POINT-to-pointing across the water has been put on hold following confirmation on Wednesday that the national lockdown in England, which went into effect that night, includes racing between the flags as it is not considered an elite sport.

A statement issued by the Point-to-Point Authority asserted that the BHA had been working hard to ensure that point-to-pointing was perceived to be one of those sports safe to start up early and they were “relatively confident” that meetings would get going again in early December. As a result, they are now “working with those fixtures, which should have run over the next four weeks, to see how they can be slotted into the December programme to everyone’s advantage.”