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ROWING: Holden helps City to hat-trick
11:20am Thursday 21st June 2007
City of Oxford and Osiris both secured a hat-trick of wins to head the local success list at Reading Regatta.
City's three wins came in the women's senior 2 Eights, the men's senior 2 coxless pairs and the women's junior singles, courtesy of National Schools medallist Holly Holden.
Osiris, the Oxford University women's squad, won the Novice Eights on both Saturday and Sunday and the Senior 2 Eights on Sunday.
The latter crew is the Osiris entry for this weekend's Henley Women's Regatta.
Headington School reached three finals but won just one, the women's senior coxed fours.
Headington's two losing finalists, the senior 3 and junior eights, were both beaten by visiting overseas crews.
Radley and Abingdon School had a blank Saturday, although Radley's junior 15 coxed four won their class on Sunday.
Wheatley's world champion Frances Houghton, competes for Britain in this weekend's World Cup in Amsterdam.
Paul Mattick, of Wallingford, is also in action.
Editor's choice
The Mole and Chicken, Easington, near Thame
One of the pictures on this page gives a good impression of the delights to be enjoyed at the Mole and Chicken on one of those sunny days that now seem as far as can be from our present situation.
Early taste of Christmas wine
Next week is The Oxford Times Wine Club Christmas Tasting and, with just four weeks to go until Christmas Day, it is an excellent opportunity to sample a specially-selected range of wines for the festive season.
Dylan Moran: New Theatre, Oxford
‘I was the first person to discover that if you infected a person with Marmite, he would stand up and bark at the moon.” “Everybody under the age of 35 has the intelligence of raspberry jam.” “Children can hear vegetables hiding.”
Sleeping Beauty, Chipping Norton Theatre
There’s nothing King Couer-de-Loup likes more than a good battle: “We’ll march on King Florizel’s wet and wicked army,” he proclaims. His Queen is not so sure, however. She would rather her husband stayed around: there’s the christening of their daughter Princess Aurora to arrange for a start. And he certainly can’t go out and fight looking like that: “Your chain mail’s got a ladder in it,” she wails.
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