Autumn may be drawing ever closer but there are still 4 race meetings left to enjoy at Pontefract Racecourse before the season finishes. With 2 meetings in September and 2 in October, there’s plenty of fantastic racing ahead.
The first September meeting on the 15th throws the sprinting fillies in to the spotlight with the first running of the EBF Breeders’ Series Fillies Handicap – a £30,000 Handicap over 6f. The race is the final opportunity for speedy fillies to qualify for the final of the series to be held at Newmarket on the 1st October and is bound to attract some high quality horses aiming to take home the big prize in October!
The Pontefract Stayer’s Championship is also reaching its climax with any numbers of horses still in the running to take home the top prize, worth nearly £5,000 to winning connections in 2016. Course favourite and current leader in the Championship, Riptide, is bang on course to take in the final 3 legs of the Championship to try and cement his lead. He’ll need to be at the top of his game as other course favourites, Madam Lilibet and Tuscan Gold are not far behind him!
On this day last year, Dark Ocean and Entity both won for the second time at Pontefract in the same season – will there be some course specialists stepping forward to claim another victory this year?
Two of the races on Thursday will showcase future events at the Course – bookings are now being taken for both the VIP Package at the final meeting of the year on 17th October and the fantastic Christmas parties happening in December.
The Racecourse has been running the Yorkshire Postcode Lottery throughout the season once again. The scheme gives racegoers from Yorkshire the chance to come racing in the Grandstand & Paddock Enclosure for just £2. The last 4 meetings of the season are all part of the promotion, and punters with postcodes from Hull, Halifax, Huddersfield and Bradford will all be eligible for cheap entry at forthcoming meetings with Hull postcodes the lucky ones on the 15th September. The action gets underway at 2.20pm with gates opening at midday.