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Midem De Berce (pictured above), who did not see another rival when making all to win at Maisemore Park in March, has been awarded the position of Britain’s top four-year-old point-to-pointer from last season.

A French-bred son of stallion The Anvil, Midem De Berce has been given a mark of 107 by race reader and commentator Martin Harris, whose ratings for every horse that ran last season will be published early next month in the annual Point-to-Point & Hunter Chase Yearbook 2025/26.

Ridden by the now reigning British novice men’s champion Lucas Murphy, Midem De Berce beat seven rivals when landing a Goffs-sponsored leg of the GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden Series and was subsequently sold by owner/trainer Tom George via a ThoroughBid online sale. Tom Malone’s offer of £77,500 clinched the purchase on behalf of owners based with trainer Jamie Snowden. Having won a race in the GB Pointing Bonus Series Midem De Berce will pick up a £15,000 bonus if winning a developmental hurdle or chase, while having run in a point-to-point and been sold via ThoroughBid he will also gain £5,000 from that auction house if winning his first race under rules and within 12 months of his sale.

Highly-rated four-year-olds Kapella Grey (Ed Doggrell) and Yemen (centre, James King) are joined by Paris Man (Zak Baker) in the Maisemore race won by Midem De Berce

Will Biddick’s Kapella Grey (Kapgarde) and Tom Lacey’s Herbies Sock (Tirwanako) who filled the places in the Maisemore race have been given marks of 95 and 99 respectively – Herbies Sock gains the higher rating having run again and won at Chaddesley Corbett the following month.

Second on Harris’s list of four-year-olds is the Clive Boultbee-Brooks owned-and-trained Yemen (Goliath Du Berlais) who was tracking Midem De Berce when tipping over three fences from the finish. Unraced since he has been given a mark of 103, two ahead of Badbury Rings winner Six Two Three, who scored for Biddick’s stable.

Clonagoose (Ed Vaughan) beating Walk Of No Shame (James Shaw) at Upcott Cross (Tim Holt)

Britain’s five-year-olds are headed by the 113-rated Clonagoose (Beaumec De Houelle) who won seven races last season for Emma Summersby’s stable and finished runner-up in the Connolly’s RED MILLS champion horse title behind Lavorante. Carrillo (Vadamos), from Chris Barber’s Herefordshire stable, is second on the list in that age group with a mark of 105 having won three of four races.

Carrillo’s stablemate Couer d’Alene (Idaho) shares the leading mark among six-year-olds having been given a rating of 119, the same as Eastern Storm (Telescope) from Jimmy Walton’s Northumberland yard. Both horses won five races last season.

They head a group of five horses rated 117, namely Boley Bob, Call Me Early, Cartesian, Great Valley and Jewel In The Park.

Couer d’Alene winning at Badbury Rings under James King in the colours of Paul and Sara Thorman

Heading the ratings among seven-year-olds is Al Gasparo (Al Namix), who won five races for Josh Newman’s stable during the season and has been given a mark of 127. In second spot among seven-year-olds is Joker De Mai (Balko), who tackled just one race for hunters last season when unplaced in the Randox Foxhunters’ Chase at Aintree, although he had shown consistent form for Boultee-Brooks’s stable in handicap chases ahead of that performance. Designed To Win (Getaway), who beat the smart Aramax when winning at Horseheath in January for David Kemp’s yard, is third in the list with a rating of 119.

Point-to-Point & Hunter Chase Yearbook 2025/26 will be on sale week commencing November 6 and costs £55, a price that has been held for the second year. Available for purchase through this website it is packed with point-to-point information, from results and comments in running for every race held last season, profiles of each horse, details and locations of courses, data on riders, auction prices and historical records of feature races.

Meanwhile the Planner, which provides conditions for every race to be run in the new season – starting November 1 at Lower Machen – and also contains plenty of other useful information on sponsored series etc will be available to purchase from October 14 with delivery from October 19. A ring-bound printed version costs £59, while a digital version, which can be bought from October 12, will be on sale for £49.

Bought separately the two forms of Planner would cost £108, but there is a saving if the ring-bound and digital are bought as a bundle – handy for keeping a copy in the office and for checking race conditions while on the move – for the price of £90.