News Archive - 2017

We are sorry to report that Gill Vass, Monarchs’ supporter of 35 years standing, has lost her fight against illness. Gill and family (from Danderhall) had been regulars watching Monarchs home and away.

Double delight for Monarchs fans at the second round of the Australian titles at Mildura with Sam Masters holding off the persistent challenges of Max Fricke to win the round, and Josh Pickering beaten on a countback for the last place in the semi final line up after scoring eight points.

The Australian Championship moved to Mildura on Saturday and Sam Masters rode a great race in the final to hold off Max Fricke for the win. Sam is now third in the Championship and has closed the gap on second placed Justin Sedgmen and leader Davy Watt.

In the most even Australian title field for years Sam Masters quickly discovered there were going to be no easy points on offer and would have been disappointed to only pick up a semi final placing when in the previous two years he had taken the silver medal and would have been hoping to go one better this year.

Davey Watt was the winner of the first round of the Australian Championship at Gillman on Wednesday.

The 2017 Australian Championship gets underway with the first round (of four) taking place at the Gillman track in Adelaide on Wednesday morning, our time.