Sky Bet Ebor Festival 2026

The week to visit featuring our oldest, richest, fastest and most famous races.

Sporting excellence combined with fashion and fun over four fabulous days.

Wednesday 19 August - Juddmonte International

Witness the best our sport has to offer.

Featuring the Juddmonte International (Group 1) – the richest race of our season, ranked as The Longines World's Best Horse Race in 2024 by International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, an accolade it also won in 2012 and again in 2020.

Famously won by all of Sea The Stars, Frankel, Baaeed and City of Troy; considered by many as the best thoroughbreds in history.

Thursday 20 August - Pertemps Network Yorkshire Oaks & Ladies Day

Ladies Day, the social highlight.

Dress to impress for fabulous prizes on the Ebor Fashion Lawn.

Regularly the highest rated mare and fillies race in Europe, the Group 1 Pertemps Network Yorkshire Oaks, takes place on this day- twice won by the “Queen of the Turf” - Enable.

Friday 21 August – Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe

Race into the weekend.

Featuring our fastest race, the Group 1 Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe, which regularly ranks as the highest rated 1,000m sprint in the world. A new course record of under 57 seconds was set in 2019, be here to enjoy it, just don’t blink.

Saturday 22 August - Sky Bet Ebor

Join the buzz of a big raceday with your friends.

Since 1843, our oldest and most famous race, the Ebor, has generated much excitement and many tales.

The richest flat handicap in Europe, be here to savour the race and the buzz it creates.

Joined this year by the upgraded Sky Bet City of York Stakes, which becomes the fourth Group One (think Champion's League) race of the festival.

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