Point-to-points are amateur (i.e. non-professional) races run by hunts all over the country. This is not to say the races are easy!

Plumpton Racecourse is all set for Ladies' Day this Sunday, 12th May, its most glamorous raceday of the year.

Film fanatics may be on tenterhooks anticipating the cinema release of the Hollywood blockbuster Fast & Furious 6 this month, part of which was filmed in Liverpool.

There was a View To A Kill at Hamilton Park as its very own super spy ‘James Bond’ dropped into the racecourse in style ahead of this Friday’s (11th May) Casino Royale Racenight.

Lingfield’s most prestigious two day meeting takes place on Friday 10 May and Saturday 11 May featuring the Betfred Derby Trial Stakes and the Betfred, ‘The Bonus King’ Oaks Trial, alongside the group 3 Betfred.com Chartwell Fillies Stakes.

Newmarket Racecourses is preparing to host the 200th running of the 1000 Guineas sponsored by QIPCO on Sunday 5 May.

Three thoroughbred colts put their unbeaten records on the line in the opening Classic of the Flat racing season … the QIPCO 2000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourses which launches the 2013 QIPCO British Champions Series.

1. The race name comes from the original prize-money – a guinea amounted to £1.05 or 21 shillings. It is the second of the five Classic races held in Britain and is one of two restricted to fillies. The 200th QIPCO 1000 Guineas this year is worth £400,000 in prize-money.
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Taking place on Tuesday, 9 May is Evening Racing with Live Music, when Wincanton Racecourse will become the vibrant mix of swing dresses and chic 1950s fashions with Ultimate Grease performing after racing to make you rock and roll and inject the feel good factor back into spring.

Racegoers will be shake, saddle ‘n’ rolling at Plumpton’s only evening racemeeting on Friday 26th April.

Goodwood Racecourse stages its first fixture of the new Flat season on Opening Saturday, 4 May.

Yorkshire-based Amy Ryan, who last season became the first female rider to be crowned outright Britain’s Champion Apprentice Jockey, has given her support to the latest ‘Back a Winner by Train’ campaign from local train operators, First TransPennine Express (FTPE) and Northern Rail.

Brighton Racecourse has taken the decision to delay the start to its flat racing season due to poor grass growth following the prolonged wet and cold weather.

The 2013 season at Beverley starts on Wednesday 17 April – the first of 19 days’ racing on the Flat this year on the Westwood, which includes a trio of evening meetings.

Higos Insurance Services sponsors Exeter’s raceday next Tuesday 16 April 16 where the first of seven races is off at 2pm.

Wincanton Racecourse’s Children’s Day on Sunday, 21 April looks set to be buzzing with hundreds of children expected to take advantage of the family orientated raceday that provides complimentary entry to children aged 17 years and under when accompanied by an adult.

Thousands of students are set to descend on Nottingham Racecourse for the opening evening fixture of the Flat racing season at Colwick Park.

The first meeting of 2013 at Ripon – Yorkshire’s ‘Garden Racecourse’- takes place on Thursday 18 April, when racing is scheduled to begin at 2.10pm with The Eat, Sleep & Drink At The Nag’s Head Pickhill Maiden Stakes, a contest for two-year-olds supported by both The Nag’s Head at Pickhill and The European Breeders Fund.