I do not believe the awards at the Nats was actually for this trophy but I will stand corrected if someone knows for certain.
The Magoo trophy was won both years at the Mr VMX meeting by Dean. He left the trophy with the Hunter Club who ran the meeting in 2011 & 2012. I have been informed it is still displayed at Barlleigh Ranch track.
The trophy was orginally awarded at a Heaven event, which I believe was the CRC. It was awarded to the winner of the EVO/Pre85 race at that event. It was not carried on for some reason although I suspect it was because the CRC was a Pre78 and earlier focus event and it was to be awarded at the EVO Challenge but that did not happen for some reason. This was all before the current committee was elected. Again I will stand corrected if someone knows for certain.
I believe the original winner was from Queensland and the 'sponsors' or provider of the excellent trophy, which I believe was Shane himself (again I would welcome confirmation of that) was generous enough to allow the organisers of the Mr VMX meeting to hold a special event for the trophy. The top ten place getters from the four ERA Mr VMX events did one last Moto to decide the Magoo trophy winner as a sort of ultimate award for the meeting which was the trophy. I was fortunate enough in the 2011 event to be running third in that race behind Dean (he was miles, literally, ahead) in the knee deep mud of that meeting until I face planted
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We had considered approaching the 'owners' (Shane) to seek approval to award the throphy to the winning team of our MX des ERA event at next weekends EVO Challenge meeting. We were a little too embarrased to approach anyone because the Heaven Club did not treat the award with due respect when it was orginally part of our program years ago.
