Midlands Area Point-to-Point Association

Upcoming fixtures:
Fernie Point-to-Point 2025 - Preview

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 […]

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The Quorn Point-to-Point 2025 - Report

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

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The Quorn Point-to-Point 2025 - Preview

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 […]

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Pytchley with Woodland at Dingley - Report

[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 […]

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Changes to Quorn Fixture - 26th April

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 […]

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Pytchley with Woodland at Dingley - Preview

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 […]

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Belvoir at Garthorpe - Report

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 […]

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Belvoir Point-to-Point 2025 - Preview

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 […]

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Music Drive

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.

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Karaka De Thaix heads to Cheltenham Sale

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 […]

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Pytchley at Guilsborough 2025 - Report

The Pytchley with Woodland point-to-point took place at Guilsborough on Sunday 9th of March, where the going was officially given as good to soft and a very big crowd got to see 42 runners and no fallers on a warm sunny afternoon. The performance of the day was arguably the winner of the first, the […]

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Pytchley with Woodland at Guilsborough 2025 - Preview

The Midlands Area point-to-point season continues this weekend as the Pytchley with Woodland host their point-to-point at Guilsborough Racecourse (A5199, 10m NW of Northampton - NN6 8SR). More details about the course at Guilsborough are available here. There are 77 entries for the six horse races on the card, which are proceeded by pony races […]

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The Cottesmore at Garthorpe 2025 - Report

Julian Sherriff‘s 10-year-old Fier Jaguen continued his Garthorpe Open race dominance on Sunday at the Cottesmore meeting, where he won by 25 lengths in the skilful hands of Bradley Gibbs. The right-hand-track supremo never looked uncomfortable and, although he might have given the Stearn and Turner families and inkling of hope when he gave their […]

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The Cottesmore at Garthorpe 2025 - Preview

The Cottesmore Point-to-point is on Sunday 23rd February, at Garthorpe racecourse, just east of Melton Mowbray (LE14 2RS). There are six races scheduled for this fixture, the first of which starts at 12.30pm. The going at the time of writing is soft, good to soft in places. Garthorpe is a great day out for all. […]

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Going Reports

Fernie:

The going at Dingley for the Fernie meeting on 4th May:

We have been watering again at Dingley. The course is taking up the water well and we have arranged another source of water locally which will give us more than enough for Sunday. All going well in difficult conditions for watering and looking very promising for Sunday.

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