3.20Monbeg .......................... B 2.20Montjess ........................ R 2.40Morello Mist ................... B 3.50Mornin Mr Norris ............L 1.30Mountain Fighter ........... R 1.40Mowhoob ....................... R 3.40Mrs Gorsky .................... R 3.10My Nosy Rosy................ B 3.50Myboyalfie ......................L 2.30Mysterious Wonder....... R 4.10Nezami ............................L 4.30Niceonemyson .............. R 3.40Noble Maximus ............. R 3.10Nova Champ ...................L 3.00Nu Form Fire .................. R 1.10Oakwell .......................... R 2.10One Kool Dude .............. R 3.40Orient Class ................... R 1.10Ortac Rock ......................L 4.00Orwellian ....................... R 3.40Osteopathic Remedy .....L 2.30Over My Head ................ B 1.50Partner’s Gold ............... R 3.40Party Royal .....................L 2.30Peak Storm .....................L 4.00Penara.............................L 1.30Penny Drops ...................L 3.00Personal Opinion .......... R 1.40Piceno .............................L 4.30Poetic Choice .................L 2.00Polarbrook..................... B 2.20Power Pack Jack ........... B 3.20Queen of Arts ................ R 12.40Queen’s Princess .......... R 3.10Queenie’s Home .............L 1.30Rapid Water ....................L 4.30Ravens Brook ................ B 3.20Reale Silenzio ................ R 1.10Red Forever ................... R 1.10Rex Romanorum ........... R 3.40Rhapando ...................... B 4.20Risky Rizkova .................L 4.00Rockie Road ...................L 1.30Rocky Island .................. B 1.50Roger Thorpe ................ R 3.10Roomie .......................... R 12.40Rose Boeuf .................... R 12.40

Royal Marskell ................L 4.30Royal Palladium ............ B 1.50Ruwasi ........................... R 1.40San Remo Rose ............. R 12.40Scarborough ................. R 1.10Sealous Scout ............... B 1.50Seattle Drive .................. R 2.10Secret Applause ............ R 1.10Secret City ..................... R 3.40Secure Investment ........ B 4.20See Clearly .................... R 3.40Silver Marizah .................L 4.00Slanderous .................... R 1.10Sleeper Class ................ R 12.40Slingsby..........................L 3.00Songcraft ........................L 3.30Souviens Toi ...................L 3.30Spookydooky ................ B 2.50Stanlow .......................... R 3.10Suni Dancer ....................L 1.30Sunningdale Rose .........L 2.00Sunnybridge Boy .......... R 2.10Surround Sound ............L 4.30Syrian Pearl ....................L 1.30Tawan ............................. R 1.40Tellovoi ...........................L 2.30The Best Doctor ............ R 3.10The Magic Bishop ......... B 3.20Think Again ................... R 12.40Thomas Blossom .......... R 3.10Thomasina......................L 4.00Thorntoun Care ............. R 1.40Thorpe Bay .................... R 3.40Thrust Control ............... R 4.10Tricksome ...................... R 1.10Uphold ............................L 3.30Upholland .......................L 3.00Uplifted .......................... R 1.40Urban Dreamer ...............L 3.00Vale Mentor .....................L 3.00Verus Delicia ................. R 3.40Vicky Valentine .............. R 2.40Vujiyama ........................ B 2.50Wheelavher ................... B 3.50Whiskey And Red .......... B 3.20White Flag .......................L 1.30White Rose Runner ....... R 12.40Whittsabouther ............. R 1.40Worcharlie’slass ........... R 1.40World Record ................ R 3.40Wrecking Ball ................ R 2.10Young Jay ...................... R 2.40Zamdy Man .................... B 2.50

THE HaRE’S RUnning . . . gREYHoUnD SERVicE

SwinDon bagSHHH ONTIME EVERYTIME HH PRIMO HOTTY H ADAMANT BRIAN

2.18 480m (A7)1 423 Black Wings (md ep)..................... N P Ralph Jnr 30.39 5-12 332 ONTIME EVERYTIME (rl ro) ....................Evans 29.93 6-13 342 Falkners Joe (rl ep) .................................. J Little 30.19 3-14 344 Prince Scally (md fw) ................................Atkins 30.18 5-15 413 Cefn Bluebird (wd fw) ................................ Davy 30.55 7-26 331 Cant Be Named (wd fw) ...........................Porter 29.95 9-4

2.37 480m (A8)1 526 Chasing Pirates (rl ep) ..............................Walsh 31.23 9-22 356 Lavally Quest (rl ro) .............................Swadden 30.73 11-23 334 Unleash Fidel (md ro) ...............................Porter 30.88 3-14 441 NAPA STAR (md ep) ................................Walsh 30.46 3-15 426 Fantastic Alfie (wd ep) .............................. Gillett 30.81 6-16 562 Swift Mango (wd fw) ................................ Gillett 30.54 11-4

2.57 480m (A7)1 545 Robins Mini (sa fw) ................................... Smith 30.78 5-12 425 Mirrors Best (rl ro) ......................................... Dix 30.27 3-13 554 Biffos Boy (md ep) ..................................Porter 30.87 11-44 416 Havana Dancer (md ro) ............................Atkins 30.26 5-15 343 ADAMANT BRIAN (md ro) ....................Hepden 30.11 9-26 631 Coco Swift (wd ep)....................................Porter 30.22 7-2

3.17 480m (A5)1 166 Glasheen Nama (sa fw) ...........................Porter 30.25 3-12 416 Ballymac Rocket (rl ro) ............................ J Little 30.14 7-23 443 Cefn Merlin (md fw) ................................... Davy 30.33 9-24 323 Derrane Tip (sa fw) ...................................Walsh 29.92 7-25 261 CASTLEHILL SPITZ (wd ro) ....................Porter 29.86 4-16 465 Kensa Bella (sa fw) .............................McDowell 30.59 9-2

3.38 480m (A6)1 556 Cefn Rio (sa fw) ......................................... Davy 30.60 4-12 356 Ruso On Air (rl ro) ........................ N P Ralph Jnr 30.68 11-43 233 Offshore Guide (sa fw) ...........................Hepden 30.06 4-14 612 HIGH CROSS SLIM (md ep) ................. Mitchell 29.90 7-25 413 Kingsmill Paul (wd ro) ........................Wallington 30.23 4-16 322 Roll Of Victory (wd ep) ..............................Evans 30.17 9-2

3.58 480m (A5)1 126 Kevinsfort Mal (rl ro) ...............................Porter 30.38 2-12 124 Pats Romeo (sa fw) ...............................Hepden 30.54 4-13 433 Manu Echo (wd ep)................................ Hughes 30.43 3-14 631 Dunbolg Mensa (sa fw) .............................. Davy 30.05 11-2

5 234 ARLES VIEW (wd fw) ............................ Hughes 29.99 4-16 254 Paid Harry (wd ep) .................................... Gillett 30.26 6-1

4.18 480m (A6)1 131 Primo Ted (rl ep) ................................ B McBride 30.30 7-22 164 Brookend Hopper (rl ro) ............................ Smith 30.34 5-13 645 Clydal Stride (sa fw).............................Swadden 30.20 11-24 412 SLANYSIDE STEVE (wd ro) ...............Swadden 30.07 4-15 516 Reidys Scolari (wd ep) ............................. Davy 30.60 11-46 116 High Cross Dec (wd ro) .......................... Mitchell 30.11 3-1

4.37 480m (A5)1 216 Midian Alfie (sa fw) .................................. Gillett 30.24 5-22 146 Atom (rl ro) ...............................................Atkins 30.72 4-13 221 Primo Maggie (md fw)........................ B McBride 30.05 4-14 544 Mendip Wynn (md ro) ................................... Dix 30.16 6-15 151 WOODBRIDGE LADY (wd ep) ..........McDowell 29.93 5-26 532 Cave Canem (wd ep) ................................ Gillett 29.96 5-1

4.57 480m (A4)1 435 Silbury Bugle (rl ep) ..........................McDowell 30.20 3-12 335 Wood Bionic (md ep) ................................Porter 30.19 6-13 615 Locnamon Josie (sa fw) ............................. Davy 29.82 7-24 351 BOSSY BRID (sa fw) ..........................McDowell 29.72 11-45 656 Jobdonejen (wd ro) .................................... Davy 30.05 6-16 214 Cantcatch Me (wd ep)...............................Atkins 30.24 3-1

5.17 480m (A4)1 516 CURRYHILLS RINGO (rl fw) .............Wallington 29.44 7-22 446 Bronze Rumble (ep ro) .............................Porter 30.49 11-23 115 DISTANT MISTY (md ep) .........................Walsh 29.53 3-14 365 Scaffs Misty (ep ro) ..................................Hutton 29.98 9-25 456 Real Boss (wd ro) .....................................Atkins 30.46 3-16 522 Snookie Dee (wd ro) .......................... B McBride 29.68 4-1

5.33 480m (A4)1 116 Cashen Gizelle (rl ep) ........................Wallington 29.74 7-22 622 Mercurial Hope (rl ro) ...............................Hutton 29.77 5-13 565 Forge Lucy (md ro) ................................... Smith 29.62 9-24 641 QUIVERS ROXY (sa fw).......................... J Little 29.47 11-45 322 Wagama (ep ro) .......................................Hutton 29.68 5-16 151 Phads Girl (wd ro).................................Hepden 29.86 3-1

5.47 480m (A2)1 212 TO TONE CHARLIE (rl ro) ...................Swadden 29.16 9-42 616 Coolykereen Rum (rl ep) .......................... Davy 29.60 4-13 625 Wise Louise (md ro).............................Swadden 30.10 4-1

4 466 Sligo Mick (wd ep) ...................................Hutton 30.16 5-15 522 Rockview Hi (wd ro) ..................................Atkins 29.76 4-16 511 Brookend Scatcat (wd ro) ......................... Smith 29.32 4-1

6.04 480m (A3)1 235 Oi Oi Rhianna (rl ro) ...............................Hepden 29.97 4-12 164 Zamboni Zazzle (rl ro) ............................Hutton 29.56 3-13 443 Unknown Bullet (md ep) ......................Swadden 29.60 9-24 166 Manu Vogue (md ro) .............................. Hughes 30.19 7-25 623 PRIMO HOTTY (wd ep) ..................... B McBride 29.47 5-16 663 Killinat Girl (wd ro) ..............................McDowell 29.58 3-1

