Coordinating point-to-point horse racing in the East Midlands at Brocklesby Park, Dingley, Garthorpe, Guilsborough and Revesby Park.
The Fernie meeting at Dingley has turned out to be our last Midlands Area fixture of the season so it was appropriate that we finished with a flourish and some excellent performances. We are once again very grateful to Charles Millington and Charlie Reynolds, our Clerks of the Course, who oversaw a mammoth watering effort during the preceding week in…
The Fitzwilliam at Dingley on Saturday 23rd May has been abandoned. Following the successful watering for two meetings already held at Dingley, the water resources for irrigation have been exhausted. No further watering/irrigation will be practical this season. Even if there was seasonal average rainfall for the rest of May this would not be sufficient to keep ahead of evapotranspiration, let…
The penultimate fixture for the Midlands Season 2025-6 is hosted by The Fernie at Dingley on Sunday 3rd May. 63 horses are entered. The course has been watered since Sunday 26th April using water from both the Dingley pond and Dingley Park opposite the racecourse. Course management has been planned carefully and we ask that connections do not attempt to…
[Official photos of this meeting are available from here: The Quorn at Garthorpe 2026] This season the number of point-to-point horses in training has dropped significantly, so for 78% of the 49 individual horses entered for the Quorn point-to-point at Garthorpe on Saturday to have declared and run is a fabulous result. Without doubt they came for the ground, and…
This season's Quorn Hunt Point-to-Point will take place at Garthorpe on Saturday the 25th of April, with a six-race card starting with a young horse maiden at 2pm. Garthorpe racecourse is on the B676 East of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. The postcode is LE14 2RS (W3W: slings.elects.panics). Gates will open at 11am. To emphasise the wonders of grassroots sport, we…
The 2026 renewal of the Pytchley with Woodland Easter Saturday meeting produced yet another treble for Champion Jockey Gina Andrews, watched by an enormous crowd on the hill at Dingley. Charles Millington and Charlie Reynolds deserve huge praise for producing excellent good to soft ground through sheer hard work in the week leading up to the Easter weekend. The meeting…
The Pytchley with Woodland meeting at Dingley will take place on Easter Saturday, 4th of April. Tickets are still available online on the Midlands Pointing website, they are priced with a small discount online. They will be £20 to include a racecard at the gate on the day. The Dingley Racecourse is on Harborough Road, just East of Market Harborough…
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