POINT-TO-POINT

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Statement from the Secretary of Penshurst

Penshurst Point-to-Point

It is with great regret that we the Penshurst Point-to-Point Committee have had to make the hard decision to not run meetings in 2024.

The dates allocated by the Point-to-Point Authority, the event’s governing body, were considered too early to suit the ground at Penshurst. That combined with a probable lack of runners immediately after the Easter weekend, deemed the risk of cancellation too high.

Rest assured the Committee endeavoured to renegotiate the dates offered, but the inflexibility of both the Area and National Calendars made it impossible to run later in April or early May.

The Committee fully recognise that Penshurst race meetings have immense loyal local support, good sponsors and reliable volunteers who give up their time to set up and run the meetings. However, after much deliberation It was felt that planning the meetings, knowing there to be such a high risk of cancellation, was not in anyone’s best interest, not least the sport itself.

Please be assured that Penshurst Point-to-Point Committee are endeavouring to secure more favourable dates in 2025, in order that we can welcome back our loyal supporters to enjoy good racing and as always, a convivial atmosphere which has been so much a part of the fabric of the country calendar of Penshurst and the surrounding areas.

2023/2024 Race Diary

4th february | charing | sehc

25th february | Charing | SEHC

Penshurst | OSB & WK – not running in 2024

23rd march | Parham | c&h

Penshurst | osb &wk – not running in 2024

20th april | parham | clch

4th may | godstone | msfd

18th | peper harow | su

Aldington Point to Point

Charing Point to Point

Godstone Point to Point

Parham Point to Point

Penshurst Point to Point

Peper Harow Point to Point

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Parham Review

by Storme Rees | May 5, 2023 | News | 0 Comments

Parham hosted their second point-to-point of the season on Saturday 22nd April where the weather was good and the racing was exciting. The fixture started with the intermediate race which saw six declarations. Shanoule Wood was in contention until the final circuit...

Parham Preview

by Storme Rees | April 20, 2023 | News | 0 Comments

Parham racecourse hosts its second fixture of 2023 on Saturday with two pony races taking place at 12:20pm and 12:45pm prior to the racing starting at 2pm. The course has been rolled and rails have been moved to provide fresh ground on this left-handed oval course....

From a South East volunteer

by Storme Rees | April 7, 2023 | News | 0 Comments

Retired RACEFORM & PRESS ASSOCIATION horseracing journalist and TOTE manager WILL LEFEBVE, nowadays a volunteer race day helper at our PARHAM point-to-point course, is selling his vast collection of turf memorabilia, including over 100 METAL MEMBERS’ BADGES (and...

Aldington Preview 10th April

by Storme Rees | April 5, 2023 | News | 0 Comments

Aldington Races host their annual Easter Monday fixture on April 10th with six races starting at 2pm. The course is a left-handed track which sees the runners complete two full circuits of the track allowing the public to see the start and finish clearly. The going is...

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South East Riders

Pete Bull

Wins: 150

Best Course: ?

Best Horse: Honourable Spider (11 wins)

Best Season: 2009 (12 wins)

Last Season: 2 wins

Rides for: Himself, Suzy Bull, Andrew Coveney
Trainer with most wins for: ?

Gemma Cobb

Wins: 4

Best Course: Aldington, Parham, Penshurst (1)

Best Horse: Master Alf (2)

Best Season: 2012 (2)

Last Season: 1

Rides for: Heather Cobb, Ian Cobb
Trainer with most wins for: Heather Cobb (3)

Ella Gillings

Wins: 5 wins from 26 rides
Best Horse: Behind The Scenes.
Best Season: 2015 – 3 wins and 4 places all on Behind The Scenes.
Best Course: Penshurst numbers wise, though Charing is my favourite to ride round. .
Proudest Moment: Behind The Scenes taking Leading Horse in the South East 2015, and by association myself receiving Leading Lady that season.
Horse for this season: Cloudy Bob.

Ray Glennon

Wins: 3

Best Course: Charing/Parham (1)

Best Horse: Keltic Moon, Leafy Arbour, Golden Crisp (1)

Best Season: 2011/2013/2017 (1)

Last Season: 0

Rides for: Nigel Benstead
Trainer with most wins for: Himself, Phil York, Tim Underwood (1)

Rose Grissell

Wins: 6

Best Course: Charing/Godstone (2)

Best Horse: De Clare Man, Myson (2)

Best Season: 2009/2015 (2)

Last Season: 0

Rides for: Herself
Trainer with most wins for: Herself (6)

Will Hickman

Wins: 34

Best Course: Charing (8)

Best Horse: Man From Moscow (5)

Best Season: 2009 (7)

Last Season: 3

Rides for: Hannah Jones, Pam Tetley
Trainer with most wins for: Alison Hickman* (14)

Hannah Jones

Wins: 2

Best Course: Penshurst/Aldington

Best Horse: Ballybrack Dancer

Best Season: 2018 (three winners in three weekends!)

