GARETH Booth led Horwich home in the club's Jubilee Road Race.

The June edition of the series, which doubled as a Central Lancashire Grand Prix race, saw Booth win the veterans' category and finish seventh overall.

Rudolf Maciejkowicz was again dominant in the V60 category at an event which attracted a bumper turnout of 291 runners.

Results: 7 Gareth Booth (V40) 28:40, 39 Chris Essex-Crosby 31:21, 60 Garry Chadderton (V50) 32:16, 62 Nick Kelly (V45) 32:18, 70 Rudolf Maciejkowicz (V60) 32;46, 147 Sandra Kelly (F45) 36:43, 174 paul Lewis 38:16, 279 Lawrence Pinnell (V45) 50:26.

For the juniors, the one mile Street Race attracted 79 youngsters with Horwich continuing their domination of local races with a clean sweep of the first ten places and total of 45 runners representing the club.

1 Luke Massey (U17) 5:07, 2 Lewis Wilkes (U15) 5:15, 3 Cian Healy (U11) 5:27, 4 Luke Brindle (U13) 5:27, 5 Nathan Lancaster (U13) 5:29, 6 Matthew Flatters (U11) 5:30, 7 Thomas Massey (U13) 5:32, 8 Kieran Kinealy (U13) 5:41, 9 Jake Glendenning (U17) 5:46, 10 Matthew Mair (U13) 5:48, 12 Toby Middleton (U13) 5:51, 15 Ella Pendlebury (L13) 6:00, 17 Robert Gibson (U17) 6:08, 21 Eva Baldwin (L13) 6:19, 22 Freya Whittle (L13) 6:19, 23 Niamh Speakman (L15) 6:19, 27 Harriet Foley (L15) 6:33, 29 Isaac Keating (U11) 6:36, 31 Lydia Johnson (L11) 6:38, 37 Milly Lever (L13) 6:50, 38 Ellie Baker (L15) 6:58, 39 Alyssia Jackson (L13) 7:07, 40 Callum Mosley (U11) 7:08, 41 Joshua Houghton (U13) 7:10, 42 Max McLean (U11) 7:11, 44 Sam Speakman (U11) 7:17, 47 Lucy Baldwin (L15) 7:21, 48 Sam Slater (U11) 7:23, 49 Lena Wegrzyn (L11) 7:25, 50 Theo Middleton (U9) 7:25, 53 Ellie Green (L9) 7:28, 54 Grace Pendlebury (L9) 7:32, 55 Jess Glendinning (L15) 7:34, 56 Livia Sutcliffe (L13) 7:39, 58 Olivia Baker (L13) 7:45, 60 Isabella Keating (L15) 7:52, 62 Elliot Whittle (U9) 7:57, 63 Lucas Zarins (U11) 8:02, 67 Chloe Fitzgerald (L11) 8:26, 68 Ben Flatters (U9) 8:30, 70 Isabelle Walton (L9) 8:34, 71 Skye Nicholson (L13) 8:40, 74 Thomas Humphreys (U9) 9:21, 75 Isaac McLean (U13) 9:26, 77 Sam Nelson (U11) 9:28.

Recent Bob Graham inductee, Andy Ford, finished 36th out of 305 finishers in the five-mile Tintwistle Round The Resers Trail Race in Longdendale in 31:58.

Thursday's Aggie's Staircase Fell Race on Darwen Moor attracted two Horwich athletes with Suzanne Budgett 62nd and first F50 in 39:28 and V65 Ed Swift 113th in 59:43.

Sunday saw the elite of the country's veteran runners racing the streets of Horwich in the BVAF Road Race Championships.

As veteran categories started at V35, it was amazing to see Michael Cayton who not so long ago was one of the country's top junior fell runners, taking the gold medal category, running the 5k course in 15:47.

Michael finished third overall, headed by two V40 runners. Paul Massey finished in 26th and fourth V45 with V40 Alastair Murray, 37th in 17:33 and V70 John Parker 129th in 24:06.

Chris Farrell had to run the Joseph Holt Brewery 5k over the same course and Chris came out triumphant by nearly a minute in a high-class local field. Junior Luke Massey placed an excellent seventh and first junior whilst Lindsey Brindle was first woman, Debbie Campbell third woman and first F45 and Suzanne Budgett sixth woman and first F50.

Results: 1 Chris Farrell 15:25, 7 Luke Massey (J) 17:56, 8 Lindsey Brindle (F) 17:59, 17 Debbie Campbell (F45) 20;18, 22 Suzanne Budgett (F50) 21:19, 36 Eric Booth (F35) 22:56, 44 Keith Laithwaite (V60) 24;16.

The third race of the festival was a one-mile fun run which unsurprisingly was dominated by Horwich juniors.

Results: 1 Luke Brindle (M13) 5:12, 2 Cian Healy (M11) 5:13, 3 Matthew Flatters (M11) 5:20, 4 Robert Seddon (M13) 5:41, 5 Matthew Mair (M13) 5:43, 8 Isaac Parker (M15) 5:59, 9 Harriet Foley (F15) 6:01, 10 Dara Ghosh (M13) 6:03, 11 Freya Whittle (F11) 6:05, 12 Isaac Battye (M11) 6:11, 16 Milly Lever (F13) 6:27, 18 Karol Wegrzyn (M11) 6:33, 19 Daniel Porter (M11) 6:39, 22 Abbie Andreasson (F13) 6:45, 25 Chloe Squires (F11) 6:56, 28 Lena Wegezyn (F9) 6:59, 31 Grace Porter (F9) 7:34, 43 Will Seddon (M11) 8:14, 46 James Kay (M13) 8:20, 52 Isabelle Walton (F9) 8:30, 54 Sam Nelson (M9) 8:35.

On Saturday, Robert Jackson completed in the James Blakely Fell race – a 3.5-mile course with 500 feet of ascent – for the 20th time, finishing second overall and maintaining his record of a top three finish each time he has competed in it.

This the final race in this year's English Junior Championships, The Turner Uphill Race in the Lake District on Saturday, attracted runners from all over England trying to gain points and some medals.

The under-8s race saw ever present Theo Middleton and Grace Pendlebury finish 13th and sixth, respectively.

In the u10s girls' race Freya Whittle finished a superb third to win overall bronze medal in the championships.

The u12s race saw Tom Massey second, his highest position to take bronze in the series, Lucas Miliken finished in 11th and Toby Middleton 17th for a top-10 finish overall. In the girls' race Ella Pendlebury finished seventh with Lydia Johnson 17th.

In Saturday's Last Drop Loop, Nick Leigh ran well for third place in 38:11 followed by first V50 Gary Chadderton in 10th with 44.14 and Graham Schofield first V55 in 44.30.

John Monks won the V60 prize in 17th with 45:37 and Tony Hesketh did the same in the V65 category in 24th in 49.00, just ahead of Mark Seddon, 25th in 49.28.