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Scottish Siberian Husky Club Rally Championship 2006-2007

Ae Forest Rally Dumfries & Galloway

14^th and 15^th Oct 2006

The first two day rallies of the seasons Championship got underway at the Ae Forest held by the Scottish Siberian Husky Club on the 14/15^th October 06 with over 60 entries.  The worrying aspect as always at the start of the season is the weather conditions, with higher and more humid temperatures now being the norm through Aug and Sept, it’s difficult to start up training and get any distance into the dogs. For most entrants it was used as a good training run within their planned programme.

The distance was kept to below 3 miles for all teams and they each coped within their varying abilities to complete the undulating trail. The surface was good considering the heavy rain falls in the preceding 2/3 weeks. Thankfully, we were fortunate to have a rain free weekend and not much sunshine came through which if it did could have pushed up the temperatures.

Temperatures on the trail on the Sat were between 10 & 13deg and slightly cooler on the Sunday at between 9 & 12 deg.

The juniors enjoyed the trail laid out for them which gave them a bit of a challenge and we would like to hear more from them on what you would prefer.

A new camping venture negotiated by Steven Lindsay through the Barony College went ahead over the weekend, all was reported to have gone well and was very busy with hungry mushers partaking of a 2 course dinner which was very reasonable priced. A bar was available for those that wanted some refreshments!!!!!!and a fun quiz to enter which got the brain cells thinking…..a very pleasant social gathering which everyone enjoyed.

The camping was on hard concrete so no worrying about being stuck and the shower and toilet facilities were opened from the Friday by Mellissa who was a great help in sorting the site for the campers, and also an excellent start timer for every class over the weekend, even making sure the snubbers were there on time!

As always, but never taken for granted is a really big thank you to everyone who willingly helped out over the weekend without any cajoling or being chased up, which  organisers just don’t have time to do, it’s very much appreciated and one less headache to be concerned about….thank-you.

To the committee for being on hand to do what was needed and the catering van which was new but had good reviews and was well supported by everyone (thank you for that)

Ann and Alex Shaw rally organisers

Saturday 14^th Oct - Results

Distance 2.8 an undulating trail, weather conditions were dry temp range 11-13 deg

B CLASS    ( 6 Dog team)

Competitor                  Time              Position 

Steven Hopley               9.37                     1

John Patchett                10.03                     2

Alex Shaw                    10.08                     3

Pete Jones                     11.51                     4

Ewan Robertson           13.01                     5

C CLASS   (4 Dog Team)        

Competitor                  Time              Position 

Colin Stewart                10.54                    1

Andrea Taylor               11.09                    2

John Patchett                 11.11                    3

Steve Holmes                11.22                    4

Karen Jones                  12.00                     5

Steven Studley              13.02                    6

Vicky Lee                     13.03                     7

Kurt Vendelborg           13.23                    8

Malcolm Bateman        16.34                     9

Cathy Batt                     16.44                   10

David Dalziel                22.27                   11

Mike McRae                 32.41                   12

C2 CLASS  (4 Dog Team )

Competitor                  Time              Position 

Alan Ballantine             16.01                    1

E CLASS ( 3 Dog Team

Competitor                    Time              Position 

Alex Shaw                      10.59                    1

Steve Taylor                     11.17                   2

Mike Rigg                       11.22                   3

Tony Fethon                    12.08                   4

Yvonne Keene                 12.19                  5

Mel Hannam                    13.04                  6

Guss Hogg                       13.43                  7

Wendy Stewart                14.01                  8

Brian Duncan                   14.32                  9

Ewan Robertson               16.37                 10

Mr Witt                            17.55                 11

Mark Kennedy                 22.59                 12

D CLASS (2 Dog Team)

Competitor                   Time              Position 

Kevin Hale                     13.29                    1

Mike Rigg                      14.00                    2

John Pearce                    14.25                    3

Ann Shaw                       15.08                   4

Lisa Curtin                     15.21                    5

Phil Clarke                     16.02                    6

Lesley Neighbour          17.22                    7

Malcolm Bateman w/v  18.09                    8

David Dalziel                18.54                     9

Sharon Jones                 19.24                     10

Darren Knox                  21.03                    11

Susan Livingston           22.37                    12

D3 CLASS  (2 dog Freight)

Competitor                   Time              Position 

Alan Ballantine              17.25                    1

Martin Hall                     20.18                    2

Dougie Stewart               20.21                    3

Roger Bellamy                21.31                    4

Jason Brownlee               21.41                   5

Ian Elliot                         22.07                    6

Iain Winning                   25.21                    7

Katie Betts                      25.48                    8

Scooter Class             Distance 1.4mile undulating trail

Competitor                   Time              Position

David Dalziel                   8.51                     1

Ewan Robertson   v        10.41                     2

Martin Hall                     13.30                     3

Richard Honer                13.53                     4

Canicross            

Pete Jones                       9.15                       1

Mel Hannam                   9.17                       2

J1

Competitor                   Time              Position

Ryan Patterson                 8.20                     1

Conor Caruthers               9.05                     2

Kayleigh Robertson  v    10.39                   3

J2

Millie Bateman                 9.02                     1

Kayleigh Batt                    9.38                     2

Rhiannon Betts                27.24                     3