It was an extended solo effort for males’s Soiled Warrny victor Tim Cutler, whereas within the girls’s race, it was a battle until the tip for Matilda Raynolds, who gapped final 12 months’s winner Courtney Sherwell on the run into the road of the 246km Australian gravel occasion.

The pair had additionally gone toe to toe on the Gravelista World Collection occasion in Beechworth, simply two weeks in the past, however this time the order of the highest two steps within the girls’s class was reversed. That gave Raynolds a Soiled Warrny title so as to add to her two victories on the highway race which impressed the gravel occasion, the long-running Melbourne to Warrnambool.