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The Ebor Festival is a four-day race meeting held at York Racecourse in York, England, each August. The 2024 Ebor Festival took place from 21st to 24th August. The Ebor festival was established in 1843 with the first running of the Ebor Handicap. Each of the four days has feature races:
Royal Ascot evolved from the first four-day race meeting held at Ascot in 1768, although the meeting as it is known today only really started to take shape with the introduction of The Gold Cup in 1807. [17] Until 1939, Royal Ascot was the only race meeting held at the racecourse.
The 101st Far Hills Race Meeting was held on October 15, 2022, in Far Hills, New Jersey, and showcased the pinnacle of American steeplechase racing. The event featured several notable races, including the prestigious American Grand National. The day's highlight was the American Grand National, a Grade 1 hurdle race with a purse of $250,000.
The annual October meeting for 1793 was extended to six consecutive days and included the staging by the Caledonian Hunt of a prestigious King's Plate race of 100 guineas. Something of a "fiasco" occurred in 1803 when only three horses contested a four race meeting held over four days and each race was a walkover. In 1805 the first race was a ...
Great Yarmouth racecourse is a horse racing course located a mile north of Great Yarmouth, owned by Arena Racing Company. The track takes the form of a narrow oblong of a mile and five furlongs round, with two long straights about five furlongs in length. It is a left-handed course, used for flat racing only.
The feature of this meeting is the Ebor Handicap, one of Europe's premier handicap races. The Juddmonte International meeting is another significant date in York's racing calendar, home as it is to the Juddmonte International Stakes. The 2012 renewal of this race, won by Frankel was the second highest rated race of the year in international ...
The majority of race meetings were held over two days at the end of September although some years the meeting was held in October and towards the end, in August. Wem Racecourse [115] Shropshire: England: not known: not known: Held a 'very inferior' race meeting at the beginning of October: Wenlock Racecourse [115] Shropshire: England: not known ...
The course traditionally began its afternoon race meetings at 2.45 pm – later than most other courses – so that miners at the adjacent colliery could finish the morning shift in time to go racing. This remained the case until the colliery closed in 2002.