THE Heythrop Hunt meeting, which took place at Dunthrop, near Chipping Norton, until its closure this year, will be held at Mollington, near Banbury, in 2013.

The fixture also switches from January to Saturday, April 13.

It will be one of two meetings at the north Oxfordshire venue, which reopened in May after being closed for five years, together the Warwickshire Hunt fixture.

Kingston Blount again stages four meeting, starting on Saturday, May 9.

And an early Easter sees the popular Bank Holiday Monday meeting at Lockinge, near Wantage, on April 1.

LOCAL FIXTURES

Sat, Mar 9: Kingston Blount Racing Club (Kingston Blount, nr Chinnor). Sat, Mar 30: Kimblewick (Kimble, nr Aylesbury). Mon, April 1: Old Berkshire (Lockinge, nr Wantage). Sat, April 13: Heythrop (Mollington, nr Banbury). Sat, April 20: Kimblewick (Kingston Blount). Mon, May 6: Warwickshire (Mollington). Sat, May 11: Kimblewick (Kingston Blount). Sun, May 26: Berks & Bucks Draghounds with Sandhurst Draghounds (Kingston Blount).