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10.15pm: Hard to believe that Welsford is only 22 and O’Brien 19. Their best is yet to come.
Final leaderboard:
Final leaderboard: Welsford/O’Brien 91 points, Scott/Howard 71 points, Yallouris/Kerby 39 points, Plowright/Evans -1 lap 68 points, Buckell/Slattery –1 lap 30 points.
9.58pm: Congratulations to Sam Welsford and Kell O’Brien – Bendigo Madison champions.
Howard and Scott second, Yallouris and Kerby third.
9.52pm: Cream rising to the top. Welsford and O’brien have dominated the previous 20 laps.
They lead Howard and Scott by 22 points.
9.48pm: Welsford and O’Brien out to 14-point lead. Just about game over.
9.45pm: Still plenty of laps left but it’s hard to see Welsford and O’Brien losing. Welsford won latest sprint.
69 plays 57 with 30 laps left.
9.42pm: Welsford edges Scott in another classic sprint finish. Welsford and O’Brien lead by 9 with 32 laps to go.
9.40pm: Plowright and Evans reeled in and O’Brien wins sprint to extend lead to 6 points.
9.38pm: Welsford/O’Brien 54
Scott/Howard 50
Yallouris/Kerby 28
Plowright/Evans -1 lap 61 points.
9.37pm: Plowright and Evans are having another crack. They’re in 4th place but they are a lap down. If they can regain the lap they will be in front on points.
9.31pm: Welsford/O’Brien 49
Howard/Scott 45
Yallouris/Kerby 27
9.30pm: Welsford pips Howard in a thrilling sprint finish to gain an extra point on his closest rival.
9.28pm: Scott gets revenge on O’Brien by winning next sprint. Margin back to 6 points. Hard to see anyone else winning.
9.25pm: O’Brien again – another 5 points. Howard second.
Welsford/O’Brien 43, Howard/Scott 35, Yallouris/Kerby 27.
70 laps to go.
9.15pm: Kell O’Brien has been outstanding in this race. The 19-year-old wins sprint in fine fashion.
Welsford/O’Brien 38, Howard/Scott 32, Yallouris/Kerby 27.
Plowright and Evans have most points on 44 but they are a lap down.
9.10pm: Howard and Scott win next sprint to cut lead to 3 points.
9.08pm: Grassman and Stopler have lost their lap. Race in three teams it appears now.
9.07pm: Leaderboard at halfway mark of the race:
Welaford/O’Brien 33
Howard/Scott 25
Yallouris/Kerby 21
9.06pm: Pace dropped slightly as the four leading teams take a breather.
9.01pm: Leaders on points Welsford/O’Brien 26, Yalllouris/Kerby 21, Howard/Scott 20 and Grassman/Stopler 6.
9pm: We have four teams on the lead lap.Yallouris/Kerby and Howard/Scott and Stopler/Grassman have joined Welsford and O’Brien after lapping the field.
8.56pm: Yallouris/Kerby and Howard/Scott and Stopler/Grassman quarter of a lap away from regaining the lap.
8.54pm: 140 laps to go:
Welsford/O’Brien 25 pts
Plowright/Evans -1 lap 36 pts
Yallouris/Kerby -1 lap 13 pts.
Howard/Scott -1 lap 11 pts.
8.52pm: The favourites – Welsford and O’Brien – gain a lap but Howard/Scott and Yallouris/Kerby and Stopler/Grassman are trying to regain that lap now.
8.49pm: 150 laps to go:
Plowright and Evans 33, Welsford and O’Brien 20, Buckell and Slattery 10.
8.47pm: Wow. Kell O’Brien goes bang and reels in Plowright and Evans in the blink of an eye. Both teams now out in front and attempting to take a lap.
8.42pm: Update with 160 laps to go:
Plowright and Evans 25, Welsford and O’Brien 15, Buckell and Slattery 10, Howard and Scott 7, Kerby and Yallouris 7.
8.38pm: A tumble between the green team (Stopler and Grassman) and Plapp and Bof. Riders ok. Both teams continuing.
8.36pm: Plowright and Evans were within touching distance of gaining a lap before Welsford and O’Brien set up a surge by the main group.
8.32pm: 3 sprints down and we have a breakaway. Youngsters Brad Evans and Jensen Plowright have a half lap lead of the pack and they’re picking up points as they go.