6.18 480m (A2)1 455 Swift Pearl (sa fw) ..................................Hepden 29.73 9-22 444 Mays A Lady (sa fw) .................................. Smith 29.63 7-23 255 Ross Flight (rl fw) ..................................... Davy 29.59 11-44 543 What No Gravy (md ro) ............................ Foster 29.55 7-25 531 SARAHS HAWK (wd ep)....................... Hughes 29.18 9-26 611 Riverside Drogba (ep ro) ................... B McBride 29.22 4-1

bagS PicKSHALL GREEN FANCIES

11.03 Caribbean Rose (Nap) (1-3-4) 11.19 Caribbean Ruby (2-6-1) 11.34 Moorlands Ciaran (3-2-1) 11.48 Pegdeleg (3-6-1) 12.04 Ardera Dempsey (2-3-1) 12.18 Crucial Diaby (5-1-6) 12.32 Seathwaite Hoel (1-5-4) 12.47 Bower Ray (4-6-5) 1.04 Ballymac Sadie (1-3-5) 1.19 Sawpit Sydney (1-6-3) 1.33 Coolavanny Abbey (5-3-6) 1.51 Maireads Dawn (6-3-2)

MONMORE FANCIES 2.08 Dixies Hondo (Nap) (3-1-2) 2.27 Hardy In Brazil (6-3-5) 2.47 Klockwork Looney (3-6-1) 3.07 Gemstone Jeanie (6-5-2) 3.28 Curramore Pride (3-1-6) 3.48 Keldon Mike (4-6-1) 4.08 Ballymac Warrior (6-4-2) 4.27 Landown Jack (5-6-4) 4.47 Sutton Coalyard (4-6-2) 5.07 Farley Gene (1-3-6) 5.22 Proud Pigalle (3-2-4) 5.38 Bua Jamie (4-6-5) 5.56 Much Improved (1-3-2) 6.11 Feora Molly (2-6-5)

SHEFFIELD FANCIES 11.11 Best Silk (6-5-1) 11.28 Stepaside Razzel (3-4-5) 11.42 Voltair Kid (6-3-1) 11.57 Lady Martha (Nap) (5-4-6) 12.12 Last Belle (6-3-5) 12.27 Fives And Threes (1-2-4) 12.42 Camoranesi (5-1-6) 12.58 Slaneyside Lizzy (4-1-6) 1.12 Stepaside Merc (3-2-1) 1.27 Fintans Ventress (1-4-6) 1.44 Tuesday Fry Up (1-6-3) 1.58 Stepaside Cindy (3-4-6)

CRAYFORD: 10.38 Avalon Twist 5-1 (4-6-1 £25.50 TC £60.85). 10.53 Express Koko 4-1 (6-1-4 £16.24 TC £41.96). 11.07 Honcho Velvet 9-4f (2-1-5 £10.46 TC £38.82). 11.23 Cape Dance 6-1 (2-5-6 £38.53 TC £89.20). 11.37 Farran Noel 3-1jt (1-6-2 £16.93 TC £55.02). 11.51 Ballycannon Jean 4-1 (5-3-4 £17.51 TC £34.75). 12.08 Lingrawn Lily 3-1 (6-2-5 £8.46 TC £24.54). 12.24 Cake Angel 3-1 (1-6-5 £33.10 TC £77.89). 12.39 Zenas Turbo 7-2 (1-6-2 £16.76 TC £33.85). 12.57 Buglys Elsa 3-1 (1-5-3 £13.16 TC £34.12). 1.11 Townbrow Iona 3-1jt (3-6-4 £23.40 TC £61.51). 1.27 Seventh Dan 7-4jt (4-5-3 £10.83 TC £33.77). 1.44 Mythical Coldwar 9-4jt (2-3-1 £13.27 TC £28.72). 1.58 Toms Kids 4-1 (6-5-1 £12.16 TC £47.01). NEWCASTLE: 2.24 Camp Rocket 8-1 (3-6-4 £58.78 TC £223.58). 2.42 Lil Thor 3-1jt (1-4-3 £19.98 TC £61.06). 2.58 Pennys Paris 3-1 (2-4-3 £23.35 TC £63.05). 3.18 Target Illusion 3-1 (4-6-3 £14.31 TC £46.38). 3.37 Mollys Frankie 4-1 (3-5-1 £26.64 TC £67.16). 3.53 Ace Hi Hibees 4-5f (3-5-4 £5.65 TC £14.57). 4.14 Blackhouse Ben 3-1 (3-1-2 £7.43 TC £25.14). 4.28 Fortfield Melody 3-1 (3-2-5 £32.31 TC £83.56). 4.47 Target Tricks 7-4f (2-5-4 £19.12 TC £52.36). 5.07 Off Beat Ottey 9-4f (3-2-5 £9.67 TC £29.38). 5.27 Reiver Burn 3-1 (2-6-3 £14.41 TC £58.16). 5.44 Knoppogue Pearl 5-2 (2-5-6 £8.91 TC £33.07). 5.58 Sugarland Rumble 5-1 (4-3-1 £18.89 TC £65.13). 6.16 Old Fort Mission 10-1 (5-2-3 £42.35 TC £107.65). 7.39 Ballymac Lolly 7-2 (6-2-1 £17.81 TC £78.62). ROMFORD: 10.31 Forge Bunny 3-1jt (1-3-2 £14.20 TC £42.00). 10.46 Hilldun Ace 7-4f (3-6-2 £7.52 TC £23.75). 11.00 Ennis Gold 9-2 (3-1-4 £22.56 TC £77.55). 11.16 Winnies Dream 3-1 (3-5-6 £11.74 TC £38.75). 11.31 Totti Hodgey 7-2 (3-1-5 £25.86 TC £57.61). 11.44 Soul Bid 6-4f (5-3-6 £16.76 TC £45.97). 11.58 Boynepark Dream 4-1 (4-1-2 £20.12 TC £60.54). 12.17 Shaneboy Silas 2-1f (6-2-1 £11.98 TC £45.38). 12.33 Aero Quartz 5-2jt (3-6-5 £16.41 TC £54.41). 12.47 Cry Lightening 6-1 (6-3-5 £37.46 TC £127.39). 1.04 Enchanted Halo 11-4 (3-4-5 £10.39 TC £27.28). 1.19 Selina May 5-2 (2-3-4 £13.29 TC £45.88). 1.33 Dudleys Rocket 3-1 (3-5-2 £20.35 TC £61.61). 1.49 Captain Hook 7-4f (6-4-5 £9.37 TC £29.78).SWINDON: 7.25 Selkirk Bash 7-2 (6-1-4 £20.05 TC £58.14). 7.41 Forge Sally 5-1 (2-4-6 £35.57 TC £103.66). 7.57 Mr October 3-1 (4-5-3 £17.17 TC £64.56). 8.13 Barrack Chick 7-2 (4-1-3 £13.14 TC £0.00). 8.29 Brookend Six 2-1f (3-1-4 £13.95 TC £51.66). 8.45 Touch On Roxy 9-4f (6-1-4 £12.10 TC £36.76). 9.01 Robertos Ragazza 5-2f (6-2-4 £13.75 TC £49.89). 9.17 Ballyhill Amber 5-2f (5-2-3 £22.16 TC £67.17). 9.33 Bound In Ivy 5-2 (6-4-1 £17.31 TC £60.43). 9.49 Coologue Smokey 6-1 (3-2-4 £33.12 TC £109.66). 10.05 Ericks Gav 6-4jt (1-4-3 £18.53 TC £101.53). 10.20 Rosmult Jenny 7-2 (4-6-2 £20.45 TC £46.03).

SaTURDaY’S bagS RESULTS

TODAY’S RACING STATISTICS

Leicester – (five-year record) TopTrainers (with runners): R Hannon 33-176(18.8%), M Johnston 25-147 (17%), S BinSuroor 14-43 (32.6%), R Beckett 13-53(24.5%), R Fahey 12-78 (15.4%), B Meehan10-67 (14.9%), B Millman 10-80 (12.5%), CHills 8-29 (27.6%), W Haggas 8-33 (24.2%), RGuest 8-42 (19.1%), S C Williams 8-50 (16%),J Portman 6-43 (13.9%).Top Jockeys (with mounts): K Fallon 22-88 (25%), P Hanagan 16-98 (16.3%), J PSpencer 14-74 (18.9%), T Durcan 9-77(11.7%), S Drowne 7-52 (13.5%), J Fanning 7-62 (11.3%), M Harley 6-51 (11.8%), D Probert6-95 (6.3%), G Baker 5-35 (14.3%), R Havlin5-40 (12.5%), G Gibbons 5-45 (11.1%), LKeniry 5-58 (8.6%). Favourites: 250-713(35.1%).Leicester stalls: Straight – Stands’ side;Round – Inside.Longest traveller: Urban Dreamer (3.00)183 miles.Redcar – (five-year record) TopTrainers (with runners): R Fahey 33-195(16.9%), T Easterby 30-367 (8.2%), D O’Meara25-154 (16.2%), B Smart 20-145 (13.8%), DNicholls 20-167 (12%), J J Quinn 18-106(17%), M Johnston 18-119 (15.1%), M Dods17-138 (12.3%), K Ryan 14-140 (10%), R Barr12-132 (9.1%), P Midgley 11-177 (6.2%), GOldroyd 10-58 (17.2%). Top Jockeys (withmounts): T Eaves 23-299 (7.7%), S De Sousa22-152 (14.5%), D Allan 20-213 (9.4%), PMcDonald 19-201 (9.4%), J P Sullivan 18-155

