NOW that we have a start date (September 14th) for the autumn session of the point-to-points,this will no doubt bring some great relief to the people involved in the industry.

The promise of as many as 40 fixtures will give the people with the younger stock more opportunities to have a run and, with a bit of luck, move on one or two, thus making this one of the most important autumn sessions since the initial one in 2001, which was introduced as a result of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease earlier that year.