THE run of good form for York Cycleworks riders has continued with success at junior and senior level.

Alastair Kay and Jonathan Muir were in the thick of the action when representing Scotland in the latest round of the Premier Calendar national road race series.

Muir was third in the final stage of the Robert Hobbs two-day event in South Wales. Kay was fourth in the tough second stage and 11th overall. Muir and Kay went on to win the team prize.

They qualified to ride for Scotland through parentage and are are in contention to gain selection for Scotland at the next Commonwealth Games.

York Cycleworks junior rider Stephen Ward, a hopeful for the Great Britain team at this year's World Championships, powered to victory in the latest round of the East Riding Road Race League at North Newbold.

With the elite riders unable to catch him he is showing impressive form and will hope to shine similarly infront of the selectors over the coming weeks.

Reinforcing his status as another fine prospect for the future Jonathan Green was third in Wakefield Cycling Club's road race last weekend.

Only inexperience let the prodigious 16-year-old down when he was outsprinted by two senior riders after an ambitious lone attack was brought back.

This weekend promises more action as elite riders Kay and Muir contest the British Championship at Knowle near Birmingham.

With Britain's best professional riders returning from racing on the Continent the competition will be intense.

Among the favourites is York's Charly Wegelius, the British Under-23 champion who now races for the world's top ranked team Mapei, and based in Varese in the Italian Lake district.

He will have to contend with Tour de France rider David Millar and Linda McCartney team riders Matthew Stephens and Max Sciandri, both fresh from the three week-long Tour of Italy.

With 130 riders in total the race should prove to be quite a showdown.