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    Apr 2022

    Last Updated: 13/04/2022

    Ripon Races set for first meeting of season tomorrow

    by Tim Flanagan

    | 13 Apr, 2022
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    Gates open at 11am for the first of 17 days racing this year at 'Yorkshire's garden racecourse'.

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    Horses at the finish line at Ripon Races. Picture: Steve Fareham/Geograph.

    Ripon Races is under starter's orders for its first fixture of the new season tomorrow.

    Yorkshire's garden racecourse, as the venue is known, will be hoping for a smooth year after two years of covid restrictions severely curtailed activities.

    Gates open at 11am for the first of 17 days racing this year.

    Photo of Jon Mullin Ripon Races

    Jonathan Mullin, hoping for an uninterrupted season at Ripon Races



    Tomorrow's Easter family day's first race at 1pm will feature new sponsor Queen Ethelburga's Collegiate.

    Jonathan Mullin, operations and marketing manager at the Boroughbridge Road racecourse, told the Stray Ferret:

    "After two years of covid restrictions, we are looking forward to what we hope will be an uninterrupted season and plenty of racegoers through the gates.
    "At a time when there is a squeeze on family budgets, we are offering reduced price entry to the paddock and club enclosures at all of our evening meetings The reduction will be 23% and 12% respectively."


    William Hill is maintaining its long-term sponsorship at Ripon.

    This season's running of the valuable William Hill Great St Wilfrid Handicap,  on Saturday August 13, has added significance, with 2022 marking the 1,350th anniversary of Ripon's patron saint founding the city's cathedral.

    New this season is a Stables Championship run in partnership with organic plant-based grooming products manufacturer, Goodbye Flys.

    The stable staff of the yard that accrues the highest points total across the 2022 season will be crowned champions and receive a £5,000 cash prize, with £2,000 going to the runners-up and £1,000 to the third placed team.

    Titanium Racing Club and Grantley Hall Hotel are both returning race sponsors and NE-Bet is continuing its sponsorship of the owners and trainers enclosure.

    The covid vaccination programme


    Ripon Races has been a key site in the covid vaccination programme.

    Mr Mullin said:

    "The racecourse management and course staff were proud to support the NHS and many volunteers involved in setting up and operating the covid vaccination centre here.
    "Thousands of people received their jabs and boosters in the Wakeman Bar and we will continue to help the NHS when our facilities are required for the vaccination programme."





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