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 […]

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 […]