Beverley’s annual August Bank Holiday Sunday Meeting takes place this weekend (August 25), with a host of attractions for young racegoers in the Course Enclosure, provided as usual (for a nominal fee) by The Beverley Lions, along with ferret racing.
Adults are catered for with a combined Folk Festival (‘live’ music between racing from various bands on the Lavender Lawn) and The Wold Top Beer Festival, which offers a selection of around 30 hand-pulled real ales in the Minster Bar.
Racing on Sunday is scheduled to begin at 2-20 p.m. with The John Jenkins Memorial Claiming Stakes, a race which commemorates a local vet who was a member of the racecourse for many years. This is the 13th year a race has been held in his memory.
The Wold Top Beer Festival Here Today Handicap Stakes (a contest for three-year-olds over the extended mile) and The Andrew Little Butchers Of Hedon Nursery Handicap Stakes for two-year-olds over five furlongs are featured, while the Final Round of the Beverley Middle Distance Series (now in its third year) is a Handicap contest over one mile and a half. Flamingo Beat, trained at Newmarket by Rae Guest, is the leader of this popular series after a win and a second place this season.
The players of Old Crossleyans Rugby Club of Halifax make their annual visit to Beverley to support a contest for maiden two-year-olds in conjunction with The European Breeders’ Fund.
Three-year-olds have their opportunity in The Beverley Lions Handicap Stakes (five furlongs) and The Constant Security Handicap Stakes (one mile and a quarter) – the latter race supported by the company which provides the security duties on racedays at Beverley.
The giant screen will be in use helping racegoers to follow all of the action.