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Say, where are all those gnarly sections they warned us about?
Dixon takes low
score at Fort Hood
Cowhouse enduro
By Margaret Carter
KILLEEN, TX, SEPT. 9
Joe Dixon, mounted on a 250
KTM, bagged the overall "A"
win at the Fon Hood Din Riders
Seventh Annual Cowhouse Enduro with II points. Bobby Pickard,
accomplished motocrosser and first
time enduro rider, took the 250cc "A"
class win with the same score of II
points, but blew his chance at the
overall by burning the tie-breaker
check. Larry Burleson cinched overall
"B" with 32 points, four points better
than his closest competition, Gary
Horton.
This year's course was essentially last
year's course backwards, which
probably accounts for some of t.he
flagging being on the left hand side of
the trail. The course was the same
heart-in-throat experience as all Fort
Hood rides; straight up and down with'
"no top" hills, rocks as hard as a
hooker's heart, and tree limbs even
harder. One particularly rasty uphill
caused a major bottleneck well into
the event and succeeded in putting
points on most of the riders. Race
chairman, Gary Drain, followed the
customary Fort Hood philosophy of
putting the riders through several test
sections of tight, twisty woods trails,
followed with a checkpoint. Due to a
manpower shortage, there were
virtually no checkpoints designed to
catch the rider who gambles and rides
hot.
Just after the second gas, most of the
first 40 numbers did not see a lonely
marker pointing toward the last loop.
Many were hopelessly lost and quit,
.but many more not 50 faint-hearted
souls persevered to the bitter end to
turn in scores well into three digits.
There was a long line at the protest
sheet, but FHDR officials voted to let
the scores stand, since more than 50
percent of the first 40 numbers
finished. Out of a total of 410 entries,
there were 224 finishers.
Even though race day dawned cool
and bright, Kinki Koi still came
prepared to the riders' meeting
wearing a raincoat and holding an
TURBO RACERSI
umbrella, a reminder of past Fort
Hood events when riders were swept
down Cowhouse Creek into Lake
Belton. This year, dust was the
problem which helped to send several
riders to the base hospital. As you sail
over the bars and onto the rocks at
Fort Hood, you at least are secure in
the knowledge that Uncle Sugar's
medics will be there soon.
The Fort Hood Din Riders also
hosted the TSCEC awards banquet on
Saturday night preceeding the event.
Trophies were presented to the top 20
riders in the state in each of the classes
for the 1978-79 season.
Overall "A" went to Maico-rider
Perry Davis, who was also added to the
Texas Enduro Hall of Fame for his
second overall "A" year. Maicomounted Andrew Cooksey, took
overall "B." Phyllis Hayes won the
Women's overall, riding a Suzuki. The
top three riders in each of the Men's
"B" classes were transferred to the "A"
class for the 1979·80 season.
A special plaque was presented to
Roy Pool, chairman and organizer of
the TSCEC for his dedication to the
sport of enduro riding. It was a framed
cartoon depicting Roy on his Yamahaha looking a lot like Mickey Mouse
entitled, "Phantom Mouse of the
Southwest." The Trail Riders of
Houston's Caney Creek Enduro was
voted the Best Enduro of the 1978- 79
season by an overwhelming majority of
the circuit riders.
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