\n The action kicks off tomorrow with a seven-race card which has attracted 110 entries and starts at 2.10pm. It will be the first meeting at Hexham with the new padded hurdles in operation.\n<\/p>\n
\n The feature contest is the valuable 2m Carol & Malcolm Humble 20th Wedding Anniversary Handicap Hurdle Race (Class 3), with the 11 entries including local challengers Double Digits, Les’s Legacy and Winds Of Winter.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ann Hamilton-trained Double Digits ended last season on a high with wins at Carlisle and Kelso in April, Susan Corbett-trained Les’s Legacy has recorded four of his five career wins at Hexham including a last time out success on June 22, while George Bewley-trained Winds Of Winter boasts form figures of 1212 since being bought for \u00a312,200 after landing a Cartmel Selling Hurdle on May 28.\n<\/p>\n
\n Previous course winners entered in other races on the card include Upfordebate, Halfway House Lad, Royal Deeside, Divilabother and Getaway Frankie.\n<\/p>\n
\n The action continues at Hexham a week later on Saturday, October 11, with almost \u00a379,000 prize-money on offer at the Newcastle Rugby Foundation Raceday.\n<\/p>\n
\n There will be free children’s entertainment at this meeting which starts at 1.55pm and features the 2m4f Positive Change Plate Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase (Class 3).\n<\/p>\n
\n The Hexham meeting on Friday, November 7, will see the course featured on ITV Racing for the first time alongside coverage of the Haldon Gold Cup card at Exeter.\n<\/p>\n
\n Starting at 12.15pm, it will be the most valuable day’s racing ever staged at the track with total prize-money of \u00a383,050 on offer. The two televised races will be the \u00a320,000 Unibet-sponsored 2m4f Handicap Chase (Class 3) and the \u00a313,000 Unibet-sponsored 2m4f Handicap Hurdle (Class 4).\n<\/p>\n
\n The other two pre-Christmas fixtures are on Wednesday, November 19, which includes the 4m B K Racing Long Distance Handicap Chase, and on Wednesday 10th December.\n<\/p>\n
\n In addition, the inner point-to-point track at Hexham hosts the Border fixture on Saturday, November 29, which opens the 2025-26 Northern Area season. The other six Northumbrian dates for your diary are as follows: Alnwick (December 13, January 3, January 25 & February 21), Tranwell (March 28) and Hexham (May 16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The action kicks off tomorrow with a seven-race card which has attracted 110 entries and starts at 2.10pm.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-172669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}