SPEEDWAY NEWS AND FIXTURES - 8TH OCTOBER
08 October 2006 - British Speedway Promoters Association

SPEEDWAY 1

ALAN Mogridge brought the curtain down in his career in fairytale style by winning the Premier League Fours Championship for Workington.

Mogridge, who joined the Cumbrian club mid-season, won his only ride in the final as reserve and helped the Comets to 23-points.

Somerset, inspired by maximum man Magnus Zetterstrom, were runners-up on 21 with Sheffield third on 16 and King''s Lynn, without skipper Tomas Topinka, fourth on nine.

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WORKINGTON hero Alan Mogridge paid tribute to club bosses Graham and Denise Drury and the loyal Comets fans after helping them win the Premier League Fours title.

He said: ''I''d like to thank the management for bringing me to Workington and the fans have been excellent with me.

''It''s a perfect way for me to end my racing career, to win the race which made certain we won a national title was brilliant for me.''

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PETERBOROUGH owner Colin Horton has pledged his future to the club - on the eve of their Elite League title decider with Reading at the Showground.

Horton has bought an interest in Oxford and said: ''There is absolutely no way I will be leaving Peterborough and no chance of me having favourites.

''I certainly haven''t spent a lot of money and devoted 18 months of my life to turning Peterborough around for nothing. I am not even close to getting the club to where I want it to be.''

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BELLE VUE boss Ian Thomas says his team are in a confident mood going into the first leg of the Knockout Cup Final with Coventry on Monday.

The Aces scored 40-points at Brandon in their Craven Shield semi-final on Friday and return there for the return leg of the cup final next week.

Said Thomas ''It was a great and one that will do wonders for our confidence when we return to Coventry next Friday.''

FIXTURE UPDATE

SUNDAY OCTOBER 8:
PREMIER LEAGUE PAIRS: Glasgow 3pm
CONFERENCE LEAGUE PLAY-OFF SEMI FINAL 2nd leg: Scunthorpe v Rye House 3pm
CONFERENCE LEAGUE: Mildenhall v Newport 4.30pm
CONFERENCE TROPHY: Stoke v Buxton 7.30
BRITISH SIDECAR CHAMPIONSHIP: Swindon 7pm

MONDAY OCTOBER 9:
SKY SPORTS ELITE LEAGUE PLAY-OFF FINAL 2nd Leg: Peterborough v Reading 7.30
ELITE LEAGUE KO CUP FINAL 1st leg: Belle Vue v Coventry 7.45

TUESDAY OCTOBER 10:
PREMIER LEAGUE PLAY-OFF SEMI FINAL 1st leg: Isle of Wight v Sheffield 7.30

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11:
CRAVEN SHIELD SEMI FINAL: Reading v Swindon v Poole 7.30
PREMIER LEAGUE KO CUP FINAL 2nd leg: King''s Lynn v Somerset 7.30

THURSDAY OCTOBER 12:
PREMIER LEAGUE PLAY-OFF SEMI FINAL 2nd leg: Sheffield v Isle of Wight 7.45
TYNE-TEES TROPHY: Redcar v Newcastle 7.30

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