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Upcoming Point To Points and Hunterchase's
- Thread starter Gullible
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Rearranged for next Sunday 22/02/26 original entries stand
This weeks Point to Points working from the North down:
ALNWICK at Ratcheugh Farm in Northumberland with the College Valley & North Northumberland 6 races & 61 entries First Race 13:00 SATURDAY 21st
HELMSLEY at Duncombe Park in North Yorkshire with Helmsley Races 7 races & 107 entries First Race 12:00 SUNDAY 22nd
BROCKELSBY PARK IN North Lincolnshire with The Bocklesby 6 races & 93 entries First Race 12:00 SATURDAY 21st
BADBURY RINGS in Dorset with the Countryside Alliance 8 race & 154 entries First Race 11:00 (all under the watchful eye of The Area Secretary JinnyJ) SUNDAY 22nd
A total of 415 entries across all 4 meetings. I will put up the total number of individual horses when I have them.
ALNWICK at Ratcheugh Farm in Northumberland with the College Valley & North Northumberland 6 races & 61 entries First Race 13:00 SATURDAY 21st
HELMSLEY at Duncombe Park in North Yorkshire with Helmsley Races 7 races & 107 entries First Race 12:00 SUNDAY 22nd
BROCKELSBY PARK IN North Lincolnshire with The Bocklesby 6 races & 93 entries First Race 12:00 SATURDAY 21st
BADBURY RINGS in Dorset with the Countryside Alliance 8 race & 154 entries First Race 11:00 (all under the watchful eye of The Area Secretary JinnyJ) SUNDAY 22nd
A total of 415 entries across all 4 meetings. I will put up the total number of individual horses when I have them.
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235 individual horses ran this weekend in Points.
Alnwick had 33 runners out of 61 entries 54%
Brocklesby had 43 runners out of 93 entries 46%
Helsmley had 61 runners out of 107 entries 57% ...which is a briliant amount for a rearranged fixture !!
Badbury had 98 runners out of 154 entries 63% and Will Biddick trained 5 winners !!!!! Ended up with 9 races as the Restricted was split on the day so an average of 10 runners per race which many NH courses are gagging for
ALL my reporters tell me that it was a very well run meeting to which my standard reply was "Area Secretary was Jinnyj .......what do you expect 
Brocklesby had 43 runners out of 93 entries 46%
Helsmley had 61 runners out of 107 entries 57% ...which is a briliant amount for a rearranged fixture !!
Badbury had 98 runners out of 154 entries 63% and Will Biddick trained 5 winners !!!!! Ended up with 9 races as the Restricted was split on the day so an average of 10 runners per race which many NH courses are gagging for
ALL my reporters tell me that it was a very well run meeting to which my standard reply was "Area Secretary was Jinnyj .......what do you expect 
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Badbury today was pointing at it's finest. The meeting secretary to be fair needs no help - she is the best around.
Backed four winners (should have been five if the jockey in the Ladies had switched her stick through and prevented her horse running out as it had the better of the eventual winner)
First was won by Biddick for Tom Malone. Very nice horse, Six Two Three, who his contact said would have been sold by the time that Malone landed as he was mid-flight)
Lucas Murphy showed fellow novices he is a class apart in the nervous riders race on Bass Rock
My beloved Macklin made his seasonal reappearance a winning one when reeling in Famous Clermont.
Olive let me down in the Ladies (another winner for Biddick and a first for jockey Molly Armytage, daughter of Marcus)
My friends horse, Jeu de Gagnant won the first div of the Restricted (took 8s) - he's very very nice and was given a superb ride by Anna Johnston
Biddick trained the winners of the first two divs of the regular Maiden - Amroth Bay (nice unraced 6yo) and also Dollanstown which I backed to win along with Southgate Avenue making his UK debut for Liam Corcoran (dad of Rian who I chatted to - he was buzzing about his professional season so far - "living the dream" were his words)
Backed four winners (should have been five if the jockey in the Ladies had switched her stick through and prevented her horse running out as it had the better of the eventual winner)
First was won by Biddick for Tom Malone. Very nice horse, Six Two Three, who his contact said would have been sold by the time that Malone landed as he was mid-flight)
Lucas Murphy showed fellow novices he is a class apart in the nervous riders race on Bass Rock
My beloved Macklin made his seasonal reappearance a winning one when reeling in Famous Clermont.
Olive let me down in the Ladies (another winner for Biddick and a first for jockey Molly Armytage, daughter of Marcus)
My friends horse, Jeu de Gagnant won the first div of the Restricted (took 8s) - he's very very nice and was given a superb ride by Anna Johnston
Biddick trained the winners of the first two divs of the regular Maiden - Amroth Bay (nice unraced 6yo) and also Dollanstown which I backed to win along with Southgate Avenue making his UK debut for Liam Corcoran (dad of Rian who I chatted to - he was buzzing about his professional season so far - "living the dream" were his words)
This week’s Hunterchase’s are as follows:
24/02/26 Leicester The Quorn Novices Hunterchase at 16:20 (6 run)
24/02/26 Leicester The Cottesmore Open Hunterchase 16:50 (5 run)
25/02/26 Wincanton The Pointing Pointers Dick and Sue Woodhouse Memorial Hunterchase 16:20 (6 run)
Pointing Pointers have been invited to have lunch with The Directors so it is even more of a blow that this will be the first race that I have missed since we started sponsoring Hunterchase’s but hey ho Family always come first.
