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YORKSHIRE AREA POINT TO POINT CLUB AT SHERIFF HUTTON JANUARY 18TH 2026

                                                                REVIEW

High quality performances by some very classy horses lit up a damp and grey Sheriff Hutton where the Yorkshire Area season opened last Sunday after a week's delay due to the wintery weather. Run once again in aid of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, to whom a cheque was presented by the organisers during racing for £13917.00, the total now raised and donated to them by the YAPPC has now passed the quarter of a million pounds mark.

The star performer on the card beforehand looked to be Barton Snow in the Labiana Life Sciences Ladies Open and those who took the short odds would never have a moment's worry. Get With It and Pippa Brown made the running but when Amber Jackson Fennell sent the favourite on three out the race was soon over and he…

       YORKSHIRE AREA POINT TO POINT CLUB AT SHERIFF HUTTON PREVIEW

The curtain rises on the new Yorkshire season on Sunday 11^th January with the ever popular and much anticipated Yorkshire Area Point to Point Club fixture at Sheriff Hutton, held by kind permission of Mick Easterby. The meeting always attracts a large and enthusiastic crowd and an entry of 111 drawn from far and wide should ensure a great day's racing. All proceeds raised are once again being donated to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance and the organisers hope to take the total raised and donated to them by this meeting past the quarter of a million pound mark this year.

The first race, due off at 11.45am, is the Racing TV Conditions (level 2) Five Year Olds And Over and having received a bumper entry of thirty two it would be no surprise if this is divided on the day. With…

As of midday today (Sunday 4th January) the going is good to soft with some frozen patches.

Please note in the event of abandonment all entry fees will be refunded less Weatherbys admin fee.

Admission is £15 on the gate and is cash only as is the bar. The popular hog roast is once again on the menu.

I was asked to write a preview of the season for today's Yorkshire Post. Happy to have a full page appearing today although it has been chopped down a bit. Original version here for anyone interested. I wrote it bearing in mind that many readers will never have been to a point to point before.

 YORKSHIRE AREA POINT TO POINT SEASON'S PREVIEW 2026

Point to point racing returns to Yorkshire next weekend when the inimitable Mick Easterby will once again welcome a large and enthusiastic crowd to Sheriff Hutton, where the curtain rises on the area's 2026 season on Sunday 11^th January. For those who are unfamiliar, pointing is what you could call pop up horse racing, amateur jump races run over a distance of usually three miles, on courses built from scratch on farms or parkland. Many of these are once a year venues such as the stateley Duncombe Park…