The East Bendigo Rifle Range is the venue this Sunday for the seventh race of the Bendigo Athletic Club cross-country season, the Schultz and Stewart Landscaping 6500 metres Handicap.  The hot favourite for the race is Kangaroo Flat runner John Bailey.

Bailey is in excellent form having finished second in Race 6 and then leading his team to victory in last week’s Club relays.  John is unlikely to have it all his own way however with plenty of others, led by Ingrid Douglass and Mark Perdon, looking to upstage him and grab the win and the accompanying $250.

On what started as a cold frosty Sunday morning, soon became a scorcher for athletes in race 6 of the Bendigo Athletic Club cross country season.  The race, sponsored by Purtill’s Nursery, featured an undulating 8km which started and finished at the Huntly Livestock Exchange.

After a frantic last minute drive through the outer suburbs of Bendigo and a rushed warm up, causing her to miss the start slightly, Adina Morrow still managed to record her first VCCL win in Sunday’s Flack Advisory Handicap. On her first trip to Woodvale, Adina was guided to the venue over the phone by Mark Findlay.