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Updates in preparation for Charing

CHARING – Sunday 15th November

We are just 5 weeks, on Sunday, from the first South East fixture being held at Charing and organised by the South East Hunts Club.

Following on from the most recent newsletter from the PPA we want to give you a brief update as to where we are with this meeting.

The Justification document has been completed and sent to local authority, due to the different circumstances this year additional permissions must be gained.

Keep an eye out here as we approach the day or on Twitter and Facebook as we will be posting more information when it becomes available.

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SEHC – Charing 15th November

by Storme Rees | October 9, 2020 | News | 0 Comments

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by Storme Rees | February 25, 2020 | News | 0 Comments

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South East Hunts Club Charing Review

by Storme Rees | February 25, 2020 | News | 0 Comments

The South East Hunts Club kicked off the 2020 South East Area Point-to-Point season a week later than expected on Saturday with their meeting at Charing which saw Jack Andrews ride a treble. The opening race of the day, the 2 mile 4 furlong maiden which had attracted...

SEHC – Saturday 22nd February at Charing

by Storme Rees | February 19, 2020 | News | 0 Comments

Following Storm Denis the South East Hunts Club kicks off the 2020 South East Area Point-to-Point season on Saturday with their meeting at Charing. Huge thanks go to Sally and Nick Bowman for coordinating the reschedule and working hard to ensure all the compulsory...

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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

1. Shane Roche

2. Charlie Marshall

3. Phil York

Leading Lady Rider

for the Magaret Holland “Rough Scot” Cup
1. Izzie Marshall
2. Rose Grissell

Leading Gentleman Novice Rider

for the “Tern Eran” Cup

1. Ray Glennon

Leading Lady Novice Rider

for the Architade Trophy

1. Beth Mellish

Leading Owner

for the John Hacking “Red Cast” Cup

1. Mr Ian Gibson – Indian Chance

2. Generous Ransom

Leading Novice Horse

for the Skinner Cup

1. Indian Chance

2. Lightonthemountain

Leading Homebred

for the “Marks Methane” Trophy

1. Margot Fontane

Leading Veteran Rider

for the “Colonel Henry” Cup

1. Phil York

Leading Lady Owner Ridden Horse

for the “Red Marshall” Trophy

Cada Club – Hannah Jones

Leading Gentleman Owner Ridden Horse

for the “Pleasure Prints” Challenge Trophy

1. Margot Fontane – Pete Bull

Leading Family Owner Ridden Horse

for the Ian Pattullo Memorial Cup

1. Margot Fontane

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Information on Point-to-Point horseracing in the South East Area

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ITV Racing@itvracing·

13 Nov

We have a faller at Cheltenham but luckily @LeglockLuke looks to be okay 😂

#ITVRacing

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Point2PointAuthority @Point2PointAuth·

2 Nov

Several changes to the P2P fixture list for this season (up to March) have been made. This has been worked on over the last few weeks and is not in reaction to the 4-week lockdown announced at the weekend.

More on this and updated fixture list here:

➡️ https://t.co/2u6YE2Mxwo

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Point2PointAuthority @Point2PointAuth·

3 Nov

We have just released a short statement about the immediate situation for point-to-pointing on our website here:

➡️ https://t.co/YW76VaaQhl

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Point2PointAuthority @Point2PointAuth·

21 Oct

We have just released an update for participants/officials etc ahead of this weekend regarding declarations, protocols and ticketing. Click below:

➡️ https://t.co/9rXLDitSQJ

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Plumpton Racecourse @plumptonraces·

19 Oct

An emotional winner of the last as @GiffordNick wins his Dad’s race, a lovely end to the day. A great ride by @tabithaworsley guided Rose of Aghaboe home in front in the Josh Gifford Memorial

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Point2PointAuthority @Point2PointAuth·

16 Oct

⭐️ P2P 2020/21 UPDATE ⭐️

With just over one week until the return of point-to-pointing, we have posted an update on latest plans (including ticketing detail for participants/owners) ahead of the start of the 2020/21 season here:

➡️ https://t.co/8RmgysjsPT

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Stephanie Bateman @stephjbateman·

12 Oct

I'm looking for people who train and ride their own horses in point-to-points alongside a full time job for a feature in @horseandhound. Any suggestions? @Point2PointAuth @pointtopoint

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