It will come as little surprise to many of you, that with the recent government advice regarding the Covid-19 Corona Virus outbreak, that we are forced to cancel the 125th annual meet of the National Clarion this Easter.
This is the first time we will have missed an Easter Meet since 1918, which shows how significant it all is, but as you can appreciate, we must put the care and health of our members and the wider public to the fore of our actions.
We hope to rearrange the Warwick meet, to either August Bank Holiday weekend, or to Easter 2021, so the committee will welcome any comments or feedback from members on this matter. If we are fortunate that the outbreak subsides in the next few months, we may still be able to run a Clarion meet in 2020.
We are grateful to the organisers Jess Beyer-Lyons and the Hickmans who have got the event organised and ready, and we hope their efforts will not go to waste.
In the meantime, we want to wish you the best of health and a speedy recovery if indeed you become infected.
Please take care.
I have that same photo of Warwick from one of the Fenland’s annual Night Rides to Stratford-Upon-Avon in the late 1960s, early 1970s. We all got a couple of hours sleep in a barn just to the west of Market Harborough before reaching our destination about 0800. Happy days