Melbourne Forest Racers’ star team of Paul Liggins, Bruce Arthur and Adrian Jackson are the 2007 club relay champions after comfortably winning Saturday’s race at Stumpy Gully near Bendigo. Even a 2 minute error by 1st leg runner Liggins when he went to the wrong penultimate control didn’t mar their result.

In an exciting finish MFR’s ‘B’ team consisting of Torgeir ‘Top Gear’ Watne, Dion ‘Neon’ Keech and Warren ‘Wazza’ Key moved into 3rd place just metres from the finish line. Approaching the second to last control Ted van Geldermessen of Yarra Valley was leading Wazza but he took the lead around the dam wall and beat Ted to the finish, even after taking a spectacular short cut through the dam itself, much to the delight of the on-looking crowd.

MFR women’s team of Nicola Dalheim, Tash Key and Jasmine Neve were upset by Eureka’s Belinda Lawford, Aislinn Prendergast and Jenny Bourne after a costly mistake by Dalheim near the end of her course.

Yarra Valley took out group 3, with Barry Hart, Tim Dent and Russell Bullman all running well.  Geoff Lawford (EU) ran the fastest time for this course.

Bendigo’s home ground helped, with Terry Davidson, Peter Hill and Peter Galvin winning Group 4, while Shane Keely, Matthew Browne and James Robertson winning Group 5.

A new generation of Melbourne Forest Racers won Group 6 – Timmy Jackson, Rosie Dalheim and Max Dalheim.