A great initiative by the organisers - due to fuel crisis, if your horse runs you will get your entry fee refunded.

There's also enhanced prize money with a total prize fund of £4,150, first prize of £300 in 4/6 races, a Ladies Open with £500 to the winner, and a £1,200 Mixed Open with £700 to the winner.

Going currently Good to Soft.

With 29 hunter chases held and 27 planned before the season ends, we have just past the half way mark.

As well as the top four on the final leader board receiving a prize there are also rewards to be won in other categories.

This is how they currently stand.

Pick Most Winners:

1. SeanTaskerBrown - 16 winners

2. Darran - 15 winners

The going is currently Good, Good to Firm in places. The course has seen plenty of showers this week and more rain is forecast later today. Watering is taking place and the aim is to produce Good ground for racing on Sunday.

                                          BEDALE POINT TO POINT REVIEW

Hornby Castle has played host to the Bedale point to point for nigh on eighty years and is a very big day in the local social calendar. The massive crowd which once again descended on the park last Saturday 11^th April was rewarded with quality horses and exciting racing despite braving conditions Yorkshire folk would call nithering.

Both Open races proved to be a happy hunting ground for favourite backers and saw impressive performances by a brace of classy horses. The Ladies was kindly sponsored by Lowes A Saltus Business and saw Daisy White and Killer Clown attempt to retain the trophy they won here twelve months ago. Run over the shorter two miles and six furlongs trip the field stayed closely bunched for much of the race with Second Subaltern producing some spectacular leaps as he took them along under Venetia Thompson however…

Here is a copy of an email I received today from Hexham Racecourse although it is addressed to me it involves all forum members.

Hi Gordon,

I have attached a couple of photos from your race yesterday.

REPORT: PUCKERIDGE & ESSEX MEETING AT HIGH EASTER ON SATURDAY APRIL 11^th  

By Mike Ashby 

The 2025/26 East Anglia area point-to-point season concluded with the Puckeridge and Essex meeting at the delightful High Easter racecourse. All bar one of the scheduled ten fixtures took place, only the initial one planned for November didn’t run, due to lack of entries. 

At High Easter the main race of the day, The Ladies Open race, with the prestigious Warwick Vase awarded to the winner, went to Police Academy ridden by Ellie Callwood. This improving partnership has now won twice ( Higham and here ) and were runners-up at Fakenham, all in the space of three weeks. Two fences out all three runners, Police Academy, Spyglass Hill and I’m Spellbound were in the air together but the eventual winner produced a better jump than her rivals. This enabled Callwood to round the final bend on the favoured inside line and the winning pairing kept on strongly to win by 1¼ lengths from the I’m Spellbound who didn’t appreciate the drying ground and there was evidence of a broken blood vessel which wouldn't have helped his chances. Spyglass Hill…

A few photos from the Sandcliff Cromer "Grassroots" maiden hunter chase for the Turner Trophy.