EAST Morton landlord Martin Crosswaite took a day off to compete and win the annual Steve Walker Memorial Trial at Draughton on Sunday.

The West Leeds club staged the event on a brand new trials course created through hours of hard work.

Bushes were cut back and rocks were moved to mark out a 14-section course which tested all 49 competitors. Crosswaite won with 16 penalties – one fewer than Ben Hemingway.

Section 13 was unlucky for Leeds veteran David Walker as he lost control of his Beta machine and fell into bushes under the machine.

His wife Janet was observing the section and climbed up and stopped the engine before lifting the machine and freeing her husband.

Despite that experience David continued and finished 13th in the Clubman B class.

His son Liam, fresh from fifth place in the British trials championship in Devon on Saturday, finished fourth behind East Keswick brothers Ben and Dan Hemingway.

Mirfield's Andrew Jackson and Pudsey's Mark Chippendale won the clubman classes. Bradford novice Keiran Child won the Sam Ludgate Trophy.

Experts: 1 Martin Crosswaite (Montesa) 16, 2 Ben Hemingway (Beta) 17, 3 Dan Hemingway (Beta) 29.

Inter: 1 Tom Rushton (Montesa) 44, 2 Louis Haley (Montesa) 52.

Novices: 1 Keiran Child (Beta) 32, 2 Tom Middleton (Beta) 62.

Youth Class A: William Tolson (Beta) 57.

Clubman A novices: 1 Andrew Jckson (SCorpa) 23, 2 Ben Ludgate (Gas Gas) 41, 3 Richard Mellon (Vertigo) 46.

Over 45s: Nigel Crowther (Vertigo) 31.

Youth Class B: 1 Harry Hemingway (Beta) 63, 2 Harvey Taglione (Gas Gas) 128.

Clubman B: 1 Mark Chippendale (Vertigo) 20, 2 Chris Tolson (Beta) 26, 3 Paul Gravestock (Scorpa) 34.

Youth Class C: Henry Stephenson (Beta) 60.

Lothersdale's Graham Parker won the easy course class in the Wetherby Motor Club's Norman Crooks Trophy trial at Greenhow on Saturday evening.

He had six penalties, one fewer than Thomas Simpson and Ian Brogden but only on most cleans.

The Toft Gate Farm course was battered by gale force wind so severe that riders and observers were almost blown away.

Clerk of Course Patrick Darbyshire spent the afternoon marking the course while carrying a weighty bag of flags and section markers.

Only the final section in the quarry escaped the weather where at least observer Sara Laws enjoyed a vestige of shelter.

Wetherby will stage the next Crooks Trophy event at Cockhill Mines on Saturday, at 5.30 pm.