(11.6%), A Nicholls 15-110 (13.6%), BMcHugh 13-186 (7%), T Hamilton 12-129(9.3%), R Winston 11-110 (10%), D Fentiman11-210 (5.2%), A Carter 5-44 (11.4%), AMullen 5-94 (5.3%). Favourites: 220-682(32.3%).Redcar stalls: Straight – Centre; Round –Inside.Longest traveller: Seattle Drive (2.10 miles)322 miles.Bangor – (five-year record) TopTrainers (with runners): D McCain 61-315(19.4%), Jonjo O’Neill 17-170 (10%), Miss VWilliams 11-82 (13.4%), N Twiston-Davies 9-60 (15%), R Lee 7-48 (14.6%), F O’Brien 6-23(26.1%), B Leavy 5-28 (17.9%), P Webber 5-37 (13.5%), Jennie Candlish 4-48 (8.3%), MTodhunter 3-17 (17.6%), B Powell 3-21(14.3%), O Sherwood 3-33 (9.1%). TopJockeys (with mounts): J Maguire 49-180(27.2%), A P McCoy 38-178 (21.4%), RJohnson 27-101 (26.7%), A Coleman 11-64(17.2%), P Brennan 9-69 (13%), S Twiston-Davies 7-48 (14.6%), T Scudamore 6-57(10.5%), L Aspell 5-28 (17.9%), D Jacob 5-36(13.9%), R McLernon 4-57 (7%), S Quinlan 3-40 (7.5%), M G Nolan 2-9 (22.2%).Favourites: 172-467 (36.8%).Longest traveller: Maggie Blu (3.50) 198miles.Visored for the first time – Leicester:4.30 Nezami. Redcar: 12.40 San Remo Rose.Blinkered for the first time – Bangor:

3.20 Mohi Rahrere. Leicester: 1.30 WhiteFlag. Redcar: 12.40 Jacquotte Delahaye; 1.10Tricksome; 1.40 Lesha; 3.10 Queen’s Princess;3.40 Niceonemyson.Cheek pieces – Bangor: 2.20 Monbeg,Polarbrook, 3.50 Je T’aime. Leicester: 1.30Ainmire(*), 2.30 Anna’s Pearl(*), 3.30Songcraft, 4.00 Ortac Rock(*) Peak Storm, 4.30Capitol Gain, Piceno, Rapid Water. Redcar:1.10 Modify, Scarborough, 1.40 MountainFighter(*), 2.10 Lincolnrose 3.40Insolenceofoffice, 4.10 Legal Bond, ThrustControl.(*) = horses wearing cheek pieces for the firsttime.Tongue straps – Bangor: 2.50 CloudyDeal, Spookydooky, 3.20 Whiskey And Red,Kilcommon Pride, 3.50 Kimora, Born To Benefit,My Nosy Rosy, Wheelavher. Leicester: 4.00Ortac Rock, 4.30 Chellalla, Hamble, Hellbender.Redcar: 2.10 Seattle Drive, Armada Bay, 3.40Ad Vitam, 4.10 Dear MauriceTV – At The Races: Leicester. Racing UK:Bangor, Redcar.� Paul Carberry is unlikely to be back inracecourse action after injury until around amonth’s time. The Irish jump jockey has beensidelined since the end of April due to ashoulder injury which required surgery in July.He is riding out again and his sister Nina, whois assistant to trainer Noel Meade for whom heis stable jockey, said he was not rushing hisreturn.

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Inspection: 6.30am

WESTERN DAILY PRESS MONDAY OCTOBER 28 2013 HORSE RACING 19WDP-E01-S3



1.30 HAYMARKET NURSERY(Class 6) 7f 2yo Only Winner £1,941

1 (13) 075503 QUEENIE’S HOME (33) J Given 9-7 D Swift2 (2) 00879 ALL YOURS (12) W Knight 9-5 J P Spencer3 (3) 0878 SYRIAN PEARL (33) C Wall 9-5 G Baker4 (1) 9685 DRINKUPTRIG (38) S C Williams 9-3 A Beschizza5 (8) 4574 AINMIRE (20) (P) J J Quinn 9-1 M O’Connell6 (12) 898 DUTCH LADY (25) J Holt 9-0 R Havlin7 (4) 55190 WHITE FLAG (20) (B) T Easterby 8-13 K Fallon8 (11) 86572 MIDNIGHT RAMBLER (7) R Hannon 8-13 S Levey9 (6) 090 PENARA (40) P Hide 8-13 Thomas Brown(3)10 (10) 565230 ROCKIE ROAD (23) P Green 8-11 J Fanning11 (9) 79012 MORNIN MR NORRIS (34) J J Quinn 8-8 L Keniry12 (5) 870 MESTIZO (17) D Carroll 8-7 N Farley(3)13 (7) 988728 SUNI DANCER (23) P Green 8-5 L Morris2012: Intrigo 2-8-13, R Hughes 5-1 (R Hannon), drawn 5, 12 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 3 Midnight Rambler, 11-2 Mornin Mr Norris, 6 Queenie’s Home, 7 Syrian Pearl, 8 Drinkuptrig, 10 Ainmire, 14 White Flag, All Yours, 16 Others.

2.00 MEDIAN AUCTION MAIDEN FILLIES’ STAKES(5) 6f 2yo Only Winner £2,588

1 (5) 2 ANGEL FLORES (21) R Fahey 9-0 P Hanagan2 (1) 763 BAJAN BEAUTY (58) C Hills 9-0 J P Spencer3 (2) CADEAUX POWER C Brittain 9-0 L Morris4 (4) 76 MISHNAH (39) J Holt 9-0 R Havlin5 (3) 0627 POETIC CHOICE (12) N Littmoden 9-0 M Lane6 (6) 347 SUNNINGDALE ROSE (6) Miss G Kelleway 9-0 D Probert2012: Take The Lead 2-9-0, R Hughes 11-4 Fav (R Hannon), drawn 1, 8 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 2 Angel Flores, 9-4 Bajan Beauty, 4 Cadeaux Power, 7 Sunningdale Rose, 10 Poetic Choice, 14 Mishnah.

2.30 SIS HANDICAP (RND)(2) 1m 3yo plus Winner £12,938

1 (5) 201707 OSTEOPATHIC REMEDY (10) (D1) M Dods 9-9-7 C Beasley(5)2 (6) 010805 ANNA’S PEARL (14) (P;D) R Beckett 3-9-2 J P Spencer3 (7) 123576 FRONTIER FIGHTER (14) (D) D O’Meara 5-9-1 D Tudhope4 (2) -09852 MYBOYALFIE (15) (V;D) J R Jenkins 6-9-0 K Fallon5 (3) 600148 TELLOVOI (30) (D) I Williams 5-8-12 S Donohoe6 (4) 790060 JUSTONEFORTHEROAD (17) (CD) R Fahey 7-8-11 P Hanagan7 (1) 310381 PARTY ROYAL (21) (D) M Johnston 3-8-10 J Fanning2012: Justonefortheroad 6-9-3, T Hamilton 10-1 (R Fahey), drawn 4, 7 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 11-4 Myboyalfie, 4 Party Royal, 9-2 Justonefortheroad, 5 Frontier Fighter, 7 Anna’s Pearl, 8 Osteopathic Remedy, 10 Tellovoi. For m MYBOYALFIE 5-1 (9-4) Raced wide held up, ridden over 2f out, head-

way under pressure over 1f out, led inside final furlong, soon edged right, headed final strides, 2nd of 15, hd behind First Post (8-13) at

Goodwood 1m hcp 0-85 (4) sft. PARTY ROYAL 11-2 (9-5) Made all, ridden and pressed from over 1f out, driven and ran on final furlong, won at Pontefract 1m 3yo hcp 0-95 (3) gd beating African Oil (9-5) by hd, 5 ran.

3.00 IRISH STALLION FARMS E.B.F. MAIDEN STAKES(4) 6f 2yo Only Winner £4,852

1 (2) 462293 HANDWOVEN (12) M Johnston 9-5 J Fanning2 (6) 203633 JAZZ (33) C Hills 9-5 K Fallon3 (5) 7222 NOVA CHAMP (15) S C Williams 9-5 J P Spencer4 (8) 000 SLINGSBY (10) M W Easterby 9-5 G Gibbons5 (4) 934 UPHOLLAND (26) (BF) R Fahey 9-5 P Hanagan6 (3) 222034 URBAN DREAMER (3) (B) B Millman 9-5 Doubtful7 (7) VALE MENTOR T Easterby 9-5 D Tudhope8 (1) 3 PENNY DROPS (15) W Haggas 9-0 M Harley2012: Barbs Princess 2-8-12, R Hughes 11-2 (C Hills), drawn 1, 9 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 9-4 Jazz, 3 Penny Drops, 4 Nova Champ, 5 Handwoven, 7 Upholland, 14 Vale Mentor, 33 Slingsby.

3.30 SIR GORDON RICHARDS HANDICAP(2) 1m 4f 3yo plus Winner £18,903

1 (3) -16275 SONGCRAFT (45) (P;D) S Bin Suroor 5-9-12 K Fallon2 (5) 759156 FATTSOTA (23) (D) D O’Meara 5-9-9 D Tudhope3 (1) 41-509 ADROITLY (242) (D) S Bin Suroor 6-9-6 T Durcan4 (2) 342430 SOUVIENS TOI (32) M Botti 4-9-6 M Harley5 (4) 101417 UPHOLD (19) (V;C,D) Miss G Kelleway 6-9-6 D Muscutt(5)6 (6) 52411 BATTALION (41) (D) W Haggas 3-8-13 G Gibbons2012: No corresponding race.BETTING FORECAST: Evens Battalion, 4 Fattsota, 9-2 Songcraft, 10 Adroitly, Souviens Toi, 16 Uphold.

4.00 GUMLEY CLAIMING STAKES(6) 7f 3yo to 4yo Winner £1,941

1 (5) 524118 PEAK STORM (34) (P;D) J G O’Shea 4-9-9 L Morris2 (4) 146422 ORTAC ROCK (7) (P,T;BF,D) R Fahey 4-8-11 P Hanagan3 (8) 1-5258 EVER FORTUNE (13) (D) R Guest 4-8-9 M Harley4 (3) -60973 HIDDEN TALENT (10) D Brown 3-8-9 S Drowne5 (7) 09-888 RISKY RIZKOVA (40) J Portman 3-8-9 M Lawson(3)6 (2) 460776 MAN IN THE ARENA (13) (H) Dr J Scargill 3-8-5 D Probert7 (1) 030406 SILVER MARIZAH (42) R Ingram 4-8-2 Miss R Ingram(7)8 (6) 603534 THOMASINA (13) D Coakley 3-8-0 N Mackay2012: Lady Layla 3-7-12, J Quinn 6-1 (B Smart), drawn 1, 12 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 9-4 Ortac Rock, 11-4 Ever Fortune, 7-2 Peak Storm, 4 Hidden Talent, 16 Risky Rizkova, 25 Thomasina, Man In The Arena, 33 Silver Marizah.

