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Hereford MXC Presentation 2009

Hereford MXC welcomed AMCA MX1 & Superclass Champ Ben Saunders as the special guest to their end of season presentation evening held at the Three Counties hotel.

Local favourite Saunders, joined by 130 strong turn out of members, friends and families enjoyed a three course meal before presentation of awards got underway led by club secretary Peter Reed.

In the Inters Chad Prosser pipped Grant Jones to the top spot and with it the 2009 Inter Junior class trophy. In the Junior Class's Dean Jones topped a competitive Over 18 MX2 class ahead of Glen Owen and Chris Ratcliffe, with Harley Jones topping the Under 18's with Jamie Linton and Dan Clarke rounding off the top three. In the MX1 Juniors Rob Wood was just beaten to the top spot by son Chris Wood. In the seniors Ryan James grabbed the runners up spot in the MX2 class and Ryan Jones topped the class and with it also carried off the Ray Owen Top Points Scoring Senior Trophy. 

In the MX1 Peter Reed and Jeremy Bethell finished 3rd and 2nd respectively with Peter Cole carrying off the David Lowe MX1 Senior award. In the MX2 experts Ash Newton took 3rd with Ryan James taking the runners up spot. Anthony Mapp carried off the top award in the MX2 class. The MX1 experts awards saw Andy Prosser was just beaten to 2nd place by Brother Rob with Chris Rudd comfortably retaining the coveted Stormer MX Top MX1 Expert award, a class containing nearly a third of the clubs rider members.

In other awards Rob Prosser took the Ron Newton Memorial holeshot trophy along with the Ian Lewis Memorial for being a consistent scorer at home meetings. Ryan Jones and Barry Goodman took the Martin Hempsall award again for consistent performances at home meetings. The top HMXC members at the clubs four meetings in 2009 also carried off the following; Ryan James the Ivor Hackley Memorial, Hedley Smith the Ray Hockey Memorial, Ryan Jones the Taylor & Bushnell Trophy and Jamie Linton took the biggest trophy in the club, the much coveted Pop Beumont Memorial with the best performance at the clubs final meeting of the year. 

In the two awards that are voted upon by members, Harley Jones took the Rider of the Year award in a season that saw him move from Juniors to Seniors. Rob Wood was voted by fellow members as Club Person of the Year for his hard work and commitment to the club through out the year. In a new award donated by AJP Process Pipework, the snail award for slowest lap time in the last home meeting of the season in the MX1 Experts Class was awarded by former AMCA Champion Andy Watkins to Steve Powell. 

Club Chairman Andrew Reed awarded the Chairman's Choice Trophy donated by long time Chair Paul Jones, who was in attendance, to Andrew Linton for his outstanding effort through the season. Honouree Life member Geoff Nichols finished the awards by awarding recently retired rider member and long serving club president John Lambert with an honouree life membership.

Club secretary Peter Reed finished the presentation by presenting Saunders with a framed photo of his three race win maximum at Walterstone in September and thanked all members for there unprecedented commitment and work through the season. 

Following club fines and a raffle the club raised £320 for St Michaels Hospice, following on from a very successful season of fund raising, including a calendar of rider members, a sponsored bike ride home from a meeting and a superb charity summer ball, all of which raised over £5000 for county air ambulance. 

(Words Pete Reed)