THE final round of the Horsforth DMC UK Challenge Lusky British Youth Championship, Class C and D, at Tong, West Yorkshire, on Saturday finished in dramatic fashion with Class C champion Dan Peace taking on section 12 at Home Farm, with a broken ankle.

Meanwhile, class D mediumwheels rider Joe Faunthorpe headed for the nearest hospital casualty department with a broken finger following a tiebreaker with Scarborough final round winner Zac Collinson.

Youngster Sam Yeomans won his class from Kirkbymoorside’s Jack Peace in Class C at Gnossall, Staffordshire.

If Saturday’s class C and D championship finale threw up some surprises, the ladies and girls’ penultimate ACU championship trial on Sunday was even more of a shock at Home Farm where Horsforth again excelled in their first female championship event.

All the class results made the headlines, but it was those not at the Tong venue who were the topic of conversation.

No sign of 18-year-old championship leader Joanne Coles at all – no word and no withdrawal.

MRS Sherco teamster Becky Cook was in top form on Horsforth’s no-nonsense sections.

Laps of 4-4-5 by Cook totally shaded all other route one contenders.

Even the capable Emma Bristow could not get in a lap under a dozen marks. Hannah Styles won Class A, in pain. The JST employee required 23 stitches in a leg wound the previous Thursday.

Askrigg’s Robyn Alderson dispatched the ladies inter contenders.

Robyn’s White Rose ride carried over and the Askrigg girl did all that father Phil Alderson suggested, leaving Emma Morphett to post a final lap of two.

Skeeby teenager Chloe Richardson goes to the Isle Wight just three points up on Commondale winner Nikita Smith.

Bristol’s 11-year-old Maisie Payne is like the proverbial train, unstoppable, and neither Hurworth’s Beth Waite nor Skeeby’s Niamh Richardson will be able to halt the youngster.

If Richmond girl Nieve Holmes rides the final round, she will take the newcomer championship.

Finally, Nieve won the youth newcomer comfortably from Emily Anderson and Beth Watling, so the three Richmond Motor Club girls will have to ride at the Isle of Wight to decide the class title.

DAN THORPE won the Newcastle DMC Travers Trophy Trial on Sunday St John’s Chapel from JST Gas Gas team colleague Sam Haslam and Herne Bay teenager Ben Morphett.

West Witton youngster Richard Sadler took fourth place ahead of John Crinson and Northallerton’s Guy Kendrew.

The clubman class was won by Peter Grange, ahead of Gary Younghusband and Darlington’s Jonny White. The Weardale trials course was battered by heavy rain throughout the event.

SHEFFIELD veteran trials rider Tony Scarlett turned on the style to win the Yorkshire Centre A&A Westerby Trial championship trial on Sunday at Cartworth Moor where Moorfield Farm’s Gavin Black grabbed the inter class from Manx Two Day winner Joel Sadler, of Harrogate.

WETHERBY Motor Club general secretary Margaret Myers has finalised the standings for the Norman Crooks Trophy series of Saturday trials.

The best five results from seven trials count in the scoring system.

The outright winner is Manx Two day winner Joel Sadler riding his Acklam’s Beta machine.

Joel wins the Castrol Shield and the PHB. Trophy and replica.

Richard Shepherd wins the Norman Crooks Trophy, for the best novice competitor ahead of Joe Bradley, who receives the Walton Trophy.

Ian Myers, Paul Kendal and Nick Hughs head the Clubman class, while the perennial pair of Rob Hardisty and Mick Platts top the Over-40s, split by a single point, ahead of Andrew Kenyon. The youth awards go to James Ford, Nathan Parker, Oliver Hutsby and Josh Reynolds.

Diary Dates Saturday: Stanley Trials Club, trial, Pea Farm, Stanley, noon.

Sunday: Yeadon-Guiseley MC Mel Harrison British Sidecar Championship, Pateley Bridge, 10am. Richmond DMC Crackpot Trial, Low Row, 10.30am. Scarborough DMC September Trial, Low North Park, Harwood Dale, 10.30am. Stanley Trials Club, trial, Oxenlaw Vally Farm, Consett, 11am.