Mouthwatering Fixture List
Found Players Gold Leaf Point to Point Calendar 1974.
Season starts 9th Feb with 3 meetings at Belmont / Higham & Tweseldown & finishes 1st June at Bratton Down.
My season from a Coventry base.
16/02 Cottenham, 23/02 Whitwick Manor, although I may have gone to Kingston Blount as there is pencil road directions on the list. 02.03 Didmarton, 09/03 Newton Bromswold, 16/03 Garthorpe, 23/03 Guilsborogh, 30/03 Chad C, Tuesday 02/04 Heythrop @ Stow ( all time Fav meeting ) 06/04 Garthorpe, 13/04 Clifton on Dunsmore, 15/04 Spring Hill, Tuesday 16/04 Upton on Severn, 20/04 Dingley, 27/04 Garthorpe, 04/05 Chad C, 11/05 Lowsonford, 18/05 Chad C, 25/05 Melton @ Garthorpe ( remember these days at the season championships ) Monday 27/05 Lowsonford.
1st June sober up!
Great days, great racing. Will try to dig out seasons results to see where I did go on 23rd Feb.
Roger Day ( CCFC in another life )
Thanks Roger,
Of course avoiding Turners was well nigh impossible back then.
And in those days Higham was nearer 2m 6f rather than 3 miles which goes someway towards explaining the very fast times.