A NEW season of point-to-point action sprang into life at Toomebridge last Saturday, swiftly followed by the Westmeath Foxhounds card in Castletown-Geoghegan.

Those season-opening fixtures feature as part of 30 fixtures which have been programmed across the 11 weekends of racing that make up the pre-Christmas term, and while this does mark a reduction from the past two enhanced autumn seasons from 2020 and 2021, it is a return to the traditional autumn campaign that had predated the arrival of Covid-19.