The Midlands Area's annual Club meeting at Thorpe Lodge began and ended with wins for jockey Dale Peters, with another double for trainer Tom Ellis on a cold but dry day in Nottinghamshire. Photos are available here: Midlands Area Club Point-to-Point 2019. The first part of both doubles was the result of a measured and […]
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The Midlands Area season drew to a close with a rearranged evening meeting hosted by the Woodland Pytchley at Dingley. There was all to play for at the top of the Midlands Area Championships, especially in the Gentleman Jockey section where Dale Peters had several rides with which to overtake Philip Armson in the overall […]
An excellent Meynell & South Staffs meeting brought the Garthorpe Point-to-Point season to a close on Saturday, with 53 runners contesting the seven races on a lovely sunny afternoon. Once again the Garthorpe team led by Clerk of Course Brian Crawford had done an excellent job, producing good fresh ground with plenty of grass cover. […]
Melton Hunt Club Point- to- Point Review – Sunday 13th May by Emma Forman The Melton Hunt Club Point- to- Point took place at Garthorpe on Sunday in pleasant spring sunshine and the recent more favourable weather meant racing took place on “good” ground with the track looking magnificent. The highlights included win number twelve […]
A huge crowd descended on Dingley last Sunday for its popular Fernie meeting – and witnessed one of the best fixtures held at the natural amphitheatre racetrack for many years. Held under glorious blue skies, this annual occasion hosts the most prestigious amateur race in the Midlands region, the Fernie Four-Miler – for which the […]
The inclement weather in the run up to the Quorn meeting meant that Brian and his team had to work even harder to provide us with some sport. We owe them an enormous debt of gratitude for preparing a track which jockey, trainers and owners alike agree was exactly as advertised. That said, declarations were […]
The Pytchley's meeting at Guilsborough completed a Midlands Area double-header over the weekend, following the South Wold's Revesby Races on Saturday. After a dreadful month for postponements and abandoned meetings the dry and sunny weather was a relief for all concerned. The team at Guilsborough had excelled themselves to produce a good to soft track […]
By Emma Forman The South Wold Point-to-Point committee successfully re-arranged their meeting at Revesby Park on Saturday and were rewarded with glorious spring sunshine, a large crowd and some exciting racing action. Following all the bad weather, the Midlands area hosted their first meeting in 8 weeks on ground officially described as “good”. The highlights […]
A hardy crowd of Midlands Pointing enthusiasts braved a very chilly Garthorpe on Sunday for the Cottesmore meeting, and what a day of racing they were treated to. 76 runners fairly evenly spread across the eight-race card and some races which would not have looked out of place on a professional stage. Gerald Bailey's training […]
The Midlands Pointing season continued with a very successful meeting at Brocklesby Park on Saturday. The weather was kind, there were a good many spectators and the 58 runners provided some excellent racing, including a double (and two second places) for local favourite Tom Strawson. The Brocklesby Members, Subscribers and Farmers race (kindly sponsored by […]
The Midlands Area 2018 season kicked off on a beautiful day at Thorpe Lodge as the Midlands Area Club hosted their annual fixture at the Nottinghamshire course. A good crowd were treated to doubles for owner Joan Tice and jockey Jack Andrews. There was some good competitive racing - and also some extraordinary results - […]
Quorn Gold for TheTalkingHorse There were doubles for jockey Sam Davies-Thomas and trainer Gerald Bailey at the Quorn’s meeting at Garthorpe on the 29th April. Davies-Thomas took the feature race of the day, the Mens Open for the Quorn Gold Cup, with Margaret Moody’s 9-year-old gelding TheTalkingHorse, trained by Gerald Bailey. Despite being led for […]
[A full set of images from this Point-to-Point are available here: point-to-point-racing/2017/south-notts-thorpe-lodge" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">South Notts Point-To-Point] The South Notts held their traditional Easter Monday Point-to-Point meeting at Thorpe Lodge on Monday 17th April and were well supported by a good crowd and dry weather. The first race on the card was the Midlands Area […]
A very large crowd enjoyed some remarkable racing at the Woodland Pytchley's Point-to-Point meeting at Dingley on 15th April. The six-race card got underway with a joint Fernie and Woodland Pytchley Members race which brought all five entered horses forward to the post. Golden Milan (Lucy Wheeler) had started as odds-on favourite and was happy […]