Rides for: Herself

How did I get into Pointing: I always wanted to ride in a P2P and worked for Libby Lawson in 2013, she helped me buy my first pointer. I also worked for Phil York and Will Hickman then started training for my parents in 2016.

Best aspect of the sport: Riding and training winners is what it’s all about. Seeing a horse improve and watching them enjoy their racing.

Charlie Marshall

Wins: 23

Best Course: Penshurst (7)

Best Horse: Conkies Lad (4)

Best Season: 2017 (9)

Last Season: 5
Rides for: Cynthia Woods, Charlotte Marshall
Trainer with most wins for: Cynthia Woods (7)

Izzie Marshall

Wins: 20

Best Course: Penshurst

Best Horse: Start Royal (5 winners)

Best Season: 2017/18 (2nd in the national ladies championship behind Gina Ellis)

Last Season: 11

Rides for: based with Alan Hill, also share the family rides with my brother Charlie for our mum, Charlotte Marshall
How did I get into Pointing: I’ve grown up hunting, eventing, team chasing and Pony Racing.

Best aspect of the sport: Going racing with my friends and family, having a drink afterwards win, lose or draw!!

Beth Mellish

Wins: 2

Best Course: Penshurst/Parham (1)

Best Horse: See You Jack, Jackfield (1)

Best Season: 2017/2018 (1)

Rides for: Margaret Howie

How did I get into pointing: my mum used to have pointers and after I finished college I said I’d like to have a go!

Best aspect of the sport: The bond between horse and rider.

James Rawdon-Mogg

Wins: 0

Best Course: –

Best Horse: –

Best Season: –

Last Season: 0

Rides for: Rose Grissell
Trainer with most wins for: –

Shane Roche

Wins: 30

Best Course: Parham (7)

Best Horse: Curraigflemens/The Ferbane Man/Generous Ransom (3)

Best Season: 2017 (13)

Last Season: 12

Rides for: David Phelan
Trainer with most wins for: David Phelan (10)

Benedict Shaw

Wins: 2

Best Course: Godstone/Peper Harow (1)

Best Horse: Strollawaynow (2)

Best Season: 2017 (2)

Last Season: 0

Rides for: Andrew Wates
Trainer with most wins for: Andrew Wates (2)

Jody Sole

Wins: 45
Best Course: Aldington (7)
Best Horse: Bit Of A Clown (3)
Best Season: 2010/2011 (8)
Last Season: 0
Rides for: Himself, Karen Phillips-Hill, Stephen Allen
Trainer with most wins for: Chris Lawson* (9)

Steve Spice

Wins: 8

Best Course: Penshurst (3)

Best Horse: Dad Says Heazle (2)

Best Season: 2006/2009/2018 (2)

Last Season: 2

Rides for: Himself, Brenda Ansell
Trainer with most wins for: Veronica Park* (3)

Oz Wedmore

Wins: 18

Best Course: Charing/Godstone (4)

Best Horse: Mr Bed Bugs/Orfeo Conti/Showman/Time Is Tickin (2)

Best Season: 2016 (6)

Last Season: 2

Rides for: Rose Grissell, Elizabeth Lawson
Trainer with most wins for: Rose Grissell (6)

Phil York

Wins: 350+

Best Course: ?

Best Horse: Freddies Return (10)

Best Season: 2011 (34)

Last Season: 9

Rides for: Himself, Tim Underwood
Trainer with most wins for: ?

Tabitha Worsley

Best Course: Aldington

Best Horse: Alrafid (First horse I rode and now team chase on him aged 20!)

Best Season: 2016/17 – 14 winners

Rides for: Anyone that wants me.

How did you get into Pointing? Grew up on the hunting field and came through Pony Club. Mum trained a few pointers so I started Pony Racing.

Best Aspect of the sport: The camaraderie in the changing rooms.

Katie Featherstone

Wins: 0 – very close though!

Best Course: Charing

Best Horse: Winola

Rides for: Herself & Connor Gray

How did I get into Pointing: Through my parents who used to own Pointers.

