Coordinating point-to-point horse racing in the East Midlands at Brocklesby Park, Dingley, Garthorpe, Guilsborough and Revesby Park. Next season starts with the Cottesmore meeting at Garthorpe on 23rd November 2025.
The final meeting of the Midlands area season took place this weekend at Dingley and with the weather gods conspiring to bring us the driest April and May the entries were understandably sparse. The Fitzwilliam fixture was the sole meeting in England on Saturday and once again the ground staff had worked around the clock to produce a safe racing…
The Midlands area Point-to-point season finale will be the Fitzwilliam meeting at Dingley racecourse on Saturday 24th of May, where we will have a six-race card with something for everybody, including two open races, two maidens, a restricted and a conditions race. Dingley racecourse is on the Harborough Road, just East of Market Harborough in Leicestershire (LE16 8PJ), and offers…
New race definitions and penalties for 2025-26 season. Novice Rider allowances If a jockey starts the season as a novice rider with under 10 wins, they are eligible for the Novice rider’s championship with all the winners gained counting towards the championship. As soon as a jockey hits ten wins they can no longer ride in novice rider races. Races…
The Fernie point-to-point, the penultimate meeting for this season in the Midlands area, took place at Dingley on Sunday 4th May. Once again we are very grateful to the incredible team at Dingley for their hard work on the ground, which attracted 28 runners to race between the flags on ground which was officially given as Good. The feature race…
Clerk of the Course Charles Millington and his team at Dingley are hard at work during another week week of beautiful dry weather, preparing a great racing track for the Fernie meeting, on Sunday 4th of May. The hard work they put in for the Pytchley with Woodland meeting paid off with good entry numbers and again we see the…
The last few weeks of dry weather may have been welcomed by many who were keen to see the mud dry up and their gardens spring into life but they have put a lot of pressure on racecourses across the country, professional and amateur. Watering courses brings considerable costs, both in water and manpower, and not every course can justify…
Garthorpe Racecourse is on the B676, East of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire (LE14 2RS), and there are 67 horses entered for the six-race Quorn Point-to-point at Garthorpe on Saturday 26th April 2025. Some horses will be entered at other meetings over the same weekend, so the usual caveat that not all these horses will run applies. The Garthorpe Committee have…
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