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COME WHAT AUGUSTUS: has provided Richard Woollacott with five wins
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As the 2009/10 season enters its final few weeks, the races for the Ladies and Mens Riders titles remain wide open.

The Mens title is possibly the most intriguing contest. Leading the way on 30 winners is West-Country Trainer/Rider Richard Woollacott, who is in a rich vein of form having ridden nine winners from his last nineteen rides since the start of May.

Woollacott has over twenty horses in training at his yard in South Moulton, so is guaranteed to have plenty of firepower right up until the final day of the season. If he does hold on, he will be the first West Country-based Rider to lift the title since Ashley Farrant in 2004.

Flying the flag for Wales is nineteen-year-old John Mathias with 27 winners, while just one winner adrift of him is eighteen-year-old Jake Greenall, who is aiming to land an unprecented family treble - his elder brothers Tom (2008) and Ollie (2009) having been Champions in the last two seasons. Richard Burton, Champion Rider in 2003, 2005 and 2006, is still not out of the hunt, having ridden 24 winners.

The Ladies title also looks like going down to the wire. Polly Gundry has dominated the sport in recent years, having won the Championship seven times in the last ten years. She is currently on the fifteen winner mark, neck and neck with 2006/7 Champion Claire Allen, who has announced that she will be retiring from the saddle at the end of the season.

For full details on the latest Championship standings, plus details on the leading Novice Riders and Owners, as well as the latest standings in the Harley Racing Novice Riders Championship and pointtopoint.co.uk/PPORA Young Horse Awards, please visit our updated Top Performers page.

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