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Pontefract’s season continues on Monday (July 1), when the seven-race programme starts at 2-30 p.m. with a Handicap contest for lady amateur riders – The Patricia George Memorial Ladies’ Handicap Stakes over one mile and a quarter.

 

A couple of £15,000 races are featured – both over the sprint distance of six furlongs. The first being The Spindrifter Conditions Stakes, a contest for two-year-olds held annually to commemorate the achievements of the record-breaking juvenile, Spindrifter, who won 13 races as a two-year-old in 1980, three of which were achieved at Pontefract. Spindrifter was owned by Grahame Waters, who will present the challenge trophy to the successful owner. The other highlight on Monday is The British Stallion Studs EBF Park Suite Fillies’ Handicap Stakes, a contest for fillies and mares.

 

The David Waters – A Lifetime In Racing Fillies’ Handicap Stakes over one mile and a half is one of a series of races organised by the charity Racing Welfare to acknowledge those who have spent a lifetime in the sport of racing. David Waters has worked in major training stables in Yorkshire, Newmarket, Lambourn and France since starting as a stable lad in 1980.

 

Once again at this meeting, racehorse owner Tony Perkins sponsors a race in memory of his grandfather, as three-year-old sprinters contest The Wilfred Underwood Memorial Classified Stakes, while the friends and family of the late Wayne Conway continue to support a middle-distance Handicap contest for three-year-olds in his memory. He was from Barnsley and enjoyed racing at Pontefract.

 

The concluding race is The Micky Hammond Proudly Sponsored By Quoteline Direct Handicap Stakes, a contest over one mile which draws attention to the morning visit by Pontefract’s annual members to the Middleham stable of trainer, Micky Hammond.

 

The giant screen, situated opposite the track, will show all of the action.