Horsmonden: Jason wins (twice), Les Liddiard injured

Martin Hulbert reports from the LVRC:

At the recent Horsmunden Les had an accident, it appears from initial reports that it was his collar bone. He went to Tonbridge Hospital. A youngish lady walked out from behind the lead car and infront of the 3 riders in a break, Les was the unfortunate one that came down although the lady got away with it lightly.


Race report
The ABC race was over 5 laps but was shortened to 4 after the accident and our race was stopped temporarily, the older riders passed us when we were stopped. The break that contained Les, Paul Doel & had 20 seconds when the accident happened at the end of lap1 when the race was stopped. This gap was given on the restart but they were caught in the next lap. A few more breaks were tried and unsuccessful until with just under 2 laps to go Matt Seaton went hard up the first climb, only I went with him, he went hard until he was caught by the lined out bunch half way up the second hill. The impressive bit was he attacked again immediatley and the break that formed was never caught. I made it into the break with Matt & 2 others, shortly after Ashley Holding & Jason Edwards from VCM powered across with 2 others making a total of eight in front.

These 8 contested the sprint
1) Jason Edwards (1st A Cat)
2) Paul Caton
3) Ashley Holding (2nd B cat)
4) Martin M'Cready
5) Iain Akhurst
6) Martin Hulbert (2nd C Cat)
7) Matt Seaton
8) Paul Doel

Jason also followed this up with another impressive performance at Goodwood where he won to cement his 2nd place in the overall behind James Makepiece.