8.27pm: Nick Yallouris and Jordan Kerby strike in the first sprint. 5 points to them. Howard and Scott second. Welsford and O’Brien third.
8.25pm: We’re underway in the Symes Motors BMW Bendigo Madison.
8.23pm: Nearly time….
8.01pm: Time now to prepare for the Bendigo Madison. 15 minutes until race time.
8pm: Ruby Roseman-Gannon does it again. The women’s Madison champion wins the women’s A-grade scratch race.
7.50pm: A win for Richmond fans. Paddy Turner is the son of former Richmond defender Scott Turner.
7.41pm: Paddy Turner wins the Black Opal 400m final in fine style. Bendigo’s Jake Hilson unplaced.
7.35pm: Black Opal 400m final time and the good news is that Bendigo’s Jake Hilson did qualify for the final.
7.34pm: Hometown win for Bendigo’s Jacob Nolan in the Backmarkers Mile.
Racing off 130m, Nolan took the lead with more than a lap to go and never looked like being headed in the final 400m.
7.25pm: Check out some of the faces in the crowd at tonight’s madison carnival.
7.20pm: Gilmore’s biggest win of his career. Fourth time Brendan Schultz has been on the podium in the Golden Mile, including a win in 2009.
7.10pm: 15m behind scratch proved too much for Sam Welsford and it was Tassie’s Zac Gilmore who pipped Bendigo’s Brendan Schultz to win the Golden Mile.
Welsford made up a huge amount of ground to finish fourth, but Gilmore and Schultz were too far ahead.
Schultz looked the winner on the home turn, but Gilmore overhauled him in the final 50m.
Gilmore is recovering from a second bout of chemotherapy.
7.07pm: Golden Mile riders being introduced. My tip is Josh Harrison to upstage Welsford, Leigh Howard, Yallouris, Kell O’Brien and co.
7pm: Riders warming up for the Golden Mile Wheelrace final. Sam Welsford chasing an historic third-straight win.
Bendigo’s Finn Poxon, Mitchell Barrow, Josh Thomson, Emerson Julian and Brendan Schultz in the final.
6.50pm: The favourite Rupert Lugo gave punters plenty to cheer about when he cruised to victory in the Bendigo Thousand.
6.40pm: Kayla Lemm too good in the Bendigo Thousand women’s gift.
6.33pm: Nick Yallouris causes an upset in Invitation Kierin final. Yallouris held off Sam Welsford in final 50m to win event for second-straight year.
6.30pm: Jake Hilson a gallant 4th in his semi-final, but unlikely to be quick enough time to make the final.
6.24pm: Bendigo’s Lonain Burnett outside of the top four in his semi-final and he won’t make the final.
Paddy Turner won semi-final two off 27m handicap. Time was 47.22 seconds.
6.21pm: Josh Evans was the fastest qualifier in the heats of the Black Opal and he further enhanced his favouritism tag with a comfortable semi-final win in 47.29 seconds.
6.16pm: Time now for the semi-finals of the lucrative Black Opal 400m.
Bendigo’s Jake Hilson in semi-final 3, while Lonain Burnett in semi-final 2.
Winner of each semi-final and the next 6 fastest times through to the final later tonight.
6.12pm: Bendigo Women’s Madison winner Sam de Ritter continues her good form by winning the 100m women’s handicap.
Elizabeth Nuspan second, with Vanessa Goos third.
6.05pm: Heats of the Invitation Kierin have been run and won. Leigh Howard was a brilliant winner of heat one. Howard took off around the field with 600m to go and held off Godfrey Slattery in the fial 50m.
In heat two, Sam Welsford didn’t get out of first gear and cruised to victory from Japanese rider Minori Shimmura.
Final on in 30 minutes.
6pm: Welcome all to night two of the Bendigo International Madison carnival.
Another hot day in Bendigo today and the action on the cycling and athletics tracks will be just as hot tonight.
The feature finals are scheduled to start from around 6.35pm.
The Kierin final is at 6.35pm followed by the women’s Bendigo Thousand athletics race at 6.40pm.
The Bendigo Thousand for men is at 6.45pm followed by the Golden Mile Wheelrace at 7.10pm.
The Backmarkers Mile for athletics is at 7.30pm before the Black Opal 400m final at 7.40pm.
We’ll have a couple of scratch races on the bike track before the Bendigo International Madison starts at about 8.20pm.
Before we start night two, check out what happened last night.