4.30 FOSSE WAY AMATEUR RIDERS’ HANDICAP (5) 7f 3yo plus Winner £2,634

1 (5) 78-900 CHELLALLA (53) (T;D) I Williams 4-11-7 Mr P John(5)2 (14) 521796 PICENO (21) (P;D) S Dixon 5-11-5 Mr K Locking(5)3 (1) 215720 SURROUND SOUND (23) T Easterby 3-11-3 Mr W Easterby(5)4 (9) 05775 ROYAL MARSKELL (6) K Clutterbuck 4-11-2 Mr M S Johnson(7)5 (10) 692847 CAPITOL GAIN (59) (P) B Meehan 4-11-1 Mr O Sangster(5)6 (8) 333346 MCCOOL BANNANAS (26) J Unett 5-10-10 Mr A Dean(7)7 (12) 215050 CLOCK ON TOM (51) M W Easterby 3-10-10 Mr H Bannister(5)8 (6) 850256 NEZAMI (10) (V;CD) P L Clinton 8-10-8 Mr P Collington9 (4) 616346 HAMBLE (6) (T;BF,D) Miss J Feilden 4-10-7 Mr R Birkett10 (11) 430502 CLUMBER PLACE (6) (D) J Given 7-10-7 Mr S Walker11 (7) 587949 HELLBENDER (18) (T;D) S A Harris 7-10-7 Mr W Featherstone(5)12 (3) 387983 GEORGE BENJAMIN (4) (D) C Kellett 6-10-7 Mr J Hamilton13 (13) 880504 RAPID WATER (41) (H,P) Pat Eddery 7-10-7 Mr M Stanley(5)14 (2) 996456 JUSTCALLMEHANDSOME (21) (B;D) D F Davis 11-10-7 Mr B Ffrench Davis(5)2012: Desert Creek 6-11-3, Mr S Crawford 11-4 Fav (D Nicholls), drawn 2, 17 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 7-2 Clumber Place, 5 Surround Sound, 6 Hamble, 8 Capitol Gain, 10 McCool Bannanas, Nezami, 12 George Benjamin, 14 Others.

CAPTAIN WESSEX 1.30 — Queenie’s Home 2.00 — Bajan Beauty 2.30 — Myboyalfie (nap) 3.00 — Jazz 3.30 — Fattsota (nb) 4.00 — Hidden Talent 4.30 — Clumber Place

BOB WATTSTips

LeiceSTeR12.40 BRITISH STALLION STUDS E.B.F. MAIDEN FILLIES’

STAKES (Class 5) 6f 2yo Only Winner £3,2341 (2) 44334 AN CHULAINN (38) M Johnston 9-0 A Nicholls2 (3) EXCELLENT VIEW S Bin Suroor 9-0 S De Sousa3 (7) 2375 JACQUOTTE DELAHAYE (75) (B) B Smart 9-0 D Allan4 (4) 80 QUEEN OF ARTS (32) R Fahey 9-0 T Hamilton5 (10) ROOMIE T Easterby 9-0 D Fentiman6 (1) ROSE BOEUF D O’Meara 9-0 D Nolan7 (9) 97 SAN REMO ROSE (154) (V) N Tinkler 9-0 J Hart(3)8 (5) 83 SLEEPER CLASS (10) J Goldie 9-0 G Lee9 (8) 47 THINK AGAIN (143) K Ryan 9-0 B McHugh10 (6) WHITE ROSE RUNNER M Brittain 9-0 T Eaves2012: Medici Dancer 2-9-0, D Allan 1-12 Fav (T Easterby), drawn 7, 3 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 7-4 Excellent View, 5-2 An Chulainn, 5 Jacquotte Delahaye, 10 Sleeper Class, 12 Rose Boeuf, 14 Roomie, 20 White Rose Runner, 25 Think Again, Queen of Arts, 33 San Remo Rose.

1.10 WATCH RACING UK ON SKY 432 NURSERY(6) 5f 2yo Only Winner £2,264

1 (5) 675730 CLASSICAL DIVA (19) (D) D Carroll 9-7 J Hart(3)2 (14) 843727 SECRET APPLAUSE (20) M Dods 9-6 T Eaves3 (10) 641436 BOUNTIFUL FOREST (29) (D) N Wilson 9-1 D Fentiman4 (15) 7660 MODIFY (23) (P) B Smart 9-0 G Lee5 (3) 575455 RED FOREVER (20) A Berry 9-0 S O’Hara(3)6 (11) 576 ORIENT CLASS (20) P Midgley 8-13 B McHugh7 (1) 4288 ANNIE’S ROSE (25) B Smart 8-10 M Coumbe(3)8 (13) 877455 TRICKSOME (40) (H) Mrs A Duffield 8-10 P McDonald9 (9) 766 SLANDEROUS (44) S Dixon 8-10 R Winston10 (2) 0136 LADY MONTENEGRO (10) (D) Mrs A Duffield 8-10 R Scott(7)11 (12) 070415 SCARBOROUGH (25) (P;D) P Midgley 8-10 J Quinn12 (7) 425676 DYNAMO WALT (12) (V;BF) D Shaw 8-10 R Da Silva13 (4) 0853 LITTLE BRIAR ROSE (7) J Spearing 8-7 L Jones14 (8) 087688 NU FORM FIRE (16) N Tinkler 8-7 A Mullen15 (6) 376608 REALE SILENZIO (16) (B,E) J Weymes 8-2 J Haynes(5)2012: Dream Vale 2-9-6, A Carter(5) 9-2 (T Easterby), drawn 5, 9 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 4 Dynamo Walt, 9-2 Scarborough, 6 Little Briar Rose, 7 Lady Montenegro, 10 Secret Applause, 12 Orient Class, Tricksome, 14 Slanderous, Modify, 16 Others.

1.40 EUROPEAN BREEDERS’ FUND MAIDEN STAKES (5) 1m 1f 2yo Only Winner £3,234

1 (2) 262 BOLD CAPTAIN (10) J J Quinn 9-5 Joe Doyle(7)2 (8) LESHA (H) K Ryan 9-5 D Nolan3 (6) 752P MAXIE T (23) M Johnston 9-5 L Jones4 (5) 0 MOUNTAIN FIGHTER (30) (P) S Bin Suroor 9-5 S De Sousa5 (11) 52 PERSONAL OPINION (10) C Appleby 9-5 R Winston6 (1) 4 RUWASI (10) J Tate 9-5 D Allan7 (7) 09 TAWAN (10) B Rothwell 9-5 B McHugh8 (10) 52 THORNTOUN CARE (18) J Goldie 9-5 G Lee9 (3) 05 UPLIFTED (26) K Ryan 9-5 T Hamilton10 (9) 52 MAMBO RHYTHM (14) M Johnston 9-0 A Nicholls11 (12) WHITTSABOUTHER T Easterby 9-0 D Fentiman12 (4) 9 WORCHARLIE’SLASS (26) M Herrington 9-0 T Eaves2012: Disclaimer 2-9-3, I Mongan 5-6 Fav (Sir H Cecil), drawn 2, 6 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 11-4 Personal Opinion, 9-2 Bold Captain, 6 Mambo Rhythm, Maxie T, 7 Ruwasi, 8 Mountain Fighter, 10 Thorntoun Care, 14 Lesha, 20 Others.

2.10 DOWNLOAD THE FREE RACING UK APP SELLING STAKES (6) 1m 2f 3yo to 5yo Winner £2,386

1 (1) 621016 SEATTLE DRIVE (J9) (T;BF) D Pipe 5-9-8 G Lee2 (6) 5/55-9 OAKWELL (J106) Miss S Hall 5-9-3 J Hart(3)3 (4) 407922 SUNNYBRIDGE BOY (23) K Burke 4-9-3 R Winston4 (7) 268874 ARMADA BAY (35) (T) B Smart 3-8-12 M Coumbe(3)5 (5) 6 CEDAR GLORY (13) T Walford 4-8-12 D Fentiman6 (8) 0608-0 COTTAM STELLA (10) (H) J Wainwright 5-8-12 A Carter(5)7 (2) 878054 DANSILI DUTCH (10) (D) D O’Meara 4-8-12 S De Sousa8 (3) 176803 LINCOLNROSE (20) (P) M Appleby 3-8-12 A Mullen9 (9) 57- WRECKING BALL (395) Miss A Weaver 3-8-12 T Eaves2012: Barathea Dancer 4-8-10, G Lee 11-4 JtFav (Miss G Kelleway), drawn 2, 7 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 13-8 Seattle Drive, 5-2 Sunnybridge Boy, 5 Lincolnrose, 6 Wrecking Ball, 14 Dansili Dutch, 16 Cedar Glory, 20 Armada Bay, 50 Oakwell, 66 Cottam Stella.

2.40 MARKET CROSS JEWELLERS HANDICAP(5) 1m 6f 3yo Only Winner £3,234

1 (7) 742446 MONTJESS (37) (V) T Dascombe 9-7 R Kingscote2 (4) 753135 VICKY VALENTINE (20) A Whillans 9-2 Julie Burke(3)3 (2) 77-251 LADY OF YUE (21) E Stanford 9-0 T Eaves4 (8) 723831 BOLD AND FREE (34) D Thompson 9-0 G Lee5 (3) 485078 MITCHELL (33) D Thompson 8-12 R Da Silva6 (1) 562830 YOUNG JAY (21) M Johnston 8-11 A Nicholls7 (6) 5-6980 HAZZAAT (40) W G Harrison 8-8 J Quinn8 (5) 6-5094 JACKADDOCK (21) J Bethell 8-8 P McDonald2012: Dorry K 3-9-7, G Gibbons 4-1 (T D Barron), drawn 1, 4 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 2 Lady Of Yue, 4 Bold And Free, 5 Montjess, 6 Jackaddock, 8 Vicky Valentine, 10 Young Jay, 12 Mitchell, 20 Hazzaat.

