Doncaster stages the traditional conclusion to the British Flat season on turf, when the 2014 campaign signs off in style with a seven-race programme this Saturday (November 8) – Betfred November Handicap Day starting at 12-40 p.m. 

To celebrate the 2014 season, there will be ‘end of term’ presentations to honour the champions of the season, including the Champion Jockey, Richard Hughes – who wins the coveted title for the third successive year.

With a very impressive tally of over 70 winners, Oisin Murphy will be crowned the Champion Apprentice Jockey of the season, while It is also planned to make presentations to the champion trainer Richard Hannon junior (in his first season as a trainer, after taking over from his father, who was last year’s champion trainer) and the representative of leading owner, HH Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum, who lands the title for a seventh time. 

Presentations to the three category winners in the Prolinx Lady Jockeys’ Championship will also be made.

 The principal race of the afternoon is The Betfred November Handicap Stakes. This famous ultra-competitive Handicap over one mile and a half offers record prize money of £70,000 and was won last season by Conduct, trained at Newmarket by William Haggas and ridden by former champion jockey, Seb Sanders.. A couple of long-standing Listed races are also featured – The Betfred TV EBF Gillies Fillies’ Stakes (a contest for fillies and mares named in memory of a former chairman of Doncaster racecourse, Cllr. Ron Gillies, J.P.) and The Betfred Goals Galore Wentworth Stakes, a race for sprinters over six furlongs. Both races offer prize money of £40,000. The Betfred Mobile ‘Cock O’The North’ EBF Maiden Stakes refers to the leading northern-based jockey of the Flat season, Graham Lee- the former Grand National-winning rider – who has recorded over a century of winners for the season to win this award for the first time.  

The afternoon’s concluding race is the Final Round of the Go Racing in Yorkshire Future Stars Apprentice Series for 2014. The Series – in its second year – has been held on each of the county’s racecourses which stage Flat racing, and there is sponsorship by Go Racing in Yorkshire and equipment courtesy of White Rose Saddlery of Malton up for grabs for the winner, along with the opportunity to promote racing in Yorkshire in 2015. Megan Carberry with 59 points is already confirmed the Series’ winner, going into Saturday’s race, following on from last year’s inaugural winner, Gary Mahon.

 There’s live musical entertainment after racing on stage in the main betting hall, courtesy of ‘Scully & Co’, a five-piece band from Liverpool.

 The giant screen, situated opposite the main stands will enable racegoers to see all of the action. A shuttle bus service will be in operation from the railway station.