Danny Tudhope will ride So Beloved in the Prix De La Foret

I am riding the hope of Yorkshire in the big Group 1 race in Britain on Saturday.

I deputised for regular pilot PJ McDonald on Laurens when she landed the Group 1 Matron Stakes on Irish Champions Weekend at Leopardstown.

It was good of PJ to come across to Ireland that day. Injuries are part and parcel of the job of being a jockey and it was unfortunate for him. I’ve been there a few times and I know how it feels to miss out on winners.

PJ is still on the easy list so I am delighted that Karl Burke has asked me to fill his boots again in the Sun Chariot Stakes.

Wind Chimes, trained by Andre Fabre, would appear to be the big threat, but I am really confident in my filly. I think she has a great chance and will take all the beating.

My other two rides on the Rowley Mile are both horses which I have not ridden before.

Indeed, Richard Hannon’s Dragon Sun is making only his racecourse appearance in the novice stakes contest at 2.40pm, having finished down the field on his debut at Newbury last month.

I am always pleased to be booked to ride the horses of Yorkshireman-in-exile, Newmarket trainer William Haggas, and that’s the case again tomorrow with four-year-old filly Dynamic in the ten-furlong handicap at 5pm. All the Newmarket races as well as the features from Sunday will be shown live on Racing UK.

She has winning form on the Rowley Mile over a mile from a year ago and she won last time out at Fontainebleau in France. The latter race was her first time at a mile and a quarter, so hopefully that bodes well.

Sunday sees me across in France for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe meeting which returns to its home, the newly christened ParisLongchamp after two years away for redevelopment work.

My mount is David O’Meara’s, So Beloved, in the Prix De La Foret, a race in which he was runner-up 12 months ago at Chantilly. He was just defeated by Aclaim that day. So Beloved is a tricky horse, but he does have a habit of running into the places in these big races. You can see how we get on by watching Racing UK.

The end of next week gives me the chance to add to my tally of five York winners this season. Friday and Saturday are the last opportunities for racing fans to visit Knavesmire in 2018 – Countryside Day and Coral Sprint Trophy Day.

If I wasn’t in the saddle on the Friday - I would probably take the chance to join in the celebration of countryside activity and produce. The Countryside Market proves an easy way to get some early Christmas prezzies as well as enjoy a range of countryside events.

Saturday has become one of the busiest weekend racedays of October anywhere in Britain. I’m set to be riding and there will be a buzz about the York grandstands and I’ll be hoping to round off the season hearing the cheers if I can bring a winner or two back into the winners’ enclosure.

*The final fixtures of the year at York are Countryside Day and Coral Sprint Trophy Day on Friday and Saturday, 12 and 13 October. Find out more at here.