Omnium pursuit pays off for in-form Horne

The event kicked off with the 500m time trial and it was young Rosie Blount of Derby Mercury who took the win with a time of 35.81sec.

Horne, who was part of a four- strong Cycling Ireland Track Development team, was almsot two seconds down in third.

After the explosive power of the 500m, it was then on to an 8k scratch race, where the main bunch stayed together until the final sprint.

Harriet Owen of Motorpoint Pro Cycling and the Great Britain Olympic Development Programme took the honours from Estelle Rogers of Rollapaluza CC, with Horne again finishing third to pick up valuable points.

In her strongest event, the 2k pursuit, Horne breezed to victory in a time of 2min 27.45sec, beating second-placed Jayne Paine of Willesden CC by eight seconds.

The sprint heats were seeded on 500m times, with the winners of the four heats going straight into a four-up final.

Horne missed out, coming second in her heat, leaving Blount, Lydia Boylan, Rogers and Donna Williams of Team Terminator to contest the final.

Blount took her second win of the day but her relatively poor showing in the scratch and midfield performance in the pursuit meant she would have to do spectacularly well in the points race to have any chance of a podium place.

The final points race was dominated by Owen and Horne, with the Irish rider taking some early wins before the former Palmer Park Velo youth rider started to take control.

Owen took 21 points, but Horne’s 19 points were enough to put her on top of the podium ahead of Owen, Boylan and Rogers.