Cameron Woodward produced the ride of a lifetime to keep Eastbourne Eagles’ perfect home record intact last night.

The Aussie was called into heat 15 at the last second and passed both GP star Leigh Adams and Travis McGowan in a world class move off bend four third time around to clinch a 50-41 win over Swindon.

But joy at beating the leaders was diluted by three new injury worries.

David Norris was the main concern on a long night of crashes, exclusions and re-runs.

He suffered burns and a suspected fractured wrist in a crash with Troy Batchelor in heat ten.

Norris followed Swindon reserve Krzysztof Stojanowski to hospital, the Pole taking a nasty tumble with Woodward in the previous race.

Lewis Bridger also ended the night in hospital having a leg wound, caused by a flying chain in the first running of the nominated race, stitched up.

The flying chain also caught Davey Watt on the wrist, meaning Woodward and Lukas Dryml had to step in for the final race.

The Robins' other reserve Ryan Fisher left the meeting early after taking a blow to a delicate area.

Swindon, who led 10-2 early on, had to go with three riders in three heats and ended up empty-handed.

The sides meet again in Wiltshire on Thursday and both have fitness problems.

Eagles manager Trevor Geer said: "Davey Watt was struggling with his groin and now has another injury.

"He has got a few days rest so we'll see how he goes, although he can still move his fingers.

"Lewis has a big hole in his leg and it's not good at all.

"And David Norris didn't look good in the pits. He certainly has some bad abrasions on his arm."

When Jurica Pavlic was excluded from heat 12 for going flying into the air fence, we had the unusual sight of Bridger and Ricky Kling racing each other with no opposition rider on the track.

Even more bizarrely, that was one of two 5-0s for the hosts.

The other came in heat seven when Pavlic, the red hot Croatian prospect getting his first taste of Arlington, fell as he pursued Kling.

Just as Pavlic went down on bend two on lap three, Batchelor also bit the dust behind him and over-worked referee Chris Gay excluded them both, ruling the falls were unrelated.

That gave Eagles a 5-0 heat advantage and a 22-19 lead, their first advantage of the night.

The second 5-0 opened a 40-30 buffer and set up Adams to take a double-points ride in the next heat.

Adams duly beat home Watt for a 7-2 to keep the meeting alive.

However lone Robins rider Batchelor got the start all wrong in heat 14 and recovered too late to catch Woodward and the improving Kling.

So Eagles led by nine going into heat 15 but any thoughts they would comfortably take all three points were forgotten as their two riders were injured.

Woodward and out-of-sorts Lukas Dryml were summoned for the re-run but unbeaten Adams and Travis McGowan looked set to plunder the 5-1 which would rescue a bonus point for Swindon.

Then Woodward worked his magic.

"What a fantastic ride by Cameron," Geer said: "I knew he would never give up.

"Leigh Adams didn't expect Cameron to come past him like that."

The evening could not have got off to a worse start for Eastbourne as they conceded 5-1s in the first two heats.

Adams and McGowan burst away from the gate in heat one, then reserves Fisher and Stojanowski were equally convincing to give the Robins a 10-2 lead.

The reply Eagles needed came in heat three when first Woodward, then Bridger powered outside Batchelor for a home maximum.

Chris Schramm followed that with his first heat win in Eagles colours to peg back the deficit to two points.

At that stage it was developing into a very good meeting for a chilly Arlington crowd and television viewers.

The various stoppages did little for the overall spectacle of a meeting which took more than three hours to get through.

But those who stayed to the end got their reward.