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Wessex Area Point-to-Point Website
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We'll be back in November/December
Our new season begins in January 2010
Area Championships 2009
Here are the Final Standings for 2009.
If anyone would like more detailed info on the Championships please feel free to email brianandgill@pointingwessex.co.uk - any time!
Essential Diary Date
The new venue for this year’s Vixen Horsefeeds Area Championships Dinner & Dance is The Haselbury Mill, Haselbury Plucknett, Crewkerne, Somerset on Friday 25 September 2009.
Info & tickets from Sarah Barber on 01460 74943 (sarah@peckmoor.com)
Six to Follow Competition
This season’s winners, with thanks to the Wessex Area PPSA, Wincanton Racecourse & Weatherbys Chase, are...
Anne White (136) wins the 2010 Wessex Area Car Pass
Kevin Steel (124) wins the 2009/10 membership of Wincanton Racecourse (www.wincantonracecourse.co.uk)
Roger White (106) wins the 2010 Mackenzie & Harris Hunter Chasers & Point-to-Pointers Annual, pub November 2009 – www.pointtopoint.co.uk (go to Shop)
Christopher Sully (92) wins the 2009/10 subscription to the National website – www.pointtopoint.co.uk (go to Membership)
TAWNY MYTH
Legendary Dorset point-to-pointer Tawny Myth, the winner of 14 consecutive races in 1983 and 1984, passed away on 10th January , aged 35.
Tawny Myth started his point-to-point career with Mike Felton, for whom he won a 1981 Larkhill maiden, before being bought by late Plush farmer Roy Cake and his son Richard, winning three races for them the following season. In 1983, he completed an eight-timer when winning the 4-mile Tedworth Gold Cup from a high-class 17-strong field, and finished runner-up in the Grand Marnier Trophy to Seine Bay, also the winner of eight races but with a second and third placing as against Tawny Myth’s single second place. He extended his sequence to 14 when unbeaten in 1984 with three hunter chase wins and three point-to-point successes, including a division of the Coronation Cup. In all, he and Richard won 23 races, and the pair retired together after pulling up at Badbury Rings in March 1987.
“He was a tough workmanlike horse who always gave his best”, recalls Richard. “He never won the best turned out award but he had a big engine. We hunted with the South Dorset for a season after our retirement but he was too keen and rather enjoyed his hunting too much. After that he lived on the farm and at Christmas, my five-year-old grandson, William, sat on him and was promptly chucked off. He enjoyed a happy retirement”.
