FRIDAY EVENING AND SATURDAY AFTERNOON ACTION AT BEVERLEY
Beverley is set to stage the popular Friday evening and Saturday afternoon July meeting this weekend (July 4 & 5), beginning at 6-45 p.m. and 2-15 p.m. respectively.
Friday evening’s feature race is The Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire Pudding Handicap Stakes over the extended mile – one of three races supported by the Hull-based independent family-owned company, William Jackson & Son Ltd., it being the 39th year they have sponsored on the Westwood. The other two races the company is associated with on Friday evening are The Ferguson Fawsitt Arms Handicap Stakes (one mile and a half) and The William Jackson Bakery Stakes (a handicap contest for three-year-old fillies).
Westbridge Homes Ltd. of South Cave sponsor for the second time at this meeting, with sprinters taking part in The Westbridge Homes Classic Stakes (a handicap contest over the minimum distance of five furlongs), while Hall Construction Group Ltd. of Hull also return to Beverley to support the opening race – a selling contest. Last year, the company celebrated 120 years in business. Also, completing the line-up on Friday evening, Cottingham Parks Golf and Country Club renew their ties with the racecourse by supporting a race for novice two-year-olds in conjunction with The European Breeders’ Fund.
It’s Coachman Caravans Day on Saturday, with the seven-race programme supported by regular sponsors of racing at Beverley, the award-winning Coachman Caravans of Hull, in conjunction with their suppliers and dealers. The principal race is The Coachman Caravans Handicap Stakes, a contest for sprinters over five furlongs, offering prize money of £10,000, while two-year-olds take part in The Eltherington Maiden Stakes, also held over five furlongs.
The giant screen will assist racegoers to follow all of the action on the track.
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PLENTY OF ACTION AT RIPON ON MONDAY EVENING
Ripon’s fourth and final evening meeting of the summer takes place on Monday (July 7), when racing begins at 6-50 p.m.
There’s musical entertainment on Monday evening, courtesy of The Ken Stamp Fanfare Band, while Ripon’s permanent giant screen will enable racegoers to follow all of the action, including racing from the other evening meeting at
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SPRINTERS LEAD THE WAY AT PONTEFRACT ON TUESDAY
Sprinters are in the spotlight at Pontefract on Tuesday (July 8), when the feature races, The King Richard III Handicap Stakes and The Dianne Nursery Handicap Stakes, are both contested over six furlongs. Racing on Tuesday is scheduled to begin at 2-30 p.m.
The 25th running of The King Richard III Handicap Stakes – the afternoon’s most valuable race, with prize money of £15,000 – commemorates the granting of a Royal Charter to the Borough of Pontefract in 1484 and the successful will receive a perpetual challenge trophy given by Pontefract Civic Trust, while The Dianne Nursery Handicap Stakes is one of the north’s first handicap races for two-year-olds.
Harworth Estates, the property division of UK Coal, return to this meeting to sponsor a handicap race for three-year-old sprinters, while regular sponsors, Aedas Architects of Leeds, put their name to a contest for maidens over one mile and a quarter.
Tuesday’s final race is Round Three of the 2008 Pontefract Apprentice Series. Having won the first two races, Stacy Renwick and Ashley Morgan both lead the way on nine points apiece, followed by Dean Heslop and Adele Rothery. It’s a five-race series for young riders held exclusively at Pontefract and the prize for the top apprentice jockey at the end of the series in September, is a fortnight’s working holiday next winter at Gulfstream Park, Miami based with a leading United States trainer.
The giant screen, situated opposite the track, will show all of the action.
For immediate release 30 June 2008
As usual, the giant screen will be in use.
For immediate release 30 June 2008
For immediate release 30 June 2008
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