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 […]

[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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

The Melton Hunt Club meeting will take place at Garthorpe in Leicestershire on Sunday 2nd February, where there will be six races including two maidens , ladies and mens opens. The first race is at noon. The old turf of Garthorpe has taken the recent rains well and the going at the start of the […]

The Midlands Point-to-point season comes under orders this weekend as the South Wold welcomes us to Revesby Park in Lincolnshire (PE22 7NB) for a six-race meeting which includes a point-to-point flat race. 71 horses are entered for this meeting. As we emerge from the cold we must thank the team at Revesby for their incredible […]

Just like that the British point-to-point season is almost over and we are preparing for the Midlands Area's final fixture for this year, the Fitzwilliam meeting at Dingley on Saturday 25th of May, where we have a six race card for which 86 horses have entered. Racing starts at 2pm. At the time of writing […]

Saturday April 20th sees the MIdlands Area return to Garthorpe for the Quorn meeting, where there will be pony racing from 1pm and then, from 2pm, six horse races over fences and one on the flat. There are 34 entries for the point-to-point flat race at the end of the day, so this will almost […]

Jack Andrews completed a treble on the day at Thorpe Lodge on Bank Holiday Monday to cap a successful weekend with five wins across three meetings. Success came first in the Goffs four and five year-olds maiden race, rescheduled here after the loss of other fixture to the weather. Jack rode Is This For Real […]

A week of drying weather in the run up to the Pytchley with Woodland fixture at Guilsborough ended with heavy overnight rain across the area on Saturday night and social media was awash with cancellations of equestrian sport on the morning of 10th March. It is a great testament to the team at Guilsborough that […]

The final point-to-point of the Midlands Area season took place at Dingley racecourse, just outside Market Harborough in Leicestershire, on Saturday 13th May and produced doubles for jockey Jack Andrews and trainer Tom Ellis. Dale Peters trains and rides Thunderstruck, who made it two wins from the last three outings as he won the first […]

Dingley’s second meeting of the year was also the Midland Area’s penultimate fixture of the season, the Fernie’s, and brought a good number of runners to the Market Harborough course, where Charles Millington and his team had prepared an excellent racing surface. The feature race of the afternoon was the Mixed Open for the Fernie […]