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Ebor Festival
York
19 - 22 August 2008
Known as ‘the Ascot of the north’, York offers the same mixture of top-class racing and eye-catching fashion at its showpiece Ebor meeting.
Hugely popular with owners, trainers, jockeys and racegoers alike, York always attracts the best horses for a packed three-day programme.
The highlight is the Group 1 Juddmonte International Stakes.
The mile-and-a-quarter race has been won in recent years by Electrocutionist (2005), Sulamani (2004) Falbrav (2003) and Nayef (2002).
The Group 1 Victor Chandler Nunthorpe Stakes, run over the straight five furlongs, is one of the main battlegrounds for the European sprint crown, while the Group 1 Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks brings together many of the leading three-year-old fillies over the classic mile-and-a-half distance.
There are three Group 2 contests. The Scottish Equitable Gimcrack Stakes and Jaguar Lowther Stakes are big targets for the leading juvenile colts and fillies respectively, while the Daily Telegraph Great Voltigeur Stakes is one of the main trials for the following month’s St Leger.
The meeting also features Britain’s richest handicap, the totesport-Ebor, over the marathon trip of a mile and three-quarters. Ebor derives from the Roman name for York (Eboracum) and the city can trace its racing roots back to Roman times, with the first modern meeting taking place in 1754.
Regularly voted by racegoers as one of Britain’s top tracks, York’s facilities are second to none and the traditional warm Yorkshire welcome makes any visit to the track a real treat.
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