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Looking forward to the Ebor Festival

The Ebor Festival

Tuesday 18th until Friday 21st August

The Ebor Festival is an occasion of superlatives; our oldest, richest, fastest, and most famous races provide the sporting excellence that combine with fashion and fun over four fabulous days.

Many informed observers consider Tuesday, the first day of the Festival to be their favourite raceday of the year in Britain. The action on the track sees the richest race of the York year, the £600,000 Juddmonte International, a contest ranked in the top ten middle distance contests in the world. The racecourse team look forward to this day and everything is fresh and exciting. For many racegoers this is the day when they catch up with friends and look forward to a week of shared enjoyment.

The Wednesday of Ebor week seems to have been about the feature race, the totesport Ebor, since it was first run way back in the 1840s. The excitement that this famous handicap generates has been a constant over that time; a winner at over 100-1, a victor who became horse of the year, a champion who headed down under and very nearly became the first British trained winner of the Melbourne Cup- and that’s just in the last ten years! The buzz about the racecourse on Ebor day is infectious as groups of friends laugh and relax, hopefully in some summer sunshine.

On all four days there will be a real sense of fashion, plenty of hats and sharp suits mixed with those sporting more relaxed summer clothing, however for many there remains an extra special feel about Thursday as its Ladies day, complete with the chance to win a trip to Dubai courtesy of Marriott hotels. The sporting action attracts the best fillies as the Group One Darley Yorkshire Oaks and Jaguar Cars Lowther Stakes are highly treasured titles.

Friday is a recent addition to this famous occasion and offers the chance to race into the weekend, perhaps enjoying a short break in historic York or the wider white rose county. The fastest race of the season, the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes often decides the accolade of leading sprinter and is a blur of colour that needs to be seen and heard to be believed.

To advance book tickets and badges for the Ebor Festival please click here.

Junior Prices

York is keen to encourage the younger generation to come racing. As part of this strategy, there is a significant discount in the on the day admission price for County Stand for the Ebor Festival.

The admission price for Juniors to County Stand varies by the age of the racegoer on the day of racing itself. Accompanied under 16s remain free of charge, as they are to all areas at York for all racedays.

For those aged 16 and 17 years then the admission charge is just £15.

For those aged 18 to 22 the admission charge is £30.

For more information on Junior pricing for the rest of the season, please click here.