Joe Moses gave a clinical demonstration of how to ride the Peel Park mud in winning the junior men’s race.

The 17-year-old from Keighley thus extended his lead in the National Trophy cyclo-cross standings with a round to go and claimed a major scalp in national champion Hugo Robinson.

The XRT-Elmy Cycles rider had defeated his Paul Milnes-Bradford Olympic RC member in the previous two rounds but Moses mastered the slippery conditions to perfection.

Moses, who won by 79 seconds, said: “I wanted to break up Hugo’s rhythm so I went out fast.

“I managed to break away on the bottom section and from there just kept on working and pulled away.

“I wasn’t expecting to get that big a gap on Hugo, who is very good technically – it’s the first time I’ve beaten him this year.

“It’s my kind of course – it was just like a Yorkshire Points event. I had a few sketchy moments but that was it.”

Robinson took his defeat on the chin, saying: “Joe was just fantastic. He was so quick, controlling the race right from the start.

“He got a gap when I changed bikes on the first lap and I was able to close him down but on the second lap I didn’t have the legs.”

If it was a happy day for Moses, it certainly wasn’t for Chris Young, who could only finish sixth in the veterans’ race.

He said: “The bike handling was all right but I couldn’t manage it physically as I have had a bad stomach since the weekend before.”

Young’s mood wasn’t improved by being passed on the final lap by Duncan Walmsley, a lowly 22nd in the trophy standings, and, right on the line, by Greg Simcox, dropping the Keighley rider from fourth to sixth.

“He (Walmsley) has never beaten me before, while it was a schoolboy error to then get passed on the line,” said a disappointed Young.

Birkenshaw’s Billy Harding’s hopes in the youth race were scuppered by a crash that snapped his bike frame.

The Paul Milnes RT-Bradford Olympic rider could only finish 15th, while Joe Moses’ younger brother Alfie, 13, was sixth in the under-14 boys’ race on his Trophy debut.

Mirfield’s Louise Robinson (Stourbridge Cycling Club) was second in the women’s race, winning the veteran 40 category, and received her prize on the podium from her 81-year-old dad Brian, the first Briton to win a stage in the Tour de France.