Midlands Area Point-to-Point Association

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The last few weeks 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

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 […]

[Photos of this meeting are available online - Nico Morgan] Archie Wright summed up the thought of many when he was interviewed after winning the Restricted race and said, "The Clerk of the Course has done the most incredible job. With the weather we have had, to produce that ground is quite awesome." The Pytchley […]

A new 6th Race has been added to the Quorn meeting with Entries closing on Monday at Noon. 2mile 4 furlong - Conditions Race for horses age 8 years+ (level 3 conditions) - see the fixture page on our website for more information and conditions. The track was aerated and decompacted today and irrigation commences […]

The traditional Midlands Area meeting on Easter Saturday is at Dingley racecourse (LE16 8PJ), just East of Market Harborough in Leicestershire, and hosted by the Pytchley with Woodland. Dingley is a right-handed track with 18 fences on the three-mile course. This month has been very hard for all racecourses around the country, with many professional […]

It seemed appropriate that Dale Peters should have won the Birketts Mixed Open race on Thunderstruck, owned by The Walpoles and Mary Cherry-Downes, while thunder and lightning crackled around the Garthorpe racecourse and the rain poured down. The winner was given a good run for his money by Timothy Talbot's Jet Of Magic, trained by […]

After a very successful meeting at Guilsborough, hosted by the Pytchley with Woodland, Midlands Pointing returns to Leicestershire on Saturday 22nd March, for the third of this season's Garthorpe fixtures, the Belvoir. This year there is a six-race card followed by schooling races which will give spectators a chance to see a mixture of both […]

We meet the extraordinary free horse which will give Kelly Morgan her sixth runner in the St. James's Place Hunters' Chase on Friday afternoon of the Cheltenham Festival.

Karaka De Thaix heads to Tattersalls Cheltenham March sale on Thursday 13th March after winning the Tattersalls sponsored four and five year old maiden race at Charm Park near Scarborough last weekend. The son of Cokoriko, trained, ridden and part owned by leading Midlands area operator Dale Peters, won the young horse maiden at the […]