While the £1-million Sky Bet Ebor takes pride of place as the unequivocal big betting race of the week on Saturday, the stunning quality of the first three days of the Welcome To Yorkshire Ebor Festival reaches its zenith with the final appearance on British soil of the brilliant ENABLE in today’s Gr1 Darley Yorkshire Oaks.
She takes on only three rivals in what should be a cracker of a race!
Neil Morrice writes on the Hollywoodbets sports blog that it’s also Ladies’ Day, the social highlight of the meeting, and how fitting that the race that regularly proves the highest-rated mare and fillies race in Europe includes the country’s outstanding champion, looking to add this to her 2017 triumph.
So far her final season has gone perfectly to plan, victories in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown and the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot rubber-stamping her dominance in the older horse division.
After waiting to see how she came out of her unforgettable clash with Crystal Ocean in the King George, trainer John Gosden put the thousands of racing enthusiasts in Yorkshire out of their misery by green lighting the five-year-old for York, in which she will rub shoulders with the Coolmore challenger MAGICAL who she beat in a memorable Breeders’ Cup Turf at Churchill Downs last autumn.
