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.

Melton Hunt Club Racecard and Entries now online. The penultimate race meeting of the Midlands season brings the return of spectators to Garthorpe, where the going is described as on the easy side of good for the Melton Hunt Club meeting. Public entry for this meeting is by ticket only, in order to comply with […]

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 […]

The joint meeting of the Fernie and Fitzwilliam (Milton) takes place this Sunday, 2nd May. Watering of the course has commenced and will continue as necessary to produce a good and safe racing surface. The course has been filled and rolled since the last meeting. Our generous land owner has requested that nobody walks the […]

[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 […]

Fresh from the start of our season at Revesby Races, the Midlands season continues to Dingley where the Pytchley with Woodland host their meeting on Monday 5th April. Sadly this meeting has to take place behind closed doors. Please do not attend this meeting unless you are an official. The highlight of the meeting will […]

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 […]

From the South Notts Committee: “It is with deep regret that the Chairman and Secretary of the South Notts Hunt Point- to-Point committee have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 fixture on Easter Monday.The continuing COVID crisis makes it less and less likely that the fixture will run under any format and we […]

The following is a statement from the Point-to-point Authority: "Sadly, it is confirmed that the government lockdown includes point to pointing, and we will have to halt until further notice.  I know this will be a severe disappointment to many of you, particularly after such an excellent start to the season.  This not only produced […]

The next meeting at Garthorpe is the Belvoir's point-to-point meeting on Sunday 29th March. There will be a seven-race card and a dog show. This year the Restricted Race, sponsored by Roythornes, will be run over 2m 4f rather than the usual 3 miles. The Mixed Open race, run in memory of Jenny Skelton, has […]

Treehouse Sporting Colours have agreed to support PtP Pony Racing during the 2020 season and will be supporting the Rider Championships and the Championship Finals. The season kicks off at the Heythrop point-to-point at Cocklebarrow, on Sunday 26th January and runs through until the last fixture of the season on Saturday 13th  June, the Torrington Farmers […]