3.10 REDCAR RACECOURSE MAIDEN STAKES(5) 7f 3yo plus Winner £3,234

1 (8) 7437-7 CHARLES DE MILLE (38) G M Moore 5-9-7 P McDonald2 (13) 8064-2 CROSSLEY (144) G Oldroyd 4-9-7 B McHugh3 (6) 857274 IMPERIAL BOND (10) J Ward 4-9-7 T Eaves4 (3) 9-2 ROGER THORPE (59) Mrs D Sanderson 4-9-7 B Cray(3)5 (15) ASH CAPE B Rothwell 3-9-5 J P Sullivan6 (12) 34808 ECHO OF LIGHTNING (38) N Wilson 3-9-5 D Fentiman7 (9) 80 NOBLE MAXIMUS (10) A Berry 3-9-5 S O’Hara(3)8 (2) 77 STANLOW (26) J Stimpson 3-9-5 S Craine9 (10) 6-684 THE BEST DOCTOR (14) J Noseda 3-9-5 S Sanders10 (5) 96 THOMAS BLOSSOM (12) N Tinkler 3-9-5 A Mullen11 (1) 4-3077 QUEEN’S PRINCESS (125) (H) J Wainwright 5-9-2 A Carter(5)12 (4) 26 ABBOTSFIELD (41) B Haslam 3-9-0 G Lee13 (11) 3 DESERT SKIES (26) S Bin Suroor 3-9-0 S De Sousa14 (7) 089 ISMAALI (20) J Given 3-9-0 G Chaloner(5)15 (14) 0 MRS GORSKY (21) P Holmes 3-9-0 R Kennemore2012: Kuwait Star 3-9-3, T Durcan 7-1 (J Ward), drawn 3, 16 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 4-5 Desert Skies, 7-2 The Best Doctor, 7 Abbotsfield, 10 Crossley, 16 Roger Thorpe, 20 Imperial Bond, 25 Charles De Mille, Ash Cape, Echo Of Lightning, 33 Others.

3.40 SKY432 APPRENTICE HANDICAP (DIV 1)(6) 6f 3yo plus Winner £1,941

1 (19) -33269 REX ROMANORUM (47) P Holmes 5-9-8 J Garritty(5)2 (5) 223342 VERUS DELICIA (33) (H;D) J Stimpson 4-9-8 P Prince3 (2) 5-25 DUTIFUL SON (10) J Noseda 3-9-7 J Haynes4 (16) 740504 WORLD RECORD (21) P Green 3-9-7 D A Parkes(5)5 (6) 457009 SECRET CITY (10) (B;CD) R Bastiman 7-9-6 G Mahon(5)6 (7) 190009 MITCHUM (13) (D) R Barr 4-9-5 N Garbutt(3)7 (12) 314800 BOTTEEN (13) D O’Meara 3-9-4 Josh Doyle(7)8 (13) 06478- BELLE INTRIGUE (405) Mrs M Fife 3-9-3 Shirley Teasdale9 (3) 000073 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (12) (D) Miss T Waggott 8-9-3 J Butterfield10 (11) 259906 SEE CLEARLY (34) (B;D) T Easterby 4-9-3 Rachel Richardson(5)11 (17) 314603 NICEONEMYSON (33) (B) C R Wilson 4-9-2 K Stott(3)12 (14) 936350 MOWHOOB (38) J Goldie 3-9-2 J Nason(3)13 (8) -86966 ORWELLIAN (10) (CD) B Smart 4-9-1 G Chaloner14 (4) 441735 THORPE BAY (138) (D) M Appleby 4-9-0 D Brock15 (18) 6-8123 INSOLENCEOFOFFICE (118) (P;CD) R Ford 5-8-13 J Baudains(3)16 (15) 062240 ONE KOOL DUDE (10) (B) N Bycroft 4-8-12 Samantha Bell(3)17 (1) 508-25 AD VITAM (27) (T,V;BF) M Brittain 5-8-9 L Leadbitter(5)18 (9) 4067-9 FAIR BUNNY (38) (B;D) A Brown 6-8-8 R Fitzpatrick(5)19 (10) 697754 PARTNER’S GOLD (35) A Berry 3-8-7 Nicola Grundy(7)2012: Fama Mac 5-9-7, Eva Moscrop(5) 9-2 Fav (N Bycroft), drawn 16, 19 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 9-2 Dutiful Son, 6 Verus Delicia, 7 Niceonemyson, 8 Mission Impossible, 10 Insolenceofoffice, 12 World Record, Ad Vitam, Thorpe Bay, 14 Others.

4.10 SKY432 APPRENTICE HANDICAP (DIV 2)(6) 6f 3yo plus Winner £1,941

1 (10) 388413 BUNCE (13) (B;D) D O’Meara 5-9-8 J Garritty(5)2 (5) 1-7546 DEAR MAURICE (13) (T;D) T B Coles 9-9-8 Alfie Warwick(7)3 (18) 724217 COMPTON HEIGHTS (18) (D) J Goldie 4-9-7 J Nason(3)4 (15) 007765 BREEZOLINI (12) O Pears 5-9-6 J Butterfield5 (2) 014325 JESSIE’S SPIRIT (79) (BF,D) Mrs A Duffield 4-9-5 R Scott(5)6 (8) 429451 ADIATOR (10) (CD) N Bycroft 5-9-4 K Stott(3)7 (6) 9-5512 BIG STORM COMING (42) (BF,D) B Ellison 3-9-4 S Gray8 (17) -09609 I’LL BE GOOD (82) (C,D) A Berry 4-9-3 J Hibberd(5)9 (13) 099400 EL MCGLYNN (12) (D) E Alston 4-9-3 Rachel Richardson(5)10 (7) -75010 ICEBLAST (21) (B;D) M W Easterby 5-9-2 Anna Hesketh(5)11 (1) 64420U LAYLA’S HERO (18) (B;D) D Nicholls 6-9-2 J Haynes12 (11) 646425 LADY POPPY (14) (BF) G M Moore 3-9-2 Samantha Bell(3)13 (19) 390380 LEGAL BOND (25) (P;D) D O’Meara 4-9-0 Josh Doyle(7)14 (12) 645615 MYSTERIOUS WONDER (18) (B;D) P Kirby 3-8-13 Eva Moscrop(5)15 (4) /9060- HENRY MORGAN (446) (CD) B Smart 6-8-12 G Chaloner16 (9) 086090 BOUCHER GARCON (20) D Carroll 5-8-9 L Leadbitter(5)17 (16) 375662 ERRIGAL LAD (20) (D) G Woodward 8-8-8 Gemma Tutty(3)18 (14) 009000 THRUST CONTROL (48) (P;CD) Miss T Waggott 6-8-8 D Cremin(5)19 (3) P43946 COPPER TO GOLD (6) R Bastiman 4-8-8 G Mahon(5)2012: Half A Crown 7-9-5, Hannah Nunn(5) 7-1 JtFav (P Salmon), drawn 3, 17 ran.BETTING FORECAST: 9-2 Big Storm Coming, 7 Adiator, 8 Lady Poppy, Bunce, 10 Errigal Lad, Mysterious Wonder, 12 Jessie’s Spirit, Compton Heights, 14 Others.

CAPTAIN WESSEX 12.40 — An Chulainn 1.10 — Bountiful Forest 1.40 — Bold Captain 2.10 — Sunnybridge Boy 2.40 — Bold And Free 3.10 — Crossley 3.40 — Verus Delicia 4.10 — Adiator

BOB WATTSTips RedcaR

Results SaTURday

ainTRee: good to soft-good in places on mildmay course

1.55—Karinga dancer (N Scholfield, 4-1 CoFav) 1; Bygones Of Brid (22-1) 2; Ifandbutwhynot (4-1 CoFav) 3. Hcap 10 ran. 8l, 13/4l. (H Fry; 4-1 CoFav Special Catch). Tote: £4.80; pl £2.40, £5.50, £2.00. Ex: £89.90. Tricast: £371.19. Trifecta: £249.40. CSF: £80.02.

2.30—Jamsie Hall (K M Donoghue, 10-1) 1; Pigeon Island (9-2) 2; Categorical (12-1) 3. Hcap 7 ran. nk, 11/4l. (G Elliott (IRE) ; 3-1 Fav Triggerman). Tote: £9.40; pl £3.20, £3.00. Ex: £72.00. Trifecta: £409.90. CSF: £53.48.

3.05—conquisto (A P McCoy, 17-2) 1; Astracad (4-1 2nd Fav) 2; Viva Colonia (16-1) 3. Hcap 11 ran. 11/4l, 1l. (S Gollings; 7-2 Fav Walkon). Tote: £9.20; pl £2.40, £2.00, £5.30. Ex: £41.60. Tricast: £539.61. Trifecta: £431.80. CSF: £42.01.

3.40—Rossini’s dancer (Mr K Alexander, 10-1) 1; Saved By John (11-4 2nd Fav) 2; Carlito Brigante (10-1) 3. Hcap 7 ran. 21/4l, 16l. (N Alexander; 2-1 Fav Kruzhlinin). Tote: £8.80; pl £2.70, £1.60. Ex: £31.50. Trifecta: £186.40. CSF: £36.99.

4.15—Josies Orders (A P McCoy, 7-2 JtFav) 1; Sin Bin (9-2) 2; Milano Magic (10-1) 3. Hcap 8 ran. 31/4l, 13/4l. (Jonjo O’Neill; 7-2 JtFav Karinga Dandy). Tote: £4.60; pl £1.70, £2.00, £2.30. Ex: £23.80. Tricast: £141.69. Trifecta: £121.40. CSF: £19.91. Non-runners: Flicka Williams, Harris, Vimiero.

