Monday’s activities for children in the Course Enclosure include performances by The National Festival Circus along with a variety of funfair rides and free ice-creams for youngsters while stocks last! As usual at Ripon, accompanied children under 18 years of age are admitted free of charge into all enclosures and there are designated play areas for children. 

The Ripon Remembers The Great War Handicap Stakes (one mile and a quarter) draws attention to the fact that there was a race meeting at Ripon on 4 August 1914 – the day war was officially declared. Two race titles, The Studley Stakes and The City Welter Stakes are the same race titles at that meeting of a century ago. 

Members of local regiments will be at Ripon on Monday to commemorate the centenary of the start of The First World War. 

Monday’s feature races are The Weatherbys Stallion Book Summer Sprint Trophy Handicap Stakes over six furlongs and a race for maiden two-year-old fillies supported by The European Breeders’ Fund. 

On Tuesday evening, the feature race is the third running of The David Chapman Memorial Handicap Stakes, a £12,000 contest for sprinters over five furlongs which remembers a very popular trainer, who was based at Stillington near York. He was renowned for training sprinters such as Soba, Chaplins Club, Quito, Glencroft and Soaked. His grand-daughter, Ruth Carr has successfully taken over at Mowbray House Farm and is likely have a runner in the race. 

Also featured on Tuesday evening are The Constant Security Services Nursery Handicap Stakes (two-year-olds over five furlongs) and The Washroom Company Handicap Stakes (a contest for three-year-olds over one mile and a quarter) 

Racegoers will be able to follow all of the action on the course’s permanent giant screen.