The Easter weekend includes two Point-to-Point amateur horse racing meetings in the Midlands area, the Woodland Pytchley meeting at Dingley on Easter Saturday and the South Notts fixture at Thorpe Lodge on Easter Monday. Both are very popular fixtures but you can purchase tickets in advance online at midlandspointing.com/shop. The Woodland Pytchley are hosting a […]

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 […]

The final Midlands Area Point-to-Point meeting of the season is the rearranged Woodland Pytchley fixture at Dingley on Saturday, 9th June. There are seven races on the card, beginning at 4pm. At the time of writing the course is being gently watered. We have ample supplies of water and with little or no rain in the […]

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 […]

The weather forecast for the Woodland Pytchley meeting proved to be disappointingly accurate but did not deter an enthusiastic Leicestershire crowd, who were determined to enjoy this Dingley opener. The feature race was the 2 mile and half mile Mixed Open, the first of these shorter format opens to run here in the Midlands area. Johnny Weatherby's eight-year-old Decade […]

Full list of point-to-point-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/event/digest/3247/WOODLAND_PYTCHLEY.pdf" target="_blank">Woodland Pytchley Point-To-Point Entries. Full list of point-to-point-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/event/digest/3268/SOUTH_NOTTS.pdf" target="_blank">South Notts Point-To-Point Entries. We look forward to seeing you all there!

The Easter weekend is the busiest time in the Point-to-Point calendar, with a total of 22 meetings scheduled around the country. As a result there are difficult decisions for owners to make and multiple entries are often the result. The ground and going will often be the deciding factor on which horses are to run. This […]

Following Monday’s course inspection (14 March) we are delighted to say that the course inspector was extremely happy with the ground ahead of the Easter Saturday Woodland Pytchley meeting, the first of three at Dingley Racecourse this year. Fence three has been completely rebuilt and there is now a brand new fence in place. There […]