All roads in British racing lead to Yorkshire for the next eight days and while the £6.8m Ebor Festival at York next week is the main attraction, the £100,000 Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon on Saturday, the feature event on the track’s biggest afternoon of the year, offers punters a tempting chance to limber up for the challenges ahead.
Draw and pace angles are usually the place to start with a big-field sprint handicap, but there is little obvious bias in the draw at Ripon when the runners stretch across the track and the field is likely to split.
