The 2025-26 season sees a new initiative at Garthorpe, The Garthorpe Top Horse Competition, generously sponsored by Fairman, Knight and Sons, sustainable insect farmers. Each horse placed in a Garthorpe point-to-point will score points towards the Top Horse League and the horse with the most points after the Quorn Point-to-Point will win a £1000 bonus.
Grandads Cottage opens Foxhunters' campaign in style
The first Midlands Area fixture of the season delivered in so many ways. The Cottesmore meeting at Garthorpe attracted a record crowd as well as a double for Gina Andrews, an impressive Open victory, and a rare dead heat. The substantial rainfall throughout November may have concerned a few, but the old Leicestershire turf of […]
New prize for Garthorpe Top Horse
Fairman Knight and Sons have sponsored a new initiative to cover the four Point-to-Points at Garthorpe Races this season. Garthorpe is the premier course in the East Midlands some 6 miles east of market town of Melton Mowbray ‘the Rural Capital of Food’, and just off the A1 between Grantham and Stamford. There are four Point-to-Points […]
Belvoir 2025 - Report
Julian Sherriff‘s 10-year-old Fier Jaguen continued his Garthorpe Open race dominance on Sunday at the Cottesmore meeting, where he won by 25 lengths in the skilful hands of Bradley Gibbs. The right-hand-track supremo never looked uncomfortable and, although he might have given the Stearn and Turner families and inkling of hope when he gave their […]
Cottesmore 2025 - Report
Julian Sherriff‘s 10-year-old Fier Jaguen continued his Garthorpe Open race dominance on Sunday at the Cottesmore meeting, where he won by 25 lengths in the skilful hands of Bradley Gibbs. The right-hand-track supremo never looked uncomfortable and, although he might have given the Stearn and Turner families and inkling of hope when he gave their […]
Melton Hunt Club 2025 - Report
More photos from course photographer Nico Morgan] The first of this season‘s Garthorpe fixtures took place on Sunday when the Melton Hunt Club hosted a six race meeting on good to soft ground. There was a treble for Gina Andrews and a double for Dale Peters, both as trainer/jockey. Clerk of the Course Jim Culloty […]
Quorn at Garthorpe 2024 - Report
John Ridge's Caryto des Brosses showed his class to win the Prestigious Quorn Gold Cup in style at Garthorpe on Saturday, for the second year running. The David Kemp-trained 12 year old is probably in his last season of racing but you wouldn't have known it from this display; he looked close to his very […]
Belvoir at Garthorpe 2024 - Report
The ground at Garthorpe dried well throughout the week leading up to the 2024 renewal of the Belvoir point-to-point at Garthorpe on Saturday 23rd March, and a big crowd of racegoers braved some icy hail showers and a typically arctic prevailing wind and partied in the bar long after racing had finished. Clerk of Course […]
Fier Jaguen reigns supreme
The annual Melton Hunt Club fixture at Garthorpe included one of the highest class Mens Open fields in recent years, won in dominant form by Cheltenham hunter chase winner Fier Jaguen and Bradley Gibbs. In doing so they registered the 9th win from their last twelve starts and set up a double on the day […]
Melton Hunt Club Preview 2024
On Sunday the 4th of February Garthorpe Racecourse will host the Melton Hunt Club fixture, with a six race card starting at midday. The Melton Hunt Club is a club fixture organised jointly by the Belvoir, Cottesmore and Quorn who have their own fixtures at Garthorpe later in the season. Garthorpe is on the B676, […]