Racing in the Percy Hunt seven-race card only received the go-ahead at 10am after overnight snow caused concerns. The course passed an inspection and racing commenced at 2pm.

Related articles:
- VIDEO: Thrills and spills at Ratcheugh
- Tumbles delay races

The first race of the day – The Danny Moralee Memorial Members Race – proved to be a competitive affair with the Rose Davidson-ridden Luksar just prevailing over Victor Thompson's Flagmount King.

This capped a successful and adventurous weekend for Rose, who had ridden a hunter-chase winner at Carlisle on Saturday and then travelled to Ireland to ride on Sunday before returning to her local track for this winner.

The principle race of the day – the Duncan Davison-sponsored Four-Mile Open, the Alnwick Grand National – was taken by Jimmy and Frankie Walton's mare Garden Feature.

This horse was returning to form after three seconds already this season and provided the first leg of a double win for both the owners and jockey Tom Oates when Sacred Mountain quickly followed up in the Northern Area Confined Race.

The second race of the day – the Warcup Skene Solicitors-sponsored Restricted Race – went to Mrs Jane Walton's Charming Knight.

This is one performance spotters noticed after it won its Maiden at Corbridge quite easily and it easily accounted for the highly-thought-of Fiftyfive Degrees.

There was confusion in the young horse Maiden Race, which had to be split on the day after Luke Morgan's mount reared over backwards in the paddock and came down on top of him.

Luke was immediately taken away in an ambulance but was discharged from hospital later that evening with just bruising.

This, however, caused a delay to proceedings as, for safety reasons, there have to be two free ambulances present on the course at all times.

Once racing did continue, the first division was taken by Clive Storey on Oh So Perky. This horse, on its first run in point-to-points, could be one to follow.

The second division was taken by the four-year-old Hubble Bubble in quite an impressive fashion. This horse interestingly had an entry for last year's Derby so it was a somewhat change of scenery to run in a point-to-point at Alnwick.

The final race of the day – the Velcourt Farming-sponsored Maiden Race – went to the five-year-old Jedburgh-trained Saddler's Way ridden by Gillon Crow.

Again this horse had shown all the signs of ability on its later run and duly obliged for favourite backers.

This concluded an excellent day's racing and organisers look forward to racing returning to Ratcheugh in early 2009.