{"id":315,"date":"2015-01-21T16:01:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T04:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/?p=315"},"modified":"2015-01-21T16:01:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T04:01:46","slug":"saville-on-form-for-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Saville on form for nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bailey Saville showed she is on form for nationals next week, taking out both senior B grade races and finishing 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in the final handicap. In the 5 lap scratch race Saville caught Bryony Telford who attacked on the bell lap and overtook on the back straight to win. A close sprint between Telford and Ella Harris saw Harris finish 2<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of a derny bike, Brad Evans paced the 8-lap keirin. He rejoined once the sprint had started, catching and overtaking the field. He passed 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place getter James McKeller on the home straight while Bryony Telford fought off Wayne Evans to finish 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In junior racing, Bradley White took the first scratch race after breaking on the bell lap and gaining a 50m lead on the field while Mark McCormack fought hard to overtake the rest of the field and take 2<sup>nd<\/sup>. Connor McDonald outsprinted Madeleine Cooper-Forster to finish 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. In the final handicap race McCormack and White worked hard from scratch to take the lead and finished 1<sup>st<\/sup> and 2<sup>nd<\/sup>. Grace Hurring staved off the opposition to take 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n<p>In the final race of the evening, a long handicap, Brad Evans had to work hard to make up 6 laps on limit rider Mark McCormack to take the lead. With 2 laps to go Evans had caught McCormack, but no one else had made the required leaving McCormack in 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place. A sprint between Bailey Saville and Ella Harris saw Saville claim 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n<p>The roadster field enjoyed 2 extra riders who made an impression with Lily Falcous taking out the 2-lap handicap from sister Rosie Falcous and Olivia McDonald. In a team sprint, Lily lead out for Caleb Rollo, the team narrowly beating Rosie and Olivia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bailey Saville showed she is on form for nationals next week, taking out both senior B grade races and finishing 3rd in the final handicap. In the 5 lap scratch race Saville caught Bryony Telford who attacked on the bell lap and overtook on the back straight to win. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclingotago.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}