EVENT STATUS : IS OVER for 2011

Winners: team TH2H
New trail record time - Leigh Marsden

Classes:
Open team 2-3 / 4-6 dog
Pure bred team 2-3 / 3-4 / 5-6 dog
Mixed team 2-3 / 3-4 dog
Freight team 1-2 / 2-3 dog
Novice team 2 dog
junior - 1-2 dog
scooter/bikejor - 1-2 dog

October 8th/9th 2011 - location Beechenhurst Picnic Site.

Speech House - Forest of Dean

An exciting and fun race to kick off the seasons!

this is a 2 day event

DAY 1 & 2: Dean Doubles race - a team-up style event with 2 mushers forming a team and combining times over the days racing.

We will be holding a Novice class for teams to run their first rally with the help of an experienced musher or friend against other novice mushers.  One musher must be a novice, i.e. this being their first race.

£30 per team entry - £15 per musher scooter and junior class, camping on site £5. scooter and junior classes run both days.(1 mile approx).

2010 - winning team - Team Trailblaze boys - Greame Good, Roly Brading
winners of the GAVALLERS TROPHY 2010

Unfortunatly, someone took the only copy of the time sheet for 2010 so results were lost.

Trail (2.75 miles approx) is fast and easy for mushers and dogs. starting up the famous giants chair it then flatens out with some down hill and undulating sections. includes the fast white gates turn! smooth and hard pack gravel, with grassy and dirt sections. plenty of turns, one of the fastest, easest trails on the calander!

Musher meeting day one 8am
first team off 9am
rig inspections from 7.30 - 8am
site opens 6am
over night camping on site £5
mushers meal in gavellers cafe from 6pm (order in advance please)
marshals FOD 4x4 Club
first team off 9am day one and 8am day two.
we hope to provide some entertainment on sat eve of some sorts.

Prizes for all classes - watch out for the spot prizes!!!!

Come and have an exciting weekends racing, have some fun and blow those cobwebs out as the season starts, one of the most fun races on the calender, suitable for novice teams!