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Record prize money for York
- Updated: August 8, 2016
The Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival offers record prize money of over £4 million following a rise of £260,000 spread over 15 races.
The feature contest on each day of the meeting has received a boost while the prize money threshold for all races has risen by a fifth to £60,000.
The Group One Juddmonte International, will become the richest race ever run at York, with £900,000 on offer to the horse seeking to follow such superstars as Frankel or Sea The Stars into the winner’s enclosure on the opening day.
Boosts in prize money of £50,000 to both the £200,000 Group Two Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Stakes (2m) and recently upgraded £150,000 Sky Bet City of York Stakes (7f) – now the richest Group Three race run in Britain – support the enhanced Group One contests of Thursday and Friday respectively.
The Darley Yorkshire Oaks (Thursday 18) and the Coolmore Nunthorpe (Friday 19) have both seen increases to reach their richest ever renewals at £340,000.
Friday’s Weatherbys Hamilton Insurance Lonsdale Cup over the two miles joins the Group One races as the fourth contest to be part …
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