Best aspect of the sport: The adrenaline rush I couldn’t find in any other sport!

Ellie Vaughan

Best Horse: Provincial Pride

Rides for: Penny Vaughan

Favourite Course: Penshurst

Wins: none yet but ridden in some good races.

How did I get into Pointing: I started Pony Racing with a hunting pony then had a go in a Members race 2 years ago and loved it! I now work full time in racing.

Elizabeth Feakes

Favourite Horse: Just a Touch

Favourite Course: Parham (my first ever completion last year but I also love Godstone)

How I got into Pointing: I’ve pretty much always wanted to be a jockey. Brought up in a farming and racing family I have always hunted and more recently whipped in with the Kent and Surrey Bloodhounds. I’m very lucky to have Nicola Aspell to train my horse and support me on race days.

Leaderboards

Points awarded: 1st – 6 points, 2nd – 4 points, 3rd – 2 points.

Leading Gentleman Rider

for the Eric Covell “Flintstone” Cup

Phil York

Leading Lady Rider

for the Magaret Holland “Rough Scot” Cup
Mary Ashby

Leading Gentleman Novice Rider

for the “Tern Eran” Cup

Seb Mead

Leading Lady Novice Rider

for the Architade Trophy

Mary Ashby

Leading Owner

for the John Hacking “Red Cast” Cup

The Three Off The Tee Partnership with Getting Closer

Leading Novice Horse

for the Skinner Cup

Buachaill Dana owned by Mr Paul Burden

Leading Homebred

for the “Marks Methane” Trophy

Ballintara owned by The Cockerell Cowing Racing Partnership

Leading Veteran Rider

for the “Colonel Henry” Cup

Phil York

Leading Lady Owner Ridden Horse

for the “Red Marshall” Trophy

Katie Featherstone with Imperial Acolyte

Leading Gentleman Owner Ridden Horse

for the “Pleasure Prints” Challenge Trophy

Seb Mead with West Lake

Leading Family Owner Ridden Horse

for the Ian Pattullo Memorial Cup

Who’s My Jockey owned by the Marshall family

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Only 38 days till we go to Badbury Rings for our first races this season. Taking 3 there and hoping for a great start to the season. Trappist Monk, Imperial Esprit and Ripper Roo all go there for their seasonal debuts. Ripper Roo is having his first run for us and is an exciting new addition to our yard. ( he’s taking the place of Tangoed who has retired from racing after giving us so many great days out) The other two both had great seasons last year and we are hoping Imperial Esprit can continue where he left off last season now he’s had his ailments all sorted out. He could be the one to follow this season as he was never 100% fit last season and still ran fantastic races for us. ... See MoreSee Less

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🐴 Calling all thoroughbred owners, take part in the ‘I Love My Thoroughbred’ competition to be in with a chance of winning a bespoke £500 NAF bundleℹ️ To enter, share a post with a photo/video with your horse, along with the hashtags #ThoroughbredCensus2023 and #ILoveMyThoroughbred, and most importantly, complete the thoroughbred census🐎 Britain’s first ever thoroughbred census has been launched to help improve the traceability of former racehorses after they retire from the sport➡️ Complete the census today – www.ror.org.uk/registrationThe competition closes at 23:59 on Friday 13 October with 1 x winner, selected at random, receiving 1x £500 NAF bundle. Winners will have 48 hours to confirm details once contacted.#ILoveMyThoroughbred #ThoroughbredCensus2023Please can all stakeholders share the attached launch poster with the below caption: 🐴 Calling all thoroughbred owners, take part in the ‘I Love My Thoroughbred’ competition to be in with a chance of winning a bespoke £500 NAF bundle ℹ️ To enter, share a photo/video with your horse, along with the hashtags #ThoroughbredCensus2023 and #ILoveMyThoroughbred, and most importantly, complete the thoroughbred census 🐎 Britain’s first ever thoroughbred census has been launched to help improve the traceability of former racehorses after they retire from the sport ➡️ Complete the census today – www.ror.org.uk/registration The competition closes at 23:59 on Friday 13 October with 1 x winner, selected at random, receiving 1x £500 NAF bundle. Winners will have 48 hours to confirm details once contacted. #ILoveMyThoroughbred #ThoroughbredCensus2023 ... See MoreSee Less

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So the planning for next years Crawley and Horsham point to point at Parham begins. Date for your diaries MARCH 23RD 2024. The popular Dog Show returns and we also have Pony Racing with the up and coming Jockey's of the future. Will up date when tickets are available ... See MoreSee Less

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