Bingley Harriers had designed a brand new course for this race, but sadly on the day, it turned into a bit of a shambles due to horses on the course. The first problem occurred with horses after the first two runners had past a group of horses, when one of the riders lost control of her horse and it started rearing. Then to make matters worse, further on the course, there was a group of horses with someone leading them and they refused to let the runners past as they said one of the horse was injured and did not want to disturb it and apart from the leaders, this backed up everyone in the race. They reached some stables and everyone thought that she would take her horse into the yard out of the way to let the runners past, but when she did not do so, against her protestations, the runners went past anyway. However, by this time, the race, as a race was over as the leaders were completely out of sight.
The winner was Frank Beresford of Otley in 41:08 with Tim Midgley of Bingley in 2nd place in 41:18. Gavin Lund of Ilkley was one of those caught up in the horse shambles and he finished in 4th place in 43:28. Had it not been for the horses, he might have been pushing the leaders.
Sam Wadsworth finished in 6th place in 48:38. The delays probably did not make a great deal of difference to his race position, as he was still suffering from the effects of the Saunders last week.