Sunninghill New Year Fancy Dress Wheelbarrow Race

Please click on the photos to enlarge them. Click on 'Read Article' to see photos of many teams. Full list of teams (with numbers for identification), at the end             The 16th New Year Fancy Dress Wheelbarrow Race took place in glorious sunshine, at noon on Monday January 2nd 2012. CLICK HERE  to see the video, starting with the Fastest Men's Team from The Swinley Pub setting off !

The Race started and finished at the  car park behind St Michael’s School in the centre of Sunninghill.  The Race is organised by the Rotary Club of Ascot and the local community,  and is sponsored by Ascot Racecourse, to raise vital funds for the Ascot District Day Centre. Thirty one teams registered to compete for the coveted trophies for Fastest Time, Best Fancy Dress and Most Sponsorship Money Raised. The teams comprise groups of friends, neighbours, work colleagues, local organisations and dramatic societies such as the Sunningdale Savoy Chorus (promoting Annie Get Your Gun) and the Quince Players (promoting the forthcoming panto - Cinderella)

RESULTS:  The Fastest Men's Team was  The Swinley Pub (sporting football strips and pub-owner face masks - 2nd photo);  second fastest was Grecian 2012 (dresssed in togas with a superb chariot - 7th photo below) with a time of  9 minutes 33 seconds; third fastest were the Hairy Hooligans (who looked frightening with hairy beards and horns - (5th photo  below) with a time of 10 minutes. There was a tie for the title of Fastest Women's Team  with the St.Michael's Angels (3rd photo) and the Ascot Fillies  (4th photo), completing the course in  13 minutes 47 seconds (both pictured below) .   The Best Fancy Dress Title went to Princess Leia's Buns with their Star Wars Theme (top  & 6th photos), runners up were The Lady Agas of The  Slow Cookers (2nd photo), and the Sunningdale Savoy Chorus with Annie Get Your Gun (8th photo). Watch this space for the Most Sponsorship prize announcement.      

THE TEAMS

1. The Swinley Pub (Matt Love, James Staddon, Luke Roberts and Ioan Roberts ), 2. Family Guy,  3. The Hairy Hooligans  4.The Morphatrons,  5. The Coxless Four,  6. Ascot Round Table  7. The Old Bags  8. Construction Design Associates  9. Dukes Head 1  10. 118 118  11. Jim 'll Fix It  12. Princess Leia's Buns ( Chris Searle, Ryan Thomas, Ben Thompson, Craig Lawson  ).
  13. Woking Rotoract  14. The Onezeez  15. London 2012  16. Belvedere Arms   17. St.Michael's Angels (Kim Smerden, Lucy Kenworthy, Sarah Robinson and Cicely Williams),
18. The Carpenters Arms  19. Curry Club 1  20. Ascot Fillies (Kate Raymond, Samantha Dixon, Lisa Abbott and Jessica Raymond ).
21. Home Instead  22. Berystede Hotel & Spa  23. The Slow Cookers  24. Edwards & Elliott  25. Sailing2Victory  26.Grecian 2012  27. Sunningdale Savoy Chorus   28. Quince Players (Cinderella's Carriage & the white mice)    29.  London Zoo  30 Zombiedrs   31.  Wild West