YORKSHIRE riders got off to a flying start in the opening ACU Acklams Beta British Ladies & Girls Trials Championship at Didcot.

Denholme teenager Olivia Brooksbank won Class A Youth beating Alice Minta by one point.

Cross Hills ladies inter champion Beth Dunning was second in her class and scored 17 championship points. Barnoldswick 13-year-old Lucy Ayrton was sixth in Youth Class B and scored ten championship points.

Silsden's Gabby Whitham contested the adult champion category which was won by multi-world and national champion Emma Bristow.

Gabby was the youngest competitor in what was the supreme class and scored eight championship points.

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Horsforth DMC overcame a legacy of heavy snowfalls and then torrential rain to stage the old established Basic Memorial Trial at Blubberhouses.

The course marking team had a battle dealing with the side effects of the weather, with the end product being a new look 18-section two-lap trial with an 86-strong entry plus 13 separate small wheels girls and boys.

In the championship course class landscaper Ben Hemingway was the only competitor out of 16 contenders to ride every section without stopping.

East Morton landlord Martin Crosswaite was runner-up. He stopped three times but his other three marks were on sections that were near impossible.

Dan Hemingway managed third place while overseeing the efforts of his boys Harry and George. Dan had Danny Gamble and Sam Beecroft-Penny right on his case for all two laps. Only Joe Faunthorpe and Charlie Smith

contested the championship course where Joe excelled in the tricky conditions.

Jamie Stephenson really threw the Montesa at every section.

Results.

Experts: 1 Ben Hemingway (Beta) 5, 2 Martin Crosswaite (Montesa) 18, 3 Dan Hemingway (Beta) 22.

Inters: 1 Louisa Haley (Montesa) 39, 2 Danny Cockshott (Gas Gas) 63.

Novices: 1 Aldis Blacker (Gas Gas) 36, 2 Jack Harker (Beta) 64, 3 William Tolson (Beta) 65.

Youth Class A: 1 Joe Faunthorpe (Beta) 23, 2 Charlie Smith (Beta) 69.

Clubman B: 1 Jamie Stephenson (Montesa) 16, 2 Richard Mellon (Vertigo) 23, 3 Nigel Crowther (Vertigo) 25.

Youth Class B: 1 Harry Hemingway (Beta) 24, 2 Joe Child (Gas Gas) 58, 3 Sam Lampkin (Beta) 62.

Clubman B: 1 Rob Hardisty (Sherco) 21, 2 Howard Gulley (TRS) 23, 3 John Bannister (Beta) 30.

Youth Class B non-comp: 1 George Hemingway (Beta) 25, 2 Alfie Lampkin (Beta) 71, 3 Harry Mcloughlin (Beta) 105.