GUYANA’S racing cyclists will get on their saddles today as national coach Hassan Mohamed runs off the 25th annual Ricks and Sari Agro Industries 11-race cycle programme.

It will take place around the inner circuit of the National Park beginning at 09:00hrs.

The feature event is a 35-lap race for School Boys, Novices and Invitational riders and last year’s winner Alonzo Ambrose will be out to make a successful defence of the title.

His time last year was a blistering one hour, 18 minutes but this time around, he must be wary of Jamal John who ended the 2017 cycling season as the top rider.

Apart from John, Ambrose will have to look out for a number of riders who were very competitive last year. The likes of Christopher Cornelius, Andrew Hicks, Romello Crawford, Orville Hinds and Raul Leal are no strangers to the fray and cannot be counted out.

The juveniles will contest a 10-lap race with Crawford, looking to make a successful defence of the title.

Warren McKay will also be looking to defend his veterans’ under 50 years five lap title; so too will be Jamal Heyliger who won the boys’ and girls’ 12-14 years old three-lap race last year and Shane Bourne who was the winner of the five-lap mountain bike race.

Ricks and Sari representative Sven D’Oliver will be on hand to make the presentation of prizes to the respective winners.