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Cloudy skies made for easier running conditions than during what has been a scorching week of high temperatures for Ripon's blue riband raceday, featuring the William Hill/Motor Neurone Disease Association Great St Wilfred Handicap. Our 6f sprint feature offers a...

You know we're into the silly season when an ice cream championship features in the ploys to get a holiday audience to the races, but sometimes, you know, the daftest ideas can come to a glorious conclusion. Amid the children with vanilla-smeared faces were more...

Officials were kept busy in the final two races of our popular Monday evening fixture as photo finishes were required to separate the first two in the mile and 6f handicaps, and rare among races, placings were reversed in the first of these. The City of Ripon Handicap...

We have a tendency in Britain to talk ourselves down, forgetting that we're among the richest nations on Earth. This delf-deprecation is a peculiarly English trait, and its manifestation was brought into sharp perspective by anthropologist Kate Fox, who published the...

This fantastic children’s event sees children aged 5-8 being given the opportunity to race along the final furlong in their animal onesies for the chance to win Lightwater Valley tickets and more. Cuteness overload! Organised by Ripon Races to support Harrogate...

The crowded summer fixture list spread the available horse population thinly over the weekend with meetings at Doncaster, Newbury, Newmarket, Nottingham in addition to our own, meaning fields rarely made double figures. But nevertheless, were were graced with some...

Each summer, Del Mar attracts attention far beyond California's coastline. The renowned Thoroughbred meeting combines elite competition, international participation, and worldwide media coverage, resonating with racing enthusiasts across multiple continents....

Joe Fanning, elder statesman of the Weighing Room, and jockey to the powerful Middleham yard of Charlie Johnston, has announced his retirement from the saddle. The 55 year old hasn't ridden since November last year, when he started treatment for prostate cancer, but...

Ray Dawson and Ruth Carr's Reigning Profit denied the 10-year-old Mark's Choice a storybook win in the 5f handicap that now carries his name, and the way it happened said plenty about how Ripon rewards early speed. Monday evening at Yorkshire's Garden Racecourse...

There was no fairytale triumph in the race named after Ripon's winning-most horse, as Mark's Choice could only finish a 1 1/4l third to Reigning Profit in the 5f sprint named after him yesterday evening at the Garden Racecourse. Despite contesting the lead throughout,...