IT proved to be a successful family affair for City of Oxford Rowing Club's juniors when they competed in the Abingdon Head of the River meeting.

The Taylor siblings scored a hat-trick with Lewis winning junior men's singles, Connie Taylor the junior women's singles and Reece taking the boys' under 13 singles.

This was followed by Henry Drohan, who won the under 14 boy's singles title while his sister Bess teamed up with Chloe Seal, Siân Morgan, Cloudy Carnegie and cox Floss Smith to win women's novice fours.

Then Cloudy's brother Sholto Carnegie won under 13 boys' doubles with Ben Seers whose brother Tim had won under 16 boy's singles.

At the other end of the age scale, Wallingford's veteran I crew showed their class when they went faster than 40 other boats in the 250-strong regatta.

The line-up of Mike Maggs, 67, Paddy Hislop, 77, Colin Baker, 76, and John Sutcliffe, 83, guided by cox Gus Gray 77, recorded a time of 11 min 1 sec.

The winning time was 7.19 by the Radley College eight, while the slowest was 15.21.

Holly Holden travelled to Dorney Lake to represent City of Oxford at the British junior trials and is hopeful of selection for the GB squad.