CHRIS Young has secured second place in the over-50s men's National Trophy Series after the sixth and final round at Milton Keynes.

Tim Gould (Zepnat RT-Lazer Helmets) was already guaranteed overall victory, but didn't find it easy asserting his dominance again as the scrap ensued for the minor placings.

Former Keighley resident Young, who rides for Pedalsport CC, was, along with Phil Roach (Team Jewson) and Gould, chasing down leader Grant Johnson (Sunset Cycles).

But on the first descent on the steep drop, Gould lost a wheel in the mud and slid into the tapes.

Young and Roach decided that that was the time to attack, national champion Gould having to work to get back, but he was second behind Johnson by the third lap.

Young stuck to his wheel, and Steve Davies (Hargroves-Ridley) was up with Roach, but the chase for the podium places was between Johnson, Young and Gould, who attacked on the penultimate lap to triumph.

Johnson finished second 14 seconds back and Shipley-based Young was third another 12 seconds adrift, but that was good enough for second overall ahead of Johnson.

In the men's 40-49 years' race, Bingley's Rob Jebb (Hope Factory Racing) took advantage of the absence of Darren Atkins (Ride Coventry) and Jim Bryan (www.Zepnat,com RT-Lazer Helmets), who were one and two in the standings, to not only win the final race but the series with it.

Jebb won by over a minute from Cononley's Ian Taylor (C and N Cycles RT) and his brother and clubmate Andy.

The Taylors took the lead on the opening lap, jumping away from Jebb and a chasing group that included Keith Murray (Scott Racing), Pete Middleton (Zepnat RT-Lazer Helmets), Dan Guest (Performance Cycles) and Eldwick's Rob Thackray (Oldfield-Paul Milnes), among others.

But it was Jebb that was the front-runner coming up to the steps back into the arena on the third lap, and he kept that advantage.

Ian Taylor finished second 65 seconds back, ten seconds in front of his brother, who came third. Thackray was seventh.

Fourth overall went to Ian Taylor, while Jebb said: "I'm pleased with the win and chuffed to win the Series. It's a fantastic course. I've never raced this venue before and it's brilliant.

"Conditions were tough, but I was more worried about having pulled my hamstring training in the week, so I was trying to ride stuff today that I would normally have run.

"It has been wetter than normal this year, but I think it's great as it suits my style."

East Morton's Ian Field (Hargroves Cycles-Ridley RT) had already wrapped up the men's elite series, and therefore didn't compete, and neither did his partner Annie Simpson (Hope Factory Racing) in the elite women's race, where Eldwick's Sophie Thackray (Oldfield/Paul Milnes Cycles) finished tenth.