The Midlands Point-to-point season kicks off on Saturday 21st January at Revesby Races with a six-race card which starts at midday. The course at Revesby is easy to find, just off the A155 past the village of Revesby. The What3Words address is diplomats.comet.resettle. Visitors can expect a range of food and drink options as well […]
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On Sunday the 13th March Midlands Pointing returns to Guilsborough for the Pytchley meeting after sadly losing the fixture to COVID in 2021. The racecourse is on the A5199 between Creaton and Thornby. E-tickets are still available from the Point-to-Point website where adult admission is £13 (under 16s free). Please feel free to bring your […]
The Revesby meeting may have kicked off the Midlands 2021-2022 point-to-point season unusually early this weekend, but the public came in droves and enjoyed some excellent racing in the autumn sunshine. Many thanks to Clerk of the Course Adrian Dant who produced an excellent track which provided good racing ground throughout the day's racing and […]
Photos of the meeting can be found here: point-to-point-racing/2021/meynell-south-staffs-garthorpe" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Meynell & South Staffs at Garthorpe The Midlands point--to-point season came to its scheduled end with the running of the Meynell & South Staffs meeting at Garthorpe on Saturday 5th June. This unusual season saw six meetings rather than the usual fourteen but we […]
The Midlands Area point-to-point season traditionally ends with the Meynell and South Staffordshire meeting, held this year on Saturday 5th June at Garthorpe, in Leicestershire. Buy Tickets This year the area awards will be made after racing, so we hope all those involved will be in attendance to receive the plaudits you richly deserve. Current […]
Spectators were back at Garthorpe for the penultimate meeting of the year, the Melton Hunt Club meeting.
Point-to-point racing returned to its historical roots on Sunday 2nd May when the Feature Race for the Midlands Area, the Fernie Four-Miler, provided a maiden win for Agriculture student Billy Chatterton on the family's own Minella Friend. "I feel like he's taught me everything," Billy said of trainer Philip Rowley. "When I started at Harper […]
[Photographs of the day's racing are available on point-to-point-racing/2021/garthorpe-race-3" target="_blank" aria-label="Nico Morgan Media (opens in a new tab)" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="rank-math-link">Nico Morgan Media] The second of this season's Midlands area point-to-point fixtures took us to Garthorpe, where Brian Crawford and his hard-working team had prepared an excellent racing surface, complimented by jockeys, trainers and owners […]
Having lost the opening two meetings of the season at Garthorpe to COVID, we are excited that on the 24th April we will finally see horses on the well-respected Leicestershire turf for the first time since June 2019. We will also be welcoming owners for the first time this weekend. However, the meeting is not […]
The 2021 Midlands Pointing season continued on Easter Monday at Dingley, where our hosts, the Pytchley with Woodland laid on a well supported seven-race card which produced a double for Gina Andrews. [Photos of the meeting - point-to-point-racing/2021/pytchley-with-woodland-dingley-5apr21 (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.nicomorgan.com/-/galleries/equestrian-photography/racing/point-to-point-racing/2021/pytchley-with-woodland-dingley-5apr21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="rank-math-link">https://www.nicomorgan.com/-/galleries/equestrian-photography/racing/point-to-point-racing/2021/pytchley-with-woodland-dingley-5apr21] The big race of the afternoon saw […]
Midlands Pointing finally restarted with the Revesby Races meeting on Monday 29th March. The team at Revesby Park deserve great praise for hosting a superbly organised and slick meeting with all the added complications and expenses of COVID security and no spectators to entertain. Many thanks to all involved with putting the meeting on, in […]
Pointing returns to the Midlands area behind closed doors, on Monday 29th March, after a lengthy lay-off. Storm Dennis was battering Brocklesby Park for our last meeting in February 2020. We have lost many good friends in that time and I’m sure we will think of absent friends before this new season begins. Last month […]
After the unfortunate loss of the Cottesmore meeting last weekend, the Midlands Area season continues with a Pytchley meeting at Guilsborough which is earlier in the year than usual on Sunday 8th March. Tickets are available online from our website, midlandspointing.com/shop (under-16s are free) or on the gate on arrival. The Guilsborough course can be […]
by Emma Forman The Brocklesby point- to -point races took place at a blustery, storm Dennis battered Brocklesby Park on Saturday. Despite the weather, runners held up well with 37 of the 86 entries lining up on the day, and full credit should go to the organisers for their perseverance given the bad weather. One […]