Below is our racecard advert
24/02/26 Leicester The Quorn Novices Hunterchase at 16:20 (6 run)
24/02/26 Leicester The Cottesmore Open Hunterchase 16:50 (5 run)
25/02/26 Wincanton The Pointing Pointers Dick and Sue Woodhouse Memorial Hunterchase 16:20 (6 run)
Pointing Pointers have been invited to have lunch with The Directors so it is even more of a blow that this will be the first race that I have missed since we started sponsoring Hunterchase’s but hey ho Family always come first.
Below is our racecard advert
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This weekends points are as follows:
28/02/26 The Kimblewick(February) at Kingston Blount first of 6 races 12:00 noon 90 entries
01/03/26 South & West Wilts at Larkhill first of 6 races at 12:00 noon 73 entries
01/03/26 Yorkshire Jockeys Club at Charm Park first of 6 races at 12:30 67 entries
01/03/26 Suffolk at Ampton first of 6 races at 13:00 48 entries
28/02/26 The Kimblewick(February) at Kingston Blount first of 6 races 12:00 noon 90 entries
01/03/26 South & West Wilts at Larkhill first of 6 races at 12:00 noon 73 entries
01/03/26 Yorkshire Jockeys Club at Charm Park first of 6 races at 12:30 67 entries
01/03/26 Suffolk at Ampton first of 6 races at 13:00 48 entries
Might And Power
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Today's Leicester 4.20 - I'd much sooner be on Just Lucky Sivola EW at 9/2 sporting a TT for the first time, than taking 2/5 or 4/9 about Paul Marvel ..... I think the betting should be closer than that - maybe 4/7 and 3's
In 4 years of being involved in The Competition on JFF & Pointing Pointer I can not remember nobody picking the winner and filling in a completely blank Spreadsheet !!! when Molly Armytage rode the 50/1 outsider of 4 in the Hunterchase at Leicester today !!!
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Next weeks Hunterchase’s are as follows:
Monday 02/03/26 Southwell 15:15 The Watch Unbridled Open Hunterchase
Wednesday 04/03/26 Catterick 16:10 The Pointing Pointers Open Hunterchase
Friday 06/03/26 Leicester 17:03 The Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry Open Hunterchase
Monday 02/03/26 Southwell 15:15 The Watch Unbridled Open Hunterchase
Wednesday 04/03/26 Catterick 16:10 The Pointing Pointers Open Hunterchase
Friday 06/03/26 Leicester 17:03 The Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry Open Hunterchase
Here are the number of runners that actually took part this weekend:
Kingston Blount 57 from 90 entries 63.33%
Larkhill 50 from 73 entries 68.49%
Charm Park 39 from 67 entries 58.2%
Ampton 27 from 48 entries 56.25% last season there was a person recording meetings that had fewer than 30 runners I don't know if they are doing the same this season but by my limited knowledge there have only been two and they were both at my local course Ampton but I went and the racing was excellent and I even managed to find a couple of winners
This weeks upcoming Point To Points are as follows:
High Easter Racing Club at High Easter 07/03/26 start at 13:00 6 races 53 entries
Duke Of Beaufort's at Didmarton 07/03/26 13:00 start at 13:00 7 races 112 entries (please note that this meeting is being "Live Streamed" here
Blackmore & Sparkford at Charlton Horethorne 08/03/26 start at 12:30 7 races 68 entries
Buccleuch PTP at Friars Haugh 08/03/26 start at 13:00 6 races 79 entries
Pytchley With Woodhound 08/06/26 start at 13:00 6 races 57 entries
Sir WW Wynss and Flint & Denbigh at Bangor-On-Dee start at 13:00 6 races 67 entries
High Easter Racing Club at High Easter 07/03/26 start at 13:00 6 races 53 entries
Duke Of Beaufort's at Didmarton 07/03/26 13:00 start at 13:00 7 races 112 entries (please note that this meeting is being "Live Streamed" here
Buccleuch PTP at Friars Haugh 08/03/26 start at 13:00 6 races 79 entries
Pytchley With Woodhound 08/06/26 start at 13:00 6 races 57 entries
Sir WW Wynss and Flint & Denbigh at Bangor-On-Dee start at 13:00 6 races 67 entries
DerekBoughton
Amateur Rider
Credit to Ian Davies -Here are the number of runners that actually took part this weekend:
Kingston Blount 57 from 90 entries 63.33%
Larkhill 50 from 73 entries 68.49%
Charm Park 39 from 67 entries 58.2%
Ampton 27 from 48 entries 56.25% last season there was a person recording meetings that had fewer than 30 runners I don't know if they are doing the same this season but by my limited knowledge there have only been two and they were both at my local course Ampton but I went and the racing was excellent and I even managed to find a couple of winners
Badbury Rings 25
Ampton 27
Ampton 29
No sponsor for the Cheltenham Hunter Chase
Just copied this from a Pointing Forum ........................................can you understand how much I am laughing right now ? at JFF & Pointing Pointers I have contacted them every year to try and sponsore a Hunterchase and have never even received a call back and I promised my team that I will never try and contact them again.........I am well aware that in the field of sponsorship we are very small fry ...........but hey something is better than NOTHING..........I will still not call them but they know my number or at the very least The Pointing Pointers web pageThat explains why I have not seen one this year then Derek.
That explains it Derek
