Gina and Berties Dream are so impressive at Barbury, and Sarah Dawson bags more AGA championship points

It’s been sunny on our last few visits to Barbury, but this lovely course is still in our top 5 ‘coldest point-to-point courses in the UK’, although the Mendip Farmers P2P at Ston Easton in 2013 is still officially the coldest we’ve ever been on a point-to-point racecourse (2013 was a vintage year for Siberian pointing […]

Catherine Walton – an AGA Champion in waiting?

Catherine Walton lit up the AGA Championship for lady riders last season, surging into an early lead with three brilliant wins in successive weeks during January – at Sheriff Hutton, Alnwick and Friars Haugh – and she was never headed. Another win was notched at Whitcliffe Grange in March, and as the field jumped off in […]

Oaksi shows his class at Chaddesley Corbett as he is given a text book ride from Jane Williams

The penultimate AGA Ladies open of the season had attracted a mouth watering entry of 22, and the Pointing Plus (Racing Plus) had given it front page billing with the headline ‘Clash of the Titans’. That ‘clash’ didn’t materialise as only 3 went to post, but we still had an intriguing and exciting race, and […]

The General Lee and Lorna Brooke are triumphant in another AGA cracker!

Having just secured the jump boards in place, I was stood by the last fence at Cold Harbour with Mrs S, drill in hand, admiring my handiwork. Then it dawned on us, we had arrived a little later than planned – a combination of a late return from Peper Harow, and some frustratingly slow Sunday […]

Bridget Andrews has the AGA title in her sights after a smooth win on Saveiro at Peper Harow

The finishing line is in sight as we rack up the miles with 3 qualifiers in 3 days on a mammoth weekend for AGA, starting at Peper Harow. The AGA point-to-point series final is looming large on the horizon and we were in action on all three days of this Bank Holiday weekend, racking up 500+ miles. The first […]

Ravethebrave on track for AGA final with an emphatic victory at Whitfield

The finishing line is in sight and we saw a potential winner of our final at Whitfield, as Ravethebrave strolled to an emphatic victory in the 21st AGA Ladies Open race of the season. It was also another one that we can call a ‘home game’ as it is only around 45 minutes from Cubbington, a […]

Sunshine and a warm welcome in Wales as Jodie Hughes bags her first ever AGA win

This was a mammoth trip and the original (and sensible) plan had been to travel down to Wales the day before, but we decided to have Easter Sunday lunch at home with the family (well, when I say we, what I really mean is that Mrs S decided!). Having said that it was a good […]

Catherine Walton makes it 4 AGA Ladies wins from 4 rides with another successful trip to Yorkshire!

The AGA slogan is a ‘Warm Welcome Home’, and that’s exactly what we got on our return to Yorkshire! We get a warm welcome from the point-to-point community wherever we go, but it’s particularly warm whenever we go to Yorkshire … we can even feel it when we’re just passing through!

The blog is back with an AGA double header at High Easter and Hackwood Park

Why the lack of blog posts? Well, I’ve missed a few weeks due to being incredibly busy, and there have also been a few ‘technical issues’. I fully intended to catch up and write a blog post for every point-to-point meeting that I’ve been to since my last post – Didmarton, Garthorpe, Charlton Horethorne, Wadebridge, […]