4.50—Shutthefrontdoor (A P McCoy, 4-5 Fav) 1; Beeves (7-2) 2; Bar De Ligne (10-1) 3. 4 ran. 1/2l, 8l. (Jonjo O’Neill). Tote: £1.80; Ex: £3.50. Trifecta: £8.30. CSF: £4.23.

5.20—garde La Victoire (R Johnson, 7-1) 1; Regal Encore (8-15 Fav) 2; Pulpitarian (33-1) 3. 9 ran. 21/4l, 41/2l. (P Hobbs). Tote: £9.30; pl £2.70, £1.10, £7.20. Ex: £21.60. Trifecta: £983.90. CSF: £12.64. Non-runner: Madame Blavatsky.

Placepot: £353.60 Quadpot: £35.50

cHePSTOW: Soft-heavy in places1.50—Kaki de La Pree (F de Giles, evens Fav) 1;

Closing Ceremony (10-3 2nd Fav) 2; Doing Fine (7-2) 3. 8 ran. 2l, 21l. (T Symonds). Tote: £1.90; pl £1.10, £1.60, £1.60. Ex: £5.80. Trifecta: £11.10. CSF: £4.60.

2.25—Shotgun Paddy (L Aspell, 7-2 2nd Fav) 1; Just A Par (4-7 Fav) 2; Boyfromnowhere (14-1) 3. 5 ran. 13l, 9l. (Miss E Lavelle). Tote: £4.80; pl £2.90, £1.02. Ex: £6.10. Trifecta: £40.10. CSF: £6.49.

3.00—get it On (C Ring, 6-1) 1; Ballinvarrig (7-4 Fav) 2; Topaze Collonges (11-4 2nd Fav) 3. Hcap 6 ran. 35l, 12l. (E Williams). Tote: £6.50; pl £2.30, £1.90. Ex: £20.40. Tricast: £30.49. Trifecta: £88.60. CSF: £16.54. Non-runners: Sublime Talent, Woody Waller.

3.35—Timesremembered (L Aspell, 9-1) 1; Potters Cross (12-1) 2; Lienosus (9-4 2nd Fav) 3. 7 ran. 6l, 7l. (Miss E Lavelle; 11-8 Fav Ceasar Milan). Tote: £9.50; pl £4.70, £2.00. Ex: £55.90. Trifecta: £281.30. CSF: £97.32.

4.10—Shammick Boy (Jack Doyle, 20-1) 1; Lamb Or Cod (9-2 2nd Fav) 2; Kaylif Aramis (7-1) 3. Hcap 11 ran. 2l, 11/4l. (V Dartnall; 9-4 Fav Broadway Buffalo). Tote: £24.00; pl £6.30, £2.00, £2.20. Ex: £181.50. Tricast: £705.32. Trifecta: £898.00. CSF: £111.94.

4.45—Sire de grugy (J Moore, 7-2) 1; Majala (5-2 2nd Fav) 2; Theatrical Star (5-1) 3. Hcap 6 ran. 11l, 21/2l. (G L Moore; 7-4 Fav Rebel Rebellion). Tote: £3.40; pl £1.90, £1.80. Ex: £12.30. Trifecta: £53.70. CSF: £13.32.

5.15—Somerby (A Wedge, 11-4 2nd Fav) 1; Flugzeug (11-2) 2; Notabotheronme (7-2) 3. Hcap 5 ran. 9l, 24l. (Mrs R Ford; 2-1 Fav Volio Vincente). Tote: £3.00; pl £2.50,

£3.30. Ex: £16.20. Trifecta: £125.10. CSF: £16.30. Non-runners: Hector’s House, Stafford Charlie, Tara Tavey.


dOncaSTeR: Soft2.05—night Of Thunder (R Hughes, 6-4 Fav) 1;

Aeolus (10-3 2nd Fav) 2; Stubbs (9-2) 3. 5 ran. 3l, hd. (R Hannon). Tote: £2.20; pl £1.30, £2.10. Ex: £6.50. Trifecta: £15.40. CSF: £6.19. Non-runner: Deeds Not Words.

2.40—Thomas Hobson (R Havlin, 9-2 2nd Fav) 1; Kashmir Peak (11-1) 2; Highland Castle (16-1) 3. Hcap 12 ran. hd, 1/2l. (J Gosden; 4-1 Fav Ennistown). Tote: £5.00; pl £1.70, £4.40, £4.40. Ex: £52.90. Tricast: £734.95. Trifecta: £1160.40. CSF: £52.61. Non-runners: Semeen, Sir Bedivere.

3.15—dungannon (O Murphy, 16-1) 1; Hawkeyethenoo (16-1) 2; Harrison George (33-1) 3; Pearl Blue (10-1) 4. Hcap 19 ran. 1/2l, nk, 11/2l. (A Balding; 9-2 Fav Take Cover). Tote: £24.80; pl £4.60, £3.70, £7.50, £2.70. Ex: £413.40. Tricast: £8296.79. Trifecta: £3814.60. CSF: £231.82. Non-runners: Bogart, Burning Thread, Medicean Man.

3.50—Kingston Hill (A Atzeni, 7-2 Fav) 1; Johann Strauss (9-1) 2; Altruistic (14-1) 3. 11 ran. 41/2l, 21/2l. (R Varian). Tote: £4.00; pl £1.60, £4.00, £4.50. Ex: £35.80. Trifecta: £316.80. CSF: £36.14.

4.25—Roachdale House (R L Moore, 5-2 Fav) 1; Tancred (11-2) 2; Donny Rover (25-1) 3. Hcap 9 ran. 21/4l, hd. (R Fahey). Tote: £3.70; pl £1.70, £2.10, £5.50. Ex: £21.50. Tricast: £278.14. Trifecta: £510.00. CSF: £16.67. Non-runners: Disclosure, Know Your Name.

5.00—Highland colori (O Murphy, 15-8 Fav) 1; Sovereign Debt (9-4 2nd Fav) 2; Stand My Ground (20-1) 3. 5 ran. 3l, 7l. (A Balding). Tote: £2.90; pl £1.50, £1.60. Ex: £6.10. Trifecta: £49.40. CSF: £6.46.

5.30—Soaring Spirits (O Murphy, 7-1) 1; Lazarus Bell (16-1) 2; Tatlisu (5-1) 3. Hcap 11 ran. 1/2l, 11/4l. (R Varian; 4-1 JtFav Glanely, 4-1 JtFav Lilac Tree). Tote: £7.30; pl £2.30, £3.70, £2.00. Ex: £117.90. Tricast: £618.65. Trifecta: £1411.80. CSF: £110.14. Non-runners: Banovallum, Dance With Dragons, It Must Be Faith, Lastchancelucas.

Jackpot: £18,280.20 Placepot: £195.80Quadpot: £50.20

neWBURy: Heavy1.15—Wylye (D Probert, 8-1) 1; Dogaressa (10-1) 2;

Cascading (11-2 2nd Fav) 3. 11 ran. nk, 21/2l. (A Balding; 4-1 Fav Cinnilla). Tote: £10.20; pl £3.20, £3.70, £2.10. Ex: £110.20. Trifecta: £300.90. CSF: £81.67. Non-runner: Roman Royal.

1.45—Lady Tyne (M Harley, 8-1) 1; Tioga Pass (20-1) 2; Acclio (16-1) 3. 12 ran. 8l, 1/2l. (R Charlton; 3-1 Fav Sea Goddess). Tote: £10.80; pl £3.60, £6.10, £4.50. Ex: £260.30. Trifecta: £689.00. CSF: £159.29.

2.20—Piping Rock (P Dobbs, 3-1 2nd Fav) 1; Galiway (5-2 Fav) 2; Day Of Conquest (25-1) 3. 11 ran. 23/4l, 3/4l. (R Hannon). Tote: £4.40; pl £1.80, £1.40, £6.00. Ex: £7.20. Trifecta: £133.10. CSF: £10.39.

2.55—cubanita (J Crowley, 9-2 2nd Fav) 1; Nichols Canyon (7-4 Fav) 2; Cocktail Queen (25-1) 3. 8 ran. 13/4l, 5l. (R Beckett). Tote: £5.90; pl £1.90, £1.10, £3.90. Ex: £14.90. Trifecta: £348.70. CSF: £12.58.

3.30—Hi There (Samantha Bell, 13-2 2nd Fav) 1; Beaumont’s Party (8-1) 2; Cashpoint (8-1) 3. Hcap 12 ran. 31/2l, 3/4l. (R Fahey; 7-2 Fav Soviet Rock). Tote: £7.40; pl £2.60, £2.90, £2.40. Ex: £71.00. Tricast: £425.87. Trifecta: £583.80. CSF: £57.26.

4.05—aqlaam Vision (W Buick, 7-1) 1; Oxsana (5-1) 2; Dutch Romance (3-1 Fav) 3. 9 ran. nk, ns. (C Brittain). Tote: £7.30; pl £2.00, £2.00, £1.70. Ex: £44.40. Trifecta:

£246.50. CSF: £40.39. Non-runner: Tea Leaf.4.40—Lilac Lace (D Fentiman, 10-1) 1; Jubilante

(10-1) 2; Maid A Million (9-2) 3. Hcap 7 ran. 21/2l, 21/4l. (T Easterby; 10-3 Fav Magic Destiny). Tote: £13.10; pl £3.80, £3.80. Ex: £98.30. Tricast: £495.78. Trifecta: £468.30. CSF: £94.55. Non-runner: Lady Of The House.

5.10—One Pursuit (Miss J Powell, 3-1 Fav) 1; Highway Code (9-2 2nd Fav) 2; Yasir (9-1) 3. Hcap 12 ran. 11l, 13/4l. (B Powell). Tote: £4.10; pl £2.10, £2.20, £2.80. Ex: £21.10. Tricast: £104.97. Trifecta: £112.30. CSF: £15.31. Non-runners: Decana, Dr Livingstone, Epsom Salts, Sir Boss.


STRaTFORd: Soft-good to soft in places1.35—King Rolfe (A Coleman, 13-2) 1; Sir Valentino

(4-1 CoFav) 2; Edmaaj (4-1 CoFav) 3. 13 ran. 21/4l, 6l. (T Vaughan; 4-1 CoFav Whispering Bob). Tote: £7.60; pl £3.00, £1.50, £1.60. Ex: £45.80. Trifecta: £123.10. CSF: £31.24. 2 hurdles omitted.

