Our annual visit to the Cheltenham Festival Trials meeting coupled with a local stable visit has proved a popular event in previous years. This year we are visiting Fergal O’Brien, at Grange Hill Farm; Naunton.

The coach will depart from Newbury Racecourse. We will leave Fergal’s stable for Cheltenham in good time for the first race.

The booking form is available in December’s newsletter.

This year’s West Berkshire Racing Club's team Quiz will take place on Tuesday, 11th February 2019. The quiz will start at 19:30pm.

Teams are restricted to 12 tables of four made up of contestants from the local racing community as well as established favourites from further afield.

Teams of four, entry fee £20 per team for Injured Jockeys Fund.

To enter your team contact Bernard Mills on 0208 394 1107 or email bern.mills@btinternet.com

The West Berkshire Racing Club has been advised that the Kingston Blount Point to Point on Saturday 22nd February 2020, has been cancelled.

If you have any queries, please contact Kingston Blount.

The West Berkshire Racing Club will be visiting Dominic Ffrench-Davis and his team on Tuesday, 25th February 2020.

Booking form and full details can be found in November's newsletter.

Our annual sponsored race is scheduled for Friday, 28th February 2020, at Newbury Racecourse.

Following the cancellation of the Christmas social, we shall take the opportunity to present our cheque to a representative from the IJF for all monies raised in 2019.

The club will have exclusive use of a hospitality box in the Berkshire Stand. This will offer a superb view of the course from the balcony as well as a refuge from the winter weather.

Tea, coffee and a light lunch will be provided and we are asking all members who wish to attend to contribute £20 a head to the cost of the box and refreshments. Please complete the booking form in December’s newsletter.

We hope to see as many members as possible for what should be a wonderful afternoon.

Our ever popular Cheltenham Festival Preview Evening will take place on Thursday, 5th March 2020 at 8pm.

Venue: Owners and Trainers bar, Newbury Racecourse

Panel: Lee McKenzie (Chair Person); Warren Greatrex; Page Fuller; Lizzie Kelly & Journalist, James Burn.

A pay bar and raffle (in aid of the IJF) will be available on the evening.

Doors will open at 7.15pm. Event starts at 8pm.

When accessing Newbury racecourse, please use the Hambridge Road entrance. Post Code: RG14 7PN. Parking is available outside the Lodge Hotel.

Entrance Fee:

West Berkshire Racing Club members - £5.

NON West Berkshire Racing Club members - £10

Our stable visit to Seamus Mullins has been CANCELLED.

UPDATE 04/06/2020: Due to the Covid-19, this visit can been cancelled. More details can be found in the newsletter. 

Established in 1948, Whitsbury Manor Stud has a long-established tradition. Whitsbury Manor Stud is situated in a beautiful location with over 750 acres of secure post and rail paddocks situated on the chalk of the Hampshire Downs. A host of successful stallions have been housed at the stud including Ballymoss, Compton Place, Distant Relative, Young Generation, and Cadeaux Genereux.
Showcasing, one of the most exciting stallions standing in Britain today, now stands at the stud and heads the roster. In addition, we will see the stud’s most recent new stallion Havana Grey, a Group 1 winning sprinter as well as Adaay, a dual Group 2 winning son of Kodiac, and Due Diligence, a son of War Front. In addition to viewing a parade of the four stallions, we hope to see a number of brood mares and foals.

Again, due to the visit finishing at lunch time, we will leave any lunch arrangements for members to arrange to suit themselves.

The booking form is available in March’s newsletter

UPDATE 11th September 2020: Sadly, we have had to postpone both stable visits (Eve Johnson Houghton & Daniel Kubler) which had been planned for September and October. This is a consequence of the new government social group size requirements, announced this week. Both trainers are adamant that this is only a postponement until restrictions have been lifted. Clearly, none of us can predict when this will be, but hopefully we can rearrange for next spring when flat horses will be coming back into training

UPDATE 11th September 2020: Sadly, we have had to postpone both stable visits (Eve Johnson Houghton & Daniel Kubler) which had been planned for September and October. This is a consequence of the new government social group size requirements, announced this week. Both trainers are adamant that this is only a postponement until restrictions have been lifted. Clearly, none of us can predict when this will be, but hopefully we can rearrange for next spring when flat horses will be coming back into training

UPDATE 11th September 2020: Sadly, we have had to postpone both stable visits (Eve Johnson Houghton & Daniel Kubler) which had been planned for September and October. This is a consequence of the new government social group size requirements, announced this week. Both trainers are adamant that this is only a postponement until restrictions have been lifted. Clearly, none of us can predict when this will be, but hopefully we can rearrange for next spring when flat horses will be coming back into training