Another encounter between My Flora and Posh Totty promises to be a highlight of Saturday’s TBA Club Members’ race for fillies and mares at Larkhill point-to-point

Another encounter between My Flora and Posh Totty promises to be a highlight of Saturday’s TBA Club Members’ race for fillies and mares at Larkhill point-to-point.

One of ten such races sponsored during the current point-to-point season by the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, the latest round has attracted eight runners. Eleven-year-old My Flora, who was fourth in the Cheltenham Festival’s Foxhunter Chase in 2012, and who has never been headed by a mare in point-to-points and hunter chases, and eight-year-old Posh Totty, head the octet having finished first and second at Larkhill last month.

My Flora came out on top, but Posh Totty bounced back to win a week later when ridden for the first time by Will Biddick, Britain’s reigning men’s champion point-to-point rider.

Both mares were bred in Britain, with My Flora, a daughter of Alflora, hailing from the family of good chasers Bishops Yarn and Clever Folly, while Posh Totty is a daughter of Midnight Legend and the unraced mare Well Bred – she is trained by 23-year-old Jack Barber, who is romping away with the British trainers’ title from his Dorset base.

Barber is a part-owner in his mare, while the Victoria Collins-trained My Flora is owned by Sussex-based friends Sarah Dawson and Felicity Ashfield, who bought her at Doncaster in August, and plan breeding from her in the next year or two.

Other potential runners to note include five-year-old Atomic Tangerine, homebred by trainer Robert Waley-Cohen at Upton Viva Stud out of his winning hurdler Perle De Puce, and Champagne Rosie, now nine, but who was Britain’s champion maiden mare in 2013. A daughter of Shambo, she was homebred by John Meaden and his family and is trained by Angela Davis in Wiltshire.