2.10—Rosie Probert (A Tinkler, 5-1 2nd Fav) 1; Phase Shift (17-2) 2; Top Totti (9-2 Fav) 3. Hcap 11 ran. 23/4l, 5l. (N Henderson). Tote: £3.10; pl £1.80, £2.60, £1.10. Ex: £36.50. Tricast: £204.18. Trifecta: £88.20. CSF: £46.00. 2 hur-dles omitted.

2.45—imperial Stargazer (M Goldstein, 4-1) 1; Rowlestone Lad (5-2 2nd Fav) 2; Waving (20-1) 3. 6 ran. 10l, 21/2l. (Miss S West; 7-4 Fav Formal Bid). Tote: £7.30; pl £3.30, £2.00. Ex: £13.20. Trifecta: £196.10. CSF: £14.50. 2 hurdles omitted.

3.20—ikorodu Road (Mr J M Ridley, 12-1) 1; Passato (25-1) 2; Al Alfa (6-5 Fav) 3. Hcap 8 ran. 41/2l, 10l. (M Sheppard). Tote: £11.70; pl £1.70, £5.10, £1.10. Ex: £148.50. Tricast: £622.17. Trifecta: £339.20. CSF: £212.30. Non-runner: Overclear. 2 fences omitted.

3.55—Magnifique etoile (N Fehily, 2-1 Fav) 1; Dolatulo (6-1 2nd Fav) 2; Kilmurvy (10-1) 3; Who’s Cross (10-1) 4. Hcap 16 ran. 12l, 3l, 7l. (C Longsdon). Tote: £3.20; pl £1.40, £1.90, £2.00, £2.50. Ex: £21.90. Tricast: £109.49. Trifecta: £80.70. CSF: £14.52. 2 hurdles omitted.

4.30—What a good night (R Hatch, 7-1) 1; Artic Night (8-1) 2; Pod (25-1) 3. Hcap 9 ran. 31l, 21/4l. (N Twiston-Davies; 10-3 Fav The Goldmeister). Tote: £6.10; pl £1.90, £3.00, £8.00. Ex: £21.70. Tricast: £1320.74. Trifecta: £269.90. CSF: £60.88. 2 fences omitted.

5.05—Purple Bay (D O’Regan, 15-8 Fav) 1; Dakar Run (7-2) 2; Memory Cloth (8-1) 3. 10 ran. 1l, 31/2l. (J P Ferguson). Tote: £2.80; pl £1.10, £1.80, £2.30. Ex: £9.00. Trifecta: £38.70. CSF: £8.51. Non-runners: Doctor Harper, Fergal Mael Duin, Sash Of Honour. 2 hurdles omitted.

5.35—Whispering Harry (Miss J Buck, 8-1) 1; Lordship (14-1) 2; Ratify (7-2 2nd Fav) 3. Hcap 9 ran. 2l, 21/4l. (Henry Oliver; 7-4 Fav Thomas Bell). Tote: £11.40; pl £2.40, £2.50, £1.10. Ex: £77.40. Tricast: £466.12. Trifecta: £600.70. CSF: £109.08. Non-runner: Killegney. 2 hurdles omit-ted.


SUndayainTRee: good-good to soft in places1.00—Hawk High (D Cook, 5-2 2nd Fav) 1; Halling’s

Wish (6-1) 2; Sleepy Haven (40-1) 3. 6 ran. 9l, hd. (T Easterby; 4-6 Fav Memberof). Tote: £2.80; pl £1.60, £2.00. Ex: £12.80. Trifecta: £67.30. CSF: £15.36.

1.30—Samingarry (M Quinlan, 11-1) 1; Abbey Storm (14-1) 2; Susquehanna River (11-4 2nd Fav) 3. Hcap 6 ran. 10l, 14l. (N Hawke; 5-2 Fav My Mate Vinnie). Tote: £14.20; pl £4.10, £3.10. Ex: £147.00. Trifecta: £511.60.

CSF: £110.57. 2.05—ely Brown (C Deutsch, 6-5 Fav) 1; Gauvain

(10-1) 2; Lovcen (5-1 2nd Fav) 3. Hcap 7 ran. 8l, 13l. (C Longsdon). Tote: £2.20; pl £1.70, £4.60. Ex: £13.90. Tricast: £42.50. Trifecta: £61.00. CSF: £12.78. Non-runner: Alpha Victor.

2.40—eastlake (A P McCoy, 11-4 Fav) 1; Anay Turge (9-2) 2; Kings Grey (10-1) 3. Hcap 7 ran. 31/4l, 1/2l. (Jonjo O’Neill). Tote: £2.90; pl £1.70, £2.50. Ex: £17.40. Tricast: £101.71. Trifecta: £86.30. CSF: £14.96. Non-runner: Have You Seen Me.

3.15—crowning Jewel (J Reveley, 8-1) 1; Drum Valley (8-1) 2; Uncle Jimmy (5-1) 3. Hcap 11 ran. hd, 11/2l. (K Reveley; 9-2 JtFav Munsaab, 9-2 JtFav Ruacana). Tote: £10.60; pl £3.00, £3.10, £2.10. Ex: £91.60. Tricast: £357.66. Trifecta: £1745.00. CSF: £71.44.

3.50—Royal Regatta (R Johnson, 11-4 2nd Fav) 1; Spirit Of Shankly (9-4 Fav) 2; Revocation (11-1) 3. 7 ran. 11/2l, 21l. (P Hobbs). Tote: £3.50; pl £2.10, £1.90. Ex: £10.10. Trifecta: £39.90. CSF: £9.30.

4.20—deadly Sting (A P McCoy, 11-8 Fav) 1; Bally Braes (10-1) 2; Sir Mangan (11-2) 3. 7 ran. hd, 38l. (Jonjo O’Neill). Tote: £2.10; pl £1.40, £3.20. Ex: £15.20. CSF: £16.25. Non-runner: Ma’ire Rua.

Placepot: £1,540.30 Quadpot: £13.40

WincanTOn: good-good to soft in places1.15—invicta Lake (P Brennan, 10-1) 1; Bold Raider

(10-1) 2; Call A Truce (8-1) 3; Young Hurricane (17-2) 4. Hcap 17 ran. 11/2l, 5l, 1l. (Miss S Smith; 6-1 Fav Bois Des Aigles). Tote: £12.70; pl £3.40, £2.70, £3.10, £1.70. Ex: £119.80. Tricast: £852.82. Trifecta: £405.40. CSF: £96.38. Non-runner: Reyno.

1.45—Southfield Theatre (H Derham, 4-5 Fav) 1; Padre Tito (5-1 2nd Fav) 2; Ballyallia Man (6-1) 3. 7 ran. 5l, 18l. (P Nicholls). Tote: £2.00; pl £1.60, £2.50. Ex: £4.90. Trifecta: £21.80. CSF: £4.77. Non-runners: Blazing Bouncer, Patsys Castle, Two Mile Bridge.

2.20—deciding Moment (M Grant, 25-1) 1; Cinevator (50-1) 2; Silver Commander (12-1) 3; Ultragold (12-1) 4. Hcap 16 ran. 5l, 2l, 18l. (B De Haan; 5-1 JtFav Midnight Oscar, 5-1 JtFav Hot Whiskey). Tote: £34.60; pl £6.20, £7.60, £2.70, £3.30. Ex: £1494.10. Tricast: £14638.17. Trifecta: Not won. CSF: £870.77.

2.55—Standing Ovation (Conor O’Farrell, 5-1 2nd Fav) 1; Highland Lodge (6-4 Fav) 2; Inside Dealer (20-1) 3. Hcap 12 ran. 13/4l, 28l. (D Pipe). Tote: £6.40; pl £2.00, £1.60, £3.80. Ex: £15.20. Tricast: £139.89. Trifecta: £959.90. CSF: £12.26.

3.30—Minellaforleisure (P Brennan, 17-2) 1; Toowoomba (7-1 2nd Fav) 2; Berkeley Avenue (33-1) 3. 6 ran. 7l, 1l. (A Hales; 1-3 Fav Vicente). Tote: £8.60; pl £3.10, £2.60. Ex: £67.80. Trifecta: £280.40. CSF: £62.25.

4.05—Franklin Roosevelt (T Scudamore, 7-2) 1; Jayandbee (5-2 2nd Fav) 2; Global Warming (2-1 Fav) 3. Hcap 6 ran. 6l, 11/4l. (D Pipe). Tote: £2.90; pl £1.50, £2.20. Ex: £12.60. Tricast: £19.89. Trifecta: £32.20. CSF: £12.75. Non-runners: Always Bold, Joaaci, Minella Ranger, Quayside Court.

4.35—Theatrelands (A Coleman, 9-2 Fav) 1; Maxi Chop (7-1) 2; Chemistry Master (8-1) 3. Hcap 10 ran. hd, 21/4l. (C Longsdon). Tote: £4.10; pl £1.40, £2.70, £3.00. Ex: £30.40. Tricast: £180.89. Trifecta: £182.90. CSF: £30.81. Non-runners: Khazium, Looking Hopeful, Pistolet Noir. Looking Hopeful| Rule 4 applies to All Bets, deduct 10p in the pound.

Jackpot: not won, pool of £10,668.51 carried over to Redcar.


1.30 – Midnight Rambler2.00 – Angel Flores2.30 – Justonefortheroad3.00 – Jazz3.30 – Fattsota4.00 – Ortac Rock4.30 – Capitol Gain

12.40 – Sleeper Class1.10 – Dyamo Walt1.40 – Personal Opinion (nap)2.10 – Dansili Dutch2.40 – Bold And Free3.10 – Desert Skies3.40 – Dutiful Son4.10 – Lady Poppy

Going: Heavy (Soft in places; GoingStick 5.2)

Going: Soft (GoingStick 6.4).Inspection: 7.30am Inspection: 7.30am

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GOLF

Gonzalo Fernandez-Castanowon his seventh EuropeanTour title with victory in theBMW Masters in Shanghai,despite a messy finish to hisfinal round.

Fernandez-Castano wasthree shots clear of the fieldwith one hole to play, but ranup a double-bogey six on the18th to mar an otherwise bril-liant performance.

The Spaniard began the dayone shot behind joint leadersLuke Guthrie and Rafael Cab-rera-Bello but carded a closing68 to finish 11 under par atLake Malaren, one shot aheadof Seve Trophy team-mateFrancesco Molinari and Thai-land’s Thongchai Jaidee.

Molinari was six shots offthe pace at the start of the dayand despite a front nine of 34,his chances looked to havegone with a bogey on the 12th.

However, the Ryder Cup starthen went on a brilliant scor-ing run, making an eagle onthe par-five 13th and following

Gonzalo claimstitle despite hismessy finish

that with four birdies in suc-cession to join Fernandez-Castano on ten under beforecompleting a superb 64.

Fernandez-Castano edgedback into the lead with a birdieon the 13th and looked to havesealed a comfortable win withfurther birdies at the 15th and17th, where he chipped in fromjust over the green.

He made hard work of thelast, though, finding sand offthe tee and another bunkerwith his third shot before hold-ing his nerve to complete hisfirst victory since last year’sItalian Open.

Spain’sGonzaloFernandez-Castanoholds hischampiontrophy

Race winner and world champion Sebastian Vettel is held aloft by Indian Grand Prix runner-up Nico Rosberg (left)and third-placed Romain Grosjean AIJAZ RAHI/AP

Ve t t e l ’s prideat answeringthe boo-boysBY JAMIE STRICKLANDin Greater Noida

Sebastian Vettel has revealedhis hurt at being repeatedlybooed by race fans this seasonbut was delighted to give the“right answer on the track” byclinching his fourth world titlewith victory in yesterday’sIndian Grand Prix.

Vettel has faced hostilepodium receptions in Canada,Italy and Singapore thisseason, a trend that is pre-sumed to be the legacy of hiscontroversial decision to defyteam orders and pass Red Bullteam-mate Mark Webber forthe win at the MalaysianGrand Prix in March.

Happily for the Germanthere were no such ugly scenesat the Buddh InternationalCircuit after he produced aconsummate drive to win atthe track for the third year in ar ow.

It was also Vettel’s sixth winin succession this season, andtenth overall, but more per-tinently it was a result that sawhim become the youngest four-time world champion, joiningAlain Prost, Michael Schu-macher and Juan ManuelFangio as the only men toreach that milestone.

“It was for sure not an easyseason, even though peoplefrom the outside got the ideathat we had it in our hands forquite a while,” said Vettel. “Ithink it was a difficult one, allin all – very difficult for me,p e r s o n a l ly.

“To receive boos eventhough you haven’t done any-thing wrong, but to overcomethat and to give the rightanswer on the track and finallyget that acceptance I thinkwe ’re all looking for as racingdrivers, it makes me veryp ro u d . ”

At the age of just 26, Vettel issix years younger than Schu-macher was when he became afour-time champion in 2001,and will fancy his chances ofeclipsing his compatriot’s out-right record of seven world

Indian Grand Prix, New Delhi, (60 laps):1 S Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 1hr 31mins12.187secs, 2 N Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes1:31:42.010, 3 R Grosjean (Fra) Lotus1:31:52.079, 4 F Massa (Bra) Ferrari1:31:53.879, 5 S Perez (Mex) McLaren1:31:56.016, 6 L Hamilton (Gbr) Mercedes1:32:04.662, 7 K Raikkonen (Fin) Lotus1:32:20.175, 8 P di Resta (Gbr) Force India1:32:25.055, 9 A Sutil (Ger) Force India1:32:26.921, 10 D Ricciardo (Aus) ScuderiaToro Rosso 1:32:28.424, 11 F Alonso (Spa)Ferrari 1:32:30.484, 12 P Maldonado (Ven)Williams 1:32:31.138, 13 J-E Vergne (Fra)Scuderia Toro Rosso at 1 lap, 14 J Button (Gbr)McLaren at 1 lap, 15 E Gutierrez (Mex) Sauber-Ferrari at 1 lap, 16 V Bottas (Fin) Williams at 1lap, 17 M Chilton (Gbr) Marussia at 2 laps, 18J Bianchi (Fra) Marussia at 2 laps, 19 NHulkenberg (Ger) Sauber-Ferrari at 6 laps. Notclassified: 20 M Webber (Aus) Red Bull 39 Lapscompleted, 21 C Pic (Fra) Caterham 35 lapscompleted, 22 G van der Garde (Ned)Caterham 1 laps completed.World Championship standings,Drivers: 1 S Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 322pts, 2 FAlonso (Spa) Ferrari 207, 3 K Raikkonen (Fin)Lotus 183, 4 L Hamilton (Gbr) Mercedes 169, 5M Webber (Aus) Red Bull 148, 6 N Rosberg(Ger) Mercedes 144, 7 R Grosjean (Fra) Lotus102, 8 F Massa (Bra) Ferrari 102, 9 J Button(Gbr) McLaren 60, 10 P di Resta (Gbr) ForceIndia 40, 11 N Hulkenberg (Ger) Sauber-Ferrari39, 12 S Perez (Mex) McLaren 33, 13 A Sutil(Ger) Force India 28, 14 D Ricciardo (Aus)Scuderia Toro Rosso 19.Manufacturers: 1 Red Bull 470pts, 2Mercedes 313, 3 Ferrari 309, 4 Lotus 285, 5McLaren 93, 6 Force India 68, 7 Sauber-Ferrari45, 8 Scuderia Toro Rosso 32, 9 Williams 1.

FORMULA ONE RESULTS

titles in the years to come.Vettel added: “To win fourtitles, it’s just a big number,you know?

“To join people like that –Michael, Fangio, Prost – isvery difficult to put into per-spective. I’m way too young tounderstand what it means.”

Ve t t e l ’s win also wrapped upthe constructors’ title for RedBull and team principal Chris-tian Horner led the praise forVe t t e l ’s achievement over theteam radio, telling his charge:

cedes’ Nico Rosberg andRomain Grosjean of Lotus tocomplete the podium.

Vettel had a 90-point leadover Ferrari’s FernandoAlonso coming into this week-end but the Spaniard’s slimhopes were ended by first-lapcollisions with Webber andJenson Button that saw himfinish 11th.

There was a sting in the tail

on Vettel’s big day, however,when he was summonedbefore the stewards to explainhis actions after the race.

Vettel turned doughnuts onthe pit straight before drop-ping to his knees in mock-prayer to the all-conqueringRed Bull RB9 that has seldomfailed him all year – the FIAtook a dim view and hit Vettelwith a reprimand and Red Bull

a £21,300 fine. Elsewhere, Fer-rari’s Felipe Massa took fourthin the race ahead of McLaren’sSergio Perez and LewisHamilton of Mercedes, withLotus’ Kimi Raikkonen sev-enth.

Force India’s Paul Di Restaended his long points droughtwith eighth while Frome-bornMcLaren driver Button camehome a lap down in 14th.

Lorenzo stays in huntMOTOR CYCLING

Reigning champion JorgeLorenzo ensured the 2013MotoGP title battle will godown to next month’s finalrace of the season in Valenciaby claiming victory at the Air-Asia Grand Prix of Japan,

Lorenzo headed into the racein Motegi 18 points behindRepsol Honda’s brilliantrookie Marc Marquez.

With 15 laps to go, Lorenzohad Marquez and Dani Ped-rosa (also Repsol Honda) on histail, but the two-time worldchampion managed to pullaway in the closing stages.

Having started on pole,Lorenzo dominated the GP atthe Twin Ring Motegi to winby 3.188 seconds over Marquez,while Pedrosa claimed third,4.592s behind the Yamahar i d e r.

The win was Lorenzo’s sev-enth of the year and second in arow, after he also took out theAustralian GP at Phillip Islandlast week, and moved the 26-year-old Spaniard onto 305points, while Marquez ad-vanced to 318 with Pedrosa(280) in third overall.

“Until we finish racing, weknow the championship is notove r, ” said Lorenzo.

SPEEDWAY

Somerset Rebels bid to makeclub history tonight when theycontest the second leg of thePremier League Champion-ship Final at the OaktreeArena against the EdinburghM o n a rch s.

Somerset have never won aLeague Championship titleand will need to overcome atwo-point deficit if they are towin after a 45-43 defeat in theaway leg last Friday.

“We may only be two pointsbehind, but those points stillhave to be won,” said Somersetteam manager Garry May.

“Edinburgh will be going allout to defend that lead, so noth-ing can be taken for granted.”

“So what we really need isfor all the Rebels fans to getdown to the Oaktree Arena andfor one last time this year to getright behind the boys as theylook to write another chapterin the history of the club.”

tonight’s action is scheduledto begin at 7.30pm (turnstilesopening at 5.30pm), with theusual end-of-season fireworkdisplay afterwards, but shouldthe weather intervene then ar-rangements have been made tore-stage the match tomorrownight.Jorge Lorenzo crosses the finish line

“Yo u ’ve done it in style. Youjoin the greats – well done.”

Vettel took the chequeredflag 30 seconds clear of thechasing pack, moving him intoan unassailable 115-point leadwith three races to spare.

Webber had been on target tomake it a Red Bull one-two butan alternator problem forcedhim to retire at two-thirds dis-tance, paving the way for Mer-

Serena fightsback for titleTENNIS

Serena Williams summonedup the energy to fight backfrom a set down to defeat Li Naand retain her WTA Champi-onships title.

Williams found her game inthe second set and thenromped through the decider towin 2-6 6-3 6-0 after two hoursand nine minutes.� Arg entina’s Juan Martin delPotro overcame home favour-ite Roger Federer to retain hisSwiss Indoors title in Basle.

The top seed beat the five-time former champion 7-6 2-66-4 in a match which lasted twohours and 21 minutes.� B r i t a i n’s Dominic Inglot haswon his second ATP WorldTour doubles title in Baslewith Filipino partner TreatHuey. They recovered fromlosing the second set to Aus-trians Julian Knowle andOliver Marach to win 6-3 3-6 10-4 on a match tie-break.

May rallies